Northwestern University Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing

Siyuan Shi

Siyuan

Siyuan graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He enrolled in the department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University in 2011.

Research:

Currently working on photon-pair generation in biological molecules.

Publications:

  1. S. Shi, A. Thomas, N. V. Corzo, P. Kumar, Y.-P. Huang, and K. F. Lee,  “Broadband photon pair generation in green fluorescent proteins through spontaneous four-wave mixing,” Sci. Rep. 6, 24344 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24344

  2. S. Shi, A. Thomas, N. V. Corzo, P. Kumar, Y.-P. Huang and K. F. Lee, "Generation of photon pairs in green fluorescent protein," paper FW1C.3, Frontiers in Optics (2014) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2014-FW1C.3

  3. A. Thomas, S. Shi, N. V. Corzo, J. B. Altepeter, Y. Huang, and P. Kumar, “Biological source of correlated photon pairs.” in CLEO: 2014,  OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper JW2A-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JW2A.110

  4. A. Thomas, Y. Huang, T. M. Rambo, S. Shi, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, “Direct measurement of third-order nonlinearity of green fluorescent protein” in CLEO: 2013, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper JW2A-01. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2013.JW2A.01

Contact:

Student office: M346
Phone: 847-467-2261
Email: siyuanshi2016 AT u.northwestern.edu