Jean-Noël Maran


TRIBUTE AWARD 2021 - President and CEO of Coractive

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President and CEO, Coractive

Coractive is a Quebec-based company founded in 1998, specializing in the design and manufacture of fiber optics, in addition to offering a range of fiber lasers to customers in the industrial, telecommunications, detection (LiDAR), medical and scientific markets.

Academic background

  • Master’s degree and doctorate from Université Laval and ENSSAT (Université de Rennes 1, France).
    • His thesis focused on the physics and dynamics of fiber lasers perturbed by the introduction of a frequency shift in the cavity to induce multi-frequency emission.
  • Postdoctoral position at the Laser Research Institute in South Africa.
  • Postdoctoral position at the Optoelectronic Research Center (ORC) in Southampton.