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2026

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2425
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2016 - OSA Fellows Stéphane Coen University of Auckland, New Zealand For in-depth contributions to the understanding of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers, as well as leading investigations on temporal cavity solitons and identifying their role in microresonator Kerr frequency combs.

Overview

Stéphane Coen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their work spans primarily the fields of Physics and Astronomy and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics; Computer Networks and Communications; and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research covers several main topics, such as:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Coen has published extensively, with recent significant papers including:

  • "Asymmetric balance in symmetry breaking," 2020, Physical Review Research
  • "Ultrashort dissipative Raman solitons in Kerr resonators driven with phase-coherent optical pulses," 2023, Nature Photonics
  • "Harmonic and rational harmonic driving of microresonator soliton frequency combs," 2020, Optica
  • "Breathing dynamics of symmetry-broken temporal cavity solitons in Kerr ring resonators," 2022, Optics Letters
  • "Dissipative Polarization Domain Walls in a Passive Coherently Driven Kerr Resonator," 2021, Physical Review Letters

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Miro Erkintalo
  • Stuart G. Murdoch
  • Yiqing Xu
  • Julien Fatome
  • Gian-Luca Oppo

Coen's research outputs have appeared in numerous publication venues. The most common among these are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Letters
  • OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF)
  • Optica Advanced Photonics Congress 2022

In recognition of their contributions to their field, Coen was awarded the OSA Fellows honor in 2016. The award citation highlights their investigations into supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers and temporal cavity solitons, including their identification of the role these solitons play in microresonator Kerr frequency combs.

Best Publications

  • Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

    John M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Stéphane Coen

  • Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

    Alessia Pasquazi;Alessia Pasquazi;Marco Peccianti;Marco Peccianti;Luca Razzari;David J. Moss;David J. Moss

  • Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer

    François Leo;Stéphane Coen;Pascal Kockaert;Simon-Pierre Gorza

  • Supercontinuum generation by stimulated Raman scattering and parametric four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fibers

    Stéphane Coen;Alvin Hing Lun Chau;Rainer Leonhardt;John D. Harvey

  • Modeling of octave-spanning Kerr frequency combs using a generalized mean-field Lugiato-Lefever model.

    Stéphane Coen;Hamish G Randle;Thibaut Sylvestre;Miro Erkintalo

  • Coherence properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers.

    John M. Dudley;Stéphane Coen

  • Supercontinuum generation in air–silica microstructured fibers with nanosecond and femtosecond pulse pumping

    John M. Dudley;Laurent Provino;Nicolas Grossard;Hervé Maillotte

  • Fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber.

    Kristan L. Corwin;Nathan R. Newbury;J M. Dudley;S. Coen

  • White-light supercontinuum generation with 60-ps pump pulses in a photonic crystal fiber

    Stéphane Coen;Alvin Hing Lun Chau;Rainer Leonhardt;John D. Harvey

  • Cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating analysis of broadband continuum generation in photonic crystal fiber: simulations and experiments.

    John M. Dudley;Xun Gu;Lin Xu;Mark W. Kimmel

  • Fiber supercontinuum sources (Invited)

    Goëry Genty;Stéphane Coen;John M. Dudley

  • Universal scaling laws of Kerr frequency combs.

    Stéphane Coen;Miro Erkintalo

  • Scalar modulation instability in the normal dispersion regime by use of a photonic crystal fiber.

    John D. Harvey;Rainer Leonhardt;Stéphane Coen;Gordon K. L. Wong

  • Ultraweak long-range interactions of solitons observed over astronomical distances

    Jae K. Jang;Miro Erkintalo;Stuart G. Murdoch;Stéphane Coen

  • Dynamics of one-dimensional Kerr cavity solitons.

    François Leo;Lendert Gelens;Philippe Emplit;Marc Haelterman

  • An octave-spanning mid-infrared frequency comb generated in a silicon nanophotonic wire waveguide.

    Bart Kuyken;Takuro Ideguchi;Simon Holzner;Ming Yan

  • Numerical simulations and coherence properties of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers

    J.M. Dudley;S. Coen

  • Modulational instability induced by cavity boundary conditions in a normally dispersive optical fiber

    Stéphane Coen;Marc Haelterman

  • Temporal tweezing of light through the trapping and manipulation of temporal cavity solitons

    Jae K. Jang;Miro Erkintalo;Stéphane Coen;Stuart G. Murdoch

  • Experimental studies of the coherence of microstructure-fiber supercontinuum.

    Xun Gu;Mark Kimmel;Aparna P. Shreenath;Rick Trebino

Frequent Co-Authors

Miro Erkintalo
Miro Erkintalo University of Auckland
Marc Haelterman
Marc Haelterman Université Libre de Bruxelles
Julien Fatome
Julien Fatome University of Burgundy
Thibaut Sylvestre
Thibaut Sylvestre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
John M. Dudley
John M. Dudley University of Franche-Comté
Stefan Wabnitz
Stefan Wabnitz Sapienza University of Rome
Gunther Roelkens
Gunther Roelkens Ghent University
Bertrand Kibler
Bertrand Kibler Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Benjamin J. Eggleton
Benjamin J. Eggleton University of Sydney
Scott A. Diddams
Scott A. Diddams University of Colorado Boulder

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