Recent News:
ECE team awarded Canadian patent for optical fiber sensor (Aug. 2012)
Yizheng Zhu joins ECE (Aug. 2012)
Office: 303 Collegiate Square
Mailing Address: 302 Whittemore (0111)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Tel: (540) 231-1973
Fax: (540) 231-3362
vt.edu Email: yizhu1
Affiliated Research Group
Center for Photonics Technology
Title: Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2007
M.S., Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2000
B.S., Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1998
Teaching Interests:
Optics and photonics, electromagnetics, optical microscopy, biomedical optics, fiber optics, optical waveguides.
Research Interests:
Optical coherence imaging, quantitative phase/polarization microscopy, biomedical interferometry, optical nanometrology, optical biosensing.
- M. Rinehart, Y. Zhu, and A. Wax, “Quantitative phase spectroscopy,” Biomedical Optics Express, pp. 958-65, 2012.
- Y. Zhu, N. Terry, and A. Wax, “Angle-resolved low coherence interferometry: an optical biopsy technique for clinical detection of dysplasia in Barrett’s esophagus,” Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 6, pp. 37-41, 2012.
- Y.Zhu, N. Shaked, L. Satterwhite, and A. Wax, “Spectral-domain differential interference contrast microscopy,” Optics Letters, vol. 36, pp. 430-2, 2011.
- N. Terry, Y. Zhu, M. Rinehart, etc., “Detection of dysplasia in Barrett’s esophagus with in vivo depth-resolved nuclear morphology measurements,” Gastroenterology, vol. 140, pp. 42-50, 2011.
- Y. Zhu, N. Terry, J. Woosley, N. Shaheen, and A. Wax, “Design and validation of an angle-resolved low coherence interferometry fiber probe for in vivo clinical measurements of depth-resolved nuclear morphology,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 16, pp. 011003, 2011.
- Y.Zhu, M. Giacomelli, and A. Wax, “Fiber-optic interferometric two-dimensional scattering measurement system,” Optics Letters, vol. 35, pp. 1641-3, 2010.
- N. Shaked, Y. Zhu, N. Badie, N. Bursac, and A. Wax, “Reflective interferometric chamber for quantitative phase imaging of biological sample dynamics,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 15, pp. 030503, 2010.
- Y. Zhu, X. Chen, and A. Wang, “Observation of interference in a fiber taper interferometer with a subwavelength tip and its sensing applications,” Optics Letters, vol. 34, pp. 2808-10, 2009.
- Y. Zhu, N. Terry, and A. Wax, “Scanning fiber angle-resolved low coherence interferometry,” Optics Letters, vol. 34, pp. 3196-8, 2009.
- N. Shaked, Y. Zhu, M. Rinehart, and A. Wax, “Two-step-only phase-shifting interferometry with optimized detector bandwidth for microscopy of live cells,” Optics Express, vol. 17, pp. 15585-91, 2009.