Shu Jia

Department of Electrical Engineering, Phone: (609)258-9729

Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton University, Email: sjia@princeton.edu

Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A. www.princeton.edu/~sjia

Education

• 2005 - Present Princeton University, U.S.A

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2007

Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering

Advisor : Prof. Jason W. Fleischer

• 2001 – 2005 Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

B.S. in Electrical Engineering,

Advisor : Prof. Jiangde Peng

Research Projects

• Optical hydrodynamics

- Dispersive optical shock waves

- All-optical fluid instabilities, Rayleigh-Taylor instability and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

• Nonlinear beam propagation in optical waveguide arrays

- Rotating waveguide arrays - Fractal waveguide arrays - Lattice shockwave

• Spatial beam formation

- Spatial supercontinuum generation - Airy beam propagation

• Nonlinear wave mixing

- Forward four-wave mixing - Nonlinear wave condensation

Research and Teaching Experiences

• Graduate Researcher

Fleischer Group, Princeton University (Jan 2006 - Present)

Perform fundamental and applied research in nonlinear optics.

• Teaching Assistant

ELE301 Circuits and Signal Processing (Fall 2006)

ELE352 Physical Optics (Spring 2008, Nominated for Best Teaching Award)

Honors and Awards

• Best Paper Award and Travel Grant, IMACS, 2009

• Best Paper Award, Frontiers in Optics, 2008

• Princeton Graduate Fellowship 2005

• Outstanding Academic Performance Scholarship, Tsinghua Univ. (2001-2005)

Journal Publications

Shu Jia and Jason W. Fleischer,

Nonlinear Light Propagation in Fractal Waveguide Arrays, in preparation

Shu Jia, Joyce Lee, Georgios A. Siviloglou, Demetrios N. Christodoulides and Jason W. Fleischer

Nonlinear Airy Beams in Unbiased Photorefractive Media, in preparation

Shu Jia and Jason W. Fleischer,

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Nonlinear Optics, submitted

Shu Jia, Laura Huntley and Jason W. Fleischer,

Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Nonlinear Optics, in preparation

Shu Jia and Jason W. Fleischer,

Nonlinear Light Propagation in Rotating Waveguide Arrays,

Physical Review A, 79, 041804 (2009)

Shu Jia, Wenjie Wan and Jason W. Fleischer,

Dispersive Shock Waves in Nonlinear Arrays

Physical Review Letters 99, 223901 (2007)

Wenjie Wan, Shu Jia and Jason W. Fleischer,

Dispersive Superfluid-like Shock Waves in Nonlinear Optics

Nature Physics 3, 46 (2007)

Shu Jia, Wenjie Wan and Jason W. Fleischer,

Forward Four-wave Mixing with Defocusing Nonlinearity

Optics Letters 32, 1668 (2007)

Yi Ni, Lei Zhang, Shu Jia and Jiangde Peng

Dispersion of square solid-core photonic bandgap fibers

Optics Express 12, 2825 (2004)

Yi Ni, Lei Zhang, Chong Gu, Shu Jia and Jiangde Peng,

A novel design for all-solid silica Bragg fiber with zero-dispersion wavelength at 1550 nm

Optics Express 12, 4602 (2004)

Selected Conference Presentations

S. Jia and J. W. Fleischer, Nonlinear Light Propagation in Fractal Waveguide Arrays

S. Jia, J. Lee, G. A. Siviloglou, J. W. Fleischer and D. N. Christodoulides, Airy Beam Propagation through

Unbiased Photorefractive Media

2009 CLEO, Baltimore, MD, USA

S. Jia and J. W. Fleischer, Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Nonlinear Schrödinger Flow

2009 IMACS, Athens, GA, USA (Best Paper Award)

S. Jia and J. W. Fleischer, Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Nonlinear Optics

2008 Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY, USA (Best Paper Award)

S. Jia and J. W. Fleischer, Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Rotating Waveguide Arrays

2008 CLEO, San Jose, CA, USA

S. Jia, W. Wan, J. W. Fleischer, Dispersive Shock Waves in Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays

S. Jia, W. Wan, J. W. Fleischer, Forward Four-wave Mixing in Defocusing Nonlinearity

2007 Nonlinear Photonics, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

W. Wan, S. Jia, J. W. Fleischer, Dispersive Shock Waves in Nonlinear Optics

2007 CLEO, Baltimore, MD, USA