Zhou, Zhiping

Professor

Research Interests: Silicon photonics and microsystems

Office Phone: 86-10-6276 7875

Email: zjzhou@pku.edu.cn

Zhou, Zhiping (James) received his Ph.D. (EE) degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), USA, in 1993. From 1993 to 2005, he was with the Microelectronics Research Center at GT, where he engaged research and development in the areas of nanotechnology; silicon photonics; microelectronics; ultra-fast optical communications; integrated optoelectronics; semiconductor devices and sensors. He is now a “Changjiang” Professor at Peking University, Beijing, China.

He has been credited for more than 400 technical papers and presentations, and over 20 patents. He is a Fellow of OSA, SPIE, and IET. He serves as Director of Chinese Optical Society (COS), Managing Director of Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE), and the funding Editor-in-Chief of Photonics Research. He was funding Chair of IEEE Wuhan Section, 2007-2008, Director of IEEE Atlanta Section, 2001- 2003. He also chaired, co-chaired, and served on many program committees for various conferences of IEEE Photonics Society, OSA, SPIE, COS, and CSOE.

Since 2005, he has been focusing on Silicon Photonics and Microsystems research, partially supported by MOST programs (973, 863, SKL), NSFC programs (International, Major, General), Provincial programs (Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan), and Industrial programs (Huawei, ZTE, Delta electronics). His major research achievements are summarized as follows:

1) Successfully integrated 100-Gb/s PDM-QPSK optical coherent transceiver on silicon chip and conducted 100Km transmission in 2014, the first such a photonic integrated circuit developed in China.

2) Collaborated with MIT, researched on low power consumption silicon photonic system: a) developed athermal and flat-topped silicon Mach-Zehnder filter and reduced the temperature dependent wavelength shift from 80 pm/K to ~-5 pm/K; b) reduced the silicon modulation energy to as low as 21.5 fJ∕bit at 28 Gbd speed, about two orders lower than that in the commercially available devices.

3) Collaborated with Stanford University, proposed and fabricated an optical waveplate of 400 nm in width and 250 nm in height on silicon chip, created the smallest on chip polarization rotating device.

4) Developed the smallest wavelength demultiplexing structure based on arrayed plasmonic slot cavities on silicon substrate, less than 1 micrometer square.