Permanent staff researchers and professors:
- Delphine Marris-Morini: Delphine Marris-Morini is a Professor at Paris Sud University. Her research interests at the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies include silicon photonics in the near-IR and mid-IR wavelength range.She received an ERC starting grant (INsPIRE) on Ge-rich photonic integrated chips towards the mid-IR wavelength range for sensing and spectroscopic application. She received the bronze medal from CNRS in 2013. She published over 100 journal papers and she has been in charge of the group of Micro and Nanophotonic devices on silicon from 2015 to 2020.
- Laurent Vivien: Dr Vivien is CNRS Director of Research at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N), a joint Laboratory of CNRS, University of Paris Sud and University of Paris Saclay, France. Since 2016, he has also served as Deputy Director of C2N and Director of the Photonics Department. His research activities focus on the development of fundamental concepts for silicon photonics including optoelectronic and hybrid photonic devices. Especially, he participated to the demonstration of high-speed waveguide integrated germanium photodetectors and carrier depletion based silicon modulators. Dr Vivien has also been at the forefront of the development of hybrid integration of carbon nanotubes on Si photonics platform and recently on high-speed Pockels effect in strained silicon waveguides. In 2015, he received the European Research Council (ERC) grant as consolidator on the development of strained silicon photonics platform.
- Carlos Alonso-Ramos: Carlos Alonso-Ramos obtained his PhD in June 2014 at the Universidad de Málaga, Spain, on the development of high-performance integrated photonic circuits for chip interconnects and next generation coherent transceivers. Currently he is a CNRS researcher in the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N) in Palaiseau, France. His research interest include the study of linear, nonlinear and optomechanical properties of silicon photonics circuits in the near- and mid-infrared for applications in telecom, sensing and quantum.
- Eric Cassan: I have been a professor at the University of Paris-Sud since 2009, involved in silicon photonics for about twenty years. I have worked a lot on the themes of photonic crystals, slow waves, dispersion, etc., and my activity has focused a lot in recent years on hybrid photonics on silicon (CNTs, Erbium doped polymers, chalcogenides, etc.) for nonlinear optics on a chip. I really like computational physics and programming. On this activity or more related to experimental aspects, it is always a pleasure for me to welcome new students interested in research. ORCID_EC; Google_Scholar_EC. In my administrative activities, I am the director of the EOBE doctoral school of the Paris-Saclay university: EOBE doctoral school
Post-doctoral fellows:
- Daniel Benedikovic
- Samuel Serna Otálvaro
- Elena Durán Valdeiglesias: Elena Durán Valdeiglesias received her B. Sc degree in Telecomunications Engineering and her Master’s degree from Universidad de Málaga. She realized a research internship at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) with the Silicon Micro/Nano Photonics group. She received her Ph. D. degree in physics from the University Paris-Saclay in 2019. Her Ph. D. thesis was realized at the Silicon Photonics group, working on the integration of carbon nanotubes onto silicon photonic circuits for the realization of active devices. Currently, she is a post-doctoral fellow in the Silicon Photonics group, being in charge of the development of active devices and non-linear effects based on carbon nanotubes.
PhD candidates:
- Sylvain Guerber
- Dinh Thi Thuy Duong
- Dorian Oser
- Delphin Dodane: Delphin Dodane received his MSE degree (Diplôme d'ingénieur) from Phelma engineering school in Grenoble (France), where he studied nanosciences and in particular Optics and Microelectronics. He also obtained a M.Sc. degree from Paris-Saclay University in Fundamental Optics. He made his research internship at Thales Research & Technology, the research lab of Thales, on the characterization of silicon photonics chips designed for LiDAR applications (within European project PLAT4M). He currently works towards the Ph.D. grade by developing integrated optical phase lock loops on InP chips at Thales, within the European project BlueSpace (H2020, 5GPPP).
- Miguel Montesinos Ballester: I received a B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2015. My B.Sc. thesis was devoted to Lithium Niobate fabrication processes in DAS Photonics, S.L. I obtained a M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from UPV in 2017, which thesis was based on graphene saturable absorption in Silicon Nitride waveguides and was carried out in the Photonics Research Group of Gent University as Erasmus Student. I am currently pursuing a PhD based on mid-IR photonic integrated circuits in the Silicon Photonics group of C2N research institute.
- Qiankun Liu: Qiankun Liu received his B.S. from Université de Lorraine in 2014 and Master degree on Nanosciences with specialization in Nanodevices and Nanotechnologies from University Paris Sud (Université Paris Saclay) in 2016. His Master internship was at IEF on “SiGe photonic integrated circuits for mid-infrared sensing applications”. He is now a PhD student working on the same project as his master internship. The main objective of this project is to monolithically integrate optical sensing circuits with spectroscopic system on a graded-index SiGe platform.
- Andrea Quintero
- Alicia Ruiz Caridad: Alicia Ruiz-Caridad received her B. Sc degree in Physics from University of Barcelona (UB) and her Master’s degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from University of Barcelona (UB) and University Paris-Sud. She joined in 2017 the Centre of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N) to do her PhD in the european POPSTAR project. Currently, she is working on rare-earth doping oxides for hybrid integration in silicon photonics platforms.
- Jianhao Zhang: Jianhao Zhang finished his master study at Zhejiang University in 2015 and obtained the Ph.D. degree in photonics from University of Paris Sud and Zhejiang university in 2019. He is going to join C2N as a post-doc researcher and is now working on silicon-based nonlinear photonics, including frequency comb generation and novel light generation schemes. His research interests include nonlinear photonics, cavity opto-mechanics, photonic crystals and interdisciplinary research merging optics and other research fields.
- Maxime Guais
- Ismaël Charlet
- Zhengrui Tu: Zhengrui Tu received his B.S. in photoelectric information engineering (2015) and Master’s degree in optical engineering (2018) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He joined the Silicon Photonics group, C2N in September 2018 as a PhD candidate. Now, his research topic is “Hybrid integration for on-chip optical emission and amplification in the near infrared”.
- Cyrille Barrera
- Christian Lafforgue
- Lucas Deniel
- Thi-Phuong Do: I received my Master's degree from the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (Vietnam). Currently, I'm a Ph.D. student working in collaboration with LPQM (Laboratoire de photonique quantique et moléculaire, ENS Paris Saclay). My thesis focuses on the integration of silicon ring resonators into optoelectronic oscillator systems, for application in microwave signal generation and sensing detection.
Alumni
- Guillaume Marcaud
- Vladyslav Vakarin
- Thi-Nhung Vu
- Mathias Berciano
- Maurin Douix
- Nicolàs Abadia
- Léopold Virot
- Mohamed-Saïd Rouifed
- Adrien Noury
- Charles Caër
- Marco Lamponi
- Khanh Van Do
- Alexandre Beck
- Gilles Rasigade
- Johann Osmond
- Etienne Gaufrès
- Fabien Mandorlo
- A. Abraham
- Guillaume Levaufre
- Jihua Zhang
- Thi Hong Cam Hoang
- Pedro Damas
- Melissa Ziebell
- Yameng Xu
- Robert Polster
- Weiwei Zhang
- Diego Perez-Galacho
- Papichaya Chaisakul
- Joan-Manel Ramirez