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Dr. minGZHOU cHEN

Contact Information
National University of Ireland, Galway
Phone: +353-91-495351 extn 5351
Fax: +353-91-495529

Brief Career

Research Associate (Applied Optics, NUI Galway)	2008 -
Supervisor of physics labs (School of Physics, NUI Galway)	2011 -
PhD (University of Pretoria, South Africa)	2005 - 2009
R&D Engineer (Saki Corporation)	2002 - 2005
Master (Tianjin University, China)	1999 - 2002
Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant (Tianjin University, China)	1999 - 2002
Bachelor - minor in Industrial Engineering (Tianjin University, China)	1997 - 1999
Bachelor - major in Precision Instruments (Tianjin University, China)	1995 - 1999

Research Interests
My primary research interests are focused on the airborne laser beam projection and optical vortices in light. My PhD thesis concerned new technologies to eliminate optical vortices from strongly scintillated laser beams. My current postdoctoral research mainly concerns the optical vortices in light, including investigating generation and annihilation of optical vortices, dynamically control of optical vortices, studying their properties in a laser speckle pattern and etc.

Teaching
First year physics labs.

Refereed Publications

1.	Speckle evolution with multiple steps of least-squares phase removal Mingzhou Chen, Filippus S. Roux and Chris Dainty, Physical Review A, 84, 023846, Aug. 2011.
2.	Application of orbital angular momentum to simultaneous determination of tilt and lateral displacement of a misaligned laser beam J. Lin, X.-C. Yuan, Mingzhou Chen and J. C. Dainty, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 27(10), 2337- 2343, Oct. 2010.
3.	Evolution of the scintillation index and the optical vortex density in speckle fields after removal of the least-squares phase, Mingzhou Chen and Filippus S. Roux, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 27(10), 2138-2143, Oct. 2010.
4.	Influence of the least-squares phase on optical vortices in strongly scintillated beams, Mingzhou Chen and Filippus S. Roux, Physical Review A, 80(1), 013824-1-5, Jul. 2009.
5.	Optical Vortex Detection and Strongly Scintillated Beam Correction Using Vortex Dipole Annihilation Mingzhou Chen, PhD thesis, Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa, 2008.
6.	Accelerating the annihilation of an optical vortex dipole in a Gaussian beam Mingzhou Chen, Filippus S. Roux, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 25(6), 1279-1286, Jun. 2008.
7.	Dipole influences on the optical vortex detection with a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor in scintillated beams Mingzhou Chen, Filippus S. Roux, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 25(5), 1084-1090, May 2008.
8.	Detection of phase singularities with a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor Mingzhou Chen, Filippus S. Roux and Jan C. Olivier, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 24(7), 1994-2002, Jul. 2007.

Conferences

1.	Experimental study on vortex fields with phase perturbations Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, Photonics Ireland 2011, A25, Malahide, Co. Dublin, Sept. 2011.
2.	Evolution of vortex density in a non-diffracting speckle field with its continuous phase removed Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, Physical Optics, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 8171, 817104-1-7, Marseille, France, Sept. 2011.
3.	Reflections on speckle: old and new results Christopher Dainty and Mingzhou Chen, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 8122, 81220F-1-6, San Diego, California, USA, Aug. 2011.
4.	Study of turbulence effects for a free-space optical link over water Ruth Mackey, Mingzhou Chen, Andrew Lambert, David Mackey and Alexander Goncharov, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XIII, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 7828, 782808-1-12, Toulouse, France, Sept. 2010.
5.	Evolution of the optical vortex density in phase corrected speckle fields Filippus Roux and Mingzhou Chen, on Lasers, Optics and Spectroscopy (Track C 87) of 55th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, Sept. 2010.
6.	Vortex dynamics in speckle fields with continuous phase removed Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, Singularities and optical vortices on Photon10, University of Southampton, UK, 23-26 Aug. 2010.
7.	Holographic control of optical vortex dipoles Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum, P5, York, UK, Mar. 2010.
8.	Remove optical vortices using continuous phase modulation Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications (AO), No. AOThA1, San Jose, US, Oct. 2009.
9.	Creation and control of a vortex dipole with a phase modulator Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, Photonics Ireland 2009, B50, Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, Sept. 2009.
10.	Optical Vortices in Strongly Scintillated Beams Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Pacific Rim 2009), No. WB2-3, Shanghai, China, Sept. 2009.
11.	Reliability of detecting optical vortex with a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor in a scintillated vortex beam Mingzhou Chen and Chris Dainty, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XII, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7476, 74760N-1-6, Berlin, German, Aug. 2009.
12.	Optical vortices and their properties Mingzhou Chen, One Day Optical Meeting at University College Dublin, Dublin, Jul. 2009.
13.	Carrying information with a vortex beam through turbulent atmosphere Mingzhou Chen, COST297, 8th Formal Management Committee Meeting & Working Groups (HAPCOS), Galway, Ireland, Mar. 2009.
14.	Removal of optical vortices from strongly scintillated beams Mingzhou Chen, Filippus S. Roux, in 4th International Conference Singular Optics (Optical Vortices): Fundamentals and Applications (SO''2008), Alushta, Ukraine, Sept. 2008.

Invited seminars and oral communications
1. Optical Vortices in random fields: Detection, dynamics and removal.
Theoretical physics research group, University of Bristol, UK (Nov. 2010),

Other
I am a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), a member of the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), and an affiliate member of the Institute of Physics (IOP).

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