Siyu Fan

• Email: s.fan2@ncl.ac.uk

Supervisor

• Dr Noel Healy

Project description

We are carrying out research in manufacturing a new generation of optical fibre devices and laser fibre polishing. This includes, for example, the in-fibre nano vapour cell and high Q-factor micro-resonators. We are using a combination of lithographic and some nanoscale optical technology. This will allow us to directly fabricate such devices into the fibre.

This project provides a platform that increases the integration of a standard single mode fibre. The resulting components will have nearly zero insertion loss and minimum energy driven. This has potential applications in non-linear optics, quantum optics and optical fibre communications.

Publications

• Chen H, Fan S, Li G, Schmidt MA, Healy N. Single Crystal Ge Core Fiber Produced via Pressure Assisted Melt Filling and CO2 Laser Crystallization. In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2020. 32(2), 81-84.

Interests

Optical fibre polishing, optical fibre micro-devices.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate: Optical-electronics at Nanjing University of Science and Technology
• Master: Microelectronics at Newcastle University