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MONCORGE Richard Professeur (Team Leader) Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.58 richard.moncorge@ensicaen.fr Prof. Dr. Richard Moncorgé received the Doctorat degree in Atomic and Molecular Physics from the University of Lyon in 1976 and the Doctorat es Sciences Physiques degree in 1982 (field of study : optic and magnetic collective excitations in solids). He was with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a researcher of the Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents (LPCML), University of Lyon, from 1976 to 1997. Between 1976 and 1977, he was granted a fellowship from the French Academy of Sciences to work on optical energy transfers in solids as a Post-Doctoral Scientist with the Department of Physics, Boston College, and with the University of California, Los Angeles. Between 1982 and 1983, he was in charge of a research program on new solid-state laser materials at the Centre National des Télécommunications (CNET), Paris, France. Since then, he has been conducting researches in this field, especially on the fluorescence dynamics, excited state spectroscopy, crystal growth and laser operation of crystals doped with transition-metal and rare-earth ions. He was Directeur de Recherche (CNRS) between 1993 and 1997 and he is now Professor at the University of Caen, heading the group “Matériaux et Instrumentation Laser” of the CIMAP (former CIRIL) laboratory. He was General, Program, Steering-Committee or Committee Chair of many national and international conferences, among which, in the recent years, Photonics Europ (2004), Europhoton (2006-2012), UVX (2006-2010), CLEO’Europ (2007), MICS’2009, AIOM (2011,2012), PRLD (2011, 2013), ASSL’2013. He was a Topical Editor of the J. Opt. Soc. Am. B for the Luminescent Compounds and Processes and the Laser Materials from 2007 to 2013. He is now the principal coordinator of the CNRS national network CMDO+ for “Cristaux Massifs, Micro-nano-structures et Dispositifs pour l’Optique” (http://cmdo.cnrs.fr), since the beginning of 2006, and an Editorial Advisor of the French Scientific & Technical review “Techniques pour l’Ingénieur” (http://www.techniques-ingenieur.fr) since the beginning of 2013. He is an author or a co-author of more than 260 articles in scientific journals with referees’ reports and as invited papers or contributions to special issues and books. |
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CAMY Patrice Professeur Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.89 patrice.camy@ensicaen.fr Patrice Camy is full professor at the University of Caen, responsible for a MASTER Diploma (M2 CEI). He is in charge of the optical waveguides activity in the group “Matériaux et Instrumentation Laser” of the CIMAP laboratory. He received the Master degree (DEA) in the speciality “Optique et Photonique” from the Institut d’Optique in Paris in 1993 and the Doctorate degree in Physics at the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 1996. His PhD work was performed for a great part in the Photonics division of the Corning Europe Company and was dedicated to the study of Ytterbium/Erbium-doped glasses for planar waveguides amplifiers needed in optical networks applications. P. Camy is now involved in several projects dealing with the spectroscopic study of rare earth doped materials in the form of bulk or waveguides for lasers or sensors applications. The main successes were obtained, with his colleagues, in the Infrared spectral domain, with Yb-doped Calcium fluoride crystals for high power laser systems. He also studies transfer efficiency in co-doped materials, showing the influence of clustering in some laser systems. His research activity also led to rare-earth-doped crystalline laser waveguides fabricated by Liquid Phase Epitaxy. In the recent years, P. Camy was supervisor of 6 PhD works and 5 Post-doc. He has been involved in 12 research contracts (5 as leader) and is Author or co-author of more than 60 articles in scientific journals with referees’ reports, co-inventor of 4 patents and co-winner of one Prize of « scientific innovation » for an optical CO2 sensor. He was recently appointed by the OSA board as Associate Editor for Optics Express Journal. |
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BRAUD Alain Maitre de Conferences, HDR Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.60 alain.braud@ensicaen.fr Alain Braud is Associate Professor at the University of CAEN (Maitre de Conférences, HDR “Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches” post-doctoral degree allowing to supervise PhD students). He holds two Master degrees in Physics and Electrical Enginneering (1995). He received his PhD in Physics at the University of CAEN (France) in 1999 on Thulium spectroscopy and laser emission at 1.5 µm. His was a Post-doc at Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana, USA) in Rufus Cone's group and moved after to Virginia to work as a Research Contractor at NASA (Hampton, Virginia, USA) developing a High power Tm-Ho 2µm laser for LIDAR applications. A.Braud’s research concentrates on rare-earth and transition metal doped materials (semiconductors and insulators) for lighting, display, laser and photovoltaic applications. He has been a project leader within the European contract (IHP-RTN) RENIBEL “Rare-earth doped nitrides for high brightness electroluminescent devices “ in charge of the study of the various host-related excitation mechanisms (exciton-ion coupling, Auger effect, impact excitation) leading to rare-earth luminescence in semiconductors. In 2008, he was a visiting Professor at Boston College, USA, working on excitation processes in rare-earth doped materials. He is currently working on energy conversion to increase Si solar cell efficiency by using luminescent converters based on rare-earth doped materials. He is also involved in other projects dealing with rare-earth doped materials such as Yb doped CaF2 for high power and ultrafast lasers or plasmonic enhanced fluorescence. He is an author and co-author of two chapter books and more than 40 articles in scientific journals with referees’ reports. |
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DOUALAN Jean-louis CNRS Researcher Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.61 jean-louis.doualan@ensicaen.fr Dr. Jean-Louis Doualan is full-time CNRS researcher (Chargé de Recherche) and project leader in the group “Matériaux et Instrumentation Laser” of the CIMAP (former CIRIL) laboratory. He has got the Doctorat degree from the University of Caen in 1983, after which he entered CNRS, and the Doctorat es Sciences Physiques degree in 1988, both diploma being dedicated to the study and the development of various kinds of colour center lasers. After a post-doctoral period at the University of Salt Lake City, USA (1989) and still a few years spent on high-power and diode-pumped colour center lasers, his research interest then turned to the fabrication, the spectroscopy and the laser applications of the rare earth doped laser materials. He is now more particularly involved, in addition to the development of various kinds of diode-pumped solid-state lasers, in the study of rare earth doped bulk and thin films like CaF2 for laser waveguide applications in the IR and the visible spectral domains. He is also currently working on CO2 sensors based on rare earth doped chalcogenide fibers, on the GaN/InN spectroscopy for visible electroluminescent devices and on the spectroscopy of rare earth doped Si nanoclusters for the integrated laser application. He has been an author or a co-author of more than 120 articles in scientific journals with referees’ reports. He has been involved in several contracts among which, in the recent years, one european (ITN RAINBOW) and four ANR (FLUOLASE, OPTIQUE-CO2, DAPHNES and FEMTOCRYBLE) projects. He is co-inventor in the recent Patent WO/2007/057580, which deals with Si nanoclusters/Nd3+ doped waveguides for laser applications, and the patent WO2008104910, which deals with solid state laser device with reduced temperature dependence. |
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BRASSE Gurvan Research Engineer Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.89 gurvan.brasse@ensicaen.fr Dr. Gurvan BRASSE received the M.S. and the Engineer degrees from the Université and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle (ENSCI) of Limoges (France). Then he entered the XLIM laboratory (Limoges) where he received in 2009 a PhD degree in “Materials for Optics and Photonics” for the “Elaboration, microstructural characterization and luminescence study of rare-earth doped nanostructured optical fibers”. After one year at ONERA (Châtillon, France) where he worked as a Post-Doctoral scientist on the “Optoelectronic properties of nanotubes and microcrystals of boron nitrides and carbon” he joined the CIMAP laboratory of Caen where he is now currently working as a full-time physico-chemist Research Engineer of CNRS in the group MIL “Matériaux et Instrumentation laser”. His main field of interest and expertise is in the elaboration and the structural and optical characterizations of the materials by using different techniques. |
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BENAYAD Abdelmjid Engineer Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.72 abdelmjid.benayad@ensicaen.fr Dr. Abdel Benayad received the B.S. and M.S degrees in Materials Science from Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco in 2000. He worked in this university for two years (2000-2002), in the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Measurements, on the Atomic Scale Simulation (ASS) of the diffusion and agglomeration of point defects under high energy electron irradiation. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Sciences at the Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Ferroélectricité of INSA de Lyon, France in 2005. His research was about single crystals with high piezoelectric activities: synthesis, characterization and application. He is currently Chemical Engineer at the CIMAP Laboratory in the group MIL “Matériaux et Instrumentation laser”. His main field of interest and expertise is in the synthesis and the crystal growth of fluorides materials by using different techniques: Bridgman and Czochralski techniques for bulk crystals and LPE (Liquid Phase Epitaxy) for thin films. |
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MENARD Vivien Technician Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.95 vivien.menard@ensicaen.fr Viven Ménard is currently a Technician at the CIMAP Laboratory in the group MIL “Matériaux et Instrumentation laser”. His main field of interest and expertise is in the preparation (orientation, cutting and polishing) of the samples (bulk crystals and thin films) for the spectroscopic and laser applications. He is regularly participating as an expert, within the framework of the MRCT-CNRS research network ROP (Réseau Optique et Photonique http://www.rop.cnrs.fr/), to the training of other technicians of the French research institutions to the delicate polishing of the crystals for various kinds of applications. |
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BOLANOS Western Post-Doc Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.60 western.bolanos@ensicaen.fr Dr. Western Bolanos is Physicist and Master in Physics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Master in Materials Science and Engineering and PhD in Chemistry from the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. During his PhD, he worked on the “Development and characterization of waveguide lasers on monoclinic potassium double tungstates”. In 2011 he joined CIMAP laboratory as a Post-Doctoral researcher. He is currently working on the design, fabrication and characterization of waveguide lasers based on rare earth doped fluorides fabricated by liquid phase epitaxy. |
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STARECKI Florent PhD student Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.62 florent.starecki@ensicaen.fr |
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PELE Anne-Laure PhD student Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.63 anne-laure.pele@ensicaen.fr |
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Vanessa MENEZES MARTINS COFECUB -CAPES PhD student Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.62 |
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LIU Zhe PhD student Xiamen University (China), MoU Xiamen Univ.-Ensicaen Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.62 |
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BRAGA GALLO Ivan COFECUB -CAPES PhD student Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.62 ivangallo@ursa.ifsc.usp.br |
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SERRANO Diana Former PhD student Phone: 33.(0)2.31.45.25.63 diana.serrano@ensicaen.fr |
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SOULARD Rémi Former PhD student remi.soulard@ensicaen.fr |
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XU Bin Former PhD student bin.xu@ensicaen.fr |
