My previous research in my Master's study in the Physics department at the University of Ottawa was Theoretical Fiber Optics. Below are my publications.

My Master¡¯s Thesis:

Theoretical Study of Pump-Probe Based Fiber Brillouin Sensor.

Refereed Publications

"Sub-peaks in the Brillouin loss spectra of distributed fiber-optic sensors", Optics Letters, Vol. 30 Issue 10 Page 1099 (May 2005)
Yidun Wan, Shahraam Afshar V., Lufan Zou, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao

"Effect of optical phase on a distributed Brillouin sensor at centimeter spatial resolution", Optics Letters, Vol. 30 Issue 8 Page 827 (April 2005), Xiaoyi Bao, Yidun Wan, Lufan Zou, Liang Chen

"Coherent probe-pump-based Brillouin sensor for centimeter-crack detection", Optics Letters, Vol. 30 Issue 4 Page 370 (February 2005)
Lufan Zou, Xiaoyi Bao, Yidun Wan, Liang Chen

Conference Papers and Presentations

Yidun Wan, Shahraam Afshar Vahid, Lufan Zou, Liang Chen and Xiaoyi Bao, ¡±Simulation of distributed optical fiber probe-pump Brillouin sensor¡±, Photonics North 2004, Ottawa, Canada, part of Proceedings of SPIE vol. 5579.

Yidun Wan, Oral Presentation: "Simulation of distributed optical fiber probe-pump Brillouin sensor", Photonics North 2004, Ottawa, Canada.

Ou Chen, Yidun Wan, Lufan Zou, Guilin Wu, Dan Falk, Liang Chen and Xiaoyi Bao,¡±Development of the Offset Locking Based Distributed Sensor¡±, Photonics North 2004,Ottawa, Canada, part of Proceedings of SPIE vol. 5579.

Lufan Zou, Yidun Wan, Xiao Bao and Liang Chen, ¡±Centimeter Spatial Resolution of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor For Structural Healthy Monitoring¡±, Photonics North 2004, Ottawa, Canada, part of Proceedings of SPIE vol. 5579.

Xiaoyi Bao, Yidun Wan, Lufan Zou, and Liang Chen, ¡±The effect of optical phase on the Brillouin spectrum in the distributed sensor system¡±, OFS-17 conference, accepted, December 2004

Yidun Wan, oral presentation:¡±A New Low Cost Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing System based on two 1550 nm DFB Lasers¡±, 9th Annual Conference of ISIS Canada, Halifax, Canada, April 2004.

Posters

Yidun Wan, Ou Chen, Qinrong Yu, Shahraam Afshar and Xiaoyi Bao, ¡±A Distributed Fiber Optics Sensor System for Health Monitoring¡±, 9th Annual Conference of ISIS Canada, Halifax, Canada, April 2004.