INTERESTS

Microstuctured optical fibers, nonlinear optics, plasmonics, nano-optics.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Eng. Physics                    Sept. 2008 - present (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

M.Sc. Physics "Honours"         Sept. 2004 - Nov. 2007 (Laval University)

B.Eng. Physics                           Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2004 (Laval University)

EXPERIENCE

Internship                                 Sept. 2007 - Sept. 2008 (Lockheed Martin Canada)

Component-based detection of 3D objects in images 

Advisors:  Yannick Allard (LMC) and Yunlong Sheng (Laval U.)

Collaboration with DRDC Valcartier

 

Research internship                    June 2006 - Sept. 2006

Centre Technique du Papier (Grenoble, France),    Advisor: Dr. Patrick Huber 

Virtual Paper

Developed a computer model of a paper sheet’s statistical microstructure.

M.Sc. project                                Sept. 2004 - Nov. 2007 (Laval University)

Laval University                           Advisor: Dr. Yunlong Sheng

Study of the interaction of surface waves with a metallic nano-slit via the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD)

Matlab code for the Lorentz-Drude and Drude models of the optical dielectric constant of various metals and water

 

PUBLICATIONS

B. Ung, A. Mazhorova, A. Dupuis, M. Rozé, and M. Skorobogatiy, "Polymer microstructured optical fibers for terahertz wave guiding", Optics Express (ECOC 2011 special issue) vol.19, pp.B848-B861 (2011) *

* Selected for the Vol.3, Issue 4 of Advances in Optics and Photonics

B. Ung and M. Skorobogatiy, "Extreme optical nonlinearities in chalcogenide glass fibers embedded with metallic and semiconductor nanowires", Appl. Phys. Lett., vol.99, 121102 (2011)

B. Ung and M. Skorobogatiy, "Chromatic dispersion engineering in chalcogenide microporous fibers for the middle-infrared", OSA Specialty Optical Fibers Conference, Toronto, Canada, June (2011)

B. Ung*, M. Rozé*, A. Mazhorova, M. Walther, and M. Skorobogatiy, "Suspended core subwavelength fibers for practical low-loss terahertz guidance", OSA Optical Sensors Conference Toronto, Canada, June (2011)

B. Ung and M. Skorobogatiy, "Extreme nonlinear optical enhancement in chalcogenide glass fibers with deep-subwavelength metallic nanowires", Optics Letters, vol.36, pp. 2527-2529 (2011)

A. Markov, C. Reinhardt, B. Ung, A. B. Evlyukhin, W. Cheng, B. N. Chichkov, and M. Skorobogatiy, "Photonic bandgap plasmonic waveguides", Optics Letters, vol.36, pp. 2468-2470 (2011) † 

† Featured in the "Top Downloads" of Optics Letters for the month of July 2011.

M. Rozé*, B. Ung*, A. Mazhorova, M. Walther, and M. Skorobogatiy, "Suspended core subwavelength fibers: towards practical designs for low-loss terahertz guidance", Optics Express, vol.19, issue 10 (2011) † ** €  *these authors equally contributed to the work*

† Featured in the "Top Downloads" of Optics Express for the month of May 2011.

€  Selected for the "Optics in 2011" special issue of Optics Photonics News

** Selected for the July 7, 2011 issue of Virtual journal of Biomedical Optics

B. Ung, and M. Skorobogatiy, "Giant nonlinear optical enhancement in chalcogenide glass fibers with deep-subwavelength metallic nanowires", JTuI44, CLEO 2011 Conference, Baltimore, MD (2011)

B. Ung, M. Rozé, A. Mazhorova, M. Walther, and M. Skorobogatiy, "Suspended core polymer fibers with isolated mode for terahertz guiding", CThN4, CLEO 2011 Conference, Baltimore, MD (2011)

B. Ung, A. Dupuis, K. Stoeffler, C. Dubois, M. Skorobogatiy, "High-refractive-index composite materials for terahertz waveguides: trade-off between index contrast and absorption loss", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, p.917 (2011)

A. Dupuis, K. Stoeffler, B. Ung, C. Dubois, M. Skorobogatiy, "Transmission measurements of hollow-core THz Bragg fibers", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, p.896 (2011)

B. Ung, A. Dupuis, M. Skorobogatiy, "High refractive index titania-doped polymers for THz hollow Bragg fibers: How absorption losses limit the index contrast", IRMMW-THz, Rome, Italy (2010)

Q. Hang, B. Ung, I. Syed, N. Guo, and M. Skorobogatiy, "Photonic bandgap fiber bundle spectrometer", Applied Optics, vol. 49, p. 4791 (2010)

B. Ung and M. Skorobogatiy, "Chalcogenide microporous fibers for linear and nonlinear applications in the mid-infrared", Optics Express, vol. 18, no 8 (2010)*

* Selected for the September 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science

B. Ung and M. Skorobogatiy, "Chalcogenide Microporous Fibers for Nonlinear Applications in Mid-Infrared", CTuT5, CLEO 2010 Conference, San Jose, CA (2010)

B. Ung and Y. Sheng, "Optical surface waves over metallo-dielectric nanostructures: Sommerfeld integrals revisited", Optics Express, vol. 16, no 12 (2008)

C.M. Wang, C.C. Chao, H.I. Huang, B. Ung, Y. Sheng and J.Y. Chang, "Transmission enhancement through a metallic slit assisted by low scattering loss corrugations", Optics Communications, vol. 281, no 10 (2008)

B. Ung and Y. Sheng, "Interference of surface waves in a metallic nanoslit", Optics Express, vol. 15, no 3 (2007) *

*Selected for the March 5, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology

B. Ung and Y. Sheng, "Mechanism of coupling and interference in a nano-slit", 11-15 November, Beijing China, SPIE Photonics Asia (2007)

C.-M. Wang, B. Ung, Y. Sheng and J.Y. Chang, "Enhanced Transmission Through Nano-Aperture on a Tapered Metallic Substrate", Optics Communications, vol. 265, no 2 (2006)

B. Ung and Y. Sheng, "Interference of surface waves at a metallic subwavelength slit", paper# FWC5, 8-12 October, Rochester New-York, Optical Society of America Frontiers in Optics (2006)

B. Ung and Y. Sheng, "Interference of surface waves on metallic slit transmission", paper# FWI3, 16-20 October, Tucson Arizona, Optical Society of America Frontiers in Optics (2005)

AWARDS

SPIE Scholarship 2011

Incubic/Milton Chang grant for CLEO 2011

FQRNT Doctoral scholarship (May 2009 - Aug. 2011)

NSERC-MITACS Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (Sept. 2007 - Aug. 2008)