Research Interests

Fiber optic communication; Fiber nonlinearities; Novel optical devices; Nanophotonics; Free-space optical communications; Fiber optical parametric amplifiers (OPA); Photonic crystal fibers.

Dr. Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong received combined B.E. (1st class honor with medal award) degree in electrical engineering and B. S. degree in physics from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 1997. He received the M.S. degree in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in 2003, both in electrical engineering at Stanford University. He was a member of the Photonics and Networking Research Laboratory at Stanford University. His research field included DWDM systems, SCM optical systems, fiber nonlinearity, and fiber optical parametric amplifiers. He is author or coauthor of over 50 journal and conference papers. He worked in Hewlett-Packard Laboratories as research engineer and contributed in projects included parallel optics and VCSEL in 1998-99. He also worked as independent consultant in Innovation CORE (A Sumitomo Electric Company), CA, in 2004.

He was the recipient of OSA New Focus Student Award in 2003 and IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship in 2003. He is the reviewer for Optics Letters, JOSA B, Optics Express, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology and Optics Communications. Dr. Wong is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the IEEE, and IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optic Society (LEOS).

Selected Publications

• K. K. Y. Wong, G.-W. Lui, and L.-K. Chen,
  “Simultaneous all-optical inverted and non-inverted wavelength conversion using a single-stage fiber optical parametric amplifier,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 18, pp. 1442-1444, July 2006.
  
  
• G. Kalogerakis, M. E. Marhic, K. K. Y. Wong, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “Transmission of optical communication signals by distributed parametric amplification,” IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 23, pp. 2945-2953, Oct. 2005.
  
  
• K. K. Y. Wong, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “Temperature control of the gain spectrum of fiber optical parametric amplifiers,” OSA Opt. Express., vol. 13, pp. 4666–4673, June 2005.
  
  
• M. E. Marhic, K. K. Y. Wong, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “Wideband Tuning of the Gain Spectra of One-Pump Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers,” IEEE J. on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 10, pp. 1133-1141, Sept./Oct. 2004.
  
  
• K. K. Y. Wong, K. Shimizu, M. E. Marhic, K. Uesaka, G. Kalogerakis, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “Continuous-Wave Fiber Optical Parametric Wavelength Converter with +40-dB Conversion Efficiency and 3.8-dB Noise Figure,” Opt. Lett., vol. 28, pp. 692-694, May. 1, 2003.
  
  
• K. K. Y. Wong, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “50-dB Nonlinear Crosstalk Suppression in a WDM Analog Fiber System by Complementary Modulation and Balanced Detection,” IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 21, pp. 500-505, Feb. 2003.
  
  
• K. K. Y. Wong, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “Phase-Conjugate Pump Dithering for High-Quality Idler Generation in a Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 15, pp. 33-35, Jan. 2003.
  
  
• K. K. Y. Wong, M. E. Marhic, M. C. Ho, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “35-dB Nonlinear Crosstalk Suppression in a WDM Analog Fiber System by Complementary Modulation of Twin Carriers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 699-701, May 2002.
  
  
• K. Uesaka, K. K. Y. Wong, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “Wavelength Exchange in a Highly Nonlinear Dispersion-Shifted Fiber: Theory and Experiments,” IEEE J. on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 8, pp. 560-568, May 2002.
  
  
• K. K. Y. Wong, M. E. Marhic, K. Uesaka, and L. G. Kazovsky,
  “Polarization-Independent Two-Pump Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 911-913, July 2002.