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 Republi ...

(CAS), and a professor at

Shanghai University Shanghai University, commonly referred to as SHU, or colloquially Shangda (), is a Public university, public research university located in Shanghai. The 555-acre main Baoshan District, Shanghai, Baoshan campus is situated in the north of Shang ...

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 {{China-scientist-stub