▪ Wenbin He obtained his B. Eng degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2011. Then he went to Europe and studied in Institut d’Optique Graduate School in Paris, France and University of Jena in Germany under the framework of Erasmus Mundus scholarship program, with his M.Sc in Photonics obtained in Jan. 2014. After that he went to the city of Erlangen in southern Germany and join Prof. Philip Russell’s group in Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) as a PhD student. He obtained Dr. rer. nat degree from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremburg (FAU) in Feb. 2018, with thesis titled “GHz-rate optoacoustically mode-locked fibre laser based on photonic crystal fibres.” He became a postdoc in the Russell Division of MPL thereafter until June 2021.

▪ He received the highest distinction awarded by the Max Planck Society for junior scientists, the Otto-Hahn Medal, in June 2019 for the “ground-breaking work on optoacoustic mode-locking of fibre lasers, leading to the development of a unique range of GHz-rate, ultrafast fibre lasers in which long-range interactions between soliton pulses can be studied”. He also received the Ohm-prize awarded by FAU Physics Department as the highest distinction for PhD dissertation. He also gave an invited talk in SPIE Photonics 2021.

▪ He went back to China and joined RCALS of SIOM in August 2021 as a full-time researcher. His research interests include nonlinear fibre optics, soliton dynamics, optomechanics and ultrafast fibre lasers.

Selected publications

[1]W. He*(Corresponding author), M. Pang, D. H. Yeh, J. Huang, P. St.J. Russell Synthesis and dissociation of soliton molecules in parallel optical-soliton reactors. Light Sci. Appl. 10, 120 (2021).

[2]W. He, M. Pang, D. H. Yeh, J. Huang, C. R. Menyuk, P. Russell, “Formation of optical supramolecular structures in a fibre laser by tailoring long-range soliton interactions, ” Nat. Commun. 10, 5756 (2019).

[3]W. He, M. Pang, C. R. Menyuk, and P. St.J. Russell, “Sub-100-fs 1.87 GHz mode-locked fiber laser using stretched-soliton effects,” Optica 3, 1366-1372 (2016).

[4]W. He, M. Pang, and P. St.J. Russell, “Wideband-tunable soliton fiber laser mode-locked at 1.88 GHz by optoacoustic interactions in solid-core PCF,” Opt. Express 23, 24945-24954 (2015).

[5]D. Yeh†, W. He† (equal contribution), M. Pang, X. Jiang, P. St.J. Russell, “Synchronization of GHz core resonances in multiple photonic crystal fiber cores by timing-modulated harmonic mode-locking,” Optica 8, 1581-1585 (2021).

[6]M. Pang, W. He, X. Jiang, and P. St.J. Russell, “All-optical bit storage in a fibre laser by optomechanically bound states of solitons,” Nat. Photon. 10, 454-458 (2016).

[7]D. Yeh, W. He, M. Pang, X. Jiang, G. Wong, and P. St.J. Russell, “Pulse-repetition-rate tuning of a harmonically mode-locked fiber laser using a tapered photonic crystal fiber,” Opt. Lett. 44, 1580-1583 (2019).