PhD alumnus
Plasma lasers, photonic time crystals
Now pursuing postdoctoral research abroad
Compiled from authorship records collected on this website, including collaborative papers and arXiv preprints, without distinguishing author order.
Physical Review Letters 137, 143601 (2026) · Published · 2026.09.29
Songyu Zhu, Yushan Zeng, Chenhao Pan, Yiming Pan, Ye Tian, Ruxin Li
Programming light with a freely propagating electron wavepacket: quadratic phase evolution offers a route to tunable coherent radiation and nonclassical light.
Laser & Photonics Reviews 20(14), e02603 (2026) · 2026.03.14
Liang Zhang, Zirui Zhao, Qiaofei Pan, Chenhao Pan, Qingqing Cheng, Yiming Pan
Current group contributors: Liang Zhang, Zirui Zhao
Providing a topologically protected spacetime location for a wavepacket, then weaving these ‘events’ together to control noise-driven amplification.
Pan, C., Song, X., Cao, Y., Xiong, L., Lan, X., Wang, S., ... & Pan, Y*. Superluminal spacetime boundary, time reflection and quantum light generation from relativistic plasma mirrors. Laser & Photonics Reviews, e01986(2025).
How do time reflection and photon-pair generation emerge when a strong laser drives a plasma mirror? This theoretical work seeks answers at spacetime boundaries.
Liang Zhang, Chenhao Pan, Yiming Pan. Breathing k-Gap Events and Instability on Instability in Nonlinear Photonic Time Crystals. arXiv:2607.06077 (2026). arXiv ↗
Current group contributors: Liang Zhang
A breathing event can emerge in an unstable optical field, drawing energy from competing solitons; its rhythm can be tuned by a seed signal.
Liang Zhang, Chenhao Pan, Yiming Pan. Quantization and Biphoton Statistics of k-Gap Solitons in Nonlinear Photonic Time Crystals. arXiv:2606.30508 (2026). arXiv ↗
Current group contributors: Liang Zhang
At the quantum scale, k-gap solitons involve photon pairs, collapse and revival, and nonclassical interference.
Liang Zhang, Chenhao Pan, Jinze He, Danni Chen, Zirui Zhao, Qingqing Cheng, Yiming Pan. Topologically-protected superluminal pair annihilation in photonic time crystals. arXiv:2510.08995 (2025). arXiv ↗
Current group contributors: Liang Zhang, Jinze He, Danni Chen, Zirui Zhao
Tuning the relative phase allows two amplified optical waves to cancel. Their pattern may evolve superluminally without transmitting information faster than light.