Huang Hongjia (; 5 August 1924 – 22 September 2021) was a Chinese scientist. He was an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...
(CAS), and a professor at
Shanghai University
Shanghai University, commonly referred to as SHU, or colloquially Shangda (), is a public research university located in Shanghai. The 555-acre main Baoshan campus is situated in the north of Shanghai, and there are two other campuses in Jiadi ...
.
Life and career
Huang developed coupling wave theory in the field of microwave theory. He led a research team that successfully developed
single-mode optical fiber
In fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a single mode of light - the transverse mode. Modes are the possible solutions of the Helmholtz ...
s in 1980.
He died on 22 September 2021, at the age of 97.
Bibliography
* "Coupling Mode and Imperfect Waveguide", New York Institute of Technology (thesis), 1981.
* "Coupled Mode Theory", 1984.
* "Microwave approach to highly-irregular fiber optics", Wiley and Sons, 1997.
References
1924 births
2021 deaths
20th-century Chinese inventors
Educators from Hunan
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
National Southwestern Associated University alumni
People from Changde
Scientists from Hunan
Shanghai University faculty
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