Zhen Shen

ORCID: 0000-0002-7380-1963
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Research Areas
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Magneto-Optical Properties and Applications
  • Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
  • Quantum optics and atomic interactions
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Fusion materials and technologies
  • Advanced ceramic materials synthesis
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • Photopolymerization techniques and applications
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
2025

University of Science and Technology of China
2015-2024

Chinese Academy of Sciences
2003-2024

Shandong Institute of Automation
2021-2024

CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion
2016-2022

Yale University
2017-2020

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry
2003-2004

Stimulated Brillouin scattering is a fundamental interaction between light and travelling acoustic waves arises primarily from electrostriction photoelastic effects, with an strength several orders of magnitude greater than that other relevant non-linear optical processes. Here we report experimental demonstration Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency in high-quality whispering-gallery-mode microresonantor. The triply resonant process underlying the greatly enhances light-acoustic...

10.1038/ncomms7193 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2015-02-04

Non-reciprocal devices, which allow the non-reciprocal signal routing, serve as fundamental elements in photonic and microwave circuits are crucial both classical quantum information processing. The radiation-pressure-induced coupling between light mechanical motion traveling wave resonators has been exploited to break Lorentz reciprocity, realizing devices without magnetic materials. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a reconfigurable nonreciprocal device with alternative functions of...

10.1038/s41467-018-04187-8 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2018-04-30

High-index-contrast optical waveguides are crucial for the development of photonic integrated circuits with complex functionalities. Despite many similarities between and acoustic waves, high-acoustic-index-contrast phononic remain elusive, preventing intricate manipulation phonons on par its counterpart. Here, we present realization such formation through exploiting a gallium-nitride-on-sapphire platform, which provides strong confinement control phonons. By demonstrating key building...

10.1038/s41467-019-10852-3 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2019-06-21

Mechanical degrees of freedom, which have often been overlooked in various quantum systems, studied for applications ranging from information processing to sensing. Here, we develop a hybrid platform consisting magnomechanical cavity and an optomechanical cavity, are coherently coupled by the straightway physical contact. The phonons system can be manipulated either with magnetostrictive interaction or optically through radiation pressure. Together mechanical state preparation sensitive...

10.1103/physrevlett.129.243601 article EN Physical Review Letters 2022-12-09

Synthetic gauge fields have recently emerged, arising in the context of quantum simulations, topological matter, and protected transportation excitations against defects. For example, an ultracold atom experiences a light-induced effective magnetic field when tunneling optical lattice, offering platform to simulate Hall effect insulators. Similarly, associated with photon transport between sites has been demonstrated coupled resonator array. Here, we report first experimental demonstration...

10.1103/physrevlett.126.123603 article EN Physical Review Letters 2021-03-22

Chemotherapy is a primary cancer treatment strategy, the monitoring of which critical to enhancing survival rate and quality life patients. However, current chemotherapy mainly relies on imaging tools with inefficient sensitivity radiation invasiveness. Herein, we develop bowl-shaped submicroreactor chip Au-loaded 3-aminophenol formaldehyde resin (denoted as APF-bowl&Au) specifically designed structure Au loading content. The obtained APF-bowl&Au, used matrix laser desorption/ionization mass...

10.1021/acsnano.1c09864 article EN cc-by ACS Nano 2022-01-31

Synchronization and frequency locking between remote mechanical oscillators are of scientific technological importance. The key challenges to align the oscillation frequencies realize strong nonlinear interaction both a common carrier capable long-distance transmission. Here, we experimentally all-optical synchronization two different optomechanical systems, microsphere microdisk. induced by radiation pressure is loaded onto pump laser via interaction, which directly transmitted through...

10.1103/physrevlett.129.063605 article EN Physical Review Letters 2022-08-05

An optical frequency comb is a spectrum of radiation which consists evenly spaced and phase-coherent narrow spectral lines initially invented in laser for metrology purposes. A direct analog combs the magnonic systems has not been demonstrated to date. In our experiment, we generate new resonator with giant mechanical oscillations through magnomechanical interaction. We observe contains up 20 lines, are separated by 10.08 MHz. The thermal effect based on strong pump power induces cyclic...

10.1103/physrevlett.131.243601 article EN Physical Review Letters 2023-12-11

The transportation of photons and phonons typically obeys the principle reciprocity. Breaking reciprocity these bosonic excitations will enable corresponding nonreciprocal devices, such as isolators circulators. Here, we use two optical modes mechanical in a microresonator to form four-mode plaquette via radiation pressure force. phase-controlled routing between any with completely different frequencies is demonstrated, including phonon (megahertz megahertz), photon (terahertz especially...

10.1103/physrevlett.130.013601 article EN Physical Review Letters 2023-01-06

Coherent conversion of microwave and optical photons can significantly expand the capabilities information processing communications systems. Here, we experimentally demonstrate microwave-to-optical frequency in a magneto-optical whispering gallery mode microcavity. By applying magnetic field parallel to microsphere equator, intracavity will be modulated when magnon is excited by drive, leading via Stokes anti-Stokes scattering processes. The observed single-sideband phenomenon indicates...

10.1364/prj.446226 article EN Photonics Research 2022-01-25

Phonon-based frequency combs that can be generated in the optical and microwave domains have attracted much attention due to small repetition rates simple setup. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a new type of phonon-based comb silicon optomechanical crystal cavity including both breathing mechanical mode (∼GHz) flexural modes (tens MHz). We observe strong competition between two approximate modes, i.e., 77.19 90.17 MHz, resulting only one preponderant lasing, while maintaining lasing...

10.1103/physrevlett.132.163603 article EN Physical Review Letters 2024-04-19

Abstract 3D porous current collectors (CCs) play a critical role in ensuring uniform lithium (Li) deposition and distributing density evenly across electrode surfaces. These attributes are essential for improving the safety stability of Li metal batteries. However, copper (Cu) ‐based CCs face notable drawbacks, such as rigid structures, insufficient pore volume, excessive mass, weak intrinsic lithiophilicity Li, which hinder their performance. To overcome these limitations, novel...

10.1002/adfm.202500531 article EN Advanced Functional Materials 2025-03-25

A tunable Raman laser in the hollow bottle-like microresonator is demonstrated. By controlling pump frequency, we have demonstrated continuous frequency tuning. We also studied interesting transient mode evolution with gain by sweeping and probe laser, verified thermal tuning mechanism theoretical simulations. mechanically stretching resonator, achieved large range of 132 GHz resolution about 85 MHz. The can be used as a source for future optical applications.

10.1364/oe.25.016879 article EN cc-by Optics Express 2017-07-07

We have studied the Kerr effect in silica microspheres and demonstrated compensation of for transient optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT). Due to temporal strong driving pulse, an asymmetric dip is observed during OMIT experiment when laser frequency locked at one mechanical frequency, ωm, below whispering gallery mode resonance using a weak locking pulse. For effect, we lock lower show symmetric window. These results are important studying photon-phonon interconversion, especially...

10.1364/ol.41.001249 article EN Optics Letters 2016-03-10

In an optomechanical system, we experimentally engineer the optical density of state to reduce or broaden effective linewidth mode by introducing ancillary mechanical mode, which has a large decay rate, i.e., stimulated backward Brillouin scattering. Based on this dissipation engineering, could one order magnitude. addition, can either enhance suppress cooling and amplification target oscillations. Our scheme demonstrates cascaded photon-phonon coupling control interactions, also presents...

10.1103/physrevlett.126.163604 article EN Physical Review Letters 2021-04-23

Magnetometry sensors have wide applications across science and technology. A magnetometer at room temperature can be made by coupling a magnetostrictive material to high-Q optical cavity, which is crucial for achieving the high sensitivity in detecting magnetic field. In this work, we designed hybrid structure based on capillary microresonator filled with yttrium iron garnet (YIG) microsphere realize highly sensitive field sensing range of kHz. The device shows peak 146 pT Hz <inline-formula...

10.1109/lpt.2023.3249196 article EN IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2023-02-28

In this paper, we report the mechanical tuning of optical and modes in hollow bottle-like microresonator (BLMR). The with a quality factor 1.55 × 108 2.5 103 were demonstrated such microresonators. By stretching microresonator, can be tuned over one free spectral range, as large 917 GHz (~ 7.3 nm). Meanwhile, range frequency 1 MHz, which is about 2.9% mode frequency. This effective approach to tune optomechanical cavity used for tunable photon-phonon conversion synchronization oscillators...

10.1364/oe.25.004046 article EN cc-by Optics Express 2017-02-14

The Brillouin scattering induced transparency in a high quality optical microresonantor is experimentally demonstrated. Due to the phase matching condition, circulating acoustic phonon leads non-reciprocal light storage and retrieval.

10.1364/ls.2016.lf2e.1 article EN Frontiers in Optics 2016-01-01

Compact, low-noise microwave oscillators are required throughout a wide range of applications such as radar systems, wireless networks, and frequency metrology. Optical division via an optical comb provides powerful tool for signal generation. Here, we experimentally demonstrate reference down to 26 GHz based on the dissipative Kerr soliton comb, which is generated CMOS-compatible, high-index doped silica glass platform. The through two continuous wave lasers locked ultralow expansion...

10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01247 article EN ACS Photonics 2024-03-14
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