Assistant Electrical

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May 23, 2014

Wang, Chaofan

Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Photonics Technology, Virginia Tech

Email: *******@**.*** Cell: 980-***-****

EDUCATION

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech (3.7/4.0) 08/2012 – 12/2014

M.S. in Optics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (3.85/4.0) 08/2010 – 05/2012

B.Eng. in Optics, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology (3.7/4.0) 09/2006 – 07/2010

PUBLICATIONS

C. Wang, T.-H. Her, L. Zhao, X. Ao, L. W. Casperson, C.-H. Lai, and H.-C. Chang, "Gain

Saturation and Output Characteristics of Index-Antiguided Planar Waveguide Amplifiers with

Homogeneous Broadening," Journal of Lightwave Technology 29, 1958 (2011).

C. Wang, T.-H. Her and L. W. Casperson, "Power characteristics of homogeneously bro adened

index-antiguided waveguide lasers," Optics Letters 37(5): 815-817. (2012).

SKILLS

Laboratory: Optical system design/setup/test, Lasers, Optical simulation, Lasers,

Optical imaging, Fiber optics, Integrated circuit design, Data analysis

Software: Matlab, COMSOL, ZEMAX, LABVIEW, Mathematica, MS office

Programming: Matlab, C/C++, Fortran

Devices: Lasers, Optical detectors, EOM, OSA, CCD camera, Interferometer, Signal

generator, SEM

EXPERIENCE

08/2012 – 05/2014

Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech

Studied on distributed fiber optical sensors based on optically induced long-period (OLPG)

and stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) schemes.

Modeled and built the distributed sensing systems.

Aligned and characterized the system, measured the temperature and strain.

Graduate Research Assistant, UNC at Charlotte 10/2010 - 05/2012

Researched on gain-guided photonic bandgap index-antiguided fiber lasers.

Designed, built and characterized the index-antiguided fiber laser system.

Modeled the power characteristics in index-antiguided waveguide lasers.

Research Assistant, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (HUST) 03/2009 - 05/2010

Researched on novel fibers and supercontinuum generation.

Integrated circuit design for a hospital infusion system

HONORS AND AWARDS

10/2010 – 05/2011

Scholarship, UNC at Charlotte

Excellent Academic Performance Scholarship, HUST, China 2008

Excellent Student (3%), HUST, China 2 007

Math Knowledge Competition (2/200), HUST, China 2 006

First prize in the National Mathematics Contest, China 2 004