Research Interests
Experimental optics, laser physics, fiber lasers, laser arrays, biomedical imaging, focusing and imaging in optically diffusive media.
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Ying-Chih Chen is in charge of the Laser Laboratory and is a professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
More About Ying-Chih ChenExperimental optics, laser physics, fiber lasers, laser arrays, biomedical imaging, focusing and imaging in optically diffusive media.
Tianjie Chen, Shaoguang Duan, and Y.C. Chen, “Electrodynamics analysis on coherent perfect absorber and phase-controlled optical switch” Journal of Optical Society of America, A, 29, 689-693 (2012). PDF
Fanting Kong, Ronald Silverman, Liping Liu, P. V. Chitnis, Kotik K. Lee, and Y.C. Chen, "Photoacoustic-guided convergence of light through optically diffusive media", Opt. Lett. 36, 203 (2011). PDF
R H. SILVERMAN, FANTING KONG, Y. C. CHEN, HARRIET O. LLOYD, HYUNG HAM KIM, JONATHAN M. CANNATA, K. KIRK SHUNG, and D. JACKSON COLEMAN,
HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING OF OCULAR TISSUES, "High-resolution photoacoustic imaging of Ocular tissues", Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 733–742, (2010) PDF
Fanting Kong, Y. C. Chen, Harriet O. Lloyd, Ronald H. Silverman, Hyung Ham Kim, Jonathan M. Cannata,and K. Kirk Shung,"High-resolution photoacoustic imaging with focused laser and ultrasonic beams" Appl. Phys. Lett., 94, 033902 (2009). PDF
Fanting Kong, Liping Liu, Yi Zhou, Shou-Huan Zhou , Y.C. Chen, “ Phase locking of short-pulse Q-switched lasers” Opt. Commun. 282, 1622 (2009). PDF
Fanting Kong, Liping Liu, Charlotte Sanders, Y. C. Chen, and Kotik K. Lee, “ Phase locking of nanosecond pulses in a passively Q-switched two-element fiber laser array”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, 151110 (2007). PDF
Liping Liu, Yi Zhou, Fanting Kong, Y.C. Chen and K. K. Lee, “Phase locking in fiber laser arrays with varying path length”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 85, 4837 (2004). PDF
Yi Zhou, Liping Liu, Candice Etson, Yonantan Abranyos, Angela Padilla, and Y.C. Chen, “Phase locking of a two-dimensional laser array by controlling the far field pattern”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 84, 3025 (2004). PDF