Yanping Xu is a full professor in the Center for Optics Research and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China and is conferred the title of Qilu Outstanding Young Scholar of Shandong University. He received the Bachelor degree in Physics from Jilin University, China, in June 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Ottawa, Canada, in August 2017. From 2017 to 2018, he was with the Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2018, he joined Ciena Corporation (Originally known as Nortel Networks Corporation), Ottawa, Canada, as a fiber-optic communication research scientist. He was the recipient of the 2015 NSERC CREATE SERA: Sustainable Engineering in Remote Areas Program Award, the 2015 Xerox Canada Inc. Research Award, the 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, the 2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, and the 2017 Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship.
His research interests focus on fiber optics, including:
1. Multi-parameter point fiber-optic sensors
2. Long-distance distributed fiber-optic sensors
3. Random fiber lasers
4. Concealment of time delay signature in chaotic semiconductor lasers
5. Random number generators
6. Nonlinear optical effects and system optimization in fiber-optic communication systems
Prof. Xu has authored or co-authored over 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals including Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and conference proceedings. He has been invited to give oral presentations in OFS, OFC, CLEO, IEEE Sensors, and Photonics North conferences. He has also served as the reviewer of several international peer-reviewed journals including Optics Express, Optics Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Applied Optics, Optics Communications, and Optical Fiber Technology. As of May 2020, his works have been cited more than 520 times, with an H-index score of 14 according to Google Scholar.
Master and Ph.D. student positions are available for those who are interested in scientific researches and engineering applications of photonic areas including optical sensing, laser technology, optical communication, and optoelectronic technology. Prof. Xu can be reached via the following email: yanpingxu@sdu.edu.cn
1. Fiber-optic Sensing and Applications
2. Advanced Fiber Laser Technology
3. Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers and Random Number Generators
(3)马少年. High-Temperature Sensing Based on GAWBS In Silica Single-Mode Fiber .Sensors .2023 (3)
(17)徐演平. Optical Fiber Sensors for High‐Temperature Monitoring: A Review .Sensors .2022 (22)
(46)Yanping Xu. Recent Developments in Micro-Structured Fiber Optic Sensors .Fibers .2017 ,5 (1):3
(48)Yanping Xu. Multi-parameter sensor based on random fiber lasers .AIP Advances .2016 ,6 :095009
