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Romuald Houdré is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans areas within physics and engineering, with a primary focus on atomic and molecular physics, optics, and biomedical engineering. They have contributed significantly to several subfields including statistical and nonlinear physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and ecology.

Their work addresses a variety of scientific topics such as orbital angular momentum in optics, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, photonic and optical devices, nonlinear photonic systems, laser-matter interactions and applications, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, and optical coatings and gratings.

Romuald Houdré's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • "Doubly resonant second-harmonic generation of a vortex beam from a bound state in the continuum" (2020), published in Optica
  • "Optical Trapping and Fast Discrimination of Label-Free Bacteriophages at the Single Virion Level" (2024), published in Small
  • "Strain engineering and strain measurement by spring tethers on suspended epitaxial GaN-on-Si photonic crystal devices" (2024), published in Semiconductor Science and Technology
  • "Monitoring of Single-Cell Bacterial Lysis by Phages Within Integrated Optical Traps" (2025), published in Advanced Optical Materials
  • "Doubly Resonant Second Harmonic Generation in Photonic Crystal Cavities via Bound States in the Continuum" (2020), published in Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science

Frequent coauthors in their research include Nicolas Villa, Pierre R. Marcoux, E. Hadji, Jun Wang, and Marco Clementi. The scientist's publications appear across diverse venues such as Optica, Small, Semiconductor Science and Technology, Advanced Optical Materials, and Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science.

Their research integrates advanced photonic and optical device engineering with biophysical applications, particularly focusing on interactions at the single-virion and cellular level. This interdisciplinary approach highlights the connection between optics, materials science, and microbiology in their work.

Best Publications

  • Superfluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

    Alberto Amo;Jérôme Lefrère;Simon Pigeon;Claire Adrados

  • All-optical polariton transistor

    D. Ballarini;M. De Giorgi;E. Cancellieri;R. Houdre

  • Measurement of cavity-polariton dispersion curve from angle resolved photoluminescence experiments.

    R. Houdré;C. Weisbuch;C. Weisbuch;R. P. Stanley;U. Oesterle

  • Polariton Superfluids Reveal Quantum Hydrodynamic Solitons

    A. Amo;A. Amo;S. Pigeon;D. Sanvitto;V. G. Sala

  • Exciton–polariton spin switches

    A. Amo;T. C. H. Liew;C. Adrados;R. Houdré

  • Off-chip beam steering with a one-dimensional optical phased array on silicon-on-insulator

    Karel Van Acoleyen;Wim Bogaerts;Jana Jágerská;Nicolas Le Thomas

  • Vacuum-field Rabi splitting in the presence of inhomogeneous broadening: resolution of a homogeneous linewidth in an inhomogeneously broadened system

    R. Houdré;R. P. Stanley;M. Ilegems

  • Hydrodynamic solitons in polariton superfluids

    A. Amo;S. Pigeon;D. Sanvitto;V. G. Sala

  • Optical and confinement properties of two-dimensional photonic crystals

    H. Benisty;C. Weisbuch;D. Labilloy;M. Rattier

  • Optical investigation of highly strained InGaAs‐GaAs multiple quantum wells

    G. Ji;D. Huang;U. K. Reddy;T. S. Henderson

  • Saturation of the strong-coupling regime in a semiconductor microcavity: Free-carrier bleaching of cavity polaritons

    R. Houdré;J. L. Gibernon;P. Pellandini;R. P. Stanley

  • Room-temperature cavity polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity

    R. Houdré;R. P. Stanley;U. Oesterle;M. Ilegems

  • Quantitative Measurement of Transmission, Reflection, and Diffraction of Two-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Structures at Near-Infrared Wavelengths

    D. Labilloy;H. Benisty;C. Weisbuch;T. F. Krauss

  • Low-loss channel waveguides with two-dimensional photonic crystal boundaries

    C. J. M. Smith;H. Benisty;S. Olivier;M. Rattier

  • Confined Electrons and Photons

    C. Weisbuch;H. Benisty;D. Labilloy;R. Houdré

  • Refractive index sensing with an air-slot photonic crystal nanocavity

    Jana Jágerská;Hua Zhang;Zhaolu Diao;Nicolas Le Thomas

  • Self-collimating photonic crystal polarization beam splitter

    V Zabelin;L A Dunbar;N Le Thomas;R Houdré

  • Miniband transmission in a photonic crystal coupled-resonator optical waveguide.

    S. Olivier;C.J.M. Smith;M. Rattier;H. Benisty

  • Laser à semiconducteurs

    Romuald Houdre;Claude Weisbuch;Vincent Berger

  • Super fluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

    Alberto Amo;Jérôme Lefrère;Simon Pigeon;Claire Adrados

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Krauss
Thomas F. Krauss University of York
Marc Ilegems
Marc Ilegems École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Claude Weisbuch
Claude Weisbuch University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrea Fiore
Andrea Fiore Eindhoven University of Technology
Jérôme Faist
Jérôme Faist ETH Zurich
Alfred Forchel
Alfred Forchel University of Würzburg
R.M. De La Rue
R.M. De La Rue University of Glasgow
Cristiano Ciuti
Cristiano Ciuti Université Paris Cité
Lianhe Li
Lianhe Li University of Leeds
Hadis Morkoç
Hadis Morkoç Virginia Commonwealth University

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