Dr. Sébastien Vergnole (Alphanov, France) delivered a seminar on Thursday 05 December 2024 entitled « An Overview of the photonics industry » at the University of Limoges.

Abstract. Photonics is the science and technology of light. Photonics is one of the Key Enabling Technologies that has been put forward by the European Union, which means that Europe prioritizes research and innovation support on this topic. This seminar presents this technology and all the opportunities around photonics in the industry.

Biography. Sébastien Vergnole received an engineering school diploma in Physics from “Centrale Marseille” (France) in 2001, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Limoges (France) in 2002 and 2005. At that time, he was with the Photonics team of the Xlim laboratory and his research interest was stellar interferometry: particularly, he worked on the potential of using photonics crystal fibers in this field and on the instrumental part of the `OHANA project. Characterization of the chromatic dispersion was one of the main aspects of his studies.

From 2005 to April 2011, he was a research associate with the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada in Boucherville (Québec, Canada). His main field of research was optical coherence tomography (OCT) and more specially Fourier domain OCT, the 2nd generation OCT system. He has been involved mainly in instrumentation and signal processing challenges.

From June 2011 to July 2019, he has been working with Horiba Scientific (Jobin-Yvon) in Villeneuve d’Ascq (France) working on Raman spectroscopy first as a project leader with the R&D team, then as a product manager.

Since 2019, he has been working with ALPhANOV (Bordeaux and Limoges, France) a Research and Technology Organization dealing with optics and lasers.