AWARDEE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES PRIZE

HOU XUN

Abstract

Hou Xun, scientist in optoelectronics, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, origin: Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, was born in Lingbao, Henan Province in 1936. He graduated from Department of Physics, Northwest University and then has worked in Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences until now. He is now chairman of academic committee of Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, member of standing board of directors of Chinese Optical Society, member of standing board of directors of Chinese Physics Society, chairman of standing board of directors of Shaanxi Physics Society, vice chairman of board of directors of Association of Shaanxi Science and Technology, part time professor of University of Science and Technology of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwest University and Normal University of South China, advisory professor of Beijing Institute of Science and Technology.
Professor Hou is engaged majorly in transient optics research and has done a series of initial research work in China. He took charge of and had a hand in R & D of 8 kinds of image converter high-speed cameras. The job raised the time resolution of diagnosis of ultrafast phenomena in China by 6 order of magnitude, broaden the response region from visible to infrared and soft x-ray. He developed bi-proximity focused image intensifier firstly in China and proposed a technology which combines laser illumination, filtering by narrow filter and image intensifier to resolve the difficult-measuring those objectives which are small, dark and moving fast. The proposal has been practiced successfully. He invented the Pd-Ag-O-Cs photocathode and is the first to develop transmission NEA photocathode, field-assisted 3-5 compound photocathode and third generation image intensifier. As the chief scientist of the “Femtosecond Laser Technology and Ultrafast Process of the Climbing Project A", he organized and coordinated six Institutes of CAS and six Universities to scale jointly the heights of ultrafast phenomena research.
Sharing with his collaborators, he is a recipient of the special, second and third class awards of the National Prize of Progress in Science and Technology and the first, second, and third class awards of the Provincial or CAS' Prize of Progress in Science and Technology. He published with his co-authors more than 140 papers. He was elected as the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.