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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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Nicola Carlon Zambon, recipient of the C'NANO IDF 2020 Thesis Prize - EDOM Thesis Prize

Nicola (Titta) Carlon Zambon obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics at the University of Padova, Italy. For his final master project, he joined Jaqueline Bloch's group at C2N (formerly LPN) to study nonlinear phenomena occurring in microcavities …

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