Personal
Name: Zhigang ZHANG (张志刚)
Professor
Current Address
Institute of Quantum Electronics,School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science,
Peking University,Beijing 100871 , China
Tel: 0086-10-62754094,
Fax:0086-10-62754094,
E-mail: zgzhang@pku.edu.cn,
Birth place
Beijing,China
Education
12/1992 PHD
Department of Physics
Monash University, Australia
11/1984 Master of Science
Department of Applied Physics
Beijing Polytechnic University
01/1982 Bachelor of Science
Department of Applied Physics
Beijing Polytechnic University
Work Experience
09/2004-present Professor / Ultrafast Optics Group
Institute of Quantum Electronics
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
8/1999-8/2004 Specially Contributive Professor (Cheung Kong Scholar)
University of Tianjin, Tianjin, 300072, P. R. China
4/1997-3/2000 NEDO Fellow Researcher
Femtosecond Technology Project Team
Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
1/1996-3/1997 NEDO’s Advanced Technology Researcher
Femtosecond Technology Project Team
Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
4/1994-12/1995 R&D Scientist
Luminex Trading, Inc.
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
4/1992-3/1994 STA Fellow
Institute of Research and Innovation
1201 Takada, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
11/1984-6/1988 Lecturer
Department of Applied Physics
Beijing Polytechnic University
Beijing 100022, P. R. China
Research Experience
2/1982-6/1988 Mode-locked picosecond solid-state lasers;
7/1988-3/199 Metal vapor lasers, including the hollow-anode-cathode
discharges;
4/1992-present Mode locked femtosecond lasers, semiconductor saturable
absorber mirrors, regenerative amplifiers, excimer amplifiers;
few-cycle laser pulse generation; ultrafast fiber lasers, fiber
laser frequency combs, high power pulsed fiber lasers
Teaching Experience
1. General Physics (Undergraduate level)
2. Principles of Lasers (Undergraduate level)
3. Optics (Undergraduate level)
4. Ultrafast Optics (Graduate level)
Academic visiting experience
01/2001-03/2001 Visiting Professor, AIST,Tsukuba,Japan.
09/2001-10/2001 Visiting Professor, NTT Basic Research Laboratory,Atsuki,Japan.
05/2002-10/2002 Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Physics,Hokkaido University,Japan.
11/2002-12/2002 Visiting Professor, Laboratory of Spectroscopy,University of J. Fourier,France.
07/2006-09/2006 Visiting Professor, Research Laboratory of Electronics,MIT,USA
01/2013-03/2013 Visiting Professor, Research Laboratory of Electronics,MIT,USA
07/2014-09/2014 Visiting Professor, University of Electro-communications, Chofu, Japan
Honors and Awards
2003 “Self-starting mode locked laser with amplifiers”, First grade award of science and technology progress, Ministry of Education,China
2011 “High power solid state lasers”, Ministry of Science and Technology Second grade award of science and technology progress, 10/10
Foreign languages
Fluent in English and in Japanese