袁鹏研究员从事超短超强激光技术的创新研究。强场物理前沿科学、未来聚变能源等重大需求对超短超强激光提出了“高信噪比”、“高重频”和“中红外波长”等关键挑战。他在脉冲信噪比的单发次测量、脉冲信噪比的提升、高平均功率光参量放大和中红外强激光的放大验证等方面开展了创新性研究，创建了较为系统性的关键技术。

作为项目负责人，他承担了2项国家重大专项课题，3项国家863计划课题和2项国家自然科学基金面上/青年项目。作为强激光科技部创新团队的核心骨干，他在实验上负责实施了团队的国家重大科研项目，如科技部A类973项目的课题等。2010年入选上海市“晨光计划”。共发表SCI 论文87篇，授权发明专利21 项（含美国专利9 项），5 项工作入选中国光学年度重要成果，有关信噪比单次测量的成果获得教育部技术发明一等奖（排名3）。

1. “Single-shot cross-correlator for pulse-contrast characterization of high peak-power lasers”, Ma JG, Yuan P, Wang J, Xie GQ, Zhu HY, and Qian LJ, HIGH POWER LASER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 6, e61, 2018.

2. “Spatiotemporal coherent noise in frequency-domain optical parametric amplification” , Wang J, Ma JG, Yuan P, Tang DL, Zhou BJ, Xie GQ, and Qian LJ, OPTICS EXPRESS, 26(8), 10953-10967, 2018.

3. “Nonlinear beat noise in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification”, Wang J, Ma JG, Yuan P, Tang DL, Zhou BJ, Xie GQ, and Qian LJ, OPTICS EXPRESS, 25(24) 29769-29777, 2017.

4. “Temperature-insensitive second-harmonic generation based on noncollinear phase matching in a lithium triborate crystal”, Tang DL, Wang J, Zhou BJ, Xie GQ, Ma JG, Yuan P, Zhu HY, and Qian LJ, JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 34(8) 1659-1668, 2017.

5. “Temperature- and wavelength-insensitive parametric amplification enabled by noncollinear achromatic phase-matching”, Tang DL, Ma JG, Wang J, Zhou BJ, Xie GQ, Yuan P, Zhu HY, and Qian LJ,SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 6, 36059, 2016.

6. “Scattering-initiated parametric noise in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification”, Wang J, Ma JG, Yuan P, Tang DL, Zhou BJ, Xie GQ, and Qian LJ, Optics Letters, 40(14), 3396-3399, 2015.

7. “Noise filtering in parametric amplification by dressing the seed beam with spatial chirp”, Wang, J; Ma JG; Wang YZ, Yuan P, Xie GQ, and Qian LJ, OPTICS LETTERS 39(8), 2439-2442, 2014.

8. “Temperature-insensitive frequency tripling for generating high-average power UV lasers”, Zhong HZ, Yuan P, Wen SC, and Qian LJ, OPTICS EXPRESS, 22(4) 4267-4276, 2014.

9. “Surface-reflection-initiated pulse-contrast degradation in an optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier”, Wang J, Yuan P, Ma JG, Wang YZ, Xie GQ, and Qian LJ, OPTICS EXPRESS, 21(13), 15580-15594 2013.

10. “Generation of 120 GW mid-infrared pulses from a widely tunable noncollinear optical parametric amplifier”, Zhao K, Zhong HZ, Yuan P, Xie GQ, Wang J, Ma JG, and Qian LJ, OPTICS LETTERS, 38(13), 2159-2161, 2013.

11. “Single-shot pulse-contrast measurement based on high-order quasi-phase-matching cross-correlation”, Ma JG, Wang YZ, Yuan P, Xie GQ, Zhu HY, and Qian LJ, OPTICS LETTERS, 37(21), 4476-4488, 2012.

12.  “Single-shot cross-correlator using a long-wavelength sampling pulse”,  Ma JG, Yuan P, Wang YZ, Zhang DF, Zhu HY, and Qian LJ, OPTICS LETTERS, 36(6), 978-980, 2011.

13. “High-contrast near-IR short pulses generated by a mid-IR optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier with frequency doubling”, Yuan P, Xie GQ, Zhang DF, Zhong HZ, and Qian LJ, OPTICS LETTERS, 35, 1878, 2010.