Seongwoo Yoo

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Lecture Title: Mode Area Scaling Through a Multicore Supermode Fibre

Seongwoo Yoo is an assistant professor at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his PhD from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea for his study on specialty fibre design and fabrication. He joined the Optoelectronic Research Centre (ORC) at University of Southampton, UK, as a post-doctoral research fellow in 2005. Since then, his research has been centred on specialty fibre development for high power fibre lase applications. Since joining NTU, his research efforts have been focused on rare-earth doped fibres, high nonlinearity fibres and micro-structured fibres.