Professor Zhang Yaping is a professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He is a special expert in the 'Zhejiang Thousand People' 2014 and Quancheng 5150 in 2017. She has more than 30 years of experience in research and commercial product development at leading domestic and international universities, research institutes and optical chip multinationals. Significant achievements have been made with semiconductor laser devices and subsystems in the field of optical sensing.
Under the support of Zhejiang Qianren Plan and Hangzhou Xihu District 325 Entrepreneurship Project, Professor Zhang and his team successfully commercialized the tunable laser optical chip in 2016, filling the gap in China's high-end optical chip commercial development. Its technical indicators exceed the advanced level of international similar products, and was selected as the top ten optical industry technologies in 2016.
In response to China's 5G construction and metropolitan area network upgrade, Professor Zhang Yaping's team added RF modulator function to the tunable laser chip, integrating the tunable laser wavelength tuning function and the RF modulator function, directly on the tunable laser chip. RF loading 10G rate-level modulation. This technology can be applied to signal backhaul applications on 5G mobile network towers and metropolitan area network wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology, which can greatly increase the amplitude by more than tens of times. Improve the speed of existing 4G mobile networks and metropolitan area networks.
In layman's terms, the tunable laser chip and optical module developed by Professor Zhang's team can realize multi-channel parallel transmission in optical networks in 5G mobile network and metropolitan area network/fiber-to-home, effectively solving the problems encountered by users during the Internet access. Waiting for the serious Internet delay caused by the allocation of time-division multiplex system. 'The current residential Internet mode is better than the multi-lane highway, but the vehicle can only be queued in sequence on one channel. The tunable laser chip It enables the car to drive in parallel on multiple lanes, speeding up the speed of the network, and improving the security level by changing the wavelength or frequency to achieve secure communication. Professor Zhang Yaping explained.
At present, Professor Zhang is developing and producing RF direct-tuning tunable lasers and full C-band tunable lasers. He is customizing 5G applications for China Unicom, Huawei, Hisense Multimedia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Google and many sensor companies. , metropolitan area network upgrades, defense applications, data center remote applications, and a range of optical sensing applications, offering trials by the end of this year. It is expected to achieve small-scale commercial applications in 2019 and large-scale commercial applications by 2020. So as to achieve zero breakthrough in large-scale commercial application of high-end optical chips in China.
The 'Scientific Chinese Person of the Year' selection began in 2002 and has selected many famous scientists and entrepreneurs such as Yuan Longping, Yang Zhenning, Tu Yu, Shi Yigong, Li Yanhong, etc. This year's annual selection of people is 'innovative, transformative, Responsibility' is the selection criteria, after the candidate collection, formal review, third-party review, online publicity, expert final review, awards ceremony six stages. Finally, selected more than 200 areas of civil engineering and construction, electronic engineering, materials science, etc. The winners. At present, the 'Scientific Chinese Person of the Year' has become an award of professional quality and important influence in the Chinese scientific and technological community. It is worth mentioning that the president of the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, was also in 2004 and 2013 respectively. Receive 'People of the Year' and 'Outstanding University President Award'.