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EDUCATION

  • University of Southern California - Ph.D. student - Electrical Engineering

        Aug. 2007 – present

        Overall GPA – 3.8/4.0

  • Nankai University - M.S. - Optics (2007)

        Overall grade index - 88.4/100

  • Nankai University - B.A. - Electrical Engineering (2004)

        Overall grade index - 87.2/100

HONORS

  • First-Class Graduate Scholarship of Nankai University (2006)

  • Third-Class Undergraduate Scholarship of Nankai University (2003)

  • Third-Class Undergraduate Scholarship of Nankai University (2002)

  • Second-Class Undergraduate Scholarship of Nankai University (2001)

  • Third-Class Undergraduate Scholarship of Nankai University (2000)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  • Teaching Assistant for EE441 at USC (Fall 2008)

PUBLICATIONS

INVITED PAPERS:

1.            A. E. Willner, L. Zhang, and Y. Yue, "Tailoring of dispersion and nonlinear properties of integrated silicon waveguides for signal processing applications,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 1, paper 014044, Jan. 2011.

2.            A. E. Willner, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, and X. Wu, "Integrated nano-structured silicon waveguides and devices for high-speed optical communications," Chinese Optics Letters, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 909-917, Sept. 2010.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

1.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Jian Wang, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner, "Highly efficient nonlinearity-reduction in silicon-on-insulator waveguide using vertical slots," Optics Express, vol. 18, pp. 22061-22066, 2010.

2.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner, "Silicon-on-insulator polarization splitter using two horizontally-slotted waveguides," Optics Letters, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1364-1366, 2010.

3.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Muping Song, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner, "Higher-Order-Mode Assisted Silicon-on-Insulator 90 Degree Polarization Rotator," Optics Express, vol. 17, pp. 20694-20699 2009.

4.            Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, Z. Wang, T. T. Sun, L. Jin, Y. F. Lu, C. S. Zhang, L. G. Liu, Y. Li, Y. G. Liu, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Highly birefringent elliptical-hole photonic crystal fiber with squeezed hexagonal lattice," Optics Letters, vol. 32, pp. 469-471, 2007. Also in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, vol. 15, iss. 6, 2007.

5.            Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, Z. Wang, Y. F. Lu, C. S. Zhang, T. T. Sun, Y. Li, L. Jin, J. G. Liu, Y. G. Liu, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Highly birefringent elliptical-hole photonic crystal fiber with two big circular air holes adjacent to the core," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, pp. 2638-2640, 2006.

6.            Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, Z. Wang, C. S. Zhang, Y. F. Lu, Y. Li, T. T. Sun, L. Jin, J. G. Liu, Y. G. Liu, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Broadband single-polarization single-mode photonic crystal fiber coupler," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, pp. 2032-2034, 2006.

7.            Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, Z. Wang, Y. Li, C. S. Zhang, Y. F. Lu, T. T. Sun, L. Jin, J. G. Liu, Y. G. Liu, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Phase and group modal birefringence of an index-guiding photonic crystal fibre with helical air holes," Optics Communications, vol. 268, pp. 46-50, 2006.

8.            Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, Z. Wang, J. G. Liu, L. Jin, T. T. Sun, Y. F. Lu, C. S. Zhang, Y. Li, Y. G. Liu, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Elliptical-hole photonic crystal fiber with squeezed lattice," Guangdianzi Jiguang/Journal of Optoelectronics Laser, vol. 17, pp. 200-202, 2006.

9.            Devang Parekh, Bo Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhao, Yang Yue, Werner Hofmann, Markus C. Amann, Alan E. Willner, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, "Long Distance Single-mode Fiber Transmission of Multimode VCSELs by Injection Locking," Optics Express, vol. 18, no. 20, pp. 20552-20557, 2010.

10.        L. Zhang, Y. Yue, R.G. Beausoleil, and A.E. Willner, "Flattened dispersion in silicon slot waveguides," Optics Express, vol. 18, no. 19, pp. 20529-20534, 2010.

11.        L. Zhang, Y. Yue, Y. Xiao-Li, J. Wang, R.G. Beausoleil, and A.E. Willner, "Flat and Low Dispersion in Highly Nonlinear Slot Waveguides," Optics Express, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 13187-13193, 2010.

12.        Jian Wang, Scott Nuccio, Xiaoxia Wu, Omer Yilmaz, Lin Zhang, Irfan Fazal, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Yang Yue, Alan Willner, "40 Gbit/s Optical Data Exchange Between Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Channels Using a Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide," Optics Letters, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 1067-1069, 2010.

13.        Jeng-Yuan Yang, Lin Zhang, Yang Yue, Janet Jackel, Anjali Agarwal, Loukas Paraschis, and Alan E. Willner, "CD-Insensitive PMD Monitoring of a High-Speed Polarization-Multiplexed Data Channel," Optics Express, vol. 17, pp. 18171-18177, 2009.

14.        Bo Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhao, Devang Parekh, Yang Yue, Werner Hofmann, Markus C. Amann, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, and Alan E. Willner, "Reconfigurable Multifunctional Operation using Optical Injection-Locked VCSELs," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 27, pp. 2958-2963, 2009.

15.        Lin Zhang, Yang Yue, Yinying Xiao-Li, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner, "Highly Dispersive Slot Waveguides," Optics Express, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 7095-7101, 2009.

16.        J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, V. R. Arbab, A. Agarwal, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner, "Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio Monitoring of an 80-Gb/s Polarization-Multiplexed Return-to-Zero Differential Phase-Shift Keying Channel," Optics Letters, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 1006-1008, 2009.

17.        L. Zhang, T. Luo, Y. Yue and A. E. Willner, "High Group Birefringence in Photonic Crystal Fibers with Both Positive and Negative Phase Birefringences," Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 10, pp. 035004-035007, 2008.

18.        L. Jin, B. O. Guan, Q. Fang, Z. Wang, B. Liu, J. G. Liu, Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, and X. Y. Dong, "Bragg gratings written in photonic crystal fibres with a high-index germanosilicate core," Chinese Physics Letters, vol. 25, pp. 160-163, 2008.

19.        M. M. Zhang, X. R. Ma, Y. Cao, Y. Yue, L. W. Wang, "Study on High Birefringence Photonic Crystal Fiber," Acta Photonica Sinica, vol. 37, pp. 1126-1129, 2008.

20.        Lin Zhang, Ting Luo, Yang Yue, Changyuan Yu and Alan E. Willner, "Photosensitivity-Enabled Dispersion Controllability for Quasi-Phase-Matching in Photonic Crystal Fibers," Optics Letters, vol. 32, no. 24, pp. 3498-3500, 2007.

21.        Q. Fang, Z. Wang, L. Jin, J. G. Liu, Y. Yue, Y. Liu, G. Y. Kai, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Dispersion design of all-solid photonic bandgap fiber," Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, vol. 24, pp. 2899-2905, 2007.

22.        Z. Wang, Y. G. Liu, G. Y. Kai, J. G. Liu, Y. Li, T. T. Sun, L. Jin, Y. Yue, W. G. Zhang, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Directional couplers operated by resonant coupling in all-solid photonic bandgap fibers," Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 8925-8930, 2007. Also in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, vol. 16, iss. 7, 2007.

23.        Q. Shi, G. Y. Kai, Z. Wang, Y. Yue, J. B. Du, Q. Fang, Y. G. Liu, F. Y. Lv, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Properties of all-solid square-lattice photonic bandgap fibres," Chinese Physics Letters, vol. 24, pp. 2259-2262, 2007.

24.        Q. Fang, Z. Wang, G. Y. Kai, L. Jin, Y. Yue, H. B. Pu, Q. Shi, Z. Y. Liu, B. Liu, Y. G. Liu, S. H. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Proposal for all-solid photonic bandgap fiber with improved dispersion characteristics," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, pp. 1239-1241, 2007.

25.        W. Fang, X. R. Ma, H. L. Guo, Y. Cao, Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, "Chromatic dispersion measurement of optical fibers," Optical Communication Technology, vol. 9, pp. 24, 2006.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

1.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Forrest G. Sedgwick, Bishara Shamee, Weijian Yang, James Ferrara, Christopher Chase, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, and Alan E. Willner, "Chromatic Dispersion Variation and Its Effect on High-Speed Data Signals due to Structural Parameter Changes in a High-Contrast-Grating Waveguide," IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting 2010, paper ThB2, Denver, CO, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2010).

2.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Raymond Beausoleil, and Alan Willner, "Ultrabroadband Low Dispersion Silicon-on-Nitride Waveguide in Mid-Infrared Region," OSA Topical Meeting on Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano Photonics (IPR), paper IWH4, Monterey, CA, July (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2010).

3.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Jian Wang, Yinying Xiao-Li, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner, ">25× Reduction in the effective nonlinear coefficient over a 100-nm wavelength range using vertically-slotted silicon waveguide," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), paper CThR6, San Jose, CA, May 2010 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2010).

4.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Jian Wang, Yinying Xiao-Li, Bishara Shamee, Vadim Karagodsky, Forrest G. Sedgwick, Werner Hofmann, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, and Alan E. Willner, "A “Linear” High-Contrast Gratings Hollow-Core Waveguide and its System Level Performance," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OTuI5, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2010 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

5.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Raymond Beausoleil, Alan Willner, "Very Short Polarization Splitting/Combining using Two Horizontally-Slotted Waveguides," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), paper CTuC4, Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).

6.            Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Muping Song, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner, "On-Chip 90-degree Polarization Rotator using Wave Coupling through an Intermediate, Multimode, Uniform Waveguide," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OTuL6, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).

7.            Y. Yue, G. Y. Kai, Z. Wang, L. Jin, T. T. Sun, Y. F. Lu, C. S. Zhang, Y. Li, J. G. Liu, Y. G. Liu, S. Z. Yuan, and X. Y. Dong, "Highly birefringent index-guiding photonic crystal fibers with two big circular holes in elliptical-air-hole cladding," Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 6595, pp. 659519 (7 pp.), 2007.

8.            Hao Huang, Yang Yue, Lin Zhang, Xue Wang, Christopher Chase, Devang Parekh, Forrest Sedgwick, Moshe Tur, Ming Wu, Connie  Chang-Hasnain, and Alan Willner, "Analog Signal Performance of a Hollow-Core-Waveguide using High-Contrast-Gratings," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OThA3, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 2011 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2011).

9.            Jian Wang, Scott R. Nuccio, Hao Huang, Xue Wang, Omer F. Yilmaz, Xiaoxia Wu, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Yang Yue, and Alan E. Willner, "Demonstration of 100-Gbit/s DQPSK Data Exchange between Two Different Wavelength Channels using Parametric Depletion in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber," accepted to the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Torino, Italy, Sept. 2010.

10.        L. Zhang, Y. Yue, Y. Xiao-Li, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner, "Low dispersion silicon slot waveguides for frequency comb generation with equally spaced spectral lines," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2010, (IEEE&OSA, May 16-21, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA), paper CThAA7.

11.        L. Zhang, Y. Yue, Y. Xiao-Li, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner, "Chromatic dispersion in tightly curved silicon waveguides and ring resonators," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2010, (IEEE&OSA, May 16-21, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA), paper CThB5.

12.        L. Zhang, J. Wang, M. Song, Y. Yue, Y. Xiao-Li, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner, "Nonlinear distortions induced by non-idealities of integrated silicon waveguides in analog optical links," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2010, (IEEE&OSA, May 16-21, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA), paper CThN4.

13.        L. Zhang, Y. Yue, Y. Xiao-Li, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner, "Low chromatic dispersion of ±16 ps/(nm·km) over a 550-nm wavelength range using a strip/slot hybrid silicon waveguide," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2010, (IEEE&OSA, May 16-21, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA), paper JThE42.

14.        Y. Xiao-Li, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, J. Wang, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner, "Dispersion tailoring in dual slot waveguide," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2010, (IEEE&OSA, May 16-21, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA), paper CThR5.

15.        Jian Wang, Omer Yilmaz, Scott Nuccio, Xiaoxia Wu, Zahra Bakhtiari, Yinying Xiao-Li, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Hao Huang, Yang Yue, Alan E. Willner, "Data Traffic Grooming/Exchange of a Single 10-Gbit/s TDM Tributary Channel between Two Pol-Muxed 80-Gbit/s DPSK Channels," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2010, (IEEE&OSA, May 16-21, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA), paper CFJ5.

16.        Jian Wang, Zahra Bakhtiari, Yinying Xiao-Li, Omer Yilmaz, Scott Nuccio, Xiaoxia Wu, Hao Huang, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Yang Yue, Alan E. Willner, "Experimental Demonstration of Data Traffic Grooming of a Single 10-Gbit/s TDM Tributary Channel between Two 160-Gbit/s WDM Channels," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OWF1, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2010 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

17.        Jian Wang, Zahra Bakhtiari, Yinying Xiao-Li, Scott Nuccio, Omer Yilmaz, Xiaoxia Wu, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Yang Yue, Irfan Fazal, Alan E. Willner, "Phase-Transparent Optical Data Exchange of 40-Gbit/s DPSK Signals Using Four-Wave-Mixing in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OMT6, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2010 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

18.        L. Zhang, Y. Yue, Y. Xiao-Li, J. Wang, R. G. Beausoleil and A. E. Willner, “Achieving uniform chromatic dispersion over a wide wavelength range in highly nonlinear slot waveguides,” in Frontiers in Optics 2009, (OSA, Oct. 11-15, 2009, San Jose, CA, USA), paper FThE2.

19.        Y. Xiao-Li, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, R. G. Beausoleil and A. E. Willner, “Slot waveguide incorporating a sub-core,” in Frontiers in Optics 2009, (OSA, Oct. 11-15, 2009, San Jose, CA, USA), paper FWZ5.

20.        J. Wang, S. R. Nuccio, X. X. Wu, O. F. Yilmaz, L. Zhang, I. Fazal, J. Y. Yang, Y. Yue, and A. E. Willner, "40-Gbit/s Optical Data Exchange Between WDM Channels Using Second-Order Nonlinearities in PPLN Waveguides," OSA Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics (NLO), Post-Deadline paper PDPA1, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).

21.        Lin Zhang, Yang Yue, Yinying Xiao-Li, Ray G. Beausoleil, Alan E. Willner, "Slot Waveguides with a Flattened Near-Zero Dispersion and a Small Effective Mode Area," OSA Topical Meeting on Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA), paper IWD6, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).

22.        Lin Zhang, Yang Yue, Ray G. Beausoleil, Alan E. Willner, "On Chip Dispersion Flattening Slot Waveguides," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), paper CThU2, Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).

23.        Bo Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhao, Devang Parekh, Yang Yue, Werner Hofmann, Markus C. Amann, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, and Alan E. Willner, "Multifunctional and Reconfigurable 10-GHz Operation of an Optical Injection-Locked VCSEL," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), paper CTuJ7, Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).

24.        Lin Zhang, Yang Yue, Yinying Xiao Li, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner, "On-Chip, High-Dispersion-Value and Coupled Strip/Slotted Waveguide Structure for Efficient Dispersion Compensation," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OThB2, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).

25.        J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, L. C. Christen, B. Zhang, J. Jackel, A. Anjali, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner, "CD-Insensitive PMD Monitoring of an 80-Gb/s Polarization-Multiplexed RZ-DPSK Channel Using a Polarizer and a Low-Speed Detector," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OTHJ2, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).

26.        M. Song, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner, "A 2X2 Optical Cross-Connect Switch Based on Dual-Drive Silicon Microring-Resonators with Reduced Timing Jitter and Driving Voltage," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OWV5, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).

27.        Devang Parekh, Bo Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhao, Yang Yue, Werner Hofmann, Markus C. Amann, Alan E. Willner, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, "90-km Single-Mode Fiber Transmission of 10-Gb/s Multimode VCSELs under Optical Injection Locking," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OTuK7, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).

28.        J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, V. R. Arbab, A. Agarwal, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner, "CD/PMD-Insensitive Optical Performance Monitoring of OSNR Degradation in an 80-Gb/s Pol-Muxed RZ-DPSK System," IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper WP3, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).

29.        Y. Li, L. Zhang, M. Song, Y. Yue, R.G. Beausoleil, and A.E. Willner, "Enhanced Performance and Flexibility in Silicon Modulators Based on a Coupled-Ring-Resonator Structure," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, paper JThA35, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2008).

 

  

PATENTS

1.         Title: Broadband single-polarization single-mode dual-core photonic crystal fiber, (Chinese Patent, No. 200610013590.7), Inventors: Guiyun Kai, Zhi Wang, Yang Yue, Yange Liu, Shuzhong Yuan, Xiaoyi Dong.

  

JOURNAL REVIEWERS

  • Applied Optics

  • Applied Physics B

  • IEEE Photonics Journal

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology

  • Journal of Optics

  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

  • Journal of Quantum Electronics

  • Optics Express

  • Optics Letters

  • Semiconductor Science and Technology

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • C/C++, MATLAB, MAPLE

  • COMSOL (FEMLAB), GSolver (RCWA), BeamPROP

  • RSOFT (Optsim), VPI (PTDS)

 
 

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