Biography:Jie Qiao
Jie Qiao | |
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| File:Jie Qiao.jpg Qiao in 2019 | |
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University (M.S.) University of Rochester (M.B.A.) University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Tiled-grating compressors for petawatt lasers Ultrafast laser polishing and fabrication WiSTEE Connect |
| Awards | Fellow, Optica |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ultrafast optics, photonics, optical metrology |
| Institutions | Rochester Institute of Technology Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester |
Jie Qiao is a Chinese-American physicist and associate professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She is known for her work on ultrafast laser systems, optical fabrication, and wavefront sensing, and for leading the development of the first 1.5-meter coherently phased-grating pulse compressor for petawatt-class lasers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. She is a Fellow of Optica and the founder of WiSTEE Connect, a global organization for women in science, technology, engineering, and entrepreneurship.[1]
Education
Qiao earned her M.S. in precision instruments and fine mechanics from Tsinghua University.[1] She received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.[1] She also holds an M.B.A. in entrepreneurship, strategy, finance, and marketing from the Simon Business School, University of Rochester.[1]
Career
Laboratory for Laser Energetics
From 2005 to 2013, Qiao was a laser system scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the University of Rochester, a Department of Energy-funded facility for inertial confinement fusion research.[1] At LLE, she led the development of the tiled-grating compressors for the OMEGA EP petawatt-class laser system. Her team built two 1.5-meter large-aperture compressors, each consisting of four sets of tiled-grating assemblies with interferometric alignment control, achieving subpicosecond pulse duration without tiling-induced temporal degradation.[2] The underlying interferometric tiling method was described in a 2007 Optics Express paper.[3]
Rochester Institute of Technology
Qiao joined RIT in 2013, where she leads the Advanced Optical Fabrication, Instrumentation and Metrology Laboratory.[1] Her research group works on ultrafast-laser-enabled fabrication of photonic circuits and waveguide lasers, wavefront sensing, and spatial-temporal control of laser beams.[1]
Her laboratory has demonstrated femtosecond laser polishing and figuring of glass with sub-nanometer precision, achieving deterministic material removal while maintaining optical-quality surfaces.[4] She has also worked on ultrafast laser inscription of waveguides in chalcogenide glass for mid-infrared applications.[4]
In 2022, Qiao received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct research on ultrafast laser material processing in the gigahertz regime at the University of Bordeaux.[5]
She has served as co-chair of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Applications and Technology conference and as chair of the SPIE Photonics West Conference on Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing.[1] She was general co-chair of the international conference on Ultrafast Optics (UFO X) held in Beijing.[6]
WiSTEE Connect
In 2013, Qiao founded Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship Connect (WiSTEE Connect), a global association to promote women's leadership and professional networking in optics and photonics.[7] The organization has collaborated with the Optica Foundation to host the "Global Women of Light" symposium series at the annual Frontiers in Optics conference, drawing participants from dozens of countries and institutions.[7] Her Optica Fellowship citation specifically recognized her work in advancing professional networks for women in optics.[8]
Honors
- Fellow, Optica (2023 class), for advancing professional networks for women in optics and extensive volunteer work[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Jie Qiao". Rochester Institute of Technology. https://www.rit.edu/directory/jxqpci-jie-qiao.
- ↑ Qiao, J.; Kalb, A.; Nguyen, T.; Bunkenburg, J.; Canning, D.; Kelly, J. H. (2008). "Demonstration of large-aperture tiled-grating compressors for high-energy, petawatt-class, chirped-pulse amplification systems". Optics Letters 33 (15): 1684–1686. doi:10.1364/OL.33.001684. PMID 18670510.
- ↑ Qiao, J.; Kalb, A.; Guardalben, M. J.; King, G.; Canning, D.; Kelly, J. H. (2007). "Large-aperture grating tiling by interferometry for petawatt chirped-pulse-amplification systems". Optics Express 15 (15): 9562–9574. doi:10.1364/OE.15.009562.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Jie Qiao – Research profile". ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jie-Qiao-2.
- ↑ "Associate Professor Jie Qiao to develop ultrafast laser material processing in Bordeaux, France". Rochester Institute of Technology. https://www.rit.edu/news/associate-professor-jie-qiao-develop-ultrafast-laser-material-processing-bordeaux-france.
- ↑ "Professor co-chairs international conference". Rochester Institute of Technology. https://www.rit.edu/news/professor-co-chairs-international-conference?id=52804.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Symposium highlights female scientists". Rochester Institute of Technology. https://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=57394.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "RIT Associate Professor Jie Qiao elected Optica fellow". Rochester Institute of Technology. November 18, 2022. https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-associate-professor-jie-qiao-elected-optica-fellow.
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