| Research Areas: Silicon-based integrated photonics; micro-nano photonics; nonlinear optics; fiber optics; computational electromagnetics
Profile: Liu Xiaoping is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He received his bachelor’s from Nanjing University in 2003 and doctorate from Columbia University in 2011. After that, he started to work at the OFS Laboratories (former Optical Fiber System Department of Lucent Bell Labs) as an associate researcher. In 2013, he was selected into the “Global Talents” Project of China and joined the faculty at Nanjing University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in October. With years of cooperation with such institutions as IBM’s T. J. Watson Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Maryland, Ghent University, IMEC and University College London in conducting research on silicon-based integrated photonics, Liu has made several internationally influential achievements on silicon-based mid-infrared photonics. For example, he came up with a series of silicon-based integrated photonics technologies based on infrared pumping and made the first silicon-based optical parametric amplifier in the world, which lays a solid foundation for the application of silicon-based integrated photonic platform in mid-infrared lights. When he was working at OFS Laboratories, he was engaged in the research on high power fiber amplifiers/lasers and fiber-optic sensor array. He put forward a fabrication and mass production plan for commercial optical fiber convertors and used this convertor to successfully make a fiber optic amplifier with ultra-high nonlinear threshold and high power. So far, Liu has co-authored a manuscript and published on SCI journals over 30 papers, which have been cited for more than 1,000 times. A number of his research results were reported or reposted by international research institutions and news media. He has been a member of the sub-committee of IEEE conferences for several times and has also been a reviewer for over 10 well-known SCI journals.
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