Yan Li
li@pku.edu.cn
Education
1994-1997 Ph.D. in Optics, Harbin Institute of Technology
1991-1994 Master's Degree in Optics, Harbin Institute of Technology
1985-1989 Bachelor's Degree in Applied Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology
Experience
2022-Present Scientist, Hefei National Laboratory
2005-Present Professor, Peking University
2003-2005 Associate Professor, Peking University
2000-2003 Postdoc, Osaka University
1989-2003 Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology
Overview of Academic Research
Prof. Li’s research interest is the systematic study on photonic quantum computation and quantum imaging, for resolving the outstanding challenges in 3D photonic quantum chips and quantum imaging.
His major achievements include:
* Fabrication of 3D photonic quantum chips by the femtosecond laser 3D manufacturing: CNOT gates, Toffoli gates and their integration, Multiple quantum chiral edge states, Higher-order topological biphoton corner states.
* Metasurface based quantum imaging and logic gates: Remote control of vectorial meta-holography using entangled photons, Vectorial meta-holography based on the single-pixel imaging, Ultrathin CNOT gates.
Research Directions/Fields:
Femtosecond laser fabrication of 3D photonic quantum chips
Metasurface based quantum imaging and logic gates
Major Honors and Awards
2014 Award for the National Excellent Scientific and Technological Professionals
2020 Experts with Special Allowance of the State Council
Representative Publications
1. Ye Sheng, et al. Entanglement-controlled vectorial meta-holography. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 135 (2025).
2. Li Meng, et al. Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 262 (2023).
3. Zheng Yun, et al. Multichip multidimensional quantum networks with entanglement retrievability. 381, 221-226 (2023).
4. Dai Tianxiang, et al. Topologically protected quantum entanglement emitters. Nature Photonics,16, 248–257 (2022).
5. Li Meng, et al. On-chip path encoded photonic quantum Toffoli gate, Photonics Research, 10, 1533-1542 (2022).