Name：Yahong Chen

Yahong Chen received his PhD in physics from University of Eastern Finland in 2020 and PhD in Optics from Soochow University in 2018. He is now a Professor (Associate) at Soochow University. His research interests include optical coherence and polarization, light manipulations, light propagation, beam control, partially coherent light field, optical trapping, optical imaging, optical communications, and nanophotonics.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zjYM7uQAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao

Selected Publications

1.      Zhongyi Hu, Jiahui Shen, Yimeng Zhu, Yonglei Liu, Lin Liu, Ari T. Friberg, Tero Setälä, Yangjian Cai*, Fei Wang*, and Yahong Chen*, Robust measurement of the concurrence of vector light beams, Physical Review Letters 135, 253801 (2025).

2.      Yahong Chen* and Sergey A. Ponomarenko*, Phase-space nonseparability, partial coherence, and optical beam shifts, Physical Review Letters 135, 193801 (2025).

3.      Zhen Dong*, Kimmo Saastamoinen, Andreas Norrman, Jose Jorge Gil, Yahong Chen, Ari T. Friberg, and Tero Setälä, Nanoscattering measurement of 3D polarization and spin in a random evanescent wave, Optica (2025). 

4.      Kaisa Rantaeskola*, Kimmo Saastamoinen, Andreas Norrman, Yahong Chen, Ari T. Friberg, and Tero Setälä, Pancharatnam’s connection and geometric phase of partially polarized light, Optica 12, 62-68 (2025).

5.      Benli Li, Yahong Chen*, Weimin Deng, Tongbiao Wang, Lipeng Wan*, Tianbao Yu, Spin–orbit interactions of twisted random light, APL Photonics 10, 046119 (2025).

6.      Yonglei Liu, Siyu Xu, Peipei Peng, Yongtao Zhang, Siting Dai, Yahong Chen*, Yangjian Cai*, Fei Wang*, Observation of higher-order deterministic optical vortices from random vortex beams, APL Photonics 10, 046118 (2025).

7.      Xinlu Zhu, Xiangyun Li, Zhen Dong, Fei Wang, Lin Liu, Andreas Norrman, Tero Setälä, Yangjian Cai, Yahong Chen, Directional difference of the spin angular-momentum density and spin vectors in tightly focused bichromatic optical Lissajous beams, Physical Review A 109(04), 043503 (2024).

8.      Bo Yuan, Zhen Dong, Yonglei Liu, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Yahong Chen, Robust high-order polarization arrays via vectorial spatial-coherence engineering, Physical Review Applied 20, 054031 (2023).

9.      Chencheng Yan, Xiangyun Li, Yangjian Cai, and Yahong Chen, Three-dimensional polarization state and spin structure of a tightly focused radially polarized Gaussian Schell-model beam, Physical Review A 106, 063522 (2022).

10.  Zhen Dong, Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Ari T. Friberg, and Tero Setälä, Encoding Higher-Order Polarization States into Robust Partially Coherent Optical Beams, Physical Review Applied 18, 034036 (2022).

11.  Yonglei Liu, Xuan Zhang, Zhen Dong, Deming Peng, Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang*, and Yangjian Cai*, Robust far-field optical image transmission with structured random light beams, Physical Review Applied 17, 024043 (2022).

12.  Xuan Zhang, Yonglei Liu, Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang*, Yangjian Cai*, Noncentrosymmetric far-zone spectral density induced by light scattering with random media having parity-time symmetry, Physical Review A 105, 023510 (2022).

13.  Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang, Zhen Dong, Yangjian Cai*, Andreas Norrman, José J. Gil, Ari T. Friberg, and Tero Setälä*, Structure of transverse spin in focused random light, Physical Review A 104, 013516 (2021).

14.  Yahong Chen*, Andreas Norrman, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, and Ari T. Friberg, Spin density in partially coherent surface-plasmon-polariton vortex fields, Physical Review A 103, 063511 (2021).

15.  Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang, Zhen Dong, Yangjian Cai*, Andreas Norrman, José J. Gil, Ari T. Friberg, and Tero Setälä*, Polarimetric dimension and nonregularity of tightly focused light beams, Physical Review A 101, 053825 (2020).

16.  Zhaofeng Huang, Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang*, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, and Yangjian Cai*, Measuring complex degree of coherence of random light fields with generalized Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment, Physical Review Applied 13, 044042 (2020).

17.  Yahong Chen*, Andreas Norrman, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Ari T. Friberg, Partially coherent surface plasmon polariton vortex fields, Physical Review A 100, 053833 (2019).

18.  Yahong Chen*, Andreas Norrman, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Ari T. Friberg, Partially coherent axiconic surface plasmon polariton fields, Physical Review A 97, 041801(R) (2018).

19.  Yahong Chen, Jiaxin Gu, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai*, Self-splitting properties of a Hermite-Gaussian correlated Schell-model beam, Physical Review A 91, 013823 (2015).

20.  Yahong Chen, Fei Wang*, Lin Liu, Chengliang Zhao, Yangjian Cai*, Olga Korotkova, Generation and propagation of a partially coherent vector beam with special correlation functions, Physical Review A 89, 013801 (2014).

21.  Yakun Wang; Kexin Gu; Zhen Dong; Fei Wang*; Yahong Chen*; Yangjian Cai*, Yonglei Liu*, Generation of partially coherent full Poincaré beam arrays and their Stokes scintillations in turbulent media, Applied Physics Letters 125, 171102 (2024).

22.  Weihao Li, Dan Wu, Yahong Chen, Yangjian Cai*, Olga Korotkova*, Fei Wang*, Sensing azimuthally symmetric objects by a single-pixel detector via COAM matrix, Applied Physics Letters 122, 251106 (2023).

23.  Zhen Dong, Yimeng Zhu, Yonglei Liu, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai*, Tero Setälä*, and Yahong Chen*, Compact generation of light beams carrying robust higher-order Poincaré polarization states, Applied Physics Letters 122, 221101 (2023).

24.  Yonglei Liu, Zhen Dong, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai*, and Yahong Chen*, Experimental synthesis of higher-order Poincaré sphere beam array with spatial coherence engineering, Applied Physics Letters 122, 161106 (2023).

25.  Yuechen Shen, Hu Sun, Deming Peng, Yahong Chen*, Qilin Cai*, Dan Wu*, Fei Wang*, Yangjian Cai*, and Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Optical image reconstruction in 4f imaging system: Role of spatial coherence structure engineering, Applied Physics Letters 118, 181102 (2021).

26.  Xinlei Zhu, Jiayi Yu*, Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang*, Olga Korotkova, and Yangjian Cai*, Experimental synthesis of random light sources with circular coherence by digital micro-mirror device, Applied Physics Letters 117, 121102 (2020). 

27.  Yahong Chen, Sergey A. Ponomarenko*, Yangjian Cai*, Experimental generation of optical coherence lattices, Applied Physics Letters 109, 061107 (2016).

28.  Weihao Li, Yonglei Liu, Yahong Chen, Yangjian Cai, Olga Korotkova, Fei Wang, Fast measurement of coherence–orbital angular momentum matrices of random light beams using off-axis holography and coordinate transformation, Optics Letters 49, 1173-1176 (2024).

29.  Xiangyun Li, Xinlu Zhu, Lin Liu, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, and Yahong Chen*, Generation of optical 3D unpolarized lattices in a tightly focused random beam, Optics Letters 48, 3829-3832 (2023).

30.  Yonglei Liu, Zhen Dong, Fei Wang, Yahong Chen*, and Yangjian Cai, Generation of a higher-order Poincaré sphere beam array with spatial coherence engineering, Optics Letters 47, 5220-5223 (2022).

31.  Zhaohui Yang, Haiyun Wang, Yahong Chen, Fei Wang*, Gerg Gbur, Olga Korotkova, and Yangjian Cai, Measurement of the coherence-orbital angular momentum matrix of a partially coherent beam, Optics Letters 47(17), 4467-4470 (2022). 

32.  Yimeng Zhu, Zhen Dong, Fei Wang, Yahong Chen*, and Yangjian Cai*, Compact generation of robust Airy beam pattern with spatial coherence engineering, Optics Letters 47, 2846-2849 (2022).

33.  Fei Wang, Zhaohui Yang, Yahong Chen, Olga Korotkova*, and Yangjian Cai*, Coherence–orbital angular momentum matrix of Schell-model sources, Optics Letters 47, 2826-2829 (2022). 

34.  Xinlei Zhu, Jiayi Yu, Fei Wang*, Yahong Chen*, Yangjian Cai*, and Olga Korotkova, Synthesis of vector nonuniformly correlated light beams by a single digital mirror device, Optics Letters 46, 2996-2999 (2021).

35.  Han Lv, Tong Zhou, Fei Wang*, Yahong Chen*, Yangjian Cai*, and Olga Korotkova, Young’s interference experiment for generating light with non-uniform coherence states, Optics Letters 46, 693-696 (2021). 

36.  Xinlei Zhu, Hainan Yao, Jiayi Yu, Greg Gbur, Fei Wang*, Yahong Chen*, and Yangjian Cai*, Inverse design of a spatial filter in edge enhanced imaging, Optics Letters 45, 2542-2545 (2020). 

37.  Yahong Chen*, Andreas Norrman, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Ari T. Friberg, Coherence lattices in surface plasmon polariton fields, Optics Letters 43, 3429-3432 (2018).

38.  Haidan Mao, Yahong Chen*, Sergey A. Ponomarenko*, Ari T. Friberg, Coherent pseudo-mode representation of partially coherent surface plasmon polaritons, Optics Letters 43 (6), 1395-1398 (2018).

39.  Yahong Chen*, Andreas Norrman, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Ari T. Friberg, Plasmon coherence determination by nanoscattering, Optics Letters 42, 3279-3282 (2017).

40.  Xianlong Liu, Fei Wang, Lin Liu, Yahong Chen, Yangjian Cai*, Sergey A. Ponomarenko*, Complex degree of coherence measurement for classical statistical fields, Optics Letters 42 (1), 77-80 (2017).

41.  Yahong Chen, Yangjian Cai*, Generation of a controllable optical cage by focusing a Laguerre–Gaussian correlated Schell-model beam, Optics Letters 39, 2549-2552 (2014).

42.  Yonglei Liu, Zhen Dong, Yimeng Zhu, Haiyun Wang, Fei Wang*, Yahong Chen*, Yangjian Cai*, Three-channel robust optical encryption via engineering coherence Stokes vector of partially coherent light, PhotoniX 5, 8 (2024).

43.  Deming Peng, Zhaofeng Huang, Yonglei Liu, Yahong Chen*, Fei Wang*, Sergey A. Ponomarenko*, and Yangjian Cai*, Optical coherence encryption with structured random light, PhotoniX 2, 6 (2021).

44.  Yonglei Liu, Siting Dai, Yimeng Zhu, Yahong Chen, Peipei Peng, Yangjian Cai, Fei Wang, Full-dimensional complex coherence properties tomography for multi-cipher information security, Opto-Electronic Advances 8, 240278 (2025).

45.  Yonglei Liu, Yahong Chen, Fei Wang*, Yangjian Cai*, Chunhao Liang*, and Olga Korotkova, Robust far-field imaging by spatial coherence engineering, Opto-Electronic Advances 4, 210027 (2021).

Patent

06. Yahong Chen, Zhen Dong, Xi Sun, Shilei Tan, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Method and system for generating a robust higher-order Poincaré sphere polarization state, United States Patent, US12326621B2, 2025-06-10 Application granted

05. Yahong Chen, Zhen Dong, Xi Sun, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Method and system for generating polarized propagation-invariant light field, United States Patent, US12292579B2, 2025-05-06 Application granted

04. Yahong Chen, Deming Peng, Yonglei Liu, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Optical imaging system and method based on random light field spatial structure engineering, United States Patent, US12203845B2, 2025-01-21 Application granted

03. Yahong Chen, Deming Peng, Yuechen Shen, Hu Sun, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Optical imaging system and imaging method regulated based on spatial coherence structure, United States Patent, US12025429B2, 2024-07-02 Application granted

02. Yahong Chen, Chencheng Yan, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Method for rapidly calculating three-dimensional polarimetric dimension, device, and storage medium, United States Patent, US11853386B1, 2023-12-26 Application granted

01. Yahong Chen, Zhaofeng Huang, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai, Method for measuring complex degree of coherence of random optical field by using mutual intensity-intensity correlation, US11366017B2, United States Patent, 2022-06-21, Application granted

2017.08 to 2020.02, University of Eastern Finland, PhD. 

Thesis: Partially coherent surface plasmon polariton fields.

Supervised by Prof. Ari T. Friberg and Prof. Sergey A. Ponomarenko. 

http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-61-3331-7 

2013.09 to 2018.06, Soochow University, PhD.

Thesis: Spatial coherence engineering and applications of partially coherent light beams.

Supervised by Prof. Yangjian Cai.

2009.09 to 2013.06, Soochow University, Bachelor 

Optical coherence;

Partially coherent beam;

Structured light;

Electromagnetic coherence;

Surface waves;

Surface plasmon polaritons;

Random light;

Spatial coherence engineering;

Coherence measurement;

Light propagation through complex media;

Light scattering;

Optical imaging;

Optical trapping;

Light polarization;

Vector beam;

Beam shaping;

Optical communications;

Spring term: Advanced Optics (for graduate students), Soochow University;

Autumn term: Electromagnetism (for undergraduate students), Soochow University;