Bo Li
Professor
Research interest: three-photon imaging

• B.S. in applied physics, 2009
  • Shandong University
• M.S. in optical communication, 2011
  • Beijing Jiaotong University
  • Supervisor: Prof. Zhongwei Tan
• Ph.D. in optical communication, 2015
  • INRS-EMT (Montreal, Canada)
  • Beijing Jiaotong University (Beijing, China)
  • Supervisor: Prof. José Azaña and Prof. Shuqin Lou
• Postdoc in biomedical imaging, 2015-present
  • Cornell University
  • Supervisor: Prof. Chris Xu

Referee activities

• Regular reviewer for many journals including:
  • Sci. Rep.
  • Opt. Lett.
  • Opt. Express
  • Bio. Opt. Express
  • J. Bio. Opt.
  • Photon. J.
  • Appl. Opt.
  • Electron. Lett.
  • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B
  • IET Sci. Meas. Technol.
  • JIOHS.

Skills

• Computer programming/coding
  • Matlab
    • numerical simulations in > 20 publications.
    • wrote programming code to communicate with hardwares including
      • Data acquisition card
      • Arbitrary waveform generator
      • Oscilloscopes
      • Power meters
      • Motors
  • Python
    • wrote several crawler codes with selenium.
  • Quick macro
    • wrote many gametools for games such as
      • Lords mobile
      • C.A.T.S.
      • twitter
      • Legends of the three kingdoms
      • Tap Titans
• Telecommunication
  • Build > 10 signal processing systems
  • Familiar with devices such as
    • Oscilloscopes (electronic/optical, sampling/real-time versions)
    • Optical spectrum analyzer
    • Arbitrary waveform generator
    • Waveshaper
    • Incoherent/coherent laser source/amplifiers
    • Photo-detectors/Cameras with GaP/GaAsP/Si/InGaAs
• Fiber optics
  • Built
    • More than 15 fiber amplifiers (Er-doped and Yb-doped)
    • fiber chirped amplification amplifiers with >10 W output and femtosecond pulse width
    • (wavelength, bandwidth, time delay, intensity) all tunable, multi-color fiber lasers.
    • wavelength-tunable bandwidth source (750-1250 nm, 1550-2520 nm)
  • Did numerical simulations and experiments with:
    • Raman scattering
    • self-phase modulation
    • cross phase modulation
    • four-wave mixing
    • airy pulses/beams
    • high-order dispersion
    • time lenses
• Microscope
  • built
    • three Raman microscopes
    • several two-, three-photon laser scanning microscopes (linear and resonant scanning)
    • four lasers for different microscopes
    • 3D scanning microscope with a TAG lens
  • Familiar with
    • Ti:Sapphire lasers
    • Optical parametric amplifiers, such as NOPA
• Biology
  • Mouse surgery (replace mouse brain skull with a cranial window)
  • Dye injection
  • Imaging of >30 mice
  • Analysis of neural activity