Dr. Lingze Duan Associate Professor, Physics Department Biography Dr. Lingze Duan received the B.S. degree in physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1995 and the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA in 2002. After conducting postdoctoral research at MIT (2002-2004) and Penn State (2004-2007), he joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UAH as a faculty member in 2007, where he has been an Associate Professor since 2013. His current research interest includes ultrafast nanophotonics, frequency metrology with femtosecond frequency combs, fiber optic sensors, and novel applications of optics in astrophysics. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2013. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Photonics Society and the Optical Society of America. Dr. Duan's teaching interest covers a broad range of subjects in physics and optics, including general physics (PH 112, 115 and 310), basic optics (OPT 341, 342, 411, 412 and 441), and advanced optical & laser sciences (PH/OSE 632, 645, 733 and 745). Education Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2002 M.S., University of Maryland, 1998 B.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1995 Experience Associate Professor, 2013-present, University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, AL) Assistant Professor, 2007-2013, University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, AL) Postdoc, 2004-2007, Penn State University (University Park, PA) Postdoctoral Associate, 2002-2004, MIT (Cambridge, MA) The Precision and Ultrafast Light Sciences (PULS) Group at UAH Classes Taught PH 112 - General Physics with Calculus II PH 115 - General Physics Lab II PH 310 - Intermediate Lab I OPT 341 - Geometrical Optics OPT 342 - Physical Optics OPT 411 - Geometrical Optics Lab OPT 412 - Physical Optics Lab OPT 442 - Interference and Diffraction PH 632 - Fourier Optics PH 645 - Lasers I PH 733 - Quantum Devices PH 745 - Lasers II Outreach Program Director, Huntsville Electro-Optical Society (HEOS) North Alabama Regional Science Olympiad Alabama Science and Engineering Fair K-12 Students Lab Tour University Open House Society of Physics Student Activities "Hands-On Optics" Teacher Training SOS (Society of Optics Students) at Lowe Mill SOS (Society of Optics Students) at Mill Creek Elementary Selected Publications Lin Yang and Lingze Duan, “Depth-resolved imaging based on optical sampling by cavity tuning,” IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 27, 1761-1764 (2015). Hemang Jani and Lingze Duan, “Acid-free sol-gel fabrication of glass thin films embedded with II-VI colloidal quantum dots,” J. Nanophotonics 9, 093072 (2015). Lingze Duan, “Thermal noise-limited fiber-optic sensing at infrasonic frequencies,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 51, 7700106 (2015). Richard Lieu, Lingze Duan, and Tom W. B. Kibble, “Measurement of the dispersion of radiation from a steady cosmological source,” ApJ. 778, 73 (2013). Lin Yang, Jinsong Nie, and Lingze Duan, “Dynamic optical sampling by cavity tuning and its application in lidar,” Opt. Express 21, 3850-3860 (2013). Lingze Duan, “A general treatment of the thermal noises in optical fibers,” Phys. Rev. A 86, 023817 (2012). Sponsored Research 2015-2016 - AL ACHE GRSP (PI, $25k): Fiber-optic sensing at the femtostrain level 2013-2018 - NSF-CAREER (PI, $400k): Semiconductor detectors for direct probing of the absolute phase of light (ECCS-1254902) 2013-2016 - NASA EPSCoR RID (PI, $48k): Compact, low-cost semiconductor lasers with ultra-high frequency stability (NNX13AB09A) 2012-2015 - AL ACHE GRSP (PI, $75k): High-resolution dynamic range metrology using a femtosecond-laser frequency comb 2011-2014 - NSF-MRI (PI, $280k): Acquisition of Menlo Systems FC1500 Optical Frequency Synthesizer (ECCS-1040019)