Maître de Conférences, HDR.

(Associate Professor)

Institut d'Optique Graduate School

Course Name: Optics and photonics

CURRICULUM VITAE

TITLES

•       1991 Ingénieur de l’Ecole Supérieure d’Optique, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France           (Master of Science and Engineering at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School)

•       1993 Specialized Master: Intelligence Marketing, at HEC business school, Jouy-en-Josas, France

•       2000 PhD in Physics in the field of Quantum Optics at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France               (Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS, University Paris VI).

•       2008 HDR Thesis (Habilitation to supervise research): “Light Sources for Quantum Information”,

        University Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France.

RESEARCH

•       2000 – 2001 Temporary Assistant Professor at the University Paris VI, Paris, France.

        Research topic: Single photons sources with CdSe nanocrystals (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel).

•       2001 - 2002 Post-doctoral associate at the MIT, Cambridge, USA.

        Research topic: Photon pair production by parametric down-conversion (Research Lab. of Electronics)

•       Since sept. 2002 Associate Professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France

        Permanent member of the Quantum Optics group of the Laboratoire Charles Fabry.

        Research topics: Single photon source and quantum cryptography, Single atom trapping and manipulation for quantum information, Production of pulsed squeezed states of light with atomic vapours, Plasmonic quantum optics. Publications: