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; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

(CAS), and a professor at

Shanghai University Shanghai University (SHU) is a municipal public university in Shanghai, China. It is owned by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction. Shanghai University mai ...

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, also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a single mode (electromagnetism), mode of light - the transverse mode. Modes are the possible solutio ...

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 Academic staff of Shanghai University {{China-scientist-stub