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Research experience
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Jan 2003–
presentResearch: Laboratoire Aimé Cotton
Centre national de la recherche scientifique · Laboratoire Aimé CottonFrance · Orsay -
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Dec 2002Research: CNRS-Université de Rennes 1
Laboratoire PALMSFrance · Rennes -
Oct 1992–
Sep 1994Research: SAGEM
Education
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Sep 1989–
Jun 1992Université de Rennes I
Physics · PhDFrance · Rennes -
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Aug 1989Ecole Polytechnique
Laser and Quantum Physics · Master 2France · Palaiseau -
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Aug 1988ParisTech - Institut de Sciences, Technologies et Management
General · Engineering and Master degreeFrance · Palaiseau
Other
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LanguagesFrench, English, and a bit of German
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Scientific MembershipsSFP, SFO, OSA, IEEE
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Journal RefereesJournal of Lightwave Technology, APS Journal, IEEE and European Journals...
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Other InterestsNumerous....
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Answer added in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information7 Electromagnetically Induced TransparencyBy Rahmat Khattak · COMSATS Institute of Information TechnologyFabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific ResearchIt is completely different. EIT needs a three level system and is induced by a coupling field which makes the system transparent for another probe fie... [more]It is completely different. EIT needs a three level system and is induced by a coupling field which makes the system transparent for another probe field. Self-induced transparency occurs when a two-level system is coherently excited by a pulse which has a well chosen area to allow it to propagate with a constant area (i.e., time integral of its Rabi frequency).Following
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Answer added in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information7 Electromagnetically Induced TransparencyBy Rahmat Khattak · COMSATS Institute of Information TechnologyFabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific ResearchHi Sunny, EIT has a limited bandwidth, which depends on the lifetime of the coherence between the levels that create the dark state and the power of t... [more]Hi Sunny, EIT has a limited bandwidth, which depends on the lifetime of the coherence between the levels that create the dark state and the power of the control field. So if your probe pulse is so short that its bandwidth is larger than the EIT peak bandwidth, transmission will be reduced and the slow light effect will also be reduced.Following
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Answer added in Photonics and Optical Communications15 Can the light be faster in medium with n<1?Fabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific ResearchNo, the speed at which information travels is always smaller than c. Imagine a bit carried by light, i e a pulse starting with an abrupt front followe... [more]No, the speed at which information travels is always smaller than c. Imagine a bit carried by light, i e a pulse starting with an abrupt front followed by a smoother pulse shape. The front, which carries all the frequencies, will always travel at c, because fast light can occur only across a limited bandwidth. The pulse following this front will be able to travel faster than c only provided it does not try to overtake the front. Otherwise distorsions will occur.Following
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Answer added in Photonics and Optical Communications15 Can the light be faster in medium with n<1?Fabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific ResearchDear Yahia, Electromagnetically induced transparency is now currently used in labs to modify the group velocity of light to make it slow (group veloci... [more]Dear Yahia, Electromagnetically induced transparency is now currently used in labs to modify the group velocity of light to make it slow (group velocity < c), fast (group velocity > c), or even with a negative group velocity (group velocity < 0), while the sample (for example an atomic gas) remains quite transparent. Of course, this is true only in a limited bandwidth for the probe beam.Following
Publications (248) View all
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Article: Intensity noise correlations in a two-frequency VECSEL
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ABSTRACT: We present an experimental and theoretical study of the intensity noise correlation between the two orthogonally polarized modes in a dual frequency Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VECSEL). The dependence of the noise correlation spectra on the non-linear coupling between the two orthogonally polarized modes is put into evidence. Our results show that for small coupling the noise correlation amplitude and phase spectra remain nearly flat (around -6 dB and 0o respectively) within the frequency range of our interest (from 100 kHz to 100 MHz). But for higher values of the coupling constant the low frequency behaviors (below 1-2 MHz) of the correlation amplitude and phase spectra are drastically changed, whereas above this cut-off frequency (1-2 MHz) the correlation spectra are almost independent of coupling strength. The theoretical model is based on the assumptions that the only source of noise in the frequency range of our interest for the two modes are pump noises, which are white noises of equal amplitude but partially correlated.Optics Express. 02/2013; 21(3):2539. -
Article: Intensity noise correlations in a two-frequency VECSEL.
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ABSTRACT: We present an experimental and theoretical study of the intensity noise correlation between the two orthogonally polarized modes in a dual frequency Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VECSEL). The dependence of the noise correlation spectra on the non-linear coupling between the two orthogonally polarized modes is put into evidence. Our results show that for small coupling the noise correlation amplitude and phase spectra remain nearly flat (around -6 dB and 0° respectively) within the frequency range of our interest (from 100 kHz to 100 MHz). But for higher values of the coupling constant the low frequency behaviors (below 1-2 MHz) of the correlation amplitude and phase spectra are drastically changed, whereas above this cut-off frequency (1-2 MHz) the correlation spectra are almost independent of coupling strength. The theoretical model is based on the assumptions that the only source of noise in the frequency range of our interest for the two modes are pump noises, which are white noises of equal amplitude but partially correlated.Optics Express 02/2013; 21(3):2538-2550. · 3.59 Impact Factor -
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Conference Proceeding: Noise Correlations in Dual Frequency VECSEL
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ABSTRACT: We have experimentally and theoretically explored the degree of correlation of intensity noises of two orthogonally polarized modes in a dual frequency VECSEL for different values of coupling by changing spatial separation between the modes.International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2012); 12/2012 -
Article: Experimental demonstration of a dual-frequency laser free from anti-phase noise
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Conference Proceeding: Ultranarrow Coherent Population Oscillation Resonance in a Λ-type System
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ABSTRACT: We report here the experimental observation of an ultranarrow resonance, as narrow as EIT ones, due to the transfer of coherent population oscillations to the lower states of a Λ-system.Frontiers in Optics (FiO), Rochester, NY; 09/2012
About
My research deals with nonlinear optics (development of OPOs,...), laser physics (noise, dynamics, applications,...), quantum optics (EIT, slow and fast light, noise,...), and microwave photonics (dual-frequency lasers, noiseless amplification, delay lines,...). I am mostly an experimentalist.