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Ping-kong Alexander Wai

Ping-kong Alexander Wai

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
46
Citations
9707
World Ranking
3348
National Ranking
540

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - OSA Fellows For significant contributions to optical networks and to the understanding of optical transmission in fiber.

Overview

Ping-kong Alexander Wai is affiliated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and physics, with a particular focus on advancements in optical and photonic technologies.

The main fields of study for Wai include Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Within these fields, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Wai's work emphasizes several key research topics. These include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices, Optical Coherence Tomography Applications, Optical Network Technologies, Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, and Nonlinear Photonic Systems.

Wai has published extensively, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Letters
  • Optics Express
  • 26th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Among Wai's recent papers are:

  • Ultracompact optical fiber acoustic sensors based on a fiber-top spirally-suspended optomechanical microresonator, 2020, Optics Letters
  • Reconfigurable time-stretched swept laser source with up to 100 MHz sweep rate, 100 nm bandwidth, and 100 mm OCT imaging range, 2020, Photonics Research
  • Dielectric Metasurfaces Enabled Ultradensely Integrated Multidimensional Optical System, 2022, Laser & Photonics Review
  • Chip-to-chip optical multimode communication with universal mode processors, 2023, PhotoniX
  • 400 MHz ultrafast optical coherence tomography, 2020, Optics Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wai include Dongmei Huang, Feng Li, Zihao Cheng, Hailong Zhou, and Jianji Dong. The coauthors have contributed variously to developing research in related optical and photonic technologies.

Wai was recognized as an OSA Fellow in 2009 for significant contributions to optical networks and the understanding of optical transmission in fiber.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear pulse propagation in the neighborhood of the zero-dispersion wavelength of monomode optical fibers

    Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk;Y. C. Lee;H. H. Chen

  • Polarization mode dispersion, decorrelation, and diffusion in optical fibers with randomly varying birefringence

    P.K.A. Wai;C.R. Menyak

  • Application of the Manakov-PMD equation to studies of signal propagation in optical fibers with randomly varying birefringence

    D. Marcuse;C.R. Manyuk;P.K.A. Wai

  • Pressure sensor realized with polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber-based Sagnac interferometer.

    H. Y. Fu;Hwa-yaw Tam;Liyang Shao;Xinyong Dong

  • Stable and uniform multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation

    Xinhuan Feng;Hwa Yaw Tam;Ping Kong Alexander Wai

  • Radiations by solitons at the zero group-dispersion wavelength of single-mode optical fibers

    Ping Kong Alexander Wai;H. H. Chen;Y. C. Lee

  • Stability of solitons in randomly varying birefringent fibers

    P. K. A. Wai;Curtis R. Menyuk;H. H. Chen

  • Soliton fiber ring laser

    C. J. Chen;Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk

  • Soliton at the zero-group-dispersion wavelength of a single-model fiber

    Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk;H. H. Chen;Y. C. Lee

  • Mechanism of intrinsic wavelength tuning and sideband asymmetry in a passively mode-locked soliton fiber ring laser

    W. S. Man;Hwa Yaw Tam;M. S. Demokan;Ping Kong Alexander Wai

  • Rapid 3D Patterning of Poly(acrylic acid) Ionic Hydrogel for Miniature pH Sensors

    Ming-Jie Yin;Mian Yao;Shaorui Gao;A. Ping Zhang

  • Nonlinear Frequency Division Multiplexed Transmissions Based on NFT

    Zhenhua Dong;Siddarth Hari;Tao Gui;Kangping Zhong

  • Multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser employing a nonlinear optical loop mirror

    Xinhuan Feng;Hwa-yaw Tam;Heliang Liu;P.K.A. Wai

  • Geometrical description of the onset of multi-pulsing in mode-locked laser cavities

    Feng Li;Ping Kong Alexander Wai;J. Nathan Kutz

  • Low-loss waveguide crossing using a multimode interference structure

    Heliang Liu;Hwa Yaw Tam;Ping Kong Alexander Wai;Edwin Pun

  • Alternative Decoding Methods for Optical Communications Based on Nonlinear Fourier Transform

    Tao Gui;Terence H. Chan;Chao Lu;Alan Pak Tao Lau

  • Operation of a nonlinear loop mirror in a laser cavity

    I.N. Duling;C.-J. Chen;P.K.A. Wai;C.R. Menyuk

  • Stability of passively mode-locked fiber lasers with fast saturable absorption.

    C. J. Chen;Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk

  • Crosstalk in a lossy directional coupler switch

    V.R. Chinni;T.C. Huang;P.-K.A. Wai;C.R. Menyuk

  • Self-starting of passively mode-locked lasers with fast saturable absorbers.

    C. J. Chen;Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Hwa-Yaw Tam
Hwa-Yaw Tam Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chao Lu
Chao Lu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Curtis R. Menyuk
Curtis R. Menyuk University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Alan Pak Tao Lau
Alan Pak Tao Lau Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chongxiu Yu
Chongxiu Yu Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Bai-Ou Guan
Bai-Ou Guan Jinan University
Xinyong Dong
Xinyong Dong Guangdong University of Technology
Charles Surya
Charles Surya Nazarbayev University
Victor O. K. Li
Victor O. K. Li University of Hong Kong
Gerald Farrell
Gerald Farrell Technological University Dublin

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