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Skills (9)

Research experience

  • Jan 2003–
    present
    Research: Laboratoire Aimé Cotton
    Centre national de la recherche scientifique · Laboratoire Aimé Cotton
    France · Orsay
  • Oct 1994–
    Dec 2002
    Research: CNRS-Université de Rennes 1
    Laboratoire PALMS
    France · Rennes
  • Oct 1992–
    Sep 1994
    Research: SAGEM

Education

  • Sep 1989–
    Jun 1992
    Université de Rennes I
    Physics · PhD
    France · Rennes
  • Sep 1988–
    Aug 1989
    Ecole Polytechnique
    Laser and Quantum Physics · Master 2
    France · Palaiseau
  • Aug 1985–
    Aug 1988
    ParisTech - Institut de Sciences, Technologies et Management
    General · Engineering and Master degree
    France · Palaiseau

Other

  • Languages
    French, English, and a bit of German
  • Scientific Memberships
    SFP, SFO, OSA, IEEE
  • Journal Referees
    Journal of Lightwave Technology, APS Journal, IEEE and European Journals...
  • Other Interests
    Numerous....

Questions and Answers (4) View all

  • 7 Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
    By Rahmat Khattak · COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
    Fabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific Research
    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 fie... [more]
  • 7 Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
    By Rahmat Khattak · COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
    Fabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific Research
    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 t... [more]
  • 15 Can the light be faster in medium with n<1?
    Fabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific Research
    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 followe... [more]
  • 15 Can the light be faster in medium with n<1?
    Fabien Bretenaker · French National Centre for Scientific Research
    Dear Yahia, Electromagnetically induced transparency is now currently used in labs to modify the group velocity of light to make it slow (group veloci... [more]

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
    Optics letters. 11/2012;
  • 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

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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.

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