Education

● 1979, Ph.D. (Physics), Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. 
● 1975, M.S. (Physics), Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. 
● 1971, B.S. (Physics), Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

Current Position and Professional Experiences

Current Position：

● 2019-present, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, Honorary Life Chair, College of Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Professional Experience：

● National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Vice-President, Office of Research & Development (2/14 to 7/16)

    Director, Operation-Center for Industrial Collaboration (2/14 to 7/16)

    Director, Center for Photonics Research (8/09 to 7/14)

    Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics (8/11 to 1/14)

    Tsing Hua Chair Professor, Department of Physics (2/09 to 7/19)

    ----------------------------------Institute of Photonics Technologies (joint appointment)

● National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
    University Chair Prof., 11/03 to 01/09
    Chair, Department of Photonics, 8/04 to 7/06
    Prof., Inst. Electro-Opt. Eng., 8/87 to 01/09
    Chair, Inst. Electro-Opt. Eng., 8/92 through 7/95
    Assoc. Prof., Inst. Electro-Opt. Eng., 2/81 through 7/87

● National Science Council, R.O.C.
    Coordinator, Optics & Photonics Program, 1/96 through 12/99

● The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
    Visiting Prof., Dept. of Electronic Engn., 1/08 to 6/08

● Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
    Guest Prof., Institute of Laser Engineering, 3/04 to 6/04

● University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
    Visiting Scholar, Depts. Of Physics and EECS, 2/86 through 1/87

● Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Chem. Dept., 8/79 through 1/81

● Marine Corps, Taiwan, ROC (Mandatory Military Service)
   2nd Lt., Ordinance officer and Instructor, Marine Corps School, 9/71 through 6/73

Honors and Awards

● Member, the Phi Tau Phi Honor Society, elected 1991.
● NSC Outstanding Research Award, ‘90-‘92, ‘92-‘94, ‘94-‘96.
● NSC Research Fellow, ‘96 –‘02.
● Merit NSC Research Fellow Award, 2002.
● Fellow, Photonic Society of Chinese Americans (PSC), 1998.
● Y. Z. Hsu Communication and Photonics Chair, 2003.
● Fellow, the Optical Society (OSA), 2004.
● Fellow, International Society of Optical Engineering. (SPIE), 2004.
● Academic Award, Ministry of Education, 2004.
● Engineering Medal, the Optical Engineering Society (ROCOES), 2004.
● Fellow, Physical Society of the Republic of China (PSROC), 2005.
● Outstanding Engineering Professor Award, the Chinese Institute of Engineers,2006.
● Pan Wan Yuen Research Excellence Award, 2007.   
● NSC “Science-50” citation, 2008.

● Chair, the Univ. System of Taiwan, 1/09-12/11.
● Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 2009.
● Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2012.
● Outstanding Scholarship Award, Foundation For The Advancement of  Outstanding Scholarship, 2012-2015.
● TECO Award, TECO Technology Foundation, 2012.

● Outstanding Alumni Award, Tunghai University, 2013.

● Academian, Asia Pacific Academy of Materials, 2013.

● Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE EDS (2016 to date)

● Corresponding Member, International Academy of Engineering, 2017.

● Outstanding Honor Award, THS Foundation, 2017.

● Outstanding Achievement Award, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, 2018.

● Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2019.

Research Fields

1. Laser Science
2. Ultrafast Optics and Optoelectronics
3. THz Optics and Photonics
4. Liquid Crystal Optics and Photonics

Current Research projects  (Updated on November 1, 2022)

1 ] Supercontinuum generation in nonlinear waveguide with noise-like pulses (NSTC, Aug. 1, 2022 - July 31, 2023) We propose to study broad-band supercontinuum generation (SCG) by noise-like pulses (NLPs) in nonlinear waveguides, specifically tantalum pentoxide Ta2O air- and SiOx-cladded channel waveguides. Both experimental and theoretical studies will be performed. Possible mechanisms for generated supercontinuum could be the interplay of self-phase modulation, four-wave mixing, stimulated Raman scattering and dispersion management. Comparative studies on the characteristics of supercontinuum generated in the nonlinear waveguides by mode-locked pulses and NLPs will be made. Octave-spanning supercontinuum light generated in a compact device is possible. Such sources are attractive for optical coherence tomography, white light interferometry, lidar and other applications in metrology and sensing.

 [ 2 ] High-power semiconductor tapered laser diodes (Science Park R&D Endeavor Project with Turning Point Lasers Corporation, Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022) Laser diodes operating at a wavelength of » 785 nm with narrow linewidth and high output power have a broad range of applications, particularly in diagnstics instrumentations for biomedicine. Typical edge-emitting broad-area high-power laser diodes, however, suffers from poor beam quality due to lack of lateral mode confinement, and broad spectral output. This project aims at resolving this issue the research and development of high-power tapered lasers (l » 785 nm) with narrow linewidth suitable for spectroscopic diagnostics. The structure, epitaxial growth, chip fabrication,packaging and characterization of the device will be accomplished.


　

Selected Publications

Prof. Pan has published more than 270 refereed journal papers and 9 book chapters to date. He also holds 26 Taiwan patents and 18 US patents. His academic profile can be found at https://reurl.cc/WpXY7 . Publications and statistics can also be found at 清大知識匯、Researchgate ID、Google Scholar、 WOS、 ORCID and Scopus . According to Google Scholar(https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-TW&user=6S2zOIYAAAAJ , his publications were cited 8266 times with an H-index of 47 and i10 index of 160 (as of August 2022).

1.  F. Ganikhanov, G. -R. Lin, W. -C. Chen, C. -S. Chang, and Ci-Ling Pan*, “Subpicosecond carrier lifetimes in arsenic-ion-implanted GaAs,” Appl. Phys. Lett.  67:3465(1995) (Pioneering paper on GaAs:As+ as an ultrafast photoconductor). See also, Gong-Ru Lin, Wen-Chung Chen, Shyh-Chin Chao, C.-S. Chang, Kaung-Hsiung Wu, T. M. Hsu, W. C. Lee, and Ci-Ling Pan* “Material and Ultrafast Optoelectronic Properties of Highly Resistive Arsenic-ion-implanted GaAs,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 34:1740(1998).
2. Array with an External Grating-loaded Cavity", Appl. phys. Lett. 64:3089(1994) (Generic laser cavity design for collinear, linearly polarized, tunable dual-wavelength output). See also, Ci-Ling Pan and Chi-Luen Wang, A novel tunable dual-wavelength external-cavity laser diode array and its applications, invited paper, Optical and Quantum Electronics 28:1239(1996), U.S. Patent 5,524,012.
3. T. R. Tsai, C. Y. Chen, C.-L. Pan*, R.-P. Pan and X.-C. Zhang, THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Studies of the Optical Constants of the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB, Appl. Opt., 42:2372(2003) (Demonstrate feasibility of Liquid Crystal THz photonics). See also, Chan-Shan Yang, Chia-Jen Lin, Ru-Pin Pan*, Christopher Que, Kohji Yamamoto, Masahiko Tani, and Ci-Ling Pan*, The Complex Refractive Indices of the Liquid Crystal Mixture E7 in the THz Frequency Range, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 27:1866(2010).
4. Ci-Ling Pan*, Jin-Yuen Zhang, Jung Y. Huang, and Chao-Kuei Lee, A blue-light generating Femtosecond wavelength-tunable Non-collinear Optical Parametric Amplifier, Taiwan patent I239128, US patent 7106498, 2006. (Femtosecond laser pulses that are tunable from 380 to 460 nm are directly generated the BBO OPA crystal,) see also Chao-Kuei Lee, et. al., Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Tunable from 380 nm to 465 nm via Cascaded Nonlinear Optical Mixing in a Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifier with a Type-I Phase Matched BBO Crystal, Opt. Exp. 11:1702(2003), J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 21: 1494(2004). .
5. Chao-Yuan Chen, Cho-Fan Hsieh, Yea-Feng Lin, Ru-Pin Pan*, and Ci-Ling Pan*, Magnetically Tunable Room-Temperature 2p Liquid Crystal Terahertz Phase Shifter, Opt. Exp. 12:2625(2004) (The first room-temperature tunable 2p THz phase shifter). See also Chao-Yuan Chen, Tsong-Ru Tsai, Ci-Ling Pan, and Ru-Pin Pan, Room? Temperature Terahertz Phase Shifter Based on Magnetically Controlled Birefringence in Liquid Crystals, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83: 4497(2003). Multiple Taiwan and US patents
6. Tze-An Liu, Masahiko Tani, and Makoto Nakajima, Ci-Ling Pan*, Ultrabroadband terahertz field detection by photoconductive antennas based on multi-energy arsenic-ion-implanted GaAs and semi-insulating GaAs, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83:1322(2003). (Broadest reported to date for antennas fabricated on ion-implanted materials) see also, Tze-An Liu, et al. Ultrabroadband terahertz field detection by photoconductive antennas based on proton-bombarded InP, Opt. Exp. 12:2954(2004).
7. Yi-Chao Wang, Jia-Min Shieh, Hsiao-Wen Zan and Ci-Ling Pan* Near-infrared femtosecond laser crystallized poly-Si thin film transistors, Opt. Exp. 15(2007) 6981 (Demonstrated potential application of ultrafast athermal annealing for TFT applications); see also, Jia-Min Shieh, Zun/span>-Hao Chen, Bau-Tong Dai, Yi-Chao Wang, Alexei Zaitsev, and Ci-Ling Pan*, Near-Infrared Femtosecond Laser-induced Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon, Appl. Phys. Lett., 85(2004)1232, Taiwan patent I245321.
8. W. VJ. Chen*, H. VZ. Wang, R. VY. Lin, C. VK. Lee, and C. VL. Pan,* Attosecond pulse synthesis and arbitrary waveform generation with cascaded harmonics of an injection-seeded high-power Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, Laser Phys. Lett. 9:212 (2012). (reported by SPIE Newsroom and ?as a feature article, Bulletin of AAPPS). See also, C. VL. Pan et al., Multi-Color Harmonic Synthesized Laser System For Laser Processing And Laser Processing Method Using Multi-Color Harmonic Synthesized Laser, U. S. patent 9,031,101 and Taiwan patent I490068; Chan-Shan Yang, Chih-Hsuan Lin, Alexey Zaytsev, Kuei-Chung Teng, Tsing-Hua Her, Ci-Ling Pan*, Femtosecond laser ablation of polymethylmethacrylate via dual-color synthesized waveform, Appl. Phys. Lett., 106:051902 (2015) (first report of phase dependence of laser processing).
9. Ci-Ling Pan and Jin-Wei Shi, Ultrawide-Band Sub-THz Photonic Wireless Links, Chapter 3, in Microwave Photonics, ed., C. H. Lee, 2nd ed., CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 2013. See also, J.-W. Shi, C.-B. Huang, and Ci-Ling Pan*, Millimeter-wave Photonic Wireless Links for Very-High Data Rate Communication, invited review article, NPG Asia Materials, 3:41(2011) . (Progress towards radio-over-fiber wireless data transmission up to 20 Gbit/s at 0.1 THz).
10. Alexey Zaytsev*, Chih-Hsuan Lin, Yi-Jing You, Chia-Chun Chung, Chi-Luen Wang, and Ci-Ling Pan*, Supercontinuum generation by noise-like pulses transmitted through normally dispersive standard single-mode fibers, Optics Express 21:16056(2013). (Novel fiber-laser-based approach to supercontinuum generation) Taiwan patent I474060, US patent 9, 256,114.. See also, A. K. Zaytsev*, C. H. Lin, Y. J. You, F. H. Tsai, C. L. Wang and C. L. Pan*, Controllable noise-like operation regime in Yb:doped dispersion-mapped fiber ring laser, Laser Phys. Lett. 10:045104(2013), Taiwan patent I509923, U.S. Patent 8,897,325 ; Yi-Jing You, Chengming Wang, Yi-Lun Lin, Alexey Zaytsev, Ping Xue and Ci-Ling Pan*, Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography at 1.3 gm central wavelength by using a supercontinuum source pumped by noise-like pulses, Laser Phys. Lett., 13:025101(2016) D