Shilong Liu was born in Shandong province, China. He joined Prof. Baosen Shi’s group to start his Ph.D. studies in the Key Laboratory of Quantum Information at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). During this period, he did several interesting works in nonlinear optics and quantum optics. For example, he demonstrated improvements in the classical or quantum frequency converter, studies on the high-dimensional entanglements, also explorations of the classical-quantum analogy, i.e., cat state. After his Ph.D. degree from USTC, he joined the College of Optical Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University as a postdoc. During this period, he joined Prof. Ebrahim Karimi’s group at the University of Ottawa for one year’s international cooperation. At Ottawa, he built an ultrafast mode-locked fiber laser to study intracavity dynamics of temporal solitons.
Shilong joined femtoQ team at Polytechnique Montréal in July 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow. Leveraging the laboratory’s expertise, he is currently designing novel signal processing methods of femtosecond pulses for optical computation and quantum optics. In particular, he is implementing a pulse shaper for few-cycle pulses to realize several complex mathematical equations in optics and explore the quantum entanglement in both spatial and temporal domains.
He loves and enjoys beauty from the perspective of a physicist. As a young experimental researcher, he likes to cooperate with physicists around the world. He is excited about his current stay in a beautiful metropolitan Montréal!