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Photonics Research Laboratory

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Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Advance Materials Engineering Research Institute

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Currents research interests focus on the interactions between ultrashort laser pulses and materials.  As the laser pulse duration is approaching to the order of femtosecond (1 fs = 10^-15 s),  extremely high laser power and intensity can be reached.  The strong laser radiation or electromagnetic field interacts with molecules in materials and biological cells to exhibit very unique nonlinear behavior, such as multiphoton excitation, self-phase modulation, and optical breakdown.  Very broad applications using ultrafast fs lasers have been presented amongst contemporary technology.  Examples include two-photon biomedical imaging, harmonic generation imaging, human disease diagnosis, ultrafast laser materials processing, novel materials synthesis, and high precision laser surgery.

In addition, laser at low intensity interacts less stronger with matters; therefore, low-power CW (continuous wave) lasers are good tools for measurement.  Several laser-based high-precision measurement on liquid thermal-physical properties has been conducted over past few years with very promising results presented. Please feel free to browse the webpage and download the published paper related to my research.  Should you have questions or comments, please e-mail me.  Thank you.

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• Ph.D. dissertation: Thermal Aspects of Laser-Based Measurement and Ultrafast Laser Processing of Dielectric Materials. 

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• Master thesis: Laser-Based Measurement of Liquid Refractive Index, Concentration, and Temperature.  

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•  Book Chapter

  1. "Radiative Energy Transport at the Microscale," Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale and Nanoscale Structures, Developments in Heat Transfer Series, WIT Press, Southampton, UK. 

• Refereed Journal Publications

  9. Simultaneous two-photon spectral and lifetime fluorescence microscopy (published in Applied Optics, Vol. 43, No. 27, pp. 5173¡V5182, 2004).

  8. Analysis of Histology Specimens using Lifetime Multiphoton Microscopy (published in Journal of Biomedical Optics, Special Issues on Multiphoton Microscopy, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 376¡V380, 2003).

  7. Plasma Absorption of Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Dielectrics (published in Journal of  Heat Transfer, Special Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 124, No. 2, 275¡V283, 2002).

  6. Breakdown Threshold and Localized Electron Density in Water induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses  (published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 91, No. 4, pp. 2530¡V2536, 2002).

  5. Modeling Optical Breakdown in Dielectrics during Ultrafast Laser Processing  (published in Applied Optics., Vol. 40, No.18,  pp. 3124¡V3131, 2001).

  4. Laser-Based Measurement of Temperature or Concentration Change at Liquid Surfaces ( published in Journal of  Heat Transfer, Vol. 122, No. 4, pp.757¡V762, 2000).

  3. Real-Time Precision Concentration Measurement for Flowing Liquid Solutions (published in Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 71, No. 10, pp. 3864¡V3868, 2000).

  2. Novel Laser-Based Measurement of Liquid Temperature or Concentration at a Solid Liquid Interface (published in Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 23, No. 1¡V2, pp. 1¡V9, 2000).

  1. Precision Laser-Based Concentration and Refractive Index Measurement of Liquids (published in Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2,  pp.261¡V272, 1998).

• Refereed Conference Proceedings 

  9. Extra Information Extracted from Histological Specimens via Spectral and Lifetime Detection in Conjunction with Multiphoton Excitation, presented in Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 19¡V25, 2002.

  8. Localized Electron Evolution Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Water, presented in 2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New York, NY, November 11¡V16, 2001.

  7. Micromaching of Vias through Thermal-Sprayed Multilayer Structures Using Ultrafast Lasers, presented in  2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New York, NY, November 11¡V16, 2001.

  6. Time- and Space-Resolved Plasma Absorption of a Femtosecond Laser Pulse in Dielectrics, presented in 35th National Heat Transfer Conference, Anaheim, California, June 10¡V12, 2001.

  5. Laser Processing of Thermal Spray Patterns Using Femtosecond Pulses, presented in 35th National Heat Transfer Conference, Anaheim, California, June 10¡V12, 2001.

  4. Modeling of Moving Breakdown by a Femtosecond Laser Pulse in Material Ablation Processes, presented in 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, November 5-10, 2000, HTD Vol. 3, pp.187¡V194.

  3. High-Resolution, Laser-Based Measurement of the Solid-Interface Interface Temperature Change at a Transparent Solid Medium, presented in  Heat and Mass Transfer 2000, Proceedings of the Fourth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and Fifteen National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Pune, India, January 12-14, 2000, Vol. 4, pp.119¡V123.

  2. Laser-Based Temperature Measurement at a Liquid Surface, presented in the 11th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyongju, Korea, August 23-28, 1998, Vol. 4, pp.119¡V123.

  1. The Effect of Buoyancy on Laminar Air Flow Past a Rectangular Cavity, presented in the 6th International Symposium of Transport Phenomena in Thermal Engineering, Seoul, Korea, May 9-13, 1993, Vol. IV, pp.89¡V94.

Professor Dennis Fan

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Florida International University

EAS 3466

Miami FL 33174

e-mail: dfan@fiu.edu

Tel: 305-348-4027 Fax: 305-348-1932