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Zhongqi Pan
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
BellSouth/BORSF Professorship in Telecommunications
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, May 2003, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Dessertation : Overcoming Fiber Dispersive Effects in High-Speed Reconfigurable WDM Optical Systems and Networks |
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| Selected Publications since 2002 |
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- Z. Pan, Y. W. Song, C. Yu, Y. Wang, and A. E. Willner, "Using Sampled Nonlinearly-Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings to Achieve 40-Gbit/s Tunable Multi-channel Dispersion Compensation," Optics Communications, Vol. 241, No.4-6, pp. 371-375, November 16, 2004.
- Z. Pan, Q. Yu, Y. Arieli and A. E. Willner, "The effects of XPM-induced fast polarization-state fluctuations on PMD compensated WDM systems," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp 1963-1965, August 2004.
- C. Yu, Z. Pan, Y. Wang, Y. W. Song, D. Gurkan, M. C. Hauer, D. S. Starodubov, and A. E. Willner, "Polarization-insensitive all-optical wavelength conversion using dispersion-shifted fiber with a fiber Bragg grating and a Faraday rotator mirror," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp 1906-1908, August 2004.
- Z. Pan, Q. Yu, Y. Xie, S. A. Havstad, A. E. Willner, D. S. Starodubov, and J. Feinberg, "Real-time Group-Velocity Dispersion Monitoring and Automated Compensation without Modifications of the Transmitter," Optics Communications, Vol. 230, No.1-3, pp. 145-149, January 15, 2004.
- Z. Pan, Q. Yu, Y. Xie, Y. W. Song, and A. E. Willner, "Clock-tone regeneration due to higher-order PMD in NRZ systems," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 338-340, February 2003.
- Z. Pan, Y. W. Song, C. Yu, Y. Wang, Q. Yu, J. Popelek, H. Li, Y. Li, and A. E. Willner, "Tunable Chromatic Dispersion Compensation in 40-Gbit/s Systems Using Nonlinearly-Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 2239-2246, December 2002.
- Q. Yu, Z. Pan, L.-S. Yan, and A. E. Willner, "Chromatic dispersion monitoring technique using sideband optical filtering and clock phase-shift detection," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 2267-2271, December 2002.
- Z. Pan, Y. Wang, C. Yu, T. Luo, A. Sahin, Q. Yu, and A. E. Willner, "Intra-bit polarization diversity modulation for the mitigation of PMD effects," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 1466-1468, October 2002.
- M. N. Petersen, Z. Pan, S. Lee, S. A. Havstad, and A. E. Willner, "On-line chromatic dispersion monitoring and compensation using a single in-band subcarrier tone," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 570-572, April 2002.
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| Invited Papers |
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- A. E. Willner, Y.-W. Song, B. Hoanca, and Z. Pan, "Dispersion Management," Encyclopedia of Modern Optics, December, 2004.
- Z. Pan, A. E. Willner, C. Yu, and Y. Wang, "Applications of Highly Nonlinear Fiber in WDM Communications Systems," OSA/SPIE Optics in the Southeast, Paper D2, November 4-5, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2004.
- A. E. Willner, S. M. R. Motaghian, L.S. Yan, Z. Pan, and M. Hauer, "Monitoring and Control of Polarization-related Impairments in Optical Fiber Systems," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 22, No. 1, January 2004.
- A. E. Willner, S. M. Motaghian Reza, Z. Pan, and Q. Yu, "Performance degradations and monitoring in optical networks," Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC) ’03, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5282, November 2003.
- Q. Yu, L.-S. Yan, Z. Pan, and A. E. Willner, "Chromatic dispersion monitor for WDM systems using vestigial-sideband optical filtering," Conference on Optical Fiber Communication(OFC) ’02, Anaheim, CA, March 2002, Paper WE3, pp. 197-199.
- A. E. Willner and Z. Pan, "Implementing Subcarrier-Based Control in Optical Networking," IEEE MTTS International Microwave Symposium, Special Session on RF Photonic Technologies for Optical Networks, paper 2491, Seattle, Washington, June 2-7, 2002.
- D. Gurkan, M. Hauer, A. Sahin, Z. Pan, A. E. Willner, K. R. Parameswaren, and M. M. Fejer, "Demonstration of multi-wavelength all-optical header recognition using a PPLN and optical correlators," the 27th Europe Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) ’01, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2001, Paper: We.B.2.5.
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| Issued Patents |
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- Intra-bit polarization diversity modulation for PMD mitigation ( U.S. Pat. Ser. No. 6,646,774 ), Issued on November 11, 2003.
- WDM fiber amplifiers using sampled Bragg gratings ( U.S. Pat. Ser. No. 6,621, 627 ), Issued on September 16, 2003.
- Tunable optical dispersion-slope compensation based on a nonlinearly-chirped Bragg grating (U.S. Pat. Ser. No. 6,453,093), Issued on June 4, 2002.
- Tunable compensation for polarization mode dispersion using a birefringent nonlinearly-chirped Bragg grating in a dual-pass configuration ( U.S. Pat. Ser. No. 6,400,869 ), Issued on June 4, 2002.
- Programmable/Manual tunable external cavity laser diodes (China Pat. Ser. No. 94106355.0).
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| Grants and Contracts |
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- PI, Louisiana EPSCoR Travel Grants for Emerging Faculty (TGEF), November 2004.
- PI, High-speed Test and Measurement Equipment to Enhance the Telecommunication Program in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UL Lafayette, Contract No.: LEQSF (2004-05)-ENH-TR-92, BORSF Enhancement Subprogram, Year 2004-2005.
- Co-PI, High Speed Oscilloscope to Enhance the Optical Communication Laboratory in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UL Lafayette, Contract No.: LEQSF (2004-05)-ENH-TR-91, BORSF Enhancement Subprogram, Year 2004-2005.
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| Selected Honors |
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- Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Univ. of Southern California, 2003.
- National Invention Award, Third class, China, 1998.
- National Education Ministry Science & Tech. Advancement Award, China, 1997.
- Outstanding Teaching Awards, Tsinghua University ( China), 1997.
- The Outstanding Young Faculty Award, Tsinghua University ( China), 1995.
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