News

A selection of recent items of interest is below.

Towards a Self-Driving Ultrafast Laser

I recently wrote a News and Views paper for Light: Science & Applications describing how femtosecond pulses from an ultrafast mode-locked fiber laser can be optimized in real time by combining...

Light, Lasers, and the Nobel Prize

The Year 2020 represents 60 years since the first successful operation of the laser. This anniversary provides an ideal occasion to reflect on the myriad ways that lasers have revolutionized society...

20 year Activity Report on Twitter!

After working in France for 20 years, I thought it could be fun to try to summarize a selection of highlights on Twitter. Clicking on this link should allow you to read this even without a Twitter...

Instabilities in Dissipative Soliton Lasers characterized...

Real time measurements of instabilities and intermittence in a mode-locked fibre laser exhibiting soliton-similariton dynamics just published! C. Lapre, C. Billet, F. Meng, P. Ryczkowski, T...

New paper on Machine Learning in Nonlinear Fibre Optics...

Some very exciting results applying the techniques of machine learning to predict extreme events have just been published in Scientific Reports

Real-time measurements in the CNRS 2016 Annual Report

The CNRS has honoured the great work by our students and postdocs with a special highlight article of our real time measurement studies (Nature Commun. 7 13675 (2016) in their 2016 annual report !

Real Time Measurements of Dissipative Solitons Published...

Our latest results showing simultaneous real time characterisation of temporal and spectral instabilities of dissipative solitons has been published in Nature Photonics. https://www.nature.com/...

Magnified time-domain ghost imaging paper published in...

In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a temporal ghost imaging scheme which generates a magnified ghost image of an ultrafast waveform. Inspired by shadow imaging in the spatial...

New paper on the universal Peregrine Soliton published in...

Our latest results studying how the Peregrine soliton appears as a universal nonlinear structure have been published in Phys Rev Lett. https://tinyurl.com/y5ntlgwa There is also an earlier version on...

Real time Modulation Instability paper published in...

Instability and chaos in physical systems are random natural phenomena that are generally highly sensitive to fluctuations in initial conditions, however small they may be. To understand these...