Ngoc Diep Lai: Professional specialty & Research experiences

Research experiences

  • 05/2022 : Visiting scholar at the University of Georgia, USA.
  • 07/2019 : Visiting scholar at CNRS International NTU THALES Research Alliance (CINTRA), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
  • 01/2017 : Visiting professor at Physics department, South Florida University, USA.
  • 10/2016 : Visiting professor at Physics department, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
  • 07/2014 : Visiting scholar at International Laboratory “Nonlinear Molecular Crystals and Microlasers”, ITMO University, ST Peterburg, Russia.
  • 07/2013 : Habilitation à diriger de recherche (HDR) at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. Subject “Étude et réalisation de cristaux photoniques à base de polymère: Applications à l’optique non-linéaire et à l’optique quantique”. The HDR thesis is available at http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01294159/.
  • 01/2013 : Invited professor at the East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. 06-07/2012 : Visiting researcher at Biophysical Chemistry laboratory, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 07-08/2010 : Visiting scholar at Medical Micro-Sensors and Systems Laboratory, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
  • 2007-2009 : Postdoctor Research Fellow 2 at the Nanophotonics group, LPQM, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. Project “Application of single photon emission from color centers in Diamond to quantum information”.
  • 2003-2007 : Postdoctor Research Fellow 1 at the Nano Photonics and Polymer Optics labora- tory, Department of Physics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. Project “Fabrication of two- and three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystals and quasi- crystals using multi-photon-absorbed photopolymerization and holography techniques”.
  • 2000-2003 : PhD research : “Étude théorique et expérimentale des lasers solides bi-fréquences dans les domaines GHz à THz, en régime continu ou impulsionnel. Applications opto-microondes” at the Laser Physics laboratory, University of Rennes I, France, supervised by Dr. Fabien Bretenaker and Prof. Albert Le Floch. The dissertation is available at http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00410958/fr/.

Professional specialty

  • Quantum optics : Nitrogen-Vacancy color center in diamond, quantum dot, single mole- cule, single-photon source, electron spin resonance.

  • Nanophotonics : Micro- et nano-fabrication, interference, direct laser writing, photonic crystals, super-resolution imaging.

  • Nonlinear optics & Laser : Solid state laser, Quasi-phase matching, polymer, nonlinear photonic crystals.

  • Plasmonics : Nanofabrication, photonic/plasmonic coupling, tunable filter.