Olivier MartinOlivier J.F. Martin received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In 1989, he joined IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he investigated thermal and optical properties of semiconductor laser diodes. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a research staff member at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 1997 he received a Lecturer fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). During the period 1996-1999, he spent a year and a half in the U.S.A., as invited scientist at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). In 2001 he received a Professorship grant from the SNSF and became Professor of Nano-Optics at the ETHZ. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Nanophotonics and Optical Signal Processing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), where he is currently head of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory and Director of the Microengineering Section.
Luc ThévenazLuc Thévenaz received in 1982 the M.Sc. degree in astrophysics from the Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1988 the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He developed at this moment his field of expertise, i.e. fibre optics. In 1988 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) where he currently leads a research group involved in photonics, namely fibre optics and optical sensing. Research topics include Brillouin-scattering fibre sensors, nonlinear fibre optics, slow & fast light and laser spectroscopy in gases. His main achievements are: - the invention of a novel configuration for distributed Brillouin fibre sensing based on a single laser source, resulting in a high intrinsic stability making for the first time field measurements possible, - the development of a photoacoustic gas trace sensor using a near infra-red semiconductor laser, detecting a gas concentration at the ppb level, - the first experimental demonstration of optically-controlled slow & fast light in optical fibres, realized at ambient temperature and operating at any wavelength since based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. The first negative group velocity of light was also realized in optical fibres using this approach. In 1991, he visited the PUC University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he worked on the generation of picosecond pulses in semiconductor lasers. In 1991-1992 he stayed at Stanford University, USA, where he participated in the development of a Brillouin laser gyroscope. He joined in 1998 the company Orbisphere Laboratories SA in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, as Expert Scientist to develop gas trace sensors based on photoacoustic laser spectroscopy. In 1998 and 1999 he visited the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejon, South Korea, where he worked on fibre laser current sensors. In 2000 he co-founded the spin-off company Omnisens that is developing and commercializing advanced photonic instrumentation. In 2007 he visited Tel Aviv University where he studied the all-optical control of polarization in optical fibres. During winter 2010 he stayed at the University of Sydney where he studied applications of stimulated Brillouin scattering in chalcogenide waveguides. In 2014 he stayed at the Polytechnic University of Valencia where he worked on microwave applications of stimulated Brillouin scattering. He was member of the Consortium in the FP7 European Project GOSPEL "Governing the speed of light", was Chairman of the European COST Action 299 "FIDES: Optical Fibres for New Challenges Facing the Information Society" and is author or co-author of some 480 publications and 12 patents. He is now Coordinator of the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks FINESSE (FIbre NErve Systems for Sensing). He is co-Executive Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Nature Light: Science & Applications" and is Member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor) for the journal "APL Photonics" & "Laser & Photonics Reviews". He is also Fellow of both the IEEE and the Optical Society (OSA).
Pierre JacquotDe nationalité suisse et française, Pierre Jacquot est né en 1947 à Besançon, où il obtient de luniversité de Franche-Comté la maîtrise de physique (1970) et le doctorat en physique (1973). Il est engagé en 1974 au département de génie civil de lEPFL pour développer un laboratoire dédié à l'analyse de déformation de corps solide, fondé sur loptique cohérente, et en particulier l'interférométrie holographique et la métrologie speckle.
La recherche et les mandats le confrontent à des problèmes de détermination du comportement mécanique, de contrôle non destructif, de vérification expérimentale de modèles numériques, de mesure de forme, de caractérisation de propriétés de matériaux, où ces nouvelles techniques optiques prouvent leur efficacité.
En 1978 il est nommé chargé de cours aux départements de génie civil et de physique. Pendant 3 ans, il sera aussi chargé de cours au département de microtechnique. Coordinateur du programme Erasmus Applied optics, il dispense un enseignement de spécialisation à l'Ecole supérieure d'optique, Orsay, à la Scuola di tecnologie ottiche, Nuoro, dans les formations CMOI-SFO et ateliers CNRS Photomécanique, à linstitut CREST de luniversité de Franche-Comté, Belfort. Il est nommé professeur titulaire EPFL en 1996. Il organise à Lausanne la conférence internationale Interferometry in speckle light en 2000. Son groupe et ses activités sont transférés la même année au Laboratoire de métrologie du département délectricité, qui devient en 2003 le Laboratoire de nanophotonique et métrologie.
Ses thèmes de recherche sont les éléments optiques diffractifs, l'analyse numérique d'interférogrammes, l'interférométrie speckle digitale, les méthodes de projection de franges, qui constituent le cadre des sujets de thèse proposés dans son groupe. Les besoins de la pratique orientent ses recherches vers des systèmes capables d'opérer hors du laboratoire, dans les halles d'essais, voire in situ. Dans ce but, il a co-initié le projet Eureka VISILAS d'analyse de déformation de grandes structures dans leur environnement. En collaboration avec lIOA-EPFL, et sous limpulsion de ce dernier, le piégeage et lagrégation optiques à léchelle mésoscopique ont été récemment adjoints aux activités du groupe.
Pierre Jacquot est membre de plusieurs comités scientifiques de conférences et dassociations.
