Research Interests
Micro-nano photonics
Optofluidics
Biomedical photonics
Academic Service
Reviewer for international journals including Scientific Reports, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Optics, Applied Physics Letters
Senior Member, Chinese Optical Society; Committee Member, Biomedical Photonics Specialised Committee
Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)
Awards and Honours
Principal Research Projects (Principal Investigator or Participant):
Ministry of Science and Technology 863 Project (SS2015AA020508): Key Technologies for Multi-Photon Microstructure and Functional Imaging of Living Brain, 2015/1-2017/12, 5 million RMB, ongoing, participant.
NSFC General Project (61378080): Nano-Bio-Optical Tweezers Technology Based on Optofluidic Ring Resonators, 2014/1-2017/12, 800,000 RMB, ongoing, Principal Investigator.
NSFC Instrumentation Special Project (61327008): New Mechanisms and Prototype of Label-Free Biosensing with Ultra-Low Detection Limit Using Optofluidic Whispering-Gallery-Mode Coupled Microcavities, 2014/1-2017/12, 3.5 million RMB, ongoing, participant.
NSFC Young Scientists Fund (60907011): Optical Properties of Whispering-Gallery-Mode Coupled Microcavity Lasers and Their Fundamental Research for Biosensing, 2010/1-2012/12, 220,000 RMB, completed, Principal Investigator.
NSFC General Project (61128011): Optofluidic Resonator Lasers and Their Applications in Biosensing, 2012/1-2013/12, 200,000 RMB, completed, participant.
NSFC General Project (11074051): Construction and Optical Properties of Composite-Structure High-Q Optical Microresonators, 2011/1-2013/12, 400,000 RMB, completed, participant.
NSFC General Project (60977047): Transmission Characteristics and Fabrication Technologies of Novel Sub-Micron-Height High-Aspect-Ratio Glass Optical Waveguides, 2010/1-2012/12, 360,000 RMB, completed, participant.
Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (09ZR1402800): Optical Properties of Whispering-Gallery-Mode Coupled Microcavity Lasers and Their Application Research in Biosensing, 2009/8-2012/7, 100,000 RMB, completed, Principal Investigator.
NSFC Key Project (60638010): Research on Properties of Novel Nano-Microstructured Optoelectronic Materials and Microcavity Photonic Devices, 2007/1-2010/12, 1.8 million RMB, completed, participant.
NSFC General Project (10574032): Emission and Sensing Properties of Non-Circular Symmetric Microresonators Based on Whispering-Gallery Modes, 2006/1-2008/12, 330,000 RMB, completed, participant.
Education and Work Experience
Education:
Sept. 1999 – Jun. 2004: Ph.D. in Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University. Supervisor: Professor Lu Zukang.
Sept. 1995 – Jun. 1999: B.Sc. in Physics, Hunan University.
Work Experience:
Dec. 2014 – present: Research Fellow, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University
Jan. 2013 – Jan. 2014: Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
Feb. 2010 – Nov. 2014: Associate Professor, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University
Mar. 2009 – Jun. 2009: Visiting Scholar, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Feb. 2007 – Jan. 2010: Lecturer, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University
Sept. 2004 – Jan. 2007: Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Postdoctoral Station, Fudan University
May 2001 – May 2002: Visiting Scholar, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan
Teaching
Integrated Optics (Undergraduate Elective Course)
Professional Experiments (Undergraduate Compulsory Course)
Selected Publications
In the past three yearsRepresentative papers:
Haotian Wang, Sheng Liu, Lin Chen, Deyuan Shen, and Xiang Wu* , “Dual-wavelength single-frequency laser emission in asymmetric coupled microdisks,” Scientific Reports , Vol. 6, pp. 38053 (2016).
Haotian Wang, Xiang Wu* , and Deyuan Shen, “Trapping and manipulating nanoparticles in photonic nanojets,” Optics Letters , Vol. 41, Issue 7, pp. 1652-1655 (2016).
Ting Tang, Xiang Wu* , Liying Liu, and Lei Xu, “Packaged optofluidic microbubble resonators for optical sensing,” Applied Optics , Vol. 55, Issue 2, pp. 395-399 (2016).
Qijing Lu, Jie Liao, Sheng Liu, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu*, and Lei Xu*, “Precise measurement of micro bubble resonator thickness by internal aerostatic pressure sensing,” Optics Express , Vol. 24, Issue 18, pp. 20855-20861 (2016).
Jie Liao, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu*, and Lei Xu*, “Fano resonance and improved sensing performance in a spectral-simplified optofluidic micro-bubble resonator by introducing selective modal losses,” Optics Express , Vol. 24, Issue 8, pp. 8574-8580 (2016).
Qijing Lu, Sheng Liu, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu*, and Lei Xu*, “Stimulated Brillouin laser and frequency comb generation in high-Q microbubble resonators,” Optics Letters , Vol. 41, Issue 8, pp. 1736-1739 (2016).
Qijing Lu, Ming Li, Jie Liao, Sheng Liu, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu*, and Lei Xu*, “Strong coupling of hybrid and plasmonic resonances in liquid core plasmonic micro-bubble cavities,” Optics Letters , Vol. 40, Issue 24, pp. 5842-5845 (2015).
Haotian Wang, and Xiang Wu* , “Optical manipulation in optofluidic microbubble resonators”, China Phys. Mech. Astron. Vol. 58, pp. 114206 (2015).
Haotian Wang, Xiang Wu* , and Deyuan Shen, “Localized optical manipulation in optical ring resonators,” Optics Express , Vol. 23, Issue 21, pp. 27650-27660 (2015).
Qijing Lu, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu*, and Lei Xu*, “Mode-selective lasing in high-Q polymer micro bottle resonators,” Optics Express , Vol. 23, Issue 17, pp. 22740-22745 (2015).
Zhenmin Chen, Ming Li, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu*, and Lei Xu*, “2-D optical/opto-mechanical microfluidic sensing with micro-bubble resonators,” Optics Express , Vol. 23, Issue 14, pp. 17659-17664 (2015).
Xiang Wu , Maung Kyaw Khaing Oo, Karthik Reddy, Qiushu Chen, Yuze Sun, and Xudong Fan*, “Optofluidic laser for dual-mode sensitive biomolecular detection with a large dynamic range,” Nature Communications Vol. 5, pp. 3779 (2014).
Ming Li, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu, Xudong Fan*, and Lei Xu*, “Self-Referencing Optofluidic Ring Resonator Sensor for Highly Sensitive Biomolecular Detection,” Anal. Chem. , Vol. 85, Issue 19, pp. 9328–9332 (2013).
Ming Li, Xiang Wu , Liying Liu, and Lei Xu*, “Kerr parametric oscillations and frequency comb generation from dispersion compensated silica micro-bubble resonators,” Optics Express , Vol. 21, Issue 14, pp. 16908-16913 (2013).
Xiang Wu , Qiushu Chen, Yuze Sun, and Xudong Fan, “Bio-inspired optofluidic lasers with luciferin,” Applied Physics Letters , Vol. 102, Issue 20, pp. 203706 (2013).

