Engineer System

JUN ZHANG

*** * **** **. *** *, Lincoln, NE *****, U.S.A.

Phone: 626-***-**** (M), Email: ***********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Over 10 years of research experience in laser, optics technology, and high field physics.

Extensive laboratory research experience, superior analytical and communication skills, capable of working

independently as well as in a team, and capable of learning on-job.

Currently seeking a challenging professional position to utilize my education and experience as a laser, optics and

physics development and research engineer or scientist in a multidisciplinary environment.

EDUCATION

Dec 2003 Doctor of Philosophy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China.

Jul 2000 Master of Technology, Harbin University of Technology, China.

Jul 1990 Bachelor of Technology, Xi’an Technological University, China

TECHNICAL COMPETENCY

Design and Development of Laser and Optical system:

CPA Ti: sapphire ultrashort pulse laser system; OPCPA laser system;

Long pulse solid state laser system;

Second and third order correlator for short and long laser pulse duration and contrast measurement;

Carrier-Envelope phase control system;

Passive synchronization of two femtosecond oscillators;

Nonlinear optical system or optical parameter generation system.

Optical imaging and transportation system;

Optical Characterization and control: Pulse duration, phase, contrast ratio, spectra, beam profile using second- and

third- order autocorrelator, FROG, SPIDER, Deformable mirror, Wizzler.

Physical Research: Electron, high order harmonic generation in the interaction of high peak power ultrashort laser

pulses with gas or solid target.

Computer and Software Skills: Origin, Mathcad, Matlab, and Zemax.

EXPERIENCE

4/2008 – present Laser Scientist, Diocles Extreme Light Laboratory, Department of Astronomy and Physics, University of

Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Development and characterization of 100 TW and PW Ti: sapphire femtosecond laser system.

Home-made of second order correlator to measure fs and ps pulses duration.

Optimization and improvement of laser pulse parameters using correlator, FROG, Wizzler, Deformable mirror, etc.

Design of optical and nonlinear optical system, such as, imaging and transportation optical system; UV laser beam

generation using BBO, KDP, LBO crystal.

Maintenance and optimization of long pulse solid state laser, such as 10 W, 10Hz, 10 ns Nd: YAG laser, 0.1 Hz, 25 J, 25

ns Nd: Glass laser.

Daily running and trouble shooting 100 TW and PW laser system for physical experiments.

Involvement of physical experiments, such as, novel high energy radiation and particle sources generation by high peak

power laser interaction with gas target.

4/2007 – 3/2008 Postdoctoral fellow, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Optimization and characterization of a 5 fs NOPA (non-collinear optical parametric amplifier) laser system.

Generation of micro-joule, 12 fs UV pulses at 400 nm using gas-filled hollow fiber.

Generation of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) light from ultraviolet to infrared in a BBO crystal by using

two crossing femtosecond laser pulses.

Investigation of molecular vibrations in MEH-PPV using 5-fs laser pulses from NOPA laser system.

2/2004 – 3/2007 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan

Development of a compact efficient 20 TW Ti: sapphire femtosecond laser system. All the laser system is home-made

including oscillator, stretcher, amplifier, and compressor.

Investigation of high order harmonic generation by high peak power femtosecond laser interaction with plasmas.

9/2000 – 12/2003 Ph. D Student, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China

Construction of 1.4 TW Ti: sapphire femtosecond laser system.

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JUN ZHANG

831 S 17TH St. Apt 8, Lincoln, NE 68508, U.S.A.

Phone: 626-***-**** (M), Email: ***********@*****.***

Building up an independently tunable 1.3 W femtosecond lasers passively synchronized with attosecond timing jitter and

ultrahigh robustness.

Study on the carrier-envelope phase control technique. Measured and optimized the beat frequency signal by self-

reference technique based on the supercontinuum bandwidth of exceeding one octave. A frequency offset of 23 MHz

was observed for the Ti: sapphire laser with the power of 500 MW and pulse duration of 18 fs; it corresponds to the CEO

of 0.53 π.

Generation of 4.5 MW femtosecond laser pulses with a compact all solid state cavity-dumped Ti: sapphire laser.

Generation of supercontinuum with bandwidth of over one octave by using femtosecond laser pulses through photonic-

crystal fiber.

Experimental study on the emission direction of fast electrons generated in laser-solid interactions at laser intensities

from nonrelativistic to relativistic.

7/1990 – 7/1998 Engineer, Harbin Institute of Laser Technology, China

Development of high and low energy gas lasers, such as, He-Ne, CO2, for application in medical and industry.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

S. Chen, N.D. Powers, I. Ghebregziabher, C.M. Maharjan, C. Liu, G. Golovin, S. Banerjee, J. Zhang, N. Cunningham, A.

Moorti, S. Clarke, S. Pozzi, and D.P. Umstadter. “Mev-energy x rays from reverse Compton scattering with laser-

wakefield accelerated electrons”. Physical Review Letters, vol. 110, page: 155003, year: 2013.

Takayoshi Kobayashi, Jun Zhang, Zhuan Wang. “Non-Condon vibronic coupling of coherent molecular vibration in MEH-

PPV induced by a visible few-cycle pulse laser”. New Journal of Physics, vol.11, page: 013048, year: 2009.

Jun Zhang, Zhuan Wang, and Takayoshi Kobayashi. “Vibrational fine structures revealed by the real-time vibrational

phase and amplitude in MEH-PPV using few cycle pulses”. Phys. Rev. B, vol. 77, page: 153202, year: 2008.

Jun Liu, Jun Zhang, and Takayoshi Kobayashi. “Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering light generation in

BBO crystal by using two crossing femtosecond laser pulses”. Opt. Lett, vol. 33, page: 1494, year: 2008.

Jun Zhang, Masayuki Suzuki, Motoyoshi Baba, Zhiyi Wei, Zhaohua Wang, Peng Wang, Jie Zhang, Jiaan Zheng, and

Hiroto Kuroda. “Development of compact efficient 10-Hz 20 TW Ti: sapphire laser system with 1-kHz regenerative

amplifier”. Appl. Opt, vol. 46, page: 2498, year: 2007.

Xinkui He, T. Q. Jia, Jun Zhang, M. Suzuki, M. Baba, T. Ozaki, Ruxin Li, Zhizhan Xu, and Hiroto Kuroda. “Single

Attosecond pulse generation in He+ by controlling the instant ionization rate using attosecond pulse trains combined with

an intense laser pulse”. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 24, page: 1922, year: 2007.

Wang Zhaohua, Wei Zhiyi, Ling Weijun, Wang Peng, Teng Hao, Tian Jinrong, Zhang Jun, Zhang Jie. “Efficient 20TW

Ti:sapphire laser with two stage amplifiers”. Journal De Physique, vol. 133, page: 691, year: 2006.

Han Hai-Nian, Wei Zhi-Yi, Zhang Jun, Nie Yu-Xin. “Measurements of carrier-envelope-offset in the Ti: sapphire

femtosecond laser”. Acta Physica Sinica, vol. 54, page: 155, year: 2005.

Jinrong Tian, Zhiyi Wei, Peng Wang, Hainian Han, Jun Zhang, Linghui Zhao, Zhaohua Wang, Jie Zhang, Tao Yang, and

Jianwei Pan. “Independently tunable 1.3 W femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers passively synchronized with attosecond

timing jitter and ultrahigh robustness”. Opt. Lett, vol. 30, page: 2161, year: 2005.

Tian Jin-Rong, Wei Zhi-Yi, Wang-Peng, Zhao Ling-Hui, Wang Zhao-Hua, Zhang Jun, Han Hai-Nian, Zhang Jie. “Sub-

femtosecond passive synchronization of Ti: sapphire lasers”. Acta Physica Sinica, vol. 54, page: 0129, year: 2005.

Hiroto Kuroda, Masayuki Suzuki, Rashid Ganeev, Jun Zhang, Motoyoshi Baba, Tsuneyuki Ozaki, Zhi Yi Wei, and Jie

Zhang. “Advanced 20 TW Ti: S laser system for X-ray laser and coherent XUV generation irradiated by ultra-high

intensities”. Laser and Particle Beams, vol. 23, page: 183, year: 2005.

Jun Zhang, J. Zhang, Z.M. Sheng, Y.T. Li, Y. Qiu, Z. Jin, H. Teng. “Emission direction of fast electrons in laser-solid

interactions at intensities from nonrelativistic to relativistic”. Phy. Rev. E, vol. 69, page: 046408, year: 2004.

Zhang Jun, Zhang Jie, Qiu Yang, Sheng Zhengming, Li Yutong, Jin Zhan, and Teng Hao. “Effects of laser intensity on

the emission direction of fast electrons in laser-solid interactions”. Science in China, (Series G), vol. 46, page: 625, year:

2003.

H. Yang, J. Zhang, Jun Zhang, L.Z. Zhao, Y.J. Li, H. Teng, Y.T. Li, Z.L. Chen, Z.H. Wang, Z.Y. Wei, J.X. Ma, W. Yu,

Z.M. Sheng. “Third-order harmonic generation by self-guided femtosecond pulses in air”. Phy. Rev.E, vol. 67, page:

015401(R), year: 2003.

Zhang Jun, Wei Zhiyi, Wang Zhaohua, Teng Hao and Zhang Jie. “Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber by

femtosecond pulses laser”. Acta Optica Sinica, vol. 23, page: 511, year: 2003.

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JUN ZHANG

831 S 17TH St. Apt 8, Lincoln, NE 68508, U.S.A.

Phone: 626-***-**** (M), Email: ***********@*****.***

Zhang Jun, Zhang Jie, Chen Qing, Peng Lianmao, Cang Yu, Wang Huaibin and Zhong Jiayong. “Feasibility study on

temporal-resolved diffraction of high-energy electrons produced in femtosecond laser-plasmas”. Acta Physica Sinica, vol.

51, page: 1764, year: 2002.

Hui Yang, Jie Zhang, Yingjun Li, Jun Zhang, YuTong Li, ZhengLin Chen, Hao Teng, ZhiYi Wei and ZhengMing Sheng.

“Characteristics of self-guided laser plasma channels generated by femtosecond laser pulses in air”. Phy. Rev. E, vol. 66,

page: 016406, year: 2002.

Yang Hui, Qiu Yang, Teng Hao, Zhang Jun, Cang Yu, Lu Tie-Zheng, Wang Zhaohua, Wang Hongfei, Wei Zhiyi, Zhang

Jie. “Generation of 4.5 MW femtosecond pulse with a compact all solid-state cavity-dumped Ti: sapphire laser”. Acta

Physica Sinica, vol. 50, page: 1930, year: 2001.

PATENTS

Name: The technique and device to obtain high precisely synchronized femtosecond laser; Patent Content: an invention

of a method and instrument of high precisely synchronizing femtosecond lasers; Patent Number ZL 200310121776.0.

Inventor: Zhiyi Wei, Jinrong Tian, Linghui Zhao, Jun Zhang, Peng Wang, Hainian Han, Jie Zhang.

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