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Roberto Morandotti

Roberto Morandotti is a physicist and full Professor, working in the Energy Materials Telecommunications Department of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada). The work of his team includes the areas of integrated and quantum photonics, nonlinear and singular optics, as well as terahertz photonics.

Roberto Morandotti
NationalityItalian, Canadian
AwardsFellow, American Physical Society (2014)
Fellow, Institute of Physics (2014)
Fellow, IEEE (2021)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012)
Fellow, SPIE (2012)
Fellow, OSA (2011)
Fellow, AAAS (2020)
NSERC Fellow, E.W.R. Steacie Memorial (2011)
NSERC Synergy Award Recipient(2019)
NSERC Brockhouse Award Recipient(2020)
Marie-Victorin Award Recipient(2022)
Urgel-Archambault Award Recipient (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist and Electrical Engineering
InstitutionsInstitut national de la recherche scientifique
WebsiteNonlinear Photonics Group
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Educational background

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1993: M.Sc. Physics, University of Genoa
1999: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

Professional background

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1999-2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science
2001-2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto
2003-2008: Associate Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec
2008 - : Full Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec

Professional recognition, honors and awards

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Most important scientific contributions

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  1. Experimental demonstration of discrete solitons and their dynamical properties.[1][2][3]
  2. Demonstration of Anderson Localisations and band gap structures in waveguide arrays.[4]
  3. Kerr spatio-temporal solitons in a planar glass waveguide (light bullets) and liquid crystals, X waves in bi-dispersive media, self-accelerating non-diffractive beams[5][6][7][8]
  4. Ultrafast, extremely low power nonlinear optics in glass and semiconductor integrated waveguides[9][10]
  5. Various contributions in the fields of linear and nonlinear optics in the THz Regime: A state of the art high power THz source to probe the nonlinear interaction of intense few-cycle terahertz pulses,[11] demonstration of nonlinear wavelength conversion using THz waves, of new THz characterization techniques,[12] including the first THz Optical Isolator.[13]
  6. Demonstration of multiphoton, multidimensional and cluster complex quantum states using optical micro combs[14][15][16]

References

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  1. ^ Eisenberg, H. S.; Silberberg, Y.; Morandotti, R.; Boyd, A. R.; Aitchison, J. S. (19 October 1998). "Discrete Spatial Optical Solitons in Waveguide Arrays". Physical Review Letters. 81 (16). American Physical Society (APS): 3383–3386. Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81.3383E. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.81.3383. ISSN 0031-9007.
  2. ^ Morandotti, R.; Peschel, U.; Aitchison, J. S.; Eisenberg, H. S.; Silberberg, Y. (4 October 1999). "Dynamics of Discrete Solitons in Optical Waveguide Arrays". Physical Review Letters. 83 (14). American Physical Society (APS): 2726–2729. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.2726M. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.83.2726. ISSN 0031-9007.
  3. ^ Suntsov, S.; Makris, K. G.; Christodoulides, D. N.; Stegeman, G. I.; Haché, A.; Morandotti, R.; Yang, H.; Salamo, G.; Sorel, M. (13 February 2006). "Observation of Discrete Surface Solitons". Physical Review Letters. 96 (6). American Physical Society (APS): 063901. Bibcode:2006PhRvL..96f3901S. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.96.063901. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 16605995.
  4. ^ Lahini, Yoav; Avidan, Assaf; Pozzi, Francesca; Sorel, Marc; Morandotti, Roberto; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.; Silberberg, Yaron (10 January 2008). "Anderson Localization and Nonlinearity in One-Dimensional Disordered Photonic Lattices". Physical Review Letters. 100 (1): 013906. arXiv:0704.3788. Bibcode:2008PhRvL.100a3906L. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.013906. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 18232768. S2CID 6376064.
  5. ^ Burgess, Ian B.; Peccianti, Marco; Assanto, Gaetano; Morandotti, Roberto (19 May 2009). "Accessible Light Bullets via Synergetic Nonlinearities". Physical Review Letters. 102 (20). American Physical Society (APS): 203903. arXiv:0902.0962. Bibcode:2009PhRvL.102t3903B. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.203903. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 19519029. S2CID 20877495.
  6. ^ Peccianti, Marco; Burgess, Ian B.; Assanto, Gaetano; Morandotti, Roberto (10 March 2010). "Space-time bullet trains via modulation instability and nonlocal solitons". Optics Express. 18 (6). The Optical Society: 5934–41. Bibcode:2010OExpr..18.5934P. doi:10.1364/oe.18.005934. ISSN 1094-4087. PMID 20389612.
  7. ^ Hudson, Darren D.; Kutz, J. Nathan; Schibli, Thomas R.; Chao, Qing; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.; Morandotti, Roberto; Cundiff, Steven T. (30 March 2012). "Fixed-point attractor for chirp in nonlinear waveguide arrays". Physical Review A. 85 (3). American Physical Society (APS): 031806(R). Bibcode:2012PhRvA..85c1806H. doi:10.1103/physreva.85.031806. ISSN 1050-2947.
  8. ^ Al-Naib, I.; Singh, R.; Shalaby, M.; Ozaki, T.; Morandotti, R. (2013). "Enhanced Q-factor in Optimally Coupled Macrocell THz Metamaterials: Effect of Spatial Arrangement". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 19 (1). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): 8400807. Bibcode:2013IJSTQ..1900807A. doi:10.1109/jstqe.2012.2202639. ISSN 1077-260X. S2CID 26334909.
  9. ^ Ferrera, M.; Razzari, L.; Duchesne, D.; Morandotti, R.; Yang, Z.; Liscidini, M.; Sipe, J. E.; Chu, S.; Little, B. E.; Moss, D. J. (23 November 2008). "Low-power continuous-wave nonlinear optics in doped silica glass integrated waveguide structures". Nature Photonics. 2 (12). Springer Nature: 737–740. arXiv:2103.00351. Bibcode:2008NaPho...2..737F. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.228. ISSN 1749-4885. S2CID 121687555.
  10. ^ Razzari, L.; Duchesne, D.; Ferrera, M.; Morandotti, R.; Chu, S.; Little, B. E.; Moss, D. J. (20 December 2009). "CMOS-compatible integrated optical hyper-parametric oscillator". Nature Photonics. 4 (1). Springer Nature: 41–45. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.236. ISSN 1749-4885.
  11. ^ Clerici, Matteo; Peccianti, Marco; Schmidt, Bruno E.; Caspani, Lucia; Shalaby, Mostafa; Giguère, Mathieu; Lotti, Antonio; Couairon, Arnaud; Légaré, François; Ozaki, Tsuneyuki; Faccio, Daniele; Morandotti, Roberto (17 June 2013). "Wavelength Scaling of Terahertz Generation by Gas Ionization". Physical Review Letters. 110 (25). American Physical Society (APS): 253901. Bibcode:2013PhRvL.110y3901C. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.110.253901. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 23829737.
  12. ^ Al-Naib, Ibraheem; Hebestreit, Erik; Rockstuhl, Carsten; Lederer, Falk; Christodoulides, Demetrios; Ozaki, Tsuneyuki; Morandotti, Roberto (9 May 2014). "Conductive Coupling of Split Ring Resonators: A Path to THz Metamaterials with Ultrasharp Resonances". Physical Review Letters. 112 (18). American Physical Society (APS): 183903. Bibcode:2014PhRvL.112r3903A. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.112.183903. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 24856698. S2CID 33229981.
  13. ^ Shalaby, Mostafa; Peccianti, Marco; Ozturk, Yavuz; Morandotti, Roberto (5 March 2013). "A magnetic non-reciprocal isolator for broadband terahertz operation". Nature Communications. 4 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1558. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.1558S. doi:10.1038/ncomms2572. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 3615378. PMID 23463001.
  14. ^ Kues, M.; Reimer, C.; Roztocki, P.; Cortés, L.; Sciara, S.; Wetzel, B.; Zhang, Y.; Cino, A.; Chu, S.T.; Little, B.E.; Moss, D.J.; Caspani, L.; Azaña, J.; Morandotti, R. (29 June 2017). "On-chip Generation of High-Dimensional Entangled Quantum States and their Coherent Control" (PDF). Nature. 546 (7660). Nature Research: 622–626. Bibcode:2017Natur.546..622K. doi:10.1038/nature22986. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 28658228. S2CID 4456390.
  15. ^ Reimer, C.; Kues, M.; Roztocki, P.; Wetzel, B.; Grazioso, F.; Little, B.E.; Chu, S.T.; Johnston, T.; Bromberg, Y.; Caspani, L.; Moss, D.J.; Morandotti, R. (11 March 2016). "Generation of Multiphoton Entangled Quantum States by Means of Integrated Frequency Combs". Science. 351 (6278). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1176–1180. Bibcode:2016Sci...351.1176R. doi:10.1126/science.aad8532. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 26965623.
  16. ^ Reimer, C.; Sciara, S.; Roztocki, P.; Islam, M.; Cortés, L.; Zhang, Y.; Fischer, B.; Loranger, S.; Kashyap, R.; Cino, A.; Chu, S.T.; Little, B.E.; Moss, D.J.; Caspani, L.; Munro, W.; Azaña, J.; Kues, M.; Morandotti, R. (3 December 2018). "High-dimensional One-way Quantum Processing Implemented on D-level Cluster States" (PDF). Nature Physics. 15 (2). Nature Research: 148–153. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0347-x. S2CID 125513779.
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