Julien Laurat
Professor
Physics Department
Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)
France
Biography
Since 2007 : Associate (2007-2012) then Full Professor (2013-present) at UPMC, Researcher at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Member of the Institut Universitaire de France Experimental and theoretical researches to develop the scientific and technical abilities for the realization of quantum networks with applications to the distribution and processing of quantum information. It includes the development of light-matter interfaces for quantum data storage and processing, the characterization and manipulation of various non-classical states of light, and the implementation of networking protocols using these resources. 2005-2007 : Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech, in H.J. Kimble group, Marie Curie fellow. Light-matter interaction at the quantum level by interfacing atomic ensembles and single photons. First demonstrations of rudimentary networks based on DLCZ. 2004-2005 : Postdoctoral Scholar at Insitut d’Optique-Graduate School, in Ph. Grangier group. Optical Schrödinger cat states for quantum information processing. 2001-2004 : PhD in Quantum Optics at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, under the supervision of Prof. C. Fabre. Optical parametric oscillators (OPO) for the generation and characterization of non-classical states of light (i.e. squeezing, entanglement) in the continuous-variable (CV) regime.Thesis link
Research Interest
Non-linear and Quantum optics, Quantum information and networks, Light-matter interfacing, Nanophotonics
Publications
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– Optical synthesis of large-amplitude squeezed coherent-state coherent superpositions K. Huang, H. Le Jeannic, J. Ruaudel, V.B. Verma, M.D. Shaw, F. Marsili, S.W. Nam, E Wu, H. Zeng, Y.C. Jeong, R. Filip, O. Morin, J. Laurat Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 023602 (2015)
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– Demonstration of a memory for tightly guided light in an optical nanofiber B. Gouraud, D. Maxein, A. Nicolas, O. Morin, J. Laurat Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 180503 (2015)
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– Storage and retrieval of vector beams of light in a multiple-degree-of freedom quantum memory V. Parigi, V. D’Ambrosio*, C. Arnold*, L. Marrucci, F. Sciarrino, J. Laurat Nature Commun. 6, 7706 (2015)
