Roberto Morandotti

Roberto Morandotti is a physicist and full Professor, working in the Energy Materials Telecommunications Department of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada). The work of his team includes the areas of integrated and quantum photonics, nonlinear and singular optics, as well as terahertz photonics.

1993: M.Sc. Physics, University of Genoa
1999: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

1999-2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science
2001-2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto
2003-2008: Associate Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec
2008 - FULL Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec

• Excellence Prize for Scholar Merit, Rotary Association
• PhD fellowship, Bilateral UK – Israeli Fund
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) (UK)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Marie Curie European Community Fellowship
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto
• FQRNT (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies) Strategic Professor
• Fellow, Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN)
• Full Member (Fellow), Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
• E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow
• Fellow, OSA (Optical Society of America), for "seminal contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, in particular for the discovery of discrete optical solitons"
• Fellow, SPIE, for "achievements in nonlinear optics and magneto-optics"
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• Fellow of the American Physical Society for "pioneering contributions in discrete optics, nonlinear dynamics, and nonlinear optics in the THz domain"
• NSERC Synergy Award Recipient

1. Experimental demonstration of discrete solitons and their dynamical properties.
2. Demonstration of Anderson Localisations and band gap structures in waveguide arrays: Leading to a new generation of "affordable" Meta material-like structures.
3. Kerr spatio-temporal solitons in a planar glass waveguide (light bullets) and liquid crystals, X waves in bi-dispersive media, self-accelerating non-diffractive beams
4. Ultrafast, extremely low power nonlinear optics in glass and semiconductor integrated waveguides
5. Various contributions in the fields of linear and nonlinear optics in the THz Regime: A state of the art high power THz source to probe the nonlinear interaction of intense few-cycle terahertz pulses, demonstration of nonlinear wavelength conversion using THz waves, opening the door to new THz characterization techniques, and the demonstration of the first THz Optical Isolator.
6. Demonstration of multiphoton, multidimensional and cluster complex quantum states using optical micro combs