LIU Liang, Ph.D.

Update time: 2019-05-09


Professor and Director 
Phone: 86-21-69918358
Email:
liang.liu@siom.ac.cn

Research Focus
Cold atom physics, cold atom clock, space engineering and test of fundamental physics in space.

Education
[1] BS degree in physics from East China Normal University in 1982;
[2] MS degree in optical physics from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985;
[3] PhD degree in physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2000.
Honors & Achievements
[1] the Chief Designer of the payload Cold Atom Clock Experiment in Space (CACES), which was launched with Tiangong-2 space lab in September 15, 2016, and operated for more than two years in orbit since then.
[2] Group leader to develop a compact cold atom clock for GNSS.

Publications
Dr. Liu authored and co-authored more than 100 papers and numerous patents covering cold atom physics, cold atom clock, and space engineering.
[1] Liang Liu, Exploring the Universe with matter waves, Nature (News and Views article) 562(2018), 351;
[2] Lingke Wang, Junchao Huang, Yifei Duan, Liang Liu, and Tang Li, Photodetection system immune to amplitude-to-phase conversion noise for ultralow noise photonic microwave generation, Opt. Lett. 43(2018), 5122;
[3] Liang Liu, Desheng Lü, Weibiao Chen, Tang Li, Qiuzhi Qu, Bin Wang, Lin Li, Wei Ren, Zuoren Dong, Jianbo Zhao, Wenbing Xia, Xin Zhao, Jingwei Ji, Meifeng Ye, Yanguang Sun, Yuanyuan Yao, Dan Song, Zhaogang Liang, Shanjiang Hu, Dunhe Yu, Xia Hou, Wei Shi, Huaguo Zang, Jingfeng Xiang, Xiangkai Peng, Yuzhu Wang, In-orbit operation of an atomic clock based on laser-cooled 87Rb atoms, Nature Communications 9(2018), 2760;
[4] Yuan Sun, Chang Liu, Ping-Xing Chen, and Liang Liu, Polarization-induced interference within electromagnetically induced transparency for atoms of double-V linkage, Phys. Rev. A 97 (2018), 023815;
[5] Yaning Wang, Yanling Meng, Jinyin Wan, Mingyuan Yu, Xin Wang, Ling Xiao, Huadong Cheng, and Liang Liu, Optical-plus-microwave pumping in a magnetically insensitive state of cold atoms, Phys. Rev. A 97(2018), 023421;
[6] Lingke Wang, Junchao Huang, Liang Liu, And Tang Li, Low insertion loss optical pulse interleaving for ultra-low phase noise photonic microwave generation, Opt. Express 25(2017), 12161;
[7] Jing Dong, Junchao Huang, Tang Li, and Liang Liu, Observation of thermal noise in optical fibers down to infrasonic frequencies, Appl. Phys. Lett. 108(2016), 021108;
[8] Peng Liu, Huadong Cheng, Yanling Meng, Jinyin Wan, Ling Xiao, Xiumei Wang,Yaning Wang, Liang Liu, Improvement in medium long-term frequency stability of the integrating sphere cold atom clock, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(2016), 1439;
[9] Peng Liu, Yanling Meng, Jinyin Wan, Xiumei Wang, Yaning Wang, Ling Xiao, Huadong Cheng, Liang Liu, Reaching 5.0×10-13 τ-1/2 short term frequency stability of the integrating sphere cold atom clock, J. Phys. Conference Series 723(2016), 012007;
[10] Jing Dong, Yongqi Hu, Junchao Huang, Meifeng Ye, Qiuzhi Qu, Tang Li, and Liang Liu, Subhertz linewidth laser by locking to a fiber delay line, Appl. Opt., 54(2015), 1152;
[11] Peng Liu, Yanling Meng, Jinyin Wan, Xiumei Wang, Yaning Wang, Ling Xiao, Huadong Cheng, and Liang Liu, Scheme for a compact cold-atom clock based on diffuse laser cooling in a cylindrical cavity, Phys. Rev. A 92 (2015), 062101.