Job tasks

Solid- and hollow-core photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) or microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) have led to significant advancements in fiber optics since their first demonstration in 1996. In recent years, PCFs have been successfully used for applications such as nonlinear optical frequency conversion, low-loss light transmission, high-power laser delivery, sensing, imaging, and micro-to-nano manipulations.

The Fiber Fabrication Group at RCALS is looking for enthusiastic postdoctoral researchers with expertise in fiber optics to explore several research topics, including:

1. Novel Waveguide Structures: Developing new designs for waveguides to improve their performance.

2. Low-Loss and High Mode Purity Fibers: Focusing on reducing losses and improving modal purity in hollow-core fibers.

3. Ultrafast Pulse Delivery: Researching how to effectively transmit ultrafast pulses through hollow-core PCFs with desired pulse manipulation.

4. Enhanced Nonlinear Frequency Generation: Improving the generation of -short or -long wavelengths in PCFs to advance laser technology.

5. Sensing Applications: Using hollow-core PCFs for sensitive chemical and biological sensing.

Candidate Requirements

Candidates should have expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Fiber optics

• Nonlinear fiber optics

• Ultrafast optics

• Optical materials

• Fiber sensing

Postdoctoral researchers will also have the chance to supervise master's and PhD students, contributing to training the next generation of researchers.

These positions offer a great opportunity to engage in innovative fiber optics research and make meaningful contributions to the field. Interested candidates should highlight their relevant experience and passion for the research topics.

Benefits

Postdoctoral researchers will receive generous compensation, as well as assistance with the costs of accommodation and travel. After a 2-month probationary period, contracts may be extended to a total of 27 months, following a successful performance evaluation.

About us

The newly founded Russell Centre for Advanced Lightwave Science (RCALS) is based in Fuyang, near the city of Hangzhou in China. RCALS aims to carry out fundamental research in lightwave science with a particular focus on photonic crystal fibre (PCF). It has recruited a core team of scientists experienced in the field of PCF research and has state-of-art facilities for fully-customized PCF fabrication, as well as an extensive suite of high-quality optical laboratories, all in a brand new building. In addition, there are many generous funding opportunities for foreign scholars, who are particularly encouraged to apply.

Job tasks

RCALS is seeking enthusiastic postdoctoral researchers with expertise in the field of ultrafast nonlinear optics, to carry out curiosity-driven research into nonlinear phenomena in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibres. These fibres uniquely offer pressure-tuneable dispersion, broadband transmission and high optical damage thresholds. Research topics include stimulated Raman scattering in gases, UV and mid-IR light generation and ultrafast pulse dynamics. Suitable candidates will have expertise in one or more of the following topics: ultrafast lasers, nonlinear fibre optics, characterization of ultrashort pulses, and theoretical modelling. There will also be opportunities to supervise masters and PhD students.

Benefits

Postdoctoral researchers will receive generous compensation, as well as assistance with the costs of accommodation and travel. After a 2-month probationary period, contracts may be extended to a total of 27 months, following a successful performance evaluation.

About us

The newly founded Russell Centre for Advanced Lightwave Science (RCALS) is based in Fuyang, near the city of Hangzhou in China. RCALS aims to carry out fundamental research in lightwave science with a particular focus on photonic crystal fibre (PCF). It has recruited a core team of scientists experienced in the field of PCF research and has state-of-art facilities for fully-customized PCF fabrication, as well as an extensive suite of high-quality optical laboratories, all in a brand new building. In addition, there are many generous funding opportunities for foreign scholars, who are particularly encouraged to apply.

Job tasks

RCALS is seeking enthusiastic postdoctoral researchers with expertise in the field of soliton dynamics and mode-locked lasers, to carry out in-depth research into fibre-optical solitons, nonlinear fibre optics and ultrafast laser technologies. The goal is to gain fundamental understanding of ultrafast lasers as a complex nonlinear system, with particular focus on the starting and evolution of laser solitons and their interactions, as well as complex multi-soliton structures. The research can also lead to potential application-oriented development of flexible ultrafast laser sources with exceptionally enriched degree-of-freedoms of laser-field structures. Suitable candidates will have expertise in one or more of the following topics: fiber-optic solitons, mode-locked fiber lasers, nonlinear fibre optics, or nonlinear dynamics in general. There will also be opportunities to supervise masters and PhD students.

Benefits

Postdoctoral researchers will receive generous compensation, as well as assistance with the costs of accommodation and travel. After a 2-month probationary period, contracts may be extended to a total of 27 months, following a successful performance evaluation.

About us

The newly founded Russell Centre for Advanced Lightwave Science (RCALS) is based in Fuyang, near the city of Hangzhou in China. RCALS aims to carry out fundamental research in lightwave science with a particular focus on photonic crystal fibre (PCF). It has recruited a core team of scientists experienced in the field of PCF research and has state-of-art facilities for fully-customized PCF fabrication, as well as an extensive suite of high-quality optical laboratories, all in a brand new building. In addition, there are many generous funding opportunities for foreign scholars, who are particularly encouraged to apply.

Job tasks

RCALS is seeking highly motivated postdoctoral researchers interested in ultrafast lasers and mid-IR spectroscopy. We aim to achieve breakthroughs in high-power mid-IR fiber lasers, mid-IR dual-comb spectroscopy, and precision measurements extending further into the infrared regions. Candidates will have expertise in ultrafast fiber lasers, optical frequency combs, and mid-IR optics. Opportunities to supervise master's and PhD students are also available.

Benefits

Postdoctoral researchers will receive generous compensation, as well as assistance with the costs of accommodation and travel. After a 2-month probationary period, contracts may be extended to a total of 27 months, following a successful performance evaluation.

About us

The newly founded Russell Centre for Advanced Lightwave Science (RCALS) is based in Fuyang, near the city of Hangzhou in China. RCALS aims to carry out fundamental research in lightwave science with a particular focus on photonic crystal fibre (PCF). It has recruited a core team of scientists experienced in the field of PCF research and has state-of-art facilities for fully-customized PCF fabrication, as well as an extensive suite of high-quality optical laboratories, all in a brand new building. In addition, there are many generous funding opportunities for foreign scholars, who are particularly encouraged to apply.

Job tasks

RCALS is seeking enthusiastic postdoctoral researchers with expertise in the field of nonlinear fiber optics and Brillouin scattering in fibers, to carry out in-depth research into fundamental research on the phenomenon of Brillouin scattering in optical fibers and its cutting-edge applications in fiber lasers, optical sensors and microwave photonics. Suitable candidates will have expertise in one or more of the following topics: nonlinear fibre optics, single-frequency fiber laser, distributed fiber sensing and microwave photonics. There will also be opportunities to supervise masters and PhD students.

Benefits

Postdoctoral researchers will receive generous compensation, as well as assistance with the costs of accommodation and travel. After a 2-month probationary period, contracts may be extended to a total of 27 months, following a successful performance evaluation.

About us

The newly founded Russell Centre for Advanced Lightwave Science (RCALS) is based in Fuyang, near the city of Hangzhou in China. RCALS aims to carry out fundamental research in lightwave science with a particular focus on photonic crystal fibre (PCF). It has recruited a core team of scientists experienced in the field of PCF research and has state-of-art facilities for fully-customized PCF fabrication, as well as an extensive suite of high-quality optical laboratories, all in a brand new building. In addition, there are many generous funding opportunities for foreign scholars, who are particularly encouraged to apply.

Job tasks

RCALS is seeking enthusiastic postdoctoral researchers with expertise in the field of nonlinear optics and ultrafast optics, to carry out in-depth research into advanced ultrafast laser systems and measurement set-ups of ultrafast pulses. Suitable candidates will have expertise in one or more of the following topics: ultrafast lasers, nonlinear optics and ultrashort pulse measurements. There will also be opportunities to supervise masters and PhD students.

Benefits

Postdoctoral researchers will receive generous compensation, as well as assistance with the costs of accommodation and travel. After a 2-month probationary period, contracts may be extended to a total of 27 months, following a successful performance evaluation.

About us

The newly founded Russell Centre for Advanced Lightwave Science (RCALS) is based in Fuyang, near the city of Hangzhou in China. RCALS aims to carry out fundamental research in lightwave science with a particular focus on photonic crystal fibre (PCF). It has recruited a core team of scientists experienced in the field of PCF research and has state-of-art facilities for fully-customized PCF fabrication, as well as an extensive suite of high-quality optical laboratories, all in a brand new building. In addition, there are many generous funding opportunities for foreign scholars, who are particularly encouraged to apply.

Job tasks

RCALS is seeking enthusiastic postdoctoral researchers with expertise in machine learning in order to implement this powerful tool of artificial intelligence into the field of ultrafast lasers to help gaining insights and manipulation on ultrafast lasers in terms of the critical variables and representations hidden in the highly complex parameter space that determine stability and power-scaling limits of output lasers. The ultimate goal to realize a digital-twin of the ultrafast laser as a complex nonlinear system, which could endow us with efficient inverse design and swift manipulation of ultrafast lasers. Other suitable cross-disciplinary topics between these two fields are also possible, for example all-optical computing based on ultrafast laser dynamics (“learning machine” instead of machine learning). Suitable candidates will have expertise in one or more of the following topics: machine learning (or other suitable fields of artificial intelligence in general), ultrafast lasers, nonlinear dynamics. There will also be opportunities to supervise masters and PhD students.

Benefits

Postdoctoral researchers will receive generous compensation, as well as assistance with the costs of accommodation and travel. After a 2-month probationary period, contracts may be extended to a total of 27 months, following a successful performance evaluation.