Hou Xou

male, professor.

Hou Xun, scientist in optoelectronics, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,  was born in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province in 1936. He graduated from Department of Physics, Northwest University in 1959 and studied in the Dept. of Physics of British Imperial Institute of Science and Technology from Aug. 1979 to Jan. 1981. Then he has worked in XiЎЇan Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences until now. In 1986 he was promoted to be a researcher and appointed as the director of the Institute until 1995. In 2000 he was invited as a professor of the XJTU.
Professor Hou has been engaged mainly in transient optics research for 35 years 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 orders of magnitude and broadened the response region from visible to infrared and soft x-ray, which reached the world advanced level. 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 ЁCmeasuring 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 Ў°Femtosecond Laser Technology and Ultrafast Process of the Climbing Project AЎ±, 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 CASЎЇ Prize of Progress in Science and Technology. He published with his co-authors more than 190 papers. He was elected as the Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.
He is now the chairman of academic committee of XiЎЇan Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, a member of standing board of directors of Chinese Optical Society, a member of board of directors of Chinese Physics Society, the chairman of standing board of directors of Shaanxi Physics Society, the vice chairman of board of directors of Association of Shaanxi Science and Technology. He has been engaged as a member of the Consultative Committee of Mathematics and Physics Division of the NSFC since 2002 and also a special member of the advisory committee for Decision of Shaanxi Province.