Dr. Frédéric Gérôme and Dr. Devang Naik (Glophotonics, France) delivered a seminar on Thursday 21 November 2024 entitled « Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber: going from the lab to the industry » at the University of Limoges.

We also organised two weeks later the visit of the lab of GLOphotonics.

Please find below the short bio of Dr Frédéric Gérôme below.

Biography. Dr. F. Gérôme is a CNRS research director. He received a PhD degree in optical and high-frequency of telecommunications from the University of Limoges (UNILIM) in 2005. His main areas of activity have been involved theory, design and experimental investigation on optical fibers for high-power fiber laser, supercontinuum generation and optical telecommunications. In 2006, he spent two years at the University of Bath as a post-doctoral researcher where he studied hollow-core photonic crystal fibers (HCPCFs) and ultrashort optical pulsed laser. Since 10/2008, he is a CNRS researcher at XLIM Research Institute (UMR CNRS 7252) with the aim to develop a new family of HCPCF and their use in various gas-filled HCPCF based experiments ranging from nonlinear and quantum optics to plasma photonics. In 2012, he became a senior member of the Gas-Phase Photonics and Microwave Materials (GPPMM) research group. In 2015 he won the Jean Jerphagnon Prize and in 2019 the Fabry de Gramont Prize. He has been involved and ensured the scientific responsibility of several projects from the ANR agency, French defense and European grants in the context of many international collaborations (Italy, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, USA or Japan to cite a few). He is supervising several PhD students and post-docs of the GPPMM group. He is also a scientific expert of the spin-out company GLOphotonics (which develops and commercializes HCPCFs and their functionalized form Photonic MicroCells (PMC)) and contributed to its establishment in Limoges. Finally, he has authored or co-authored 80 publications in international journals with referees, more than 260 papers in international conferences and he co-inventors of 6 patent applications with a h-index of 32 (https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=ArRS200AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao).