Shane - Dr. Shengwang Du

Postdoctoral researcher
at Stephen Harris' group, Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University

Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory Mailbox S-60
Stanford University
450 Via Palou
Stanford, CA 94305-4088
Lab:GL 28, 650-725-2259
Office: GL 47, 650-723-0161
Email: dus@stanford.edu

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Curriculum Vitae (download PDF version)

[Research Interests] [Appointments] [Educations] [Hornor] [Organizational Activities] [Publications] [Presentations] [Professional Service][ProfessionalAffiliation][Skills]

Research Interests: Atom Optics, Quantum Optics, Bose-Einstein Condensation, Atom Chip, Laser Cooling and Trapping, Nonlinear Optics, Solid State Lighting, Superconducting Electronics.

Appointments:
•08/2008 – ..., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
•06/20/2005 – 07/2008, Postdoctoral Scholar, Ginzton laboratory, Stanford University.
• 04/2005 – Present, Consultant-Chief Technical Advisor, Led Up Enterprise Inc. Agoura Hills, California.
• 05/06/2005 – 06/19/2005, Postdoctoral Research Associate, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder .

Educations:
•  08/1999 – 05/2005, PhD, Physics (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Thesis : Atom-chip Bose-Einstein condensation in a portable vacuum cell.
Advisor: Prof. Dana Z. Anderson

•  01/2002 – 12/2002, MS, Electrical Engineering (Optics), Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder .
Advisor: Prof. Frank Barnes

•  09/1996 – 07/1999, MS, Physics (Condensed Matter Physics: Superconducting Electronics), Department of Physics, Peking University , China.
Thesis : Paring symmetry of order parameter in high temperature superconductors and the phase measurement.
Advisor: Prof. Yuandong Dai

•  09/1992 – 07/1996, BS, Electrical Engineering (Electronics & Information Systems), Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University , China.
Thesis : 1. A low power 80C31 micro-controller system: a complete development of portable device for measuring diamond hardness. (Advisor: Prof. Min Fan)
2.The Monte-Carlo simulation for Si micro-strip detectors & Electron Pair Scattering.(Advisor: Prof. Ming Qi)

•  02/1994 – 07/1995, Minor (or secondary) degree in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University , China.

Honors:
•  20th University of Colorado at Boulder Equity and Excellence Graduate Student Award, April 2005 (for outstanding service to the university community and wholehearted commitment to promoting the principles of academic excellence, cultural pluralism and diversity in higher education. For more information, see CU campus news ).

Organizational Services:
•  President of CSSA (Chinese Student and Scholar Association), University of Colorado at Boulder , 2004 – 2005.
• Graduate and Admission Committee, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002-2003.
•  Treasurer of CSSA (Chinese Student and Scholar Association), University of Colorado at Boulder , 2002 – 2003.
•  President and founder of Student F&B (Fitness and Beauty) Association, Peking University , China , 1998 - 1999.
•  Editor of “Hui Wen” Literature Press, Nanjing University, China, 1993-1995.

Publications:
• “Observation of Optical Precursors at the Biphoton Level,” Shengwang Du, Chinmay Belthangady, Pavel Kolchin, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, Opt. Lett. (submitted 2008).
• “Electro-Optic Modulation of Single Photons,” Pavel Kolchin, Chinmay Belthangady, Shengwang Du, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, Phys. Rev. Lett. (submitted, 2008).
• “Subnatural Linewidth Biphotons with Controllable Temporal Length,” Shengwang Du, Pavel Kolchin, Chinmay Belthangady, G.Y. Yin, and S.E. Harris, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183603 (2008).
•“Nonclassical Light Generation via a Four-Level Inverted-Y System,” Jianming Wen, Shengwang Du, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, and Morton H. Rubin, Phys. Rev. A 77, 033816 (2008).
• “Far-Off-Resonant Ring Trap near the Ends of Optical Fibers,” Frank Moscatelli, Charles Sackett, Shengwang Du, and Eun Oh, Phys. Rev. A 76, 043404 (2007).
• “Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion in a Three-Level System,” Jianming Wen, Shengwang Du, and Morton H. Rubin, Phys. Rev. A 76, 013825 (2007).
• “Four-Wave Mixing in Three-Level Systems: Interference and Entanglement ,” Shengwang Du, Eun Oh, Jianming Wen, and Morton H. Rubin, Phys. Rev. A 76, 013803 (2007).
• “Biphoton Generation in a Two-Level Atomic Ensemble,” Jianming Wen, Shengwang Du, and Morton H. Rubin, Phys. Rev. A 75, 033809 (2007).
• “Four-Wave Mixing and Biphoton Generation in a Two-Level System,” Shengwang Du, Jianming Wen, Morton H. Rubin, and G.Y. Yin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053601 (2007).
• “Generation of Narrow-Bandwidth Paired Photons: Use of a single driving laser,” Pavel Kolchin, Shengwang Du, Chinmay Belthangady, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113602 (2006).
• “Atom-chip Bose-Einstein condensation in a portable vacuum cell,” Shengwang Du , Matthew B. Squires, Yutaka Imai, Leslie Czaia, R.A. Saravanan, Victor Brigh, Jakob Reichel, T. W. Hänsch, and Dana Z. Anderson, Phys. Rev. A 70 , 053606 (2004).
• “Atom Optics on a Chip,” D. Anderson, V. Bright, L. Czaia, S. Du , S. Frader-Thompson, B. McCarthy, M. Squires, MEMS 2003 , Kyoto , Japan , January 19-23, 210 -214 (IEEE 2003).
• “rf SQUID in the Hysteresis Mode Used to Detect the Phase in the Order Parameter of High-temperature Superconductors,” Du Sheng-wang , Dai Yuan-dong and Wang Shi-guang, Chinese Journal of Low Temperature Physics 22 , 32 (2000).
• “To Probe the Phase of the Order Parameter in High-temperature Superconductors by Using r.f. SQUID,” Du Sheng-wang , Dai Yuan-dong, Wang Shi-guang, ACTA Physica Sinica 48 , 2364 (1999).
• “Probing Pairing Symmetry of Superconductors by Using rf SQUID,” Y.D. Dai, S.W. Wang, and S.W. Du , Solid State Communications 108 , 251, (1998).
• “The Monte-Carlo Smulation for Detective Performance of Si Micro-Strip Detectors,” Qi Ming, Du Shengwang , Wang Xiaohua, Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Science) 33 , 527 (1997 ).
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Presentations:
• “Observation of Optical Precursors at the Biphoton Level,” DAMOP-2008 (39th Annual Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics), American Physical Society (APS), Penn State Univ, State College, Pennsylvania, May 27-31, 2008.
• “Generation of Subnatural Linewidth Biphotons,” SPIE Photonics West, Invited paper 6904-16, San Jose, California, January 22nd, 2008.
• “Quantum State Manipulation of Atoms and Photons,” School of Natural Science, University of California, Merced, January 16th, 2008.
• “Quantum State Manipulation of Atoms and Photons,” Department of Physics, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, December 6th, 2007.
•  DARPA OAWG II / Slow Light II Review Meeting, Alexandria , VA , November 14 th -16 th , 2007.
• “Four-Wave Mixing and Two-Photon Interference in a Three-Level Atomic Ensemble,” Frontiers in Optics, post deadline session PDP-C8, San Jose , California , September 19, 2007.
•  “Generation of Subnatural Linewidth Biphotons,” Frontiers in Optics, post deadline session PDP-C2, San Jose , California , September 19, 2007.
• Invited seminar series talks on atom chip and quantum optics, Institut of Opto-electronics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, Dec. 18th-20th, 2006.
•“Generation of Narrow Bandwidth Paired Photons: Use of a single driving laser”, OSA Topic Meeting: Slow and Fast Light, OSA Headquarters, Washington, DC, July 25th, 2006.[in Slow and Fast Light, Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2006), paper TuA2.]
•“BEC Atom Chip & Paired Photon Generation in Cold Atoms: Quantum state manipulation of atoms and photons”, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 19th 2006.
• “BEC Atom Chip & Paired Photon Generation in Cold Atoms: Quantum state manipulation of atoms and photons”, Department of Physics, China Eastern Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 17th 2006.
• “BEC Atom Chip & Paired Photon Generation in Cold Atoms: Quantum state manipulation of atoms and photons”, The Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, May 16th 2006.
• “BEC Atom Chip & Paired Photon Generation in Cold Atoms: Quantum state manipulation of atoms and photons”, Quantum Electronics Institute, Peking University, Beijing, China, May 11th 2006.
• “Cold-Atom Quantum Optical Sources”, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 19th 2006.
• “A Portable BEC Atom-Chip System—towards practical atom matter wave sensors”, US NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), Washington DC , Oct 8 th , 2004.
• “Atom-Chip Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Portable Vacuum Cell”, CLEO-IQEC Post deadline session, CA, May 16-21, 2004. [Post-deadline Paper, p1130-1131, Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International, 2004.]
• “Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Portable Atom-Chip Cell”, PINS meeting , JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder , April 22 nd , 2004 .
• “Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Portable Atom-Chip Cell”, MURI Review , Stanford University , March 2004.
• “Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Portable Atom-Chip Cell”, JILA tri-group (Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman, and Deborah Jin) invited talk, University of Colorado at Boulder , March 2004.

Professional Service:
• Reviewer for NSF AMO program.
• Reviewer for Georgian NSF.
• Session Chair, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, California, January 19-24, 2008.

Professional Affiliation:
• American Physical Society (APS).
• Optical Society of America (OSA).
• Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

Skills:
• Programming: LabVIEW, Mathematica, JAVA, C, Fortran, Pascal, Prolog. (Professional experience in developing Lab controlling system and DAQ with LabVIEW, numerical calculation and simulation with Mathematica, and Network programming with JAVA and C.)
• UHV vacuum technology: design and developing
• Electrical Engineering: design and developing
• Optical Engineering: design and developing
• Mechanical design (Solidworks) and machining

Last updated on 06/10/2008