Photonics and Display Group
Nano and Bio Photonics

Dr. Yuhua Huang

Research Scientist

(407) 823-6876 - Phone
(407) 823-6880 - Fax
huang@mail.ucf.edu

University of Central Florida
School of Optics - CREOL
4000 Central Florida Boulevard
PO Box 162700
Orlando, Florida 32816-2700

 

 


Educational History

09/1997-07/2000

Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai , P. R. China
Ph.D. in Optics, Laser Spectroscopy, Nonlinear Optics, Optic Information Storage
Dissertation: "The Photo-charge Transfer and Optical Characteristics in Biological Protein  Bacteriorhodopsin"

09/1994-07/1997

Department of Electronic Information & Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, P. R. China
M.S. in Optics, Optic Fiber Communications
Thesis "The Propagation of Ultra-fast Short Pulse in Linear Media"

09/1991-06/1994

Hunan Air Force Aviation Technology College, Hunan, P. R. China
B.S. in Electronics

 


Professional Experience

06/2002-Present

Research Scientist, School of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida

07/2000-03/2002

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. China

 


Awards

1999

An Honor Prize and Scholarship by Fudan University

1991-1994

Excellent student prize

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Journal Publications
  1. Y. Huang, L. P. Chen, C. Doyle, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, "Spatially tunable laser emission in dye-doped cholesteric polymer films" Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, (Sept. 11, 2006).
  2. Y. Huang, C. H. Wen, and S. T. Wu, "Polarization-independent & submillisecond response phase modulators using a 90°-twisted dual-frequency liquid crystal" Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 021103 (July 10, 2006).
  3. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, "Lasing in dye-doped photonic liquid crystal devices” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453, 251-262 (2006).
  4. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, T. H. Lin, L. P. Chen, Q. Hong, and S. T. Wu, "Direction controllable linearly polarized laser from a dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal" Opt. Express 14, 5571-5580 (June 12, 2006).
  5. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, A. Rapaport, M. Bass, and S. T. Wu, "Experimental investigation of laser emission of dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals with a cholesteric reflector" Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 454, 385-393 (2006).
  6. T. H. Lin, Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, A. Y. G. Fuh, and S. T. Wu, "Photo-patterning micro-mirror devices using azo dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals" Opt. Express 14,  (May 15, 2006).
  7. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, and S.T. Wu, " Enhancing cholesteric liquid crystal laser performance using a cholesteric reflector", Opt. Express. 14,3906-3916 (2006) (PDF)
  8. T. H. Lin, Y. Huang, A. Y. G. Fuh, and S. T. Wu, "Polarization controllable Fresnel lens using dye-doped liquid crystals"
    Opt. Express 14,  2359-2364 (March 20, 2006).
  9. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, C. Doyle, and S. T. Wu "Tuning photonic band gap in cholesteric liquid crystals by temperature-dependent dopant solubility" Opt. Express 14,  1236-1242 (Feb. 6, 2006)
  10. Y. H. Huang, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, "Spatially tunable laser emission in dye-doped photonic liquid crystals", Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 011107 (Jan. 2, 2006)
  11. Y. H. Huang, Y. Zhou, Q. Hong, A. Rapaport, M. Bass, and S. T. Wu, "Incident angle and polarization effects on the dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal laser", Opt. Comm. (Jan. 2006)
  12. Y. Zhou, Y. H. Huang, A. Rapaport, M. Bass, and S. T. Wu, “Doubling optical efficiency of a chiral liquid crystal laser using a reflector",  Appl. Phys. Lett.  87, 231107 (Dec. 5, 2005).
  13. Y. H. Huang, J. Fu, D. Hagan, S. T. Wu, X. Huang, and M. A. El-Sayed, “Ultraviolet protection using intensity-dependent spectral shift in bacteriorhodopsin", IEEE J. Special Topics in Quantum Electronics  11, 902-905 (2005).
  14. Y. H. Huang, G. Siganakis, M. G. Moharam, and S. T. Wu, “Broadband optical limiter based on nonlinear photoinduced anisotropy in bacteriorhodopsin film", Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, (Dec. 6, 2004).
  15. Y. H. Huang, G. Siganakis, M. G. Moharam, and S. T. Wu, “All-optical display using photo-induced anisotropy in a bacterio-rhodopsin film", Opt. Lett. 29, 1933 (2004)
  16. Y. H. Huang, S. T. Wu, and Y. Zhao, “Photonic switching based on the photo-induced birefringence in bacteriorhodopsin film”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 2028 (2004). 
  17. Y. H. Huang, S. T. Wu and Y. Zhao, “All-optical switching characteristics in bacteriorhodopsin and its applications in integrated optics”, Optics Express 12, 895-906 (2004).
  18. X. Zhu, Q. Hong, Y. H. Huang and S. T. Wu,  “Eigenmodes of a reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal cell”, J. Applied Physics 94, 2868-73 (2003).
  19. Y. H. Huang, T. X. Wu, and S. T. Wu, "Simulations of liquid-crystal Fabry-Perot etalons by an improved 4´4 matrix method", J. Applied Physics 93, 2490-5 (2003).
  20. T. X. Wu, Y. H. Huang, and S. T. Wu, “Design optimization of broadband linear polarization converter using twisted nematic liquid crystal”, Jpn. J. Applied Physics, Part II 42, L39 - L41 (2003).
  21. Y. H. Huang, Yizhong Yuan, Jingxin Ding, Zhenrong Sun, and Heping Zeng, “Spectral Dependent Cross Sections Determination for Singlet Excited States Using Z-scan”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 4855 (2002).
  22. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan Zhao, et al. " A Model for Light-driven Proton pump and Transfer in Bacteriorhodopsin ", Chinese Physics Letters, 20, No. 6, 2003
  23. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan Zhao, et al. "The light-induced charge separation and Transfer in bacteriorhodopsin" Chinese Physics Letter Vol.17, No. 4, 2000.
  24. Jing Wang , Wei-Feng Cao , Jian-Hua Su , He Tian, Y. H. Huang, Zhen-Rong Sun “Syntheses and Nonlinear Absorption of Novel Unsymmetrical Cyanines”, Dyes and Pigments, 57, 171-179 (2003).
  25. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan Zhao, et al. "Optical Absorption Nonlinearity in Bacteriorhodopsin" Acta Optics Sinca (in Chinese) Vol.19, No.12, 1999.
  26. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan Zhao, et al. "Optical Kinetic Absorption of the Proton(Charge) Transfer Pumped by Light in Bacteriorhodopsin" Chinese Laser, Vol.27, No.2, 2000.
  27. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan Zhao, et al. "The Characteristics of Photo-charge Transfering in Bacteriorhodopsin Film" Acta Optics Sinca(in Chinese) Vol.20, No.12, 2000.
  28. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan Zhao, et al. "The Charateristics of Photo-Charge transfering in Bacteriorhodopsin" Journal of Optoelectronics.Laser, Vol.10, supp, 1999.
  29. Qingan Gong, Youyuan Zhao, Y. H. Huang, et al. "Reverse Saturable Absorption in ZnTBP/CA/PhR" Chinese Laser Vol.26, No.5, 1999.
  30. Qingan Gong, Youyuan Zhao, Y. H. Huang, et al. "Study on Instantaneous Absorption in the Proton (charge) Transfer Process of Bacteriorhodopsin" Acta Biophysics Sinca (in Chinese) Vol.15, No.1, 1999.

Conference and Proceeding Publications

  1. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, A. Rapaport, M. Bass and S.T. Wu, "Experimental investigation of laser emission properties of dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals with a cholesteric liquid crystal reflector", The 11th International topical meeting on optics of liquid crystal, 91 (Florida, Oct. 2-7, 2005)
  2. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, Q. Hong and S.T. Wu, "Incident angle and polarization effects on dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal lasers"

The 11th International topical meeting on optics of liquid crystal, 68 (Florida, Oct. 2-7, 2005)

  1. Y. H. Huang,  and S. T. Wu, “Photo-induced anisotropy in a smart biomolecule bacteriorhodopsin and for photonic applications", (Invited talk) 2004 IEEE APS/URSI Conference (Montorey, California, June 21-24, 2004)
  2. Y. H. Huang, S.T. Wu and Y. Zhao, "All-optical switching and all-optical logic gates using bacteriorhodopsin films" SPIE(Photonics West), San Jose, Jan. 24-29 (2004).
  3. Y. H. Huang, S. T. Wu,"Photoinduced anisotropy in bacteriorhodopsin films and for photonic applications" Optics in Southeast, Orlando, Dec. 2003
  4. T. X. Wu, R. B. Lu, Q. Hong, Y. H. Huang, X. Y. Zhu, Z. B. Ge and S. T. Wu, “On the modeling of liquid crystal displays,” (Invited paper) 2003 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 886-7 (Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 26-30, 2003).
  5. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan  Zhao, et al. "The transient charge transfer and optical absorbance in bacteriorhodopsin with fast photo-electric response" Chinese Advanced Materials Conference in Beijing, 1998.
  6. Y. H. Huang, Youyuan Zhao, et al. "Fast Photo-electricity response in bacteriorhodopsin", Chinese Opto-electronics and Biomedicine Conference in Kunming, Yunnan, 1999.
  7. Zhenrong Sun, Minghong Tong, Y. H. Huang, Heping Zeng, Liangen Ding, Zugeng Wang. “Optical limiting Response in a unsymmetrical dithiolene metal complex (Me4N)2[Zn(dmit)(Sph)2]” Chinese Intense Laser Conference in Guiling, 2000.
  8. Y. H. Huang, Yizhong Yuan, Jingxin Ding, Zhenrong Sun, and Heping Zeng, Zugeng Wang, “Nonlinear Absorption of a Novel Indoletricarboncyanine Dye Derivative”, Chinese Infrared Spectroscopy Technology Conference in Xiamen, 2001.

U.S. Patent

  1. Y. H. Huang, T. X. Wu, and S. T. Wu, Achromatic quarter-wave films, US patent 7,009,670
  2. Y. H. Huang, H. W. Ren, X. Y. Zhu and S. T. Wu, Electrically Tunable Polarization-independent  Microlens Using  Polymer Network 90  Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal, US Patent 7,079,203 (July 18, 2006)

     
 

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