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De l’électron au photon, le silicium fait sa (seconde) révolution
Laurent VIVIEN, Deputy Director of C2N and head of the Photonics Department, discusses the challenges of using silicon, a reference material in electronics, in an article published on the website The Conversation France. Today, silicon has also become …
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A strategy for ultra-low power saturable absorbers in the mid-infrared
Saturation of the light-matter interaction is an inherent characteristic of the absorption of electromagnetic waves by atoms, semiconductors, and matter in general. In the solid state, the possibility of judiciously controlling saturation phenomena has important consequences for fundamental physics …
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A mechanical frequency comb with an atomically thin material
By efficiently coupling nanoresonators, made up of suspended 2D semiconductor membranes, with an optomechanical platform, physicists from the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (C2N, Université Paris-Saclay / CNRS), in collaboration with researchers from Pennsylvania, produced a coherent mechanical frequency …
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Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS research director at C2N, CNRS silver medal, elected member of the Académie des sciences, physics section
Jacqueline Bloch is an experimental physicist and expert in quantum and nonlinear optics. She is interested in the coupling between light and matter in connection with semiconductor nanotechnologies. By probing the properties of light in optical cavity arrays, Jacqueline Bloch …
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Laëtitia Baringthon awarded the "L'Oréal-UNESCO Jeunes Talents France 2021" Prize for Women in Science
Laëtitia Baringthon, a doctoral student on the CASSIOPÉE light line, in collaboration with Synchrotron Soleil and the CNRS/THALÈS joint physics unit, was awarded the Prix Jeunes Talents France 2021 by the L'Oréal Foundation on 7 October 2021, in conjunction with …
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