Fiber grating sensors, sensing fiber optic cables, microstructured optical fiber devices, and distributed fiber optic sensing systems

1. 2020-present, Distributed Fiber Optic Hydrophone System, a major project supported by Zhejiang Lab; core project member and sub-project director

2. 07/2019-12/2020, Fundamental Research Platform for the Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, a Zhejiang Lab Facility Construction Project; project director

3. 11/2019-10/2021, New Flexible Haptic Sensor Based on Cross-Scale and Bimodal Sensing, a Zhejiang Lab Open Research Project; project member

4. 01/2017-12/2019, Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser Based on Visible Light Emitted Quantum Dots, supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China; project director

5. 01/2019-12/2021, Intelligent Monitoring and Feedback on Temperature Field in Laser Ablation of Tumors, supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation; project director

6. 05/2015-06/2016, Fiber-Type Terahertz System and Its Application in Tobacco Classification and Detection, funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; project director

7. 01/2014-12/2014, Laser Ultrasonic Sensing, supported by the Special Fund for Scientific Development at Universities Governed by Ministries and Commissions of the State Council of China; core project member

Dr. YAN has published more than 30 papers in international academic journals such as Optics Letters, Sensors and Actuators B, and Advanced Optical Materials., with more than 600 citations. He has also published over 20 conference papers, with two Best Paper Awards and two invited talks. He has been granted four invention patents, with three other patents in substantive disclosure. 

Selected Works：

1. Teng Tan, Zhongye Yuan, Hao Zhang, Guofeng Yan, Siyu Zhou, Ning An, Bo Peng, Giancarlo Soavi, Yunjiang Rao, and Baicheng Ya, “Multispecies and individual gas molecule detection using Stokes solitons in a graphene over-modal microresonator,” Nature Communications，12, 6716，2021
2. X. Yang, C. Gong, C. Zhang, Y. Wang, G. Yan, L. Wei, Y. Chen, Y. J. Rao, Y. Gong, A Review of Fiber Optofluidic Microlasers: Structures, Characteristics and Applications, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 10.1002/lpor.202100171, 2021.
3. Alok Kumar,Cong Wang, Fan-Yi Meng, Zhong-Liang Zhou, Meng Zhao, Guo-Feng Yan, Eun-Seong Kim, and Nam-Young Kim, “High-Sensitivity, Quantified, Linear and Mediator-Free Resonator-Based Microwave Biosensor for Glucose Detection,”Sensors,20(14),402,2020.
4. Alok Kumar, Cong Wang, Fan-Yi Meng, Cheng-Peng Jiang, Guo-Feng Yan, Meng Zhao, Chang-Qiang Jing, and Lei Wang, “Ultrafast Detection and Discrimination of Methanol Gas Using a Polyindole-Embedded Substrate Integrated Waveguide Microwave Sensor,” ACS Sensors, 5(12),3939-3948,2020.
5. Siqi Hu, Guofeng Yan*，Chunzhou Wu, and Sailing He, “Ethanol Vapor Sensor Based on a Microfiber with Quantum-Dots Gel Coating,” Sensors, 19(2), 300, 2019.
6. Wangyu, Guofeng Yan*, Zhenggang Lian, Chunzhou Wu, and Sailing He, “Liquid-level sensing based on a hollow core Bragg fiber,” Optics Express, 26, 21656-21663, 2018.
7. Ying Li, Guofeng Yan*, and Saling He, “Thin-core fiber sandwiched photonic crystal fiber modal interferometer for temperature and refractive index sensing,” IEEE Sensor Journal, 18, 6627-6632, 2018.
8. Chengliang Wang†, Guofeng Yan†*, Zhenggang Lian, Xiang Chen, Shengnan Wu, and Sailing He, “Hybrid-cavity Fabry-Perot interferometer for multi-point relative humidity and temperature sensing,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 255, 1937-1944, 2018.
9. LI Ying, YAN Guo-feng, WANG Yu, HUANG Yu-xin, DU Jian-xiang, XIE Li-juan, HE Sai-ling. Classification of Tobacco Aroma Based on Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy, Journal of Zhejiang University (Engineering Science), 52(3), 537-542, 2018.

10. Hongzhi chen, Guofeng Yan, and Sailing He, “Terahertz Polarization Splitter Based on Total and Partial Coupling in Dual Slotted-Core Polymer Fiber: Comparison and Analysis,” Photonics Journal, , 2017.
11. Hongzhi chen, Guofeng Yan, Erik Forsberg*, and Sailing He “Terahertz polarization splitter based on a dual-elliptical-core polymer fiber,” Applied Optics, 55(23): 6236-6242, 2016.
12. Shengnan Wu, Guofeng Yan*, Chengliang Wang, Zhenggang Lian, Xiang Chen, and Sailing He, “FBG Incorporated Side-open Fabry-Perot Cavity for Simultaneous Gas Pressure and Temperature Measurements,” Journal of Lightwave technology, 34(16): 3761-3767, 2016.
13. Shengnan Wu, Guofeng Yan*, Zhenggang Lian, Zhenggang Lian, Xiang Chen, Bin Zhou, and Sailing He, “An Open-cavity Fabry-Perot Interferometer with PVA coating for Simultaneous Measurement of Relative Humidity and Temperature,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 225: 50-56, 2016.
14. Guofeng Yan*, Liang Zhang and Sailing He, “Simultaneous measurement of magnetic field and temperature based on an etched TCFMI cascaded with an FBG,” Optics Communications, 364: 150-157, 2016.
15. Shengnan Wu, Guofeng Yan*, Bin Zhou, El-hang Lee, and Sailing He, “Open-Cavity Fabry-Perot Interferometer Based on Etched Side-Hole Fiber for Microfluidic Sensing,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27(17): 1813 - 1816, 2015.
16. Guofeng Yan*, Yanhong Liang, EI-hang Lee, and Sailing He, “Novel Knob-integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor with polyvinyl alcohol coating for simultaneous relative humidity and temperature measurement”, Optics Express, 23(12): 15624-15634, 2015.
17. Ying Li, Guofeng Yan*, Liang Zhang, and Saling He, “Microfluidic flowmeter based on micro “hot-wire” sandwiched Fabry-Perot interferometer,” Optics Express, 23(7): 9483-9493, 2015.
18. Yebin Zhang, Guofeng Yan*, Bin Zhou, El-hang Lee, and Sailing He, “Reflective Optical Fiber Refractometer Based on Long-Period Grating Tailored Active Bragg Grating,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27(11): 1173-1176, 2015.
19. Hichem Guerboukha*, Guofeng Yan*, Olga Skorobogata, and Maksim Skorobogatiy, “Silk Based Terahertz Waveguides,” Advanced Optical Materials, 2, 1181-1192 (2014).
20. H.Qu, G. F. Yan and M. Skorobogatiy, “Interferometric fiber-optic bending / nano-displacement sensor using plastic dual-core fiber,” Optics Letters, 39, 4835-4838, 2014.
21. Guofeng Yan, Andrey Markov, Yasser Chinifooroshan, Saurabh M Tripathi, Wojtek J Bock, Maksim Skorobogatiy, “Resonant THz sensor for paper quality monitoring using THz fiber Bragg gratings,” Optics Letters, 38, 2200-2202, 2013.
22. Guofeng Yan, Andrey Markov, Yasser Chinifooroshan, Saurabh M Tripathi, Wojtek J Bock, Maksim Skorobogatiy, “Low-Loss THz Waveguide Bragg Grating using a Two-Wire Waveguide and a Paper Grating,” Optics Letters, vol. 38, 3089–3092, 2013.
23. Guofeng Yan, A. Ping Zhang，Guiying Ma, Binhao Wang, Bongkyun Kim, Jooeun Im,Sailing He and Youngjoo Chung, “Fiber-Optic Acetylene Gas Sensor Based on Microstructured Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 23, 1588-1560, 2011.
24. Yuan Fei, Guofeng Yan, and Yebin Zhang, “Reflective fiber refractometer based on fiber Bragg grating inscribed in thin-core fiber,” IEEE Optical and Quantum Electronics, DOI 10.1007/s11082-014-0069-y, 2014.
25. A. Ping Zhang, Guofeng Yan, Shaorui Gao, Sailing He, Bongkyun Kim, Jooeun Im, and Youngjoo Chung, “Microfluidic refractive-index sensors based on small-hole microstructured optical fiber Bragg gratings,” Applied Physics Letters, 98, 221109, 2011.
26. Yinbing Bai, A. Ping Zhang, Guofeng Yan, and Sailing He, “Selective excitation and coupling of high order optical modes of a microstructured optical fiber by using a fiber-end microtip,” Optics Letters, 36, 4074-4076, 2011. (5 citations)
27. AP Zhang, S Gao, G Yan, Y Bai, “Advances in optical fiber Bragg grating sensor technologies,” Photonic Sensors, 2(1), 1-13, 2012.