Publications
Journals
- Yanping Xu, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Micro-structured fibers and their applications in fiber-optic sensors and random fiber lasers,” Canadian Journal of Physics 96(4), 359-365 (2018). (Invited)
- Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Real-time physical random bit generation at Gbps based on random fiber lasers,” Opt. Lett. 42(23), 4796-4799 (2017).
- Yanping Xu, Mingjiang Zhang, Liang Zhang, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Suppression of time-delay signature in chaotic semiconductor laser by fiber random grating induced random distributed feedback,” Opt. Lett. 42(20), 4107-4110 (2017).
- Yanping Xu, Liang Zhang, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Single-mode SOA-based 1kHz-linewidth dual-wavelength random fiber laser,” Opt. Express 25(14), 15828-15837 (2017).
- Yanping Xu, Liang Zhang, Song Gao, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Highly sensitive fiber-random-grating based random laser sensor for ultrasound detection,” Opt. Lett. 42(7), 1353-1356 (2017).
- Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, "Recent Developments in Micro-Structured Fiber Optic Sensors," Fibers 5(1), 3 (2017). (Invited)
- Yanping Xu, Mingjiang Zhang, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, and Xiaoyi Bao, "Multi-parameter sensor based on random fiber lasers,” AIP Adv. 6, 095009 (2016).
- Yanping Xu, Song Gao, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, Liang Chen and Xiaoyi Bao, “Low noise Brillouin random fiber laser with random grating based resonator,” Opt. Lett. 41(14), 3197-3200 (2016).
- Yanping Xu, Meiqi Ren, Yang Lu, Ping Lu, Ping Lu, Xiaoyi Bao, Lixian Wang, Younes Messaddeq and Sophie LaRochelle, “Multi-parameter sensor based on the SBS in the inverse-parabolic graded-index fiber,” Opt. Lett. 41(6), 1138-1141 (2016).
- Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Song Gao, Dao Xiang, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov and Xiaoyi Bao, “Optical fiber random grating-based multiparameter sensor,” Opt. Lett. 40(23), 5514-5517 (2015).
- Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Jia Song, Ping Lu, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao, and Xiaopeng Dong, “Dispersion effects of high-order-mode fiber on temperature and axial strain discrimination,” Photonic Sensors. 5(3), 224-234 (2015).
- Yanping Xu, Dao Xiang, Zhonghua Ou, Ping Lu, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Random Fabry–Perot resonator-based sub-kHz Brillouin fiber laser to improve spectral resolution in linewidth measurement,” Opt. Lett. 40(9), 1920-1923 (2015).
- Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Zengguang Qin, Jeremie Harris, Farhana Baset, Ping Lu, Vedula Ravi Bhardwaj, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Vibration sensing using a tapered bend-insensitive fiber based Mach-Zehnder interferometer,” Opt. Express 21(3), 3031-3042 (2013).
- Liang Zhang, Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Multi-wavelength Brillouin random fiber laser via distributed feedback from a random fiber grating,” IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 36(11), 2122-2128 (2018).
- Liang Zhang, Yanping Xu, Song Gao, Bhavaye Saxena, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Multi-wavelength coherent Brillouin random fiber laser with ultra-high optical signal-to-noise ratio,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 24(3), 1-8 (2018).
- Liang Zhang, Yanping Xu, Song Gao, Bhavaye Saxena, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Linearly polarized low-noise Brillouin random fiber laser,” Opt. Lett. 42(4), 739-742 (2017).
- Ping Lu, Yanping Xu, Farhana Baset, Xiaoyi Bao, and Ravi Bhardwaj, “In-line fiber microcantilever vibration sensor,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 211113 (2013).
- Liang Zhang, Yuan Wang, Yanping Xu, Dapeng Zhou, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Linearly polarized multi-wavelength fiber laser comb via Brillouin random lasing oscillation,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 30(11), 1005-1008 (2018).
- Song Gao, Liang Zhang, Yanping Xu, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao, “High-speed truly physical random bit generation via Brillouin random fiber laser with non-uniform fibers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 29(16), 1352-1355 (2017).
- Song Gao, Liang Zhang, Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, "Tapered fiber based Brillouin random fiber laser and its application for linewidth measurement," Opt. Express 24 (25), 28353-28360 (2016).
- Dao Xiang, Ping Lu, Yanping Xu, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao, “Random Brillouin fiber laser for tunable ultra-narrow linewidth microwave generation,” Opt. Lett. 41(20), 4839-4842 (2016).
- Dao Xiang, Ping Lu, Yanping Xu, Song Gao, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Truly random bit generation based on a novel random Brillouin fiber laser,” Opt. Lett. 40(22), 5415–5418 (2015).
- Ping Lu, Jeremie Harris, Yanping Xu, Yang Lu, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Simultaneous refractive index and temperature measurements using a tapered bend-resistant fiber interferometer,” Opt. Lett. 37(22), 4567–4569 (2012).
- Liang Zhang, Chen Wang, Zhengying Li, Yanping Xu, Bhavaye Saxena, Song Gao, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, "High-efficiency Brillouin random fiber laser using all-polarization maintaining ring cavity," Opt. Express 25(10), 11306-11314 (2017).
- Jia Song, Wenhai Li, Ping Lu, Yanping Xu, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao, “Long-Range High Spatial Resolution Distributed Temperature and Strain Sensing Based on Optical Frequency-Domain Reflectometry,” IEEE Photonics Journal. 6(3), 6801408 (2014).
- Jeremie Harris, Ping Lu, Hugo Larocque, Yanping Xu, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Highly sensitive in-fiber interferometric refractometer with temperature and axial strain compensation,” Opt. Express 21(8), 9996-10009 (2013).
Conferences
- Yanping Xu, Mingjiang Zhang, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Multi-parameter fiber-optic sensors based on fiber random grating,” 2017, OFS25th, Jeju, Korea.
- Yanping Xu, Liang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Ping Lu, Stephen Mihailov, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Fiber random grating feedback induced chaos in semiconductor laser with highly suppressed time-delay signature,” 2017, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Yanping Xu, Dao Xiang, Zhonghua Ou, Song Gao, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Novel bi-pumped Brillouin random fiber laser and its applications”, 2015 Schawlow-Townes Symposium: Poster Session.
- Yanping Xu, Meiqi Ren, Yang Lu, Ping Lu, Xiaoyi Bao, and Sophie LaRochelle. “Multi-parameter sensing based on the stimulated Brillouin scattering of higher-order acoustic modes in OAM fiber,” 2015, OFS24th, Curitiba, Brazil.
- Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Farhana Baset, Vedula Ravi Bhardwaj, Xiaoyi Bao. "Bend-insensitive fiber based vibration sensor," 2014, OFS23rd, Santander, Spain.
- Yanping Xu, Ping Lu, Jia Song, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, Xiaopeng Dong, Ping Lu. "Discrimination of temperature and axial strain using dispersion effects of high-order-mode fibers," Sensors, 2013 IEEE, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Liang Zhang, Yanping Xu, Lijuan Gu, Stephen Mihailov, Ping Lu, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Sub-MHz ultrasonic sensor using fiber laser based on random fiber grating,” 2018, OFS26th, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Liang Zhang, Yanping Xu, Song Gao, Bhavaye Saxena, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, "Multi-wavelength Coherent Brillouin Random Fiber Laser with High Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio," 2017, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, California, USA.
- Liang Zhang, Yuan Wang, Yanping Xu, Song Gao, Dapeng Zhou, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “Coherent Brillouin Random Fiber Laser for Application in Phase-sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometry,” 2018, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, California, USA.
- Liang Zhang, Yuan Wang, Yanping Xu, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao, “ Linearly Polarized Multi-wavelength Comb via Rayleigh Scattering induced Brillouin Random Lasing Resonance,” 2018, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, San Diego, California, USA.
- Jérémie Harris, Ping Lu, Hugo Larocque, Yanping Xu, Liang Chen and Xiaoyi Bao. “Temperature and strain compensation for refractive index measurement using bend-insensitive optical fiber,” Photonic Sensors. 15th Annual Photonics North Conference; 2013 June 3-5; Ottawa, ON, Canada.