Professional Affiliations

• Département de physique, de génie physique et d’optique
• Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Liquid Crystals and Behavioral Biophotonics

Research axes

Photonic Materials

Optical fibers and devices

Biophotonics

Ongoing projects

• Fiber-optic sensors
• Light scattering by composite materials, nanostructured surfaces, and organic tissues
• Adaptive imaging with polarization discrimination
• Liquid crystals stabilized by miscible and functional polymers for electro-optical applications
• Nanostructured liquid crystals stabilized by polymerization

Key Contributions:
Anisotropic photo wetting effect
Thin variable focus liquid crystal lens
Light-driven molecular motor
Discotic photo anisotropic defect formation in glasses
Light field mass transport and surface holographic gratings in glasses
Optical control of ferroelectric hysteresis in FLC
Near infra-red holographic materials
Nonlinear Goos-Hânchen shift
Non-blazed asymmetric diffraction effect
Optical self-organizing neuron
Polarization holography and phase conjugation in polymers and LCs

Research teams

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