Dr. Fu Li
Education
Ph.D. in Physics; Department of Physics & Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2021
M.S. in Optics; China Academy of Engineering Physics, 2015
B.S. in Physics; Shanxi University, 2012
Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Physics from Texas A&M University, where he conducted research on quantum sensing using squeezed light under the supervision of Marlan O. Scully and Girish S. Agarwal.
Before joining MTSU, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, where he worked on quantum light source generation, optical micro-resonators and integrated photonics.
His research focuses on quantum optics, nonlinear photonics, optical microresonators, quantum sensing and quantum integrated photonics
Selected Publications
On-chip reconfigurable transmission in spatially chirped Floquet parity–time symmetric photonics, Wenbo Mao*, Fu Li*, Qian Zhang, Weijie Xu, Kashif Masud Awan, Lan Yan, Science Advances 11, eadu4653 (2025)
On-chip multimode WGM microresonator with cross-correlation algorithm for enhanced sensing, Wenbo Mao*, Fu Li*, Di Jia, Qian Zhang, Lan Yang, Laser & Photonics Reviews 2301303 (2024)
Quantum-enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering spectroscopy and imaging, Tian Li, Fu Li, Xinghua Liu, Vladislav V. Yakovlev, and Girish S. Agarwal, Optica 8, 959 (2022)
Experimental study of decoherence of the two-mode squeezed vacuum state via second-harmonic generation, Fu Li, Tian Li, and Girish S. Agarwal, Physical Review Research 3, 033095 (2021)
Quantum advantage with seeded squeezed light for absorption measurement, Fu Li, Tian Li, Marlan O. Scully, and Girish S. Agarwal, Physical Review Applied 15, 044030 (2021)
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