WUHAN, China (May 6, 2019) - Wuhan Optoelectronics Forum No. 155 was successfully held in Auditorium A101 at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) in the afternoon of May 6. Prof. Xiangdong Cao from Wuhan Hongtuo Technology Co., Ltd. delivered an exciting talk entitled Next Generation Femtosecond Fiber Lasers And Applications. Dr. Changsheng Xie, from WNLO chaired the forum. Prof. Dan Zhu, Deputy Director of WNLO, awarded Prof. Xiangdong Cao the forum medal.
Femtosecond lasers have become one of the hottest topics for both scientific and industrial applications, especially fiber based femtosecond laser. However, there are still several key challenges to overcome before large scale industrial applications become possible. More importantly future digital photonic manufacturing, material science, and medical applications require new concept of femtosecond fiber lasers such as ultra-compactness, multi-kW power, and digital coding/synchronization. Lastly future ultra-large scale coherent beam combining (CBC) will be discussed.
Dr. Cao obtained his Ph.D from University of Rochester, continued his Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. He is currently an adjunct professor at WNLO. He was a distinguished member of technique staff(DMTS) at Siemens, Chief Scientist at Nortel/Qtera. He has founded/co-foundedFounder multiple high-tech start-ups. He demonstrated world’s first 100G all-optic logic gates, invented world’s first ultralong haul DWDM optical transmission system. His work of ultra-high precision dispersion management was selected as “Six Technologies to Watch” at OFC 2012. He founded China’s first femtosecond fiber laser company, served as project leader and PI for MOST 973, 863, NSF.
