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69
Citations
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World Ranking
967
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26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to Brillouin-based fiber-optic sensors
  • 2011 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions to slow-light research and devices based on stimulated Brillouin scattering and for outstanding leadership and contributions to education.

Overview

Luc Thévenaz is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and physics, with significant contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Thevenaz's work encompasses advanced fiber optic sensors, photonic and optical devices, and advanced fiber laser technologies. Other notable topics include mechanical and optical resonators, photonic crystal and fiber optics, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, and advanced optical sensing technologies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Optics Express
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • 27th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research activity:

  • Observation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Silicon Nitride Integrated Waveguides, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Study on the signal-to-noise ratio of Brillouin optical-time domain analyzers, 2020, Optics Express
  • Distributed optomechanical fiber sensing based on serrodyne analysis, 2021, Optica
  • On the 2D Post-Processing of Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Thevenaz has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Zhisheng Yang, Marcelo A. Soto, Fan Yang, Simon Zaslawski, and Malak Galal.

They have received several awards recognizing their contributions to their field:

  • IEEE Fellow, 2017, for contributions to Brillouin-based fiber-optic sensors
  • OSA Fellow, 2011, for pioneering contributions to slow-light research and devices based on stimulated Brillouin scattering and for leadership in education

Best Publications

  • Brillouin gain spectrum characterization in single-mode optical fibers

    M. Nikles;L. Thevenaz;P.A. Robert

  • Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing for hydrologic systems

    John S. Selker;John S. Selker;Luc Thévenaz;Hendrik Huwald;Alfred Mallet

  • Observation of pulse delaying and advancement in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Kwang Yong Song;Miguel González Herráez;Luc Thévenaz

  • Simple distributed fiber sensor based on Brillouin gain spectrum analysis

    Marc Niklès;Luc Thévenaz;Philippe A. Robert

  • On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Ravi Pant;Christopher Poulton;Hannah MacFarlane;Luc Thevenaz

  • Slow and fast light in optical fibres

    Luc Thévenaz

  • Modeling and evaluating the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

    Marcelo A. Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Wavelength modulation spectroscopy: combined frequency and intensity laser modulation

    Stéphane Schilt;Luc Thévenaz;Philippe Robert

  • Arbitrary-bandwidth Brillouin slow light in optical fibers

    Miguel González Herráez;Kwang Yong Song;Luc Thévenaz

  • Intensifying the response of distributed optical fibre sensors using 2D and 3D image restoration

    Marcelo A. Soto;Jaime A. Ramírez;Luc Thévenaz

  • Optically controlled slow and fast light in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Miguel González-Herráez;Kwang-Yong Song;Luc Thévenaz

  • Simplex-coded BOTDA fiber sensor with 1 m spatial resolution over a 50 km range

    Marcelo A. Soto;Gabriele Bolognini;Fabrizio Di Pasquale;Luc Thévenaz

  • Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

    Marcelo A. Soto;Mehdi Alem;Mohammad Amin Shoaie;Armand Vedadi

  • Vector analysis of stimulated Brillouin scattering amplification in standard single-mode fibers

    Avi Zadok;Elad Zilka;Avishay Eyal;Luc Thévenaz

  • Effect of pulse depletion in a Brillouin optical time-domain analysis system.

    Luc Thévenaz;Stella Foaleng Mafang;Jie Lin

  • High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Long-Range Sensing Using Brillouin Echoes

    Stella M Foaleng;Moshe Tur;Jean-Charles Beugnot;Luc Thevenaz

  • Distributed sensing using stimulated Brillouin scattering : towards ultimate resolution

    A. Fellay;Luc Thévenaz;M. Facchini;M. Niklès

  • Going beyond 1000000 resolved points in a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor: theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration

    Andrey Denisov;Marcelo A Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Distributed shape sensing using Brillouin scattering in multi-core fibers

    Zhiyong Zhao;Marcelo A. Soto;Ming Tang;Luc Thévenaz

  • Long optically controlled delays in optical fibers.

    Kwang Yong Song;Miguel González Herráez;Luc Thévenaz

  • Highly efficient Brillouin slow and fast light using As(2)Se(3) chalcogenide fiber.

    Kwang Yong Song;Kazi S. Abedin;Kazuo Hotate;Miguel González Herráez

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo A. Soto
Marcelo A. Soto Federico Santa María Technical University
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez University of Alcalá
Moshe Tur
Moshe Tur Tel Aviv University
Salvador Sales
Salvador Sales Universitat Politècnica de València
Fritz Vollrath
Fritz Vollrath University of Oxford
José Capmany
José Capmany Universitat Politècnica de València
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider National Institutes of Health
Adrian M. Ionescu
Adrian M. Ionescu École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Francis Berghmans
Francis Berghmans Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Benjamin J. Eggleton
Benjamin J. Eggleton University of Sydney

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