Editor Profile

Dr. Si-Cong Tian, Ph.D.
Professor
Present
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changchun
China

Professor Si-Cong Tian received his B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Physics from Jilin University, China, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. From 2016-2017 he studied at Arkansas University, US, as a visiting scholar. Currently, he is a Professor at Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics, Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He has published over 90 publications, authorized over 30 patents, hosted 20 projects, and given over 20 invited talks.
- High-speed Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers
- High-brightness Semiconductor Lasers
- M. A. Maricar, I. A. Derebezov, Z. H. Zhou, Y. H. Wang, S. C. Tian*, D. Bimberg, Energy efficiency of 100 fJ/bit for bit rates beyond 50 Gb/s for 940nm single mode VCSELs, Applied Physics Letters, 126, 091101 (2025).
- C. K. Wu, X. E. Xue, S. C. Tian*, Md. J. Miah, A. Strittmatter, and D. Bimberg, “Brightness improvement of edge-emitting lasers by combining vertical broad-area HiBBEE and laterally inhomogeneous waveguides,” APL Photonics, 9 (12), 126113 (2025).
- C. K. Wu, X. E. Xue, S. C. Tian*, Md. J. Miah, A. Strittmatter, and D. Bimberg, “Improvement of beam quality of high-power edge-emitting lasers using inhomogeneous waveguides,” Optics Express, 32 (14), 24802 (2024).
- X. C. Ai, S. C. Pan, Y. H. Wang, S. C. Tian*, Optimization Design of Photonic-crystal Surface-emitting Lasers: Toward Large Bandwidth and Single-lane 200 G Optical Transmission, Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 180, 89 (2024).
- M. Ahamed, G. Sapunov, S. C. Tian*, D. Bimberg, Multi-hole aperture VCSELs: single mode, high power, low resistance, SPIE Photonics West, Paper 12904-20 (2024).
- G. Sapunov, S. C. Tian*, S. Blokhin, et al., High-speed MBE-grown 1550 nm wafer-fused VCSELs, SPIE Photonics, West Paper 12904-27 (2024).
- S. C. Tian*, M. Ahamed, D. Bimberg*, Progress in Short Wavelength Energy-Efficient High-Speed Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers for Data Communication, Photonics, 10, 410 (2023).
- A. Babichev*, S. Blokhin, A. Gladyshev, L. Karachinsky, I. Novikov, A. Blokhin, M. Bobrov, N. Maleev, V. Andryushkin, E. Kolodeznyi, D. Denisov, N. Kryzhanovskaya, K. Voropaev, V. Ustinov, A. Egorov, H. Li, S. C. Tian*, S. Han, G. Sapunov, D. Bimberg, Single-Mode High-Speed 1550 nm Wafer Fused VCSELs for Narrow WDM Systems, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 35, 297 (2023).
- S. C. Tian*, M. Ahamed, G. Larisch, D. Bimberg*, Novel energy-efficient designs of vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers for the next generations of photonic systems, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 61, SK0801 (2022).
- G. Larisch*, S. C. Tian*, D. Bimberg, Optimization of VCSEL photon lifetimes for minimum energy consumption for varying bit rates, Optics Express, 28, 18931 (2020).