Min Gu

Min Gu gained the Ph.D. degree in optics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988. He was invited for the appointment of Professor (Chair) of optoelectronics and Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne University of Technology since 2000. In 2003, he became a Node Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahighbandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. He is the sole Author of two standard reference books: Principles of Three-Dimensional Imaging in Confocal Microscopes and Advanced Optical Imaging Theory. He published over 300 papers in photonic crystals, nanophotonics, micro/nanofabrication, confocal microscopy, laser tweezers, optoelectronic imaging through tissue-like turbid media, laser trapping microscopy, and three-dimensional optical data storage. He is a topical Editor of two international optics journals, a Member of the editorial board of another four international journals, and was the Guest Editor of Applied Optics and the International Journal of Optical Memory and Neural Networks. He is President and Regional Council Member of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, a Fellow of Optical Society of America, and a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering.

Biography Updated on 2 April 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/feis/cmp/staff/mgu.html

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Spectral Redistribution in Spontaneous Emission from Quantum-Dot-Infiltrated 3D Woodpile Photonic Crystals for Telecommunications
    Advanced Materials, vol. 19, no. 20, pp. 3276–3280, 2007
  2. Spectral encoding on Gold Nanorods Doped in a Silica Sol–Gel Matrix and Its Application to High-Density Optical Data Storage
    Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 875–880, 2007
  3. Synthesis of high refractive index composites for photonic applications
    Optical Materials, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 1793–1797, 2007
  4. Use of two-photon polymerization for continuous gray-level encoding of diffractive optical elements
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 7, p. 073503, 2007
  5. Two-photon-induced three-dimensional optical data storage in CdS quantum-dot doped photopolymer
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 16, p. 161116, 2007
  6. Photonic band gaps and planar cavity of two-dimensional eightfold symmetric void-channel photonic quasicrystals
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 20, p. 201111, 2007
  7. Two-Photon Polymerization for Three-Dimensional Photonic Devices in Polymers and Nanocomposites
    Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 60, no. 7, p. 484, 2007
  8. Three-dimensional nonlinear optical endoscopy
    Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 040501, 2007
  9. Metallic Nanorods Doped Optical Recording Media: The Use of Nanorods As Nano-Heat Sensitizers
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 46, no. No. 6B, pp. 3952–3954, 2007
  10. A single beam near-field laser trap for optical stretching, folding and rotation of erythrocytes
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 1369, 2007
  11. Direct laser writing of three-dimensional photonic crystal lattices within a PbS quantum-dot-doped polymer material
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 4, p. 1817, 2007
  12. Characterization of a subwavelength-scale 3D void structure using the FDTD-based confocal laser scanning microscopic image mapping technique
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 17, p. 10767, 2007
  13. Effect of heat accumulation on the dynamic range of a gold nanorod doped polymer nanocomposite for optical laser writing and patterning
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 19, p. 12151, 2007
  14. Rewritable polarization-encoded multilayer data storage in 2,5-dimethyl-4-(p-nitrophenylazo)anisole doped polymer
    Optics Letters, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 277, 2007
  15. Double-clad photonic crystal fiber coupler for compact nonlinear optical microscopy imaging
    Optics Letters, vol. 31, no. 10, p. 1471, 2006
  16. Direct optical fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals in a high refractive index LiNbO3 crystal
    Optics Letters, vol. 31, no. 18, p. 2783, 2006
  17. Mechanical Strains Induced in Osteoblasts by Use of Point Femtosecond Laser Targeting
    International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2006, Article ID 21304, 6 pages, 2006
  18. High-Speed Fluorescence Imaging and Intensity Profiling of Femtosecond-Induced Calcium Transients
    International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2006, Article ID 93438, 6 pages, 2006
  19. Nonlinear optical endoscopy based on a double-clad photonic crystal fiber and a MEMS mirror
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 1027, 2006
  20. Three-dimensional image formation in fiber-optical second-harmonic-generation microscopy
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 1175, 2006
  21. Superprism phenomena in waveguide-coupled woodpile structures fabricated by two-photon polymerization
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 8, p. 3563, 2006
  22. Fabrication of three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystals in a PbSe quantum dot composite material
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 22, p. 10740, 2006
  23. Femtosecond fabricated photomasks for fabrication of microfluidic devices
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 22, p. 10753, 2006
  24. Scanning particle trapped optical microscopy based on two-photon-induced morphology-dependent resonance in a trapped microsphere
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, no. 14, p. 141103, 2006
  25. Enhanced coupling to whispering gallery modes by two-photon absorption induced by a highly focused field
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 89, no. 21, p. 211125, 2006
  26. Angular momentum and geometrical phases in tight-focused circularly polarized plane waves
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 89, no. 24, p. 241104, 2006
  27. Experimental Evidence for Superprism Effects in Three-Dimensional Polymer Photonic Crystals
    Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 221–224, 2006
  28. Two-photon polymerisation for three-dimensional micro-fabrication
    Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, vol. 181, no. 1, pp. 1–11, 2006
  29. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 39, pp. 19315–19318, 2006
  30. Polarisation characteristics of a 12 fibre coupler under femtosecond pulsed and continuous wave illumination
    Optics & Laser Technology, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 494–497, 2005
  31. Single-monomer acrylate-based resin for three-dimensional photonic crystal fabrication
    Polymer, vol. 46, no. 23, pp. 10246–10255, 2005
  32. Decomposition Kinetics, Life Estimation, and Dielectric Study of an Acrylate based Photopolymer for Microfabrication and Photonic Applications
    Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, vol. 206, no. 16, pp. 1659–1664, 2005
  33. Band-gap properties of two-dimensional low-index photonic crystals
    Applied Physics B, vol. 81, no. 2-3, pp. 189–192, 2005
  34. Acrylate-Based Photopolymer for Two-Photon Microfabrication and Photonic Applications
    Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 209–216, 2005
  35. Fabrication and characterization of face-centered-cubic void dots photonic crystals in a solid polymer material
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, no. 1, p. 011108, 2005
  36. Electrical tuning of three-dimensional photonic crystals using polymer dispersed liquid crystals
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, no. 5, p. 051103, 2005
  37. Optical lifting force under focused evanescent wave illumination: A ray optics model
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 97, no. 8, p. 083103, 2005
  38. Direct observation of a pure focused evanescent field of a high numerical aperture objective lens by scanning near-field optical microscopy
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, no. 13, p. 131110, 2005
  39. Optical tuning of three-dimensional photonic crystals fabricated by femtosecond direct writing
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 87, no. 9, p. 091117, 2005
  40. Anisotropic properties of ultrafast laser-driven microexplosions in lithium niobate crystal
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 87, no. 24, p. 241107, 2005
  41. Superprism phenomena in polymeric woodpile structures
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 98, no. 12, p. 123101, 2005
  42. Surface stress on the erythrocyte under laser irradiation with finite-difference time-domain calculation
    Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 064013, 2005
  43. Characterization of gradient-index lens-fiber spacing toward applications in two-photon fluorescence endoscopy
    Applied Optics, vol. 44, no. 34, p. 7270, 2005
  44. Use of a single-mode fiber coupler for second-harmonic-generation microscopy
    Optics Letters, vol. 30, no. 4, p. 385, 2005
  45. Optical trapping force with annular and doughnut laser beams based on vectorial diffraction
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 1260, 2005
  46. Planar cavity modes in void channel polymer photonic crystals
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 7, p. 2767, 2005
  47. Photonic bandgap properties of void-based body-centered-cubic photonic crystals in polymer
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 12, p. 4390, 2005
  48. Nonlinear optical microscopy based on double-clad photonic crystal fibers
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 14, p. 5528, 2005
  49. Microchannel fabrication in PMMA based on localized heating by nanojoule high repetition rate femtosecond pulses
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 16, p. 5939, 2005
  50. Direct measurement of a radially polarized focused evanescent field facilitated by a single LCD
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 18, p. 6821, 2005
  51. Anomalous phenomenon of a focused evanescent Laguerre-Gaussian beam
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 25, p. 10360, 2005
  52. Photonic Structures
    Optics and Photonics News, vol. 15, no. 12, p. 34, 2004
  53. Use of ultrafast-laser-driven microexplosion for fabricating three-dimensional void-based diamond-lattice photonic crystals in a solid polymer material
    Optics Letters, vol. 29, no. 19, p. 2240, 2004
  54. A new slant on photonic crystal fibers
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 8, p. 1528, 2004
  55. Exact radiation trapping force calculation based on vectorial diffraction theory
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 12, p. 2670, 2004
  56. Morphology-dependent resonance induced by two-photon excitation in a micro-sphere trapped by a femtosecond pulsed laser
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 18, p. 4198, 2004
  57. Near-field imaging by a micro-particle: a model for conversion of evanescent photons into propagating photons
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 22, p. 5325, 2004
  58. Trapping force and optical lifting under focused evanescent wave illumination
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 22, p. 5533, 2004
  59. Scanning total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy under one-photon and two-photon excitation: image formation
    Applied Optics, vol. 43, no. 5, p. 1063, 2004
  60. Monte Carlo Modeling of Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging through Turbid Media
    Applied Optics, vol. 43, no. 8, p. 1628, 2004
  61. Effective Mie Scattering of a Spherical Fractal Aggregate and its Application in Turbid Media
    Applied Optics, vol. 43, no. 14, p. 2925, 2004
  62. Height/width aspect ratio controllable two-dimensional sub-micron arrays fabricated with two-photon photopolymerization
    Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 115, no. 8, pp. 358–362, 2004
  63. Microfluidic tunable photonic band-gap device
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 84, no. 11, p. 1838, 2004
  64. Three-photon excited band edge and trap emission of CdS semiconductor nanocrystals
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 84, no. 22, p. 4472, 2004
  65. Laser trapping and manipulation under focused evanescent wave illumination
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 84, no. 21, p. 4236, 2004
  66. In-plane and out-of-plane band-gap properties of a two-dimensional triangular polymer-based void channel photonic crystal
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 84, no. 22, p. 4415, 2004
  67. Two-photon-induced photoenhancement of densely packed CdSe/ZnSe/ZnS nanocrystal solids and its application to multilayer optical data storage
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 85, no. 23, p. 5514, 2004
  68. Microvoid channel polymer photonic crystals with large infrared stop gaps and a multitude of higher-order bandgaps fabricated by femtosecond laser drilling in solid resin
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 453-454, pp. 522–526, 2004
  69. Complex-shaped three-dimensional microstructures and photonic crystals generated in a polysiloxane polymer by two-photon microstereolithography
    Optical Materials, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 359–364, 2004
  70. Parametric study of three-dimensional near-field Mie scattering by dielectric particles
    Optics Communications, vol. 216, no. 1-3, pp. 1–10, 2003
  71. Compensation for depolarisation by a fibre coil in the presence of self-phase modulation
    Optics & Laser Technology, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 381–383, 2003
  72. Effect of numerical aperture on the spectral splitting feature near phase singularities of focused waves
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 82, no. 10, p. 1527, 2003
  73. Void channel microstructures in resin solids as an efficient way to infrared photonic crystals
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 82, no. 11, p. 1649, 2003
  74. Experimental investigation of single voxels for laser nanofabrication via two-photon photopolymerization
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 83, no. 5, p. 819, 2003
  75. Monte Carlo simulation of multiphoton fluorescence microscopic imaging through inhomogeneous tissuelike turbid media
    Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 440, 2003
  76. Three-dimensional optical-transfer-function analysis of fiber-optical two-photon fluorescence microscopy
    Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 941, 2003
  77. Effect of Ultrashort Pulsed Illumination on Foci Caused by a Fresnel Zone Plate
    Applied Optics, vol. 42, no. 10, p. 1852, 2003
  78. Penetration Depth of Single-, Two-, and Three-Photon Fluorescence Microscopic Imaging through Human Cortex Structures: Monte Carlo Simulation
    Applied Optics, vol. 42, no. 16, p. 3321, 2003
  79. Two-photon fluorescence endoscopy with a micro-optic scanning head
    Optics Letters, vol. 28, no. 17, p. 1552, 2003
  80. Two-photon fluorescence scanning near-field microscopy based on a focused evanescent field under total internal reflection
    Optics Letters, vol. 28, no. 20, p. 1930, 2003
  81. Compact two-photon fluorescence microscope based on a single-mode fiber coupler
    Optics Letters, vol. 27, no. 12, p. 1031, 2002
  82. Generation of doughnut laser beams by use of a liquid-crystal cell with a conversion efficiency near 100%
    Optics Letters, vol. 27, no. 15, p. 1351, 2002
  83. Near-infrared photonic crystals with higher-order bandgaps generated by two-photon photopolymerization
    Optics Letters, vol. 27, no. 20, p. 1824, 2002
  84. Nuclear Transport of Parathyroid Hormone (PTH)-Related Protein Is Dependent on Microtubules
    Molecular Endocrinology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 390–401, 2002
  85. Resolution Improvement in Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy with a Single-Mode Fiber
    Applied Optics, vol. 41, no. 10, p. 1852, 2002
  86. Image reconstruction through turbid media under a transmission-mode microscope
    Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 372, 2002
  87. Three-dimensional evanescent wave scattering by dielectric particles
    Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 135–141, 2002
  88. Three-dimensional trapping of Mie metallic particles by the use of obstructed laser beams
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 91, no. 3, p. 1606, 2002
  89. Multiphoton fluorescence microscopic imaging through double-layer turbid tissue media
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 91, no. 7, p. 4659, 2002
  90. Formation of voids in a doped polymethylmethacrylate polymer
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 80, no. 13, p. 2404, 2002
  91. Use of polarization sensitivity for three-dimensional optical data storage in polymer dispersed liquid crystals under two-photon illumination
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 81, no. 7, p. 1160, 2002
  92. Splitting of the focal spot of a high numerical-aperture objective in free space
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 81, no. 9, p. 1576, 2002
  93. Light-induced backward scattering in LiNbO[sub 3]:Fe,Zn
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 81, no. 25, p. 4691, 2002
  94. Observation of orthogonally polarized transverse electric and transverse magnetic oscillation modes in a microcavity excited by localized two-photon absorption
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 81, no. 27, p. 5132, 2002
  95. Microscopic image reconstruction through tissue-like turbid media
    Optics Communications, vol. 207, no. 1-6, pp. 149–154, 2002
  96. Multi-level optical data storage in a photobleaching polymer using two-photon excitation under continuous wave illumination
    Optics and Lasers in Engineering, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 433–437, 2002
  97. Fibre-optic two-photon scanning fluorescence microscopy
    Journal of Microscopy, vol. 208, no. 1, pp. 35–48, 2002
  98. Effect of saturable response to two-photon absorption on the readout signal level of three-dimensional bit optical data storage in a photochromic polymer
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 79, no. 2, p. 148, 2001
  99. Multi-photon fluorescence microscopy — the response of plant cells to high intensity illumination
    Micron, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 661–669, 2001
  100. Rewritable 3D Bit Optical Data Storage in a PMMA-Based Photorefractive Polymer
    Advanced Materials, vol. 13, no. 12-13, pp. 1005–1007, 2001
  101. Enhancement of transverse trapping efficiency for a metallic particle using an obstructed laser beam
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 77, no. 1, p. 34, 2000
  102. Comparison of penetration depth between two-photon excitation and single-photon excitation in imaging through turbid tissue media
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 77, no. 10, p. 1551, 2000
  103. Depolarization of evanescent waves scattered by laser-trapped gold particles: Effect of particle size
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 88, no. 9, p. 5415, 2000
  104. Two-photon fluorescence imaging of microspheres embedded in turbid media
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 959–965, 2000
  105. Fluorescence microscopic imaging through tissue-like turbid media
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 87, no. 7, p. 3214, 2000
  106. Effect of depolarization of scattered evanescent waves on particle-trapped near-field scanning optical microscopy
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 75, no. 2, p. 175, 1999
  107. Dependence of strength and depolarization of scattered evanescent waves on the size of laser-trapped dielectric particles
    Optics Communications, vol. 171, no. 4-6, pp. 205–211, 1999
  108. Effect of scatterer size on microscopic imaging through turbid media based on differential polarisation-gating
    Optics Communications, vol. 157, no. 1-6, pp. 238–248, 1998
  109. Efficient suppression of diffusing photons using polarising annular objectives for microscopic imaging through turbid media
    Bioimaging, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 92–97, 1998
  110. Efficient suppression of diffusing photons using polarising annular objectives for microscopic imaging through turbid media.Bioimaging 6:92-97 1998
    Bioimaging, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 150–150, 1998
  111. Fibre-optic double-pass confocal microscopy
    Optics & Laser Technology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 91–93, 1998
  112. Imaging concentration profiles of praseodymium-doped optical fibres
    Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 10, p. 889, 1997
  113. Trapping force by a high numerical-aperture microscope objective obeying the sine condition
    Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 68, no. 10, p. 3666, 1997
  114. Axial imaging behaviour of a single lens illuminated by an ultrashort pulsed beam
    Optics Communications, vol. 124, no. 3-4, pp. 202–207, 1996
  115. Effect of an ultrashort pulse on Fresnel diffraction by a circular opaque disk
    Optics Communications, vol. 125, no. 1-3, pp. 1–4, 1996
  116. Optical transfer function analysis for two-photon 4Pi confocal fluorescence microscopy
    Optics Communications, vol. 114, no. 1-2, pp. 45–49, 1995
  117. Three-dimensional confocal fluorescence imaging under ultrashort pulse illumination
    Optics Communications, vol. 117, no. 5-6, pp. 406–412, 1995