Y. C. Chen

Y.C. Chen, President of Spectronix Systems, has over thirty years of experience in reserach, development, and manufacturing of diode-pumped solid-state lasers, semiconductor lasers, nonlinear optics, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, fiber-optic lasers, optical detection technology, holography, and short-pulse laser technology.He had worked with companies such as McDonnell Douglas, GTE, Exxon, Hughes Electronics, and many smaller high-tech companies.

He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

His experience is reflected by selected publications listed below.

* Hua Liu, Shou-Huan Zhou, and Y.C. Chen, "High-Power Monolithic Unstable-Resonator Solid-State Laser".
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* Tian-Jie Chen and Y.C. Chen "Graded-reflectivity mirrors based on phase hologram in photo-polymer films" Applied Optics, 37, 6603 ( 1998).
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* H.B. Serreze, K. Linden, Shou-Huan Zhou, and Y.C. Chen, Individually-addressable monolithic self-Q- switched solid-state laser array, SPIE proceeding #2698 on laser diode technology and applications, paper 1850, (1996)
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* P. Wang, S. Zhou, K. K. Lee, and Y.C. Chen, Picosecond pulse generation in monolithic self-Q-switched Cr,Nd:YAG laser Opt.
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* Y.C. Chen, Shiqun Li, K.K. Lee, and Shouhuan Zhou, "Self-stabilized single longitudinal mode operation in self-Q-switched solid-state lasers", to appear in Opt.
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* Shouhuan Zhou, K.K. Lee, Y.C. Chen and S. Li, "Monolithic self-Q-switched Cr,Nd:YAG laser", Opt.
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* Shiqun Li, Shouhuan Zhou, Pei Wang, Y.C. Chen, "Self-Q-switched Cr,Nd:YAG laser", Opt.Lett.18, 203 (1993).

* G. Yao, R.G. Waters, C.M. Harding, and Y.C. Chen, "Excess spontaneous emission factor in unstable-resonator semiconductor lasers", Opt.
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* H.B. Serreze, Y.C. Chen, and R.G. Waters, "High-power very low threshold GaInP/AlGaInP visible diode lasers", Appl.
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* H. G. Serreze and Y.C. Chen, "Low threshold current density, strained-layer GaInP/AlGaInP visible laser diodes", IEEE Photonic Technology Letters.
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* C.M. Harding, Y.C. Chen, R.J. Dalby, and R.G. Waters, "Low-divergence single-mode ridge waveguide diode lasers", IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, IEEE Photonic Technology Letters., 3, 199-201 (1991).
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* Y.C. Chen, R.G. Waters, K.K. Lee and P. Wang, "Energy storage in quantum well lasers", Optics Letters, 15, 1073-1075 (1990).
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* P. Wang, R.G. Waters, K.K. Lee, G. Yao, and Y.C. Chen, "Carrier recombination rate in GaAs/AlGaAs single-quantum-well lasers under high levels of excitation" , Appl.
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* S.L. Yellen, R.G. Waters, Y.C. Chen, B.A. Soltz, S.E. Fischer, D. Fekete, J.M. Ballantyne, "20,000 hr InGaAs strained quantum well laser", Electron.
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* Y.C. Chen, R.G. Waters, and R.J. Dalby, "Single-quantum-well laser with vertically integrated passive waveguides", Appl.
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* Y.C. Chen, R.G. Waters, and R.J. Dalby, "Single quantum well laser with 11-degree transverse beam divergence", Electron.
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* R.G. Waters, R.J. Dalby and Y.C. Chen, "Quantum-well manifold laser", Proceeding of SPIE, Symposium on Semiconductor laser Technology and Applications, Vol.
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* S.E. Fisher, R.G. Waters, D. Fekete, J.M. Ballantyne, Y.C. Chen and B.A. Soltz, "Long-lived InGaAs quantum well lasers", Appl.
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* Y. C. Chen and J. M. Liu, "Polarization bistability in semiconductor lasers: rate-equation analysis", Appl.
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* Y.C. Chen and J. M. Liu, "Switching mechanism in polarization-bistable semiconductor lasers", Optical and Quantum Electronics, Special issue on bistable semiconductor lasers, Vol.
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* Y.C. Chen and J.M. Liu, "Measurement of picosecond semiconductor laser pulse duration using internally generated second harmonic emission", Y.C. Chen and J.M. Liu, Appl.
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* Y.C. Chen and J.M. Liu, "Measurement of picosecond semiconductor laser pulse duration using internally generated second harmonic emission", Y.C. Chen and J.M. Liu, Appl.
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* J.M. Liu and Y.C. Chen, "Optical flop-flop', Electron.
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* Y.C. Chen and J.M. Liu, "Polarization bistability in semiconductor lasers', Appl.
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* J.M. Liu and Y.C. Chen, "Compensation of internal thermal stress in InGaAsP semiconductor lasers for polarization stabilization", IEEE J. Quantum.
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* Y.C. Chen and J.M. Liu, "Direct polarization switching in semiconductor lasers", Appl.
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* Y.C. Chen, "Phase noise characteristics of single mode semiconductor lasers with optical feedback", Appl.Phys Lett., 44, 10-12 (1984)

* Y.C. Chen, A.R. Reisinger, and D. Pendse, "Observation of changes of laser beam characteristics of oxide-defined, narrow-stripe lasers after aging", IEEE J. Quantum Electron., QE-19, 1092-1094 (1983)
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* Y.C. Chen, "Noise characteristics of semiconductor lasers coupled to short optical fibers", Appl.Phys.Lett., 37, 587-589 (1980).