Xijia Gu

Professor

Xijia Gu received the B.Sc. degree from Nankai University, Tianjin, China in physics, in 1982, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 1987. He worked as a Research Fellow at Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stromungsforschung, Goettingen, German, and University of Toronto between 1987 and 1990. Then, he joined Photonics Research Ontario, six years as a Staff Scientist and three years as a Manager and worked on many research projects related to lasers and laser applications. In 1999, he joined JDS Uniphase as a Senior Manager, developed many fiber optic products for telecommunication such as: fiber grating filters, DWDM modules, and tunable filters. In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, as an Associate Professor. He has published 91 referred journal articles, 39 conference papers, and holds four patents.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• high-power fiber laser
• fiber-optic devices
• fiber-optic sensors

SELECTED PAPERS

• Jiaqi Zhou and Xijia Gu, “32 nJ, 615 fs stable dissipative soliton ring cavity fiber laser with Raman scattering,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 28, No.4, pp453-456, Feb. 2016.
• Jiaqi Zhou, Yu Lu, Bing He and Xijia Gu, “Q-switched laser in an SMS cavity for inhibiting nonlinear effects”, Optical Society of America, Applied Optics, Vol. 54, No. 19, pp6080-6084, July 2015.
• Jiaqi Zhou, Bing He and Xijia Gu, “Transmission spectrum characteristics for a single-mode-multimode-single-mode fiber filter”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 26, No. 21, pp2185-2188, November. 2014.
• Yi Lu and Xijia Gu, “Kilowatt peak power pulses from a passively Q-switched Yb-doped fiber laser with a smaller-core Yb-doped fiber as a saturable absorber”, IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 6, No.3, p1501207, June 2014.
• A.R. EL-Damak, Jianhua Chang, Jian Sun, Changqing Xu and Xijia Gu, “Dual-Wavelength, Linearly Polarized All-Fiber Laser with High Extinction Ratio”, IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, #1501406, August 2013.