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Caroline Boudoux, a full professor in the Engineering Physics Department at Polytechnique Montréal and a member of COPL, would be the first woman from her home university to receive this distinction from Optica. Optica (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge ...

At the end of January 2025, Optica’s Board of Directors elected 121 new members from 27 countries to the Society’s 2025 Fellow Class. Fellows are selected on the basis of several factors, including their outstanding contributions to research, business, teaching, engineering and service to Optica and the community. Among the Fellows is Wei Shi, professor ...

Le professeur Jérôme Genest et le doctorant Mathieu Walsh chercheurs au COPL et l’équipe de Scott Diddams de l’Université du Colorado cosignent un article publié dans la revue Science. L’article intitulé Squeezed dual-comb spectroscopy fait la démonstration d’une technique appelée « quantum squeezing » pour améliorer les performances spectroscopiques de dispositifs de lasers à peigne de fréquence ...

Excellent news for the research teams led by François Légaré, Professor and Director of the Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, and Jinyang Liang, Professor of Laser Technologies and Optical Imaging at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)! Their breakthroughs have been recognized as one of Québec Science’s 10 discoveries of the year. To learn ...

The team supervised by Roberto Morandotti and which the postdoctoral researcher Stefania Sciara is firdt author have succeeded in implementing a quantum key distribution protocol using high-dimensional entangled photons in the time bins, also known as qudits. To read the article on INRS Pressroom: A step closer to even more powerful and secure quantum communications   ...

Congratulations to the Université Laval team, in particular  Jérôme Lapointe, first author of the article, as well as Pr Réal Vallée and Albert Dupont who have succeeded in creating the first miniature optical isolator using an innovative laser inscription approach called spiral–helix filament–enhanced laser writing technique! Read the article in Nature Photonics: Passive broadband Faraday isolator for ...

Félicitations à Pr Réal Vallée, Université Laval et Pr Michel Olivier, Cégep Garneau pour le Prix Acfas Collaboration interordre 2024! Le fruit de leur longue et fructueuse collaboration ayant mené à la conception du premier laser à fibre optique émettant des impulsions ultrabrèves dans la région visible du spectre électromagnétique a été déterminant, mais c’est ...

On the occasion of the 35th anniversary celebration of the strategic cluster and research center, COPL took advantage of the gathering of the research and innovation ecosystem, and the presence of Université Laval President Sophie D’Amours, to intrduce the winner of 2024 Emerging Entrepreneur Award. Launched in the fall, this initiative has received a warm ...

On Monday November 4, COPL welcomed the Quebec photonics research and innovation community to the university where it was born, Université Laval. It was a vibrant event to mark 35 years of research partnerships between research teams from 8 universities and 2 CEGEPs in Quebec, and companies, from well-established ones such as Teraxion, EXFO, Immervision ...

Join us for two days devoted to photonics and quantum sciences on November 4 and 5 at Université Laval. COPL, Quantino, Optonique, and Université Laval (November 4) as well as INO, COPL, INTRIQ, RQMP and CERC in Light-Matter Interactions (November 5)  join forces to bring you two days dedicated to photonics and quantum research and innovation. To view the program and register: Program & registration