Professor Zhang Xicheng, who is the Chair Professor of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI and the Director of the Center for Terahertz Research of RPI, has been establishing the Advanced Nonlinear Terahertz Laboratory in Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics WNLO of HUST.
Professor Zhang started his research in Terahertz optics imaging, ultra fast laser pulses and optoelectronics in 1988, which made him one of the pioneers and a world famous scholar in the Terahertz field. Professor Zhang has received 23 US patents and numerous awards including Lifetime Fellow of American Physics Society, Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Fellow of Optical Society of America. On January 13th, 2010, HUST President Li Peigen awarded the Certificate of the Distinguished Professor to Professor Zhang.
During the next 3 to 5 years, Professor Zhang will establish a research team and a brand new laboratory in the Terahertz field with the support of WNLO. He will lead the team and the laboratory to focus on the most challenging research on nonlinear Terahertz imaging. The new laboratory in WNLO will be managed in the same way as the Center for Terahertz Research of RPI and it will commence a series of joint researches with the world famous Terahertz laboratories and Chinese institutions, such as Peking University, Nankai University and Capital Normal University. The new lab will also develop many research programs on Terahertz under "extreme condition" with the Pulsed High Magnetic Field Center of HUST.
The new lab will support 3 or 4 senior researchers, 30 to 50 doctoral graduates and 5 to 10 visiting scholars and accept the undergraduates and graduates who are recommended by RPI. The experts from WNLO and the Center for Terahertz Research of RPI will join the new lab and make it the best place for a far-reaching cooperation between HUST and RPI.
