Photonics and Display Group
 Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystal Lasers

Ying Zhou

PhD student in Optics

Email:   yzhou@mail.ucf.edu
Office:  Room 283, CREOL
Phone:  (407) 823-6876
Fax:      (407) 823-6880

University of Central Florida
College of Optics & Photonics: CREOL & FPCE
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
P.O. Box 162700
Orlando, Florida 32816-2700

Educational History
09/2003-Present

Ph.D in Optics,

School of Optics / CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
09/2000-03/2003

M.S. in Optical Engineering,

Optical Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
09/1996-07/2000

B.S. in Information Engineering,

Optical Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

Award
4/2007 2007 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering
4/2007 OSA New Focus/Bookham Award (among top 7 finalists worldwide)
3/2007 2006-2007 Student of the Year Award, College of Optics and Photonics
10/2006 UCF Graduate Student Association Travel Fellowship
08/2006 UCF Student Government Association Travel Grant
08/2006 UCF 2006 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship
2000 Privilege of entering Graduate Program of Zhejiang University, waived of entrance exams
1999 Zhejiang University TCL Scholarship
1999 Honor of “Excellent Student” of Zhejiang University
1997-1999 Zhejiang University Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship
 

Journal Publications

  1. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, “Broadband circular polarizer using stacked chiral polymer films”, Opt. Express, 15, 6414 (2007).

  2. Y. Zhou, E-Eun Jang, Y. Huang, and Shin-Tson Wu, “Enhanced laser emission in opposite handedness using a cholesteric polymer film stack”, Opt. Express 15, 3470-3477 (2007) (PDF)

  3. Y. Matsuhisa, Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, S. T. Wu, R. Ozaki, Y. Takao, A. Fujii, and M. Ozaki, “Low threshold and high efficiency lasing upon band-edge excitation in a cholesteric liquid crystal”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 091114 (2007) (PDF)

  4. Y. Matsuhisa, Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, S. T. Wu, R. Ozaki, Y. Takao, A. Fujii, and M. Ozaki, “Cholesteric liquid crystal laser in a dielectric mirror cavity upon band-edge excitation”, Opt. Express 15, 616-622 (2007) (PDF)

  5. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, Z. Ge, L. P. Chen, Q. Hong, T. X. Wu, and S. T. Wu, “Enhanced photonic band edge laser emission in a cholesteric liquid crystal resonator”, Phys. Rev. E 74, 061705 (2006) (PDF)

  6. Y. Huang, T. H. Lin, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, “Enhancing the laser power by stacking multiple dye-doped chiral polymer films”, Opt. Express 14, 11299-11303 (2006) (PDF)

  7. 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 (2006).

  8. 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 (2006) (PDF)

  9. 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, 4479-4485 (2006) (PDF)

  10. 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)

  11. 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 (2006) (PDF)

  12. Y. 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. 261, 91-96 (2006) (PDF)

  13. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, and S.T. Wu, "Spatially tunable laser emission in dye-doped photonic liquid crystals", Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 011107 (2006) (PDF)

  14. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, A. Rapaport, M. Bass, S.T. Wu, "Experimental investigation of laser emission of dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals with a cholesteric reflector", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 454, 377-385 (2006) (PDF)

  15. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, Q. Hong and S.T. Wu, "Lasing in dye-doped photonic liquid crystal devices", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453, 251-262 (2006) (PDF)

  16. Y. H. Lin, H. Ren, S. Gauza, Y. H. Wu, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, "High contrast and fast response polarization-independent reflective display using a dye-doped dual-frequency liquid crystal gel" , Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453, 371-378 (2006) (PDF)

  17. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, A. Rapaport, M. Bass, and S.T. Wu, “Doubling the optical efficiency of a chiral liquid crystal laser using a reflector ”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 231107(2005) (PDF)

  18. Y. Zhou, G. J. Zeng, F. H. Yu, “A particle swarm optimization-based approach for optical FIR filter design”, Appl. Opt. 42 (8), 1503-1507 (2003) (PDF)

  19. Y. Zhou, G. J. Zeng, F. H. Yu, and H. S. Kwok, “Study on Optical FIR filter”, Opt. Eng. 42(8), 2318-2323 (2003) (PDF)

  20. Y. Zhou, G. Z. Wu, G. J. Zeng, and F. H. Yu, “Applications of memory simulated annealing for optical FIR filter design”, Acta Optica Sinica (in Chinese), 23 (8), 1-5 (2003)

  21. Y. Zhou, G. Z. Wu, and F. H. Yu, “Optical FIR filter based on crystal birefringence”, Opto-electronics Engineering (in Chinese), 30(4), 21-24 (2003)

 

Conference Proceedings

  1. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, Z. Ge, and S. T. Wu, “Highly efficient photonic band-edge cholesteric liquid crystal lasers”, Proc. SPIE 6487, 64870C (Photonic West 2007, San Jose, Jan., 2007)

  2. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, “Random lasers from dye-doped chiral photonic crystal films”, Proc. SPIE 6480, 648006 (Photonic West 2007, San Jose, Jan., 2007)

  3. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, and S. T. Wu, “High Performance dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal lasers”, 2006 OSA Annual Meeting Digest, (2006 OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, Oct., 2006)

  4. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, and S. T. Wu, “Nearly unpolarized and linearly polarized laser generation from dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal laser using a mirror reflector”, Proc. SPIE 6332, 633208 (2006 SPIE Annual Meeting, San Diego, Aug., 2006).

  5. Y. Huang, Y. Zhou, and S. T. Wu, “Tunable photonic devices based on the temperature dependent photonic band gap in chiral nematic liquid crystals”, Proc. SPIE 6332, 63320F (2006 SPIE Annual Meeting, San Diego, Aug., 2006 )

  6. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, and S. T. Wu, “Cholesteric liquid crystal lasers”, Poster paper in CREOL Industrial Affiliate Day in 2006.

  7. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, A. Rapaport, M. Bass, and S.T. Wu, "Doubling the output power of cholesteric liquid crystal lasers", Proc. SPIE, 6135, 613500 (2006 Photonics West, San Jose, Jan., 2006)

  8. 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 (Clearwater FL, Oct., 2005)

  9. 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, 91 (Clearwater FL, Oct., 2005)

  10. Y. Zhou, G. Z. Wu, F. H. Yu, H. S. Kwok, “Optical FIR filter based on crystal birefringence: Theory & Experimental investigation”, Proc. SPIE, 4924, 145-152 (Shanghai, Oct., 2002)

  11. J. Y. Xiong, Y. Zhou, G. Z. Wu, Z. F. Cen, F. H. Yu, “New analytical method for design of PIF used in color separation/combination optical engine for LCOS display”, Proc. SPIE, 4929, 116-121(Shanghai, Oct., 2002)

  12. J. Y. Xiong, Y. Zhou, G. Z. Wu, Z. F. Cen, F. H. Yu, “Non-scanning selective-illumination optical sectioning microscope: Theory”, Proc. SPIE, 4929, 105-115 (Shanghai, Oct., 2002)

 
 

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