Ruibo Lan

Ruibo Lan

Optical engineering research for intelligent photonic systems.

I am Ruibo Lan, an optical engineering researcher working on multimode fiber photonics, orbital angular momentum based information encoding, diffractive neural networks, and AI-driven modeling for nonlinear optical systems.

  • Research interests: OAM, MMF, D2NN, and AI for optics
  • Current work spans optical encryption, intelligent decoding, and nonlinear modeling
  • Three first-author journal papers published in 2025
Portrait of Ruibo Lan
Current Research Physics-aware learning for optical communication and computation

Research

Selected directions

Multimode Fiber Encryption

Studying noise-resilient optical encryption pipelines built on multimode fiber speckles, spatial encoding, and physically grounded decoding strategies.

Orbital Angular Momentum

Using OAM beams as high-dimensional carriers for image encoding, information multiplexing, and secure optical transmission.

Diffractive Neural Networks

Building optical inference systems that embed intelligence into propagation itself, with an emphasis on low-latency and all-optical decoding.

AI for Science

Deep learning models for fast prediction of complex nonlinear dynamics in Kerr fiber cavities and related photonic systems.

Experimental Capability

Hands-on experience with spatial optical systems, phase pattern generation, SLM control, and end-to-end optimization across hardware and software.

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Publications

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Research Vision

What drives my work

My research combines optical physics, computational modeling, and machine learning to build photonic systems that are more secure, interpretable, and robust in realistic environments.