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Sophie LaRochelle

Sophie LaRochelle

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
46
Citations
8509
World Ranking
3386
National Ranking
151

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to fiber devices and data transmission technologies

Overview

Sophie LaRochelle is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada, focusing primarily on engineering, with a notable emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research intersects several subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, materials chemistry, ceramics and composites, and biomedical engineering.

Their scholarly output covers extensive topics such as optical network technologies, photonic and optical devices, advanced fiber optic sensors, photonic crystal and fiber optics, advanced fiber laser technologies, advanced photonic communication systems, and semiconductor lasers and optical devices.

Frequent publication venues for Sophie LaRochelle include:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • Optics Letters
  • Optical Materials Express

Key collaborators in their research efforts include:

  • Younès Messaddeq
  • Leslie A. Rusch
  • Wei Shi
  • V. Fuertes
  • Nicolas Grégoire

Recent papers include the following works:

  • "Real-time gap-free dynamic waveform spectral analysis with nanosecond resolutions through analog signal processing" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Engineering nanoparticle features to tune Rayleigh scattering in nanoparticles-doped optical fibers" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Mach-Zehnder Silicon Photonic Modulator Assisted by Phase-Shifted Bragg Gratings" (2020), published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • "Fuseless side-pump combiner for efficient fluoride-based double-clad fiber pumping" (2020), published in Optics Letters
  • "Widely tunable silicon Raman laser" (2021), published in Optica

Sophie LaRochelle was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2021, recognized for contributions to fiber devices and data transmission technologies.

Best Publications

  • Passive optical fast frequency-hop CDMA communications system

    H. Fathallah;L.A. Rusch;S. LaRochelle

  • Design, fabrication and validation of an OAM fiber supporting 36 states

    Charles Brunet;Pravin Vaity;Younès Messaddeq;Sophie LaRochelle

  • Few-mode fiber with inverse-parabolic graded-index profile for transmission of OAM-carrying modes.

    B. Ung;P. Vaity;L. Wang;Y. Messaddeq

  • Design of a family of ring-core fibers for OAM transmission studies.

    Charles Brunet;Bora Ung;Lixian Wang;Younès Messaddeq

  • Photonic temporal integrator for all-optical computing

    Radan Slavík;Yongwoo Park;Nicolas Ayotte;Serge Doucet

  • Ultrafast pulse-amplitude modulation with a femtojoule silicon photonic modulator

    Raphaël Dubé-Demers;Sophie LaRochelle;Wei Shi

  • Experimental verification and capacity prediction of FE-OCDMA using superimposed FBG

    S. Ayotte;M. Rochette;J. Magne;L.A. Rusch

  • Integrated cladding-pumped multicore few-mode erbium-doped fibre amplifier for space-division-multiplexed communications

    H. Chen;C. Jin;C. Jin;B. Huang;B. Huang;N. K. Fontaine

  • First- and second-order Bragg gratings in single-mode planar waveguides of chalcogenide glasses

    A. Saliminia;A. Villeneuve;T.V. Galstyan;S. LaRochelle

  • All-optical switching of grating transmission using cross-phase modulation in optical fibres

    S. Larochelle;Y. Hibino;V. Mizrahi;G.I. Stegeman

  • Correlation of defect centers with a wavelength-dependent photosensitive response in germania-doped silica optical fibers.

    Kelly D. Simmons;Sophie LaRochelle;Victor Mizrahi;George I. Stegeman

  • Apodized Silicon-on-Insulator Bragg Gratings

    A. D. Simard;N. Belhadj;Y. Painchaud;S. LaRochelle

  • Vector Mode Analysis of Ring-Core Fibers: Design Tools for Spatial Division Multiplexing

    Charles Brunet;Bora Ung;Pierre-Andre Belanger;Younes Messaddeq

  • Experimental demonstration of frequency-encoded optical CDMA using superimposed fiber Bragg gratings

    Julien Magné;D. P. Wei;S. Ayotte;L. A. Rusch

  • Design of eight-mode polarization-maintaining few-mode fiber for multiple-input multiple-output-free spatial division multiplexing.

    Lixian Wang;Sophie LaRochelle

  • All-Optical 500-Mb/s UWB Transceiver: An Experimental Demonstration

    M. Abtahi;M. Mirshafiei;S. LaRochelle;L.A. Rusch

  • High-performance all-fiber Fabry-Perot filters with superimposed chirped Bragg gratings

    R. Slavik;S. Doucet;S. LaRochelle

  • Generation of Power-Efficient FCC-Compliant UWB Waveforms Using FBGs: Analysis and Experiment

    M. Abtahi;J. Magne;M. Mirshafiei;L.A. Rusch

  • Linearly polarized vector modes: enabling MIMO-free mode-division multiplexing

    Lixian Wang;Reza Mirzaei Nejad;Alessandro Corsi;Jiachuan Lin

  • Gain equalization of EDFA's with Bragg gratings

    M. Rochette;M. Guy;S. LaRochelle;J. Lauzon

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie A. Rusch
Leslie A. Rusch Université Laval
Younes Messaddeq
Younes Messaddeq Université Laval
José Azaña
José Azaña Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Lawrence R. Chen
Lawrence R. Chen McGill University
Roland Ryf
Roland Ryf Nokia (United States)
Nicolas K. Fontaine
Nicolas K. Fontaine Nokia (United States)
Martin Rochette
Martin Rochette McGill University
Frédéric Grillot
Frédéric Grillot Télécom ParisTech
Radan Slavik
Radan Slavik University of Southampton
Rene-Jean Essiambre
Rene-Jean Essiambre Nokia (United States)

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