Researcher

Professor Gang-Ding Peng

My Expertise

      Silica optical fibres and devices;

      Polymer optical fibres and devices;

      Optical fibre communications;

      Photonics,

      Nonlinear optics;

      Optical fibre testing and sensing.

Fields of Research (FoR)

Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications, Optical fibre communication systems and technologies, Lasers and quantum electronics, Additive manufacturing

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Biography

Prof. Peng Gang-Ding is Professor in Photonics and Optical Communications with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.

Gang Ding Peng received the B.Sc. degree in physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1982, and the M.Sc degree in applied physics and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 through 1988 he was a...view more

Prof. Peng Gang-Ding is Professor in Photonics and Optical Communications with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.

Gang Ding Peng received the B.Sc. degree in physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1982, and the M.Sc degree in applied physics and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 through 1988 he was a lecturer of the Jiao Tong University. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Optical Sciences Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra, from 1988-1991. He has been working with University of NSW in Sydney since 1991. He was a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1992-1996 and is currently a Professor in the same university. He is a fellow and life member of both OSA and SPIE. His research interests include silica and polymer optical fibres, optical fibre and waveguide devices, optical fibre sensors and nonlinear optics.

 

His research interests include:

1. Special silica optical fibres and devices

  • Specialty optical fibres, fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
  • Polarisation maintaining fibres, twin-core fibres, Electro-optic fibres
  • Fibre couplers, fibre Bragg gratings & long period fibre gratings

2. Application-specific polymer optical fibres and devices

  • Laser dye-doped polymer optical fibres, photosensitive polymer fibres
  • Electro-optic polymer optical fibres, liquid-crystal-doped polymer fibres
  • Polymer fibre Bragg gratings & long period fibre gratings

3. Optical fibre sensors

  • Optical fibre hydrophones, fibre grating strain sensors
  • Polymer optical fibre sensors

4. Planar photonic and waveguide devices

  • Waveguide gratings, amplifiers
  • Biosensors

5. Optical fibre communication systems, WDM systems, office and home networks

6. Photonic signal processing techniques

  • Optical interferometers
  • DSP techniques, Optical instrumentation

My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

      Photonics

      Optical Fibres and Devices

      Fibre Lasers and Amplifiers

      Optical Fibre Sensors

 


Currently supervising

      Bi and Er codoped optical fibres

      3D printing silica optical fibres

      Optical fibre sensors


My Teaching

     Optical Fibres

     Optical Communications

     Photonic Networks

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Location

School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (Building G17) Room 419


Contact

+61 2 9385 4014
+61 2 9385 5993