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. 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

  1. Experimental demonstration of discrete solitons and their dynamical properties.
  2. Demonstration of Anderson Localisations and band gap structures in waveguide arrays: Leading to a new generation of "affordable" Meta material-like structures.
  3. Kerr spatio-temporal solitons in a planar glass waveguide and liquid crystals, X waves in bi-dispersive media, self-accelerating non-diffractive beams
  4. Ultrafast, extremely low power nonlinear optics in glass and semiconductor integrated waveguides
  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, demonstration of nonlinear wavelength conversion using THz waves, opening the door to new THz characterization techniques, and the demonstration of the first THz Optical Isolator.
  6. Demonstration of multiphoton, multidimensional and cluster complex quantum states using optical micro combs

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