Dr. Chengli Wei

Associate Professor
College of Humanities and Sciences

cwei@umhb.edu
Davidson 107
UMHB Box 8008
(254) 295-5035
Curriculum Vitae (Résumé)

Chengli Wei received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Engineering, and Physics at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

For more information, please check my personal website: https://chengliwei.org/

Subjects Taught
ENGR 1310: Introduction to Engineering; ENGR 1320: Introduction to Engineering Fundamentals; ENGR 2301: The Effects of Climate Change; ENGR 3137: Digital Logic Design Laboratory; ENGR 3337: Digital Logic Design;ENGR 4320: System Dynamics and Control; ENGR 4330: Engineering Electromagnetics; ENGR 4380: Capstone Design I; ENGR 4381: Capstone Design II.
Degrees Earned
Ph.D. Baylor University, M.E. Nankai University (China), B.E. Tianjin University (China)
Research Interests

Specialty fibers, negative curvature optical fibers, chalcogenide glass optical fibers, photonic crystal fibers, mid-IR supercontinuum generation, nanophotonics, surface plasmon, 2-D materials, simulation, and modeling

Awards & Honors

  • UMHB faculty development grants (2019)
  • UMHB summer research award (2019)
  • Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed student study abroad (2018)[Representative of awardees]
  • Second place in student competition during Optical Society of America (OSA) annual meeting (2017)
  • Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges (2017)
  • Travel award in IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (2015)
  • Baylor travel award to professional meetings (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)

ARCHIVAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Goolge scholar, ORCID (0000-0003-1323-4079), and Web of Science ResearcherID (AAB-7180-2019)

  1. C. Wei, J. T. Young, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Temperature sensor based on liquid-filled negative curvature optical fibers,” OSA Continuum 2, 2123–2130 (2019).
  2. J. O. White, J. T. Young, C. Wei, J. Hu, and C. R. Menyuk, "Seeding fiber amplifiers with piecewise parabolic phase modulation for high SBS thresholds and compact spectra," Opt. Express 27, 2962-2974 (2019)
  3. C. Wei, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Geometry of chalcogenide negative curvature fibers for CO2 laser transmission,” Fibers 6, 74 (2018).
  4. C. Wei, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Polarization-filtering and polarization-maintaining low-loss negative curvature fibers,” Opt. Express 26, 9528–9540 (2018). [Media coverage: Advances in Engineering, Dec. 24, 2018 ]
  5. C. Wei, J. Weiblen, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Negative curvature fibers,” Adv. Opt. Photonics 9, 504–561 (2017). (Impact factor: 21.3) [Most cited AOP paper 2017]
  6. C. Wei, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Comparison of loss in silica and chalcogenide negative curvature fibers as the wavelength varies”, Front. Phys. 4, 30 (2016).
  7. C. Wei, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Impact of cladding tubes in chalcogenide negative curvature fibers”, IEEE Photon. J. 8, 2200509 (2016).
  8. C. Wei, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Bending-induced mode non-degeneracy and coupling in chalcogenide negative curvature fibers,” Opt. Express 24, 12228–12239 (2016).
  9. Z. Zhu, J. Yuan, H. Zhou, J. Hu, J. Zhang, C. Wei, F. Yu, S. Chen, Y. Lan, Y. Yang, Y. Wang, C. Niu, Z. Ren, J. Lou, Z. Wang, and J. Bao, “Excitonic resonant emission absorption of surface plasmon in transition metal dichalcogenides for chip-level electronic photonic integrated circuits,” ACS Photonics 3, 869–874 (2016). [Media coverage: Laser Focus World Aug. 10, 2016]
  10. J. Hu, C. R. Menyuk, C. Wei, L. B. Shaw, J. S. Sanghera, and I. D. Aggarwal, “Highly efficient cascaded amplification using Pr3+-doped mid-infrared chalcogenide fiber amplifiers,” Opt. Lett. 40, 3687–3690 (2015).
  11. C. Wei, R. A. Kuis, F. Chenard, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Higher-order mode suppression in chalcogenide negative curvature fibers,” Opt. Express 23, 15824–15832 (2015).
  12. S. Li, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, T. Han, Z. Wu, C. Wei, H. Wei, J. Li, and W. Tong, “Bending sensor based on intermodal interference properties of two-dimensional waveguide array fiber,” Opt. Lett. 37, 1610–1612 (2012).
  13. X. Zheng, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, T. Han, C. Wei, and J. Chen, “Transmission and temperature sensing characteristics of a selectively liquid-filled photonic-bandgap-fiber-based Sagnac interferometer,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 141104 (2012).

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. C. Wei, F. Chenard, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Negative curvature fibers for gas-filled fiber lasers”, in Sixth International Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF 2019), Vol. 11206 112060Q-1.
  2. C. Wei, J. T. Young, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, "Impact of the Glass Thickness in Fluid-Filled Negative Curvature Fibers for Temperature Sensing," in Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science APS/DLS, The Optical Society (Optical Society of America, 2019), paper JW4A.5.
  3. C. Wei, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, "Optimization of chalcogenide negative curvature fibers for CO2 Laser Transmission," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2019), paper JW2A.122.
  4. C. Wei, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Polarization-Filtering Negative Curvature Fibers,” in Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper JTu3A.1.
  5. J. Hu, C. Wei, R. J. Weiblen, C. R. Menyuk, R. R. Gattass, L. B. Shaw, J. S. Sanghera, and F. Chenard, “Recent progress on chalcogenide negative curvature fibers,” 2018 10th International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018, pp. 209–213.
  6. F. Han, J. Shi, C. Wei, J. Hu, and X. Feng, “Efficient Visible Femtosecond Supercontinuum from an Air-Suspended-Core Microstructured Optical Fiber,” in CLEO Pacific Rim Conference 2018, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper Tu3B.3.
  7. C. Wei, J. Young, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Temperature sensor using fluid-filled negative curvature fibers,” in Proc. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, paper JW2A.179 (2018).
  8. C. R. Menyuk, C. Wei, J. Weiblen, J. Hu, R. Gattass, L. B. Shaw, and J. S Sanghera, “Chalcogenide negative curvature fibers,” in Proc. SPIE 10435, Technologies for Optical Countermeasures XIV, 104350I (2017).
  9. C. Wei, C. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Bent negative curvature fibers using circular or elliptical cladding tubes,” in Frontiers in Optics (Optical Society of America, 2017), paper JW4A.9.
  10. C. Wei, C. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Higher-order mode suppression in chalcogenide negative curvature fibers with gaps between cladding tubes,” in Advanced Photonics 2016 (IPR, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, SOF), OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper JTu4A.32.
  11. J. Hu, C. R. Menyuk, C. Wei, B. Shaw, J. S. Sanghera, and I. Aggarwal, “Pr3+-doped mid-infrared chalcogenide fiber amplifiers using cascaded Amplification,” in Proc. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, paper STh1O.7 (2016).
  12. C. Wei, R. A. Kuis, F. Chenard, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Hu, “Mode coupling in chalcogenide negative curvature fibers,” in Proc. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, paper JTu5A.93 (2016).
  13. C. Wei, O. Alvarez, F. Chenard, and J. Hu, “Empirical glass thickness for chalcogenide negative curvature fibers,” in Proc. 2015 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, Mid Infrared Photonics, Nassau, Bahamas, paper TuE3.3 (2015).
  14. C. Wei, J. Hu, and C. Menyuk, “Bending-induced mode coupling in chalcogenide negative curvature fibers,” in Proc. Advanced Photonics, Boston, MA, paper NT2C.5 (2015).
  15. C. Wei, R. Kuis, F. Chenard, and J. Hu, “Chalcogenide negative curvature hollow-core photonic crystal fibers with low loss and low power ratio in the glass,” in Proc. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, paper SM1N.5 (2014).
  16. C. Wei, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, B. Liu, H. Zhang, and Y. Liu, “Coupling characteristics of a fluid-filled dual-core photonic crystal fiber based on temperature tuning”, in SPIE/OSA/IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics, pp. 83071R-83071R. International Society for Optics and Photonics (2011).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Membership in IEEE
  • Membership in IEEE Photonics Society
  • Membership in Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • Membership in ASEE

REVIEWER

  • OSA: Optics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of Optical Society of America B, Applied Optics
  • IEEE: IEEE Photonics Journal, IEEE Access, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Journal of Lightwave Technology (IEEE/OSA)
  • MDPI: Applied Sciences, Photonics, Micromachines, Chemosensors
  • Walter De Gruyter: Nanophotonics
  • Elsevier: Optics Communications, Optical Fiber Technology
  • Springer: Indian Journal of Physics