Camille-Sophie Brès (born 1980) is a French physicist who is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her research considers optical communications and nonlinear processes in optical fibre platforms.

Camille-Sophie Bres
Born
1980 (age 43–44)
Alma materMcGill University
Princeton University
Scientific career
InstitutionsSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
University of California San Diego
ThesisOptical CDMA for access networks : design, demonstration and analysis (2007)

Early life and education

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Brès was born in France.[1] She became interested in physics and maths at a young age, and enjoyed playing with LEGO.[1] She decided to specialise in engineering, and studied electrical engineering at McGill University.[2] She moved to Princeton University for graduate studies, where she developed optical code-division multiple access for networks.[2][3] In 2006, she moved to the University of California, San Diego, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher.[2][4]

Research and career

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In 2011, Brès joined École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as head of the Photonics Systems Laboratory.[5] She was selected[by whom?] as one of 100 important women in Switzerland in 2019.[6] Her research develops fibre and waveguide optics for communications, with a focus on nonlinear optical materials.[7]

Awards and honours

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Selected publications

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  • Marcelo A. Soto; Mehdi Alem; Mohammad Amin Shoaie; Armand Vedadi; Camille-Sophie Brès; Luc Thévenaz; Thomas Schneider (1 January 2013). "Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality". Nature Communications. 4: 2898. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2898S. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS3898. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 3863974. PMID 24301610. Wikidata Q37394277.
  • Darren Rand; Ivan Glesk; Camille-Sophie Brès; et al. (1 February 2007). "Observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in birefringent fiber". Physical Review Letters. 98 (5): 053902. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.053902. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 17358859. Wikidata Q51048331.
  • J B Coles; B P-P Kuo; N Alic; et al. (1 August 2010). "Bandwidth-efficient phase modulation techniques for stimulated Brillouin scattering suppression in fiber optic parametric amplifiers". Optics Express. 18 (17): 18138–18150. doi:10.1364/OE.18.018138. ISSN 1094-4087. PMID 20721202. Wikidata Q46678517.

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