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08 May 2013: Chi SHU joined the group as an
undergraduate students.
03 May 2013: Quan LIU joined the group as a research
assistant.
10 April 2013: The work "Differential-phase-shift
quantum key distribution using heralded narrow-band single
photons" was published in
Optics Express.
[Accepted on 06 April 2013]
08 April 2013: Chi Ho FU joined the group as an
undergraduate student.
19 March 2013: The work "Estimating atomic sizes with
Raman spectroscopy", collaborated with
Prof. Zikang Tang's group, was published in
Scientific Reports.
21 February 2013: The work "Coherent optical memory
with high storage efficiency and large fractional delay",
collaborated with
Prof. Ite A. Yu's group at National Tsing Hua University
(Taiwan), was published in
Physical Review Letters.
[Accepted on 18 January 2013]
22 January 2013: The work "Oxygen-assisted
charge transfer between ZnO quantum dots and graphene",
collaborated with
Prof. Ning
Wang's group, was accept by Small.
01 January 2013: Prof. Du was promoted to
Associate Professor with substantiation.
27 December 2012: The work "Coherent control of single
photon absorption and remission in a two-level atomic ensemble"
was published in
Physical Review Letters.
[Accepted on 30 November 2012]
06 December 2012: Shanchao ZHANG received
the Young Scientist Award from the School of Science, HKUST.
Congratulations!
October 2012: The work "Piezotronic effects on the
optical properties of ZnO nanowires", collaborated with
Prof. Ning
Wang's group, was published in Nano Letters. [Accepted on 11
October 2012]
10 October 2012: The new lab room 6250A is ready to
home the super-resolution bio-imaging project. This is a
collaborative project, directed by Prof. Michael Loy, involving
Department of Physics, Division of Life Science, and Department
of Chemistry. The optical table was delivered and installed
today.
09 October 2012: Our work "Optimal storage and
retrieval of single-photon waveforms" was published in
Optics
Express. [Accepted on 29 September 2012]
26 September 2012: Teng ZHAO joined the group as a
postgraduate student.
16 August 2012: Luwei ZHAO joined the group as a
postgraduate student.
15 June 2012: Dr. Peng CHEN Joined the group as a
postdoctoral researcher.
15 February 2012: Kexin YI joined the group.
February 2012: Jiefei moved to Shanghai and started
her professor position at the East China Normal University.
February 2012: Shuyu moved to Israel and worked as a
postdoc at Ben-Gurion Universtiy.
14 February 2012: Our work "Two-photon interferences
with degenerate and nondegenerate paired photons" was published
in
Physical Review A as a Rapid Communication
 .
13 February 2012: Shanchao ZHANG received Department
of Physics Postgraduate Student Research Award. Congratulations!
01 November 2011: Jiefei CHEN
received 2011 Young Scientist Award (Physical / Mathematical
science) from Hong Kong Institute of Science. Congradulations!
[HKUST
University
Press Release]
07 October 2011: Jiefei passed her
PhD final defense. Congratulations to Dr. CHEN!
23 September 2011: Prof. Du
received 2011 School of Science Research Award [link].
19 July 2011: HKUST Press Release:
"HKUST
Professors Prove Single Photons Do Not Exceed the Speed of Light"
July 2011: Prof. DU received the RGC-GRF (2011/2012) research grant (HKUST601411).
28 June 2011: Sina.com.cn news
about our single-photon precursor work: "研究发现单个光子无法超越光速"
24 June 2011: Our single-photon
optical precursor work was featured and highlighted as a story at PhysOrg.com: "Study
finds single photons cannot exceed the speed of light".
16 June 2011:
"Optical Precursor of a Single Photon"
(accepted on 26 May 2011) was published in
Physical Review Letters 106, 243602 (2011). It was
selected as Editor's Suggestion and highlighted as APS Physics
Synopsis:
Single photons obey the speed limits.
12-16 June 2011: Prof. DU attended the OSA Advanced
Photonics Congress: Slow and Fast Light (SL) Meeting at Toronto
Canada and presented the work "Optical Precursors in Slow and
Fast Light Media".
01-06 May 2011: CLEO 2011 at
Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Shangchao presented a poster
"Generation of Narrowband Hyperentangled Biphotons" at the
conference. Prof. DU preside at the session of Quantum
Measurement and Metrology (QTuJ) 13:45-15:30 on 03 May. (Shanchao,
Prof. DU, Prof. LOY, and Prof. WONG attended the conference.)
April 2011: Shuyuan accepted the
admission offer from the Columbia University Physics Department.
Congratulations to Shuyuan!
08 March 2011:
"Atomic-Resonance-Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Frequency
Conversion with Entangled Photon Pairs" was published on
Physical Review A
83, 033807 (2011).
[accepted on 05 February 2011]
05 March 2011: Lijia HONG joined
the group as an undergraduate student.
15 February 2011: Dr. Shuyu ZHOU
joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Shuyu!
03 February 2011: The paper of
anti-mirror effect ("Overlapped Illusion Optics: A Perfect Lens
Brings a Brighter Feature", collaborated with Prof.
Huanyang
Chen's group at Soochow University) was published on
New
Journal of Physics 13, 023010 (2011).
[accepted on 11
January 2011]
27
January 2011: The work of "Raman spectroscopy of iodine
molecules trapped in zeolite crystals " (collaborated with Prof.
Zikang Tang's group ) was published on
Applied Physics Letters 98, 043105 (2011).
[accepted on 10
January 2011]
22 January 2011: Our experimental
work "Generation of Narrowband Hyperentangled Nondegenerate
Paired Photons" was published on
Physical Review Letters 106, 033601 (2011).
30 December 2010: Our experimental
work "Generation of Narrowband Hyperentangled Nondegenerate
Paired Photons" was accepted by PRL.
13 December 2010: Wen Wei Po (文匯報)
news media about our work of optical precurosrs:
http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/12/13/ED1012130001.htm
[ 文匯報 PDF page
]
04 December 2010: Dr. Hui YAN left
the group and now works at South China Normal University in
Guangzhou.
04-05 December 2010: The 3rd
Guangdong - Hong Kong Joint Workshop on Physics, Guangzhou. [Jiefei
CHEN, Hui YAN, and Wenhao GUO presented our group research
works.]
16 August 2010: Chang LIU joined the
group as a first year PhD graduate student.
July 2010: Prof. DU received the
RGC-GRF (2010/2011) research grant (HKUST600710).
02 June 2010: Our experimental work
"Stacked Optical Precursors from Amplitude and Phase
Modulations" was published on
Physical Review Letters 104, 223602 (2010). [accepted
on 11 May 2010]
01 June 2010: Welcome Shuyuan WANG
and Huansu XU to join the group as UROP undergraduate students.
28 May 2010: "Two-Photon
Free-Induction Decay with Electromagnetically Induced
Transparency" was published on
Optics Letters 35, 1923 (2010).
21 May 2010: Prof. DU presented our
research work of optical precursors at the
CLEO/QELS 2010 conference at San Jose, USA. (Jiefei, Prof.
DU and Prof. LOY attended the conference.)
06 May 2010: "Shaping Biphoton
Temporal Waveforms with Modulated Classical Fields" was
published on
Physical Review Letters 104, 183604 (2010). [accepted on 14 April 2010]
26 April 2010: Shuyuan WANG won the
Paul and May Chu Undergraduate Student Research Award 2010.
Congratulations to Shuyuan!
26 March 2010: "Optical
Coherent Transients in Cold Atoms: From Free-Induction Decay to
Optical Precursors" was published on
Physical Review A 81, 033844 (2010).
01 December 2009: Dr. Hui YAN
joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
01 September 2009: Shanchao ZHANG
joined the group as a PhD graduate student.
31 August 2009: Dr. Dong WEI left
the group and now works at the College of Physics and
Electronics Engineering, Shanxi University.
28 August 2009: "Optical
Precursors with EIT in Cold atoms" was published on
PRL
103, 093602 as Editors' suggestion. This was the first published experimental work
of the group. [See also
HKUST Physics News] [Campus
E-Board News]
July 2009: Prof. DU received the
RGC-GRF (2009/2010) research grant (HKUST600809).
10 April 2009: The theoritical
proposal "Temporally Shaping Biphoton Wave Packets with
Periodically Modulated Driving Fields" was published on
PRA 79, 043811.
30 March 2009: The first 2D Rb85
MOT was created! It was also the first cold atom source in Hong
Kong.
01 February 2009: Jiefei CHEN
joined the group officially as the first PhD graduate student of
the group.
08 January 2009: "Three-Wire
Magnetic Trap for Direct Forced Evaporative Cooling" was
published on
PRA 79, 013407.
25 September 2008: "Narrowband
Biphoton Generation near Atomic Resonance" was published on
JOSAB 25, C98.
01 September 2008: Dr. Dong WEI
joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
August 2008: Jiefei CHEN joined the
group as a MPhil (part-time) graduate student.
30 July 2008: Prof. DU joined the
physics department and started the group.
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