Roberto Morandotti Explained

Roberto Morandotti
Nationality:Italian, Canadian
Fields:Physicist and Electrical Engineering
Workplaces:Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Awards:Fellow, 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)
Website:Nonlinear Photonics Group
Footnotes:Google scholar page of 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.

Educational background

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

Professional background

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

Most important scientific contributions

  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

  1. Eisenberg . H. S. . Silberberg . Y. . Morandotti . R. . Boyd . A. R. . Aitchison . J. S. . Discrete Spatial Optical Solitons in Waveguide Arrays . Physical Review Letters . American Physical Society (APS) . 81 . 16 . 1998-10-19 . 0031-9007 . 10.1103/physrevlett.81.3383 . 3383–3386. 1998PhRvL..81.3383E .
  2. Morandotti . R. . Peschel . U. . Aitchison . J. S. . Eisenberg . H. S. . Silberberg . Y. . Dynamics of Discrete Solitons in Optical Waveguide Arrays . Physical Review Letters . American Physical Society (APS) . 83 . 14 . 1999-10-04 . 0031-9007 . 10.1103/physrevlett.83.2726 . 2726–2729. 1999PhRvL..83.2726M .
  3. Suntsov . S. . Makris . K. G. . Christodoulides . D. N. . Stegeman . G. I. . Haché . A. . Morandotti . R. . Yang . H. . Salamo . G. . Sorel . M. . Observation of Discrete Surface Solitons . Physical Review Letters . American Physical Society (APS) . 96 . 6 . 2006-02-13 . 0031-9007 . 10.1103/physrevlett.96.063901 . 063901. 16605995 . 2006PhRvL..96f3901S .
  4. Lahini . Yoav . Avidan . Assaf . Pozzi . Francesca . Sorel . Marc . Morandotti . Roberto . Christodoulides . Demetrios N. . Silberberg . Yaron . Anderson Localization and Nonlinearity in One-Dimensional Disordered Photonic Lattices . Physical Review Letters . 100 . 1 . 2008-01-10 . 0031-9007 . 10.1103/physrevlett.100.013906 . 013906. 18232768 . 2008PhRvL.100a3906L . 0704.3788 . 6376064 .
  5. Burgess . Ian B. . Peccianti . Marco . Assanto . Gaetano . Morandotti . Roberto . Accessible Light Bullets via Synergetic Nonlinearities . Physical Review Letters . American Physical Society (APS) . 102 . 20 . 2009-05-19 . 0031-9007 . 10.1103/physrevlett.102.203903 . 19519029 . 203903. 0902.0962 . 2009PhRvL.102t3903B . 20877495 .
  6. Peccianti . Marco . Burgess . Ian B. . Assanto . Gaetano . Morandotti . Roberto . Space-time bullet trains via modulation instability and nonlocal solitons . Optics Express . The Optical Society . 18 . 6 . 2010-03-10 . 5934–41 . 1094-4087 . 10.1364/oe.18.005934 . 20389612 . free. 2010OExpr..18.5934P .
  7. Hudson . Darren D. . Kutz . J. Nathan . J. Nathan Kutz. Schibli . Thomas R. . Chao . Qing . Christodoulides . Demetrios N. . Morandotti . Roberto . Cundiff . Steven T. . Fixed-point attractor for chirp in nonlinear waveguide arrays . Physical Review A . American Physical Society (APS) . 85 . 3 . 2012-03-30 . 1050-2947 . 10.1103/physreva.85.031806 . 031806(R). 2012PhRvA..85c1806H .
  8. Al-Naib . I. . Singh . R. . Shalaby . M. . Ozaki . T. . Morandotti . R. . Enhanced Q-factor in Optimally Coupled Macrocell THz Metamaterials: Effect of Spatial Arrangement . IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) . 19 . 1 . 2013 . 1077-260X . 10.1109/jstqe.2012.2202639 . 8400807. 2013IJSTQ..1900807A . 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. . Low-power continuous-wave nonlinear optics in doped silica glass integrated waveguide structures . Nature Photonics . Springer Nature . 2 . 12 . 2008-11-23 . 1749-4885 . 10.1038/nphoton.2008.228 . 737–740. 2008NaPho...2..737F . 2103.00351 . 121687555 .
  10. Razzari . L. . Duchesne . D. . Ferrera . M. . Morandotti . R. . Chu . S. . Little . B. E. . Moss . D. J. . CMOS-compatible integrated optical hyper-parametric oscillator . Nature Photonics . Springer Nature . 4 . 1 . 2009-12-20 . 1749-4885 . 10.1038/nphoton.2009.236 . 41–45.
  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 . Wavelength Scaling of Terahertz Generation by Gas Ionization . Physical Review Letters . American Physical Society (APS) . 110 . 25 . 2013-06-17 . 0031-9007 . 10.1103/physrevlett.110.253901 . 253901. 23829737 . 2013PhRvL.110y3901C .
  12. Al-Naib . Ibraheem . Hebestreit . Erik . Rockstuhl . Carsten . Lederer . Falk . Christodoulides . Demetrios . Ozaki . Tsuneyuki . Morandotti . Roberto . Conductive Coupling of Split Ring Resonators: A Path to THz Metamaterials with Ultrasharp Resonances . Physical Review Letters . American Physical Society (APS) . 112 . 18 . 2014-05-09 . 0031-9007 . 10.1103/physrevlett.112.183903 . 183903. 24856698 . 2014PhRvL.112r3903A . 33229981 .
  13. Shalaby . Mostafa . Peccianti . Marco . Ozturk . Yavuz . Morandotti . Roberto . A magnetic non-reciprocal isolator for broadband terahertz operation . Nature Communications . Springer Science and Business Media LLC . 4 . 1 . 2013-03-05 . 2041-1723 . 10.1038/ncomms2572 . 23463001 . 3615378 . 1558. free. 2013NatCo...4.1558S .
  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. . On-chip Generation of High-Dimensional Entangled Quantum States and their Coherent Control . Nature . Nature Research . 546 . 2017-06-29 . 7660 . 2041-1723 . 10.1038/nature22986 . 28658228 . 622–626 . 2017Natur.546..622K . 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. . Generation of Multiphoton Entangled Quantum States by Means of Integrated Frequency Combs . Science . American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) . 351 . 6278 . 2016-03-11 . 1095-9203 . 10.1126/science.aad8532 . 1176–1180 . 26965623 . free . 2016Sci...351.1176R .
  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. . High-dimensional One-way Quantum Processing Implemented on D-level Cluster States . Nature Physics . Nature Research . 15 . 2 . 2018-12-03 . 10.1038/s41567-018-0347-x . 148–153 . 125513779 .

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