Research Experience

RESEARCH INTERN, June 24, 2019 - September 16, 2019, St.Louis, U.S.

Advisor: Lan Yang, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Project 1: made up a bio-compatible mininature laser out of doped silk fibroin
Project 2: Using higher order mode excited selectively by angle polished fiber in microbubble resonator for sensing
- Pro1: Extracted silk fibroin from cocoons
- Pro1: Used silk fibroin solution doped with laser dye to build microbottle resonator
- Pro1: Built optical experimental setup to test the property of microbottle resonator
- Pro2: Simulated the optical field distribution in microbubble resonator with angle polished fiber

RESEARCH INTERN, June 24, 2018 - September 24, 2018, Tucson, U.S.

Advisor: Zhenshen Zhang, Assistant Professor of Optical Science, joint appointed in Material Science and Engineering

Project: Develop a software package for the generation of micro-resonator based frequency combs
- Developed MATLAB-COMSOL interface to calculate material waveguide dispersion
- Simulated frequency-domain nonlinear interactions in ring resonators by solving coupling mode equations
- Simulated time-domain nonlinear interactions in ring resonators by solving Lugiato–Lefever equation

My work received excellent feedback. Evaluation from my advisor can be found here.

Poster about my research work is posted on campus conference and can be seen here.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, September 2017 - March 2019, Tianjin, China

Advisor: Yi Hu, Associate Professor in School of Physics

Project: Calculated band structure of topological photonic crystals and investigated nonlinearity induced topological phase transition.
- Learned FDTD algorithm and commonly used computational methods in physics, including Runge-Kutta, Monte Carlo, and etc.
- Computed band structure of graphene and photonic crystals using Comsol and Matlab Investigated topological phase transition induced by nonlinear coupling coefficient