Dr. Thibaut Sylvestre Profile

Dr. Thibaut Sylvestre

Senior Researcher at FEMTO-ST

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Nonlinear Optics , Fiber lasers , Fiber Optics , Brillouin scattering

Publications (23)

Proceedings Article | 17 March 2023 Presentation

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Supercontinuum generation in 800nm thick ultra-low loss silicon nitride waveguides

Yijun Yang, Christian Lafforgue, Quentin Wilmart, Thibaut Sylvestre, Sylvain Guerber, Xavier Le Roux, Eric Cassan, Delphine Marris-Morini, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Bertrand Szelag, Laurent Vivien

Proceedings Volume PC12425, PC1242502 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2657444

KEYWORDS: Supercontinuum generation, Waveguides, Silicon, Integrated photonics, Visible radiation, Spectroscopy, Solitons, Semiconductor lasers, Optical sensing, Optical communications

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Proceedings Article | 30 May 2022 Presentation

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Recent progress in fiber-based supercontinuum sources

Thibaut Sylvestre, Etienne Genier, Amar Ghosh, Patrick Bowen, Goery Genty, Johann Troles, Arnaud Mussot, Anna Peacock, Mariusz Klimczak, Alexander Heidt, John Travers, Ole Bang, John Dudley

Proceedings Volume PC12142, PC121420R (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2622303

KEYWORDS: Ultraviolet radiation, Supercontinuum sources, Mid-IR, Supercontinuum generation, Specialty optical fibers, Silicon, Optical fibers, Chalcogenides

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Proceedings Article | 19 May 2022 Presentation + Paper

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Modal analysis and experimental study of multimode graded-index microstructured fibres for highly efficient supercontinuum generation

Fathima Shabana M.A., Vincent Tombelaine, Guillaume Huss, Amar Nath Ghosh, Thibaut Sylvestre, Jean-Louis Auguste, François Reynaud, Philippe Leproux

Proceedings Volume 12140, 1214003 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2624459

KEYWORDS: Supercontinuum generation, Optical fibers, Birefringence, Polarization, Terahertz radiation, Dispersion, Sum-frequency generation, Refractive index, Photonic crystal fibers, Multimode fibers

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Microstructured optical fibres (MOFs), also known as Photonic Crystal Fibres (PCFs) or Holey Fibres (HFs), play an important role in supercontinuum generation because of their high nonlinearity and ability to tailor the dispersion profile. Nowadays, studies have extended to the multimode environment to enhance spectral broadening by taking advantage of various intermodal nonlinear effects. Recently, it has been shown that these types of fibres can also be able to provide spatially cleaned output beams through a novel nonlinear spatial effect called Kerr-induced beam self-cleaning (KBSC), which makes these fibres suitable for a variety of multimode-based applications. In this paper, a full modal analysis of germanium (Ge)-doped graded-index multimode PCFs with different geometrical sizes is provided. The influence of fibre size on modal properties, such as effective refractive index, birefringence and dispersion, was investigated using the finite element method. It was found that the changes in the geometric parameters can significantly affect the modal properties and then the frequency generation and spectral broadening. Experimentally, high-efficiency frequency generation with different frequency detunings was obtained in a short length of each PCF by launching input pulses at 1064 nm pump wavelength. For longer fibre length and high input power, supercontinuum generation with improved broadening from visible to near IR by intermodal four-wave mixing and stimulated Raman scattering was observed in all PCFs. A study of the effect of input peak power, input polarization axis and fibre length on supercontinuum spectrum is presented. Experimental evidence of the KBSC effect as a function of various fibre and laser parameters is also reported. The evolution of spatial output beam pattern from higher-order mode to fundamental mode with low-peak-power self-cleaning threshold was observed for all the fibres by launching a 1064 nm pump laser with 1 ns pulse duration.

Proceedings Article | 1 April 2022 Presentation

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Real-time measurements of incoherent instabilities and rogue waves in an extreme broadband dissipative soliton laser

Fanchao Meng, Coraline Lapre, Cyril Billet, Thibault Sylvestre, Jean-Marc Merolla, Christophe Finot, Sergei Turitsyn, Goëry Genty, John Dudley

Proceedings Volume PC11986, PC1198604 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2609307

KEYWORDS: Solitons, Pulsed laser operation, Computer simulations, Supercontinuum generation, Pollution control, Physics, Photonics, Optical simulations, Optical fibers, Nonlinear optics

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Proceedings Article | 6 April 2020 Paper

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Evanescent Kerr effect in liquid-immersed optical nanofibers

Gil Fanjoux, Jacques Chretien, Adrien Godet, Kien Phan-Huy, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Thibaut Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 11358, 1135803 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2556093

KEYWORDS: Nanofibers, Kerr effect, Liquids, Silica, Bioalcohols, Cladding, Raman spectroscopy, Raman scattering, Nonlinear optics, Water

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Proceedings Article | 1 April 2020 Presentation

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Real-time measurement of soliton-similariton explosions and intermittence instabilities in a mode-locked fibre laser (Conference Presentation)

Coraline Lapre, Cyril Billet, Fanchao Meng, Piotr Ryczkowski, Thibaut Sylvestre, Christophe Finot, Goery Genty, John Dudley

Proceedings Volume 11358, 113580P (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2554699

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Ultrafast mode-locked lasers are well-known to display a rich variety of unstable dissipative soliton dynamics resulting from the interplay of nonlinearity, dispersion and dissipation. Although laser instabilities have been known and studied in depth for many years, their properties have recently received greatly renewed attention because of the development of time and frequency domain techniques that allow laser dynamics and instabilities to be measured in real-time. This has allowed the variations in circulating pulse characteristics to be examined on a roundtrip to roundtrip basis, providing a new window into understanding these instabilities and how they develop based on the cavity configuration being used. A technique of this kind that has proven both straightforward to implement and powerful is the photonic time stretch or dispersive Fourier transform (DFT) which has been used in a number of important applications including the measurement of soliton rogue waves, modulation instability and supercontinuum noise. The DFT allows direct access to shot-to-shot measurement of the mode-locked fibre laser spectrum and, via computation of the associated autocorrelation function, can also provide complementary time-domain information in cases where multiple pulse states are observed. In this paper, we report results of DFT measurements which have been used to reveal previously unreported behavior in a mode-locked fiber laser designed to operate with soliton-similariton dynamics. In particular, we observe instabilities including soliton explosions, chaotic evolution and oscillation in the relative phase of bound-state multi-pulse molecules, and what we believe to be a previously-unobserved regime of operation associated with the intermittent appearance of short-lived stable single pulses within of otherwise chaotic dynamics. Our results - obtained in a laser believed to be a particularly stable design - suggest that instabilities such as soliton explosions and intermittence are a universal feature of dissipative soliton systems transitioning from noise to stability.

Proceedings Article | 9 March 2020 Presentation

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Mid-infrared detection of organic compounds with a 2-10 µm supercontinuum source generated from concatenated fluoride and chalcogenide fibers (Conference Presentation)

Johann Troles, Sébastien Venck, Solenn Cozic, Laurent Brilland, Radwan Chahal, Marcello Meneghetti, Jean-Luc Adam, Catherine Boussard-Plédel, Bruno Bureau, Samuel Poulain, Laurine Bodin, Franck Joulain, Marcel Poulain, Thibaut Sylvestre, Guillaume Huss

Proceedings Volume 11233, 1123312 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2544177

KEYWORDS: Mid-IR, Optical fibers, Chalcogenides, Supercontinuum sources, Thermography, Defense and security, Infrared sensors, Infrared imaging, Infrared radiation, Biosensing

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Proceedings Article | 2 March 2020 Paper

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Polarization of Brillouin scattered light in silica nanofibers

Camille Buret, Martin Hauden, Jacques Chrétien, Adrien Godet, Thibaut Sylvestre, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Kien Phan Huy

Proceedings Volume 11264, 112641F (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2544894

KEYWORDS: Polarization, Light scattering, Acoustics, Nanofibers, Optical fibers, Silica, Waveguides

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Proceedings Article | 2 March 2020 Presentation + Paper

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2-10 µm mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in cascaded optical fibers: experiment and modelling

Sébastien Venck, François St-Hilaire, Laurent Brilland, Amar Ghosh, Radwan Chahal, Céline Caillaud, Marcello Meneghetti, Johann Troles, Franck Joulain, Solenn Cozic, Samuel Poulain, Guillaume Huss, Martin Rochette, John Dudley, Thibaut Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 11264, 1126409 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2543753

KEYWORDS: Chalcogenides, Picosecond phenomena, Mid-IR, ZBLAN, Solitons, Optical filters, Optical fibers, Computer simulations, Supercontinuum generation

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Proceedings Article | 14 May 2018 Paper

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Supercontinuum generation and intermodal four-wave mixing in a step-index few-mode fibre

S. Perret, G. Fanjoux, L. Bigot, J. Fatome, G. Millot, J. Dudley, T. Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 10684, 106841D (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2305497

KEYWORDS: Four wave mixing, Supercontinuum generation, Dispersion, Ocean optics, Step index fibers, Photons, Multimode fibers, Fiber lasers, Optical fibers, Raman spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 9 May 2018 Presentation + Paper

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Supercontinuum generation in suspended core heavy metal oxide glass photonic crystal fibers

Amar N. Ghosh, Mariusz Klimczak, Ryszard Buczynski, John Dudley, Thibaut Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 10681, 106810U (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2306214

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Glasses, Dispersion, Photonic crystal fibers, Optical parametric oscillators, Supercontinuum generation, Oxides, Scanning electron microscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, Infrared imaging

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Proceedings Article | 9 May 2018 Paper

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Diameter and tensile strain measurements of optical nanofibers using Brillouin reflectometry

Adrien Godet, Abdoulaye Ndao, Vincent Pêcheur, Sylvie Lebrun, Gilles Pauliat, Thibaut Sylvestre, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Kien Phan Huy

Proceedings Volume 10681, 106810K (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2306838

KEYWORDS: Acoustics, Tapered optical fibers, Single mode fibers, Nanofibers, Backscatter, Optical amplifiers, Optical testing, Reflectometry, Heterodyning, Optics manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 21 April 2017 Presentation

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Real time measurements of spontaneous breathers generated by modulation instability in optical fibre (Conference Presentation)

John Dudley, Mikko Närhi, Benjamin Wetzel, Cyril Billet, Jean-Marc Merolla, Shanti Toenger, Thibaut Sylvestre, Roberto Morandotti, Goëry Genty, Frédéric Dias

Proceedings Volume 10089, 1008906 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250046

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Time metrology, Complex systems, Optical fibers, Physics, Nonlinear optics, Systems modeling, Fiber optics, Plasmas, Ultrafast phenomena

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Proceedings Article | 20 February 2017 Paper

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Highly sensitive measurement of submicron waveguides based on Brillouin scattering

Adrien Godet, Abdoulaye Ndao, Thibaut Sylvestre, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Kien Phan Huy

Proceedings Volume 10110, 1011009 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253703

KEYWORDS: Optical metrology, Tapered optical fibers, Waveguides, Photonics, Scanning electron microscopy, Scattering, Sensors, Microresonators, Nonlinear optics, Plasmonics, Backscatter, Acousto-optics, Acoustics, Optical fibers, Nanofibers, Dispersion, Silica, Optics manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 27 April 2016 Paper

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Experimental observation of surface acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in a small-core photonic crystal fiber

Joël Cabrel Tchahame, Thibaut Sylvestre, Kien Phan Huy, Alexandre Kudlinski, Vincent Laude, Jean-Charles Beugnot

Proceedings Volume 9894, 98941J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227653

KEYWORDS: Light scattering, Acoustics, Optical fibers, Scattering, Photonic crystal fibers, Telecommunications, Sensors, Light wave propagation, Numerical simulations, Scattering, Photonic crystal fibers, Geometrical optics, Waveguides, Photonic crystals, Scanning electron microscopy

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Proceedings Article | 1 May 2014 Paper

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Tunable stimulated Brillouin scattering in hybrid polymer-chalcogenide tapered fibers

Jean-Charles Beugnot, Raja Ahmad, Martin Rochette, Vincent Laude, Hervé Maillotte, Thibaut Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 9136, 91360O (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051391

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Polymethylmethacrylate, Scattering, Polymers, Chalcogenides, Electrostriction, Radio optics, Acoustics, Polymer optical fibers, Cladding

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Proceedings Article | 1 May 2014 Paper

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Controlling modulation instability using an incoherent low amplitude seed

Thomas Godin, Duc Minh Nguyen, Shanti Toenger, Yves Combes, Benjamin Wetzel, Thibaut Sylvestre, Goëry Genty, Frédéric Dias, John Dudley

Proceedings Volume 9136, 91360N (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2049722

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Optical fibers, Signal to noise ratio, Picosecond phenomena, Fourier transforms, Dispersion, Nonlinear optics, Optical amplifiers, Continuous wave operation, Numerical simulations

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Proceedings Article | 1 May 2014 Paper

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All-optical generation of surface acoustic waves in a silica optical microwire

Jean-Charles Beugnot, Sylvie Lebrun, Gilles Pauliat, Herv Maillotte, Vincent Laude, Thibaut Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 9136, 91360E (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051388

KEYWORDS: Acoustics, Silica, Scattering, Waveguides, Electrostriction, Raman scattering, Single mode fibers, Rayleigh scattering, Geometrical optics, Wave propagation

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Proceedings Article | 1 May 2014 Paper

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Normal dispersion modulation instability in an As2Se3 chalcogenide hybrid microwire

Thomas Godin, Yves Combes, Raja Ahmad, Martin Rochette, Thibaut Sylvestre, John Dudley

Proceedings Volume 9136, 91360P (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051482

KEYWORDS: Dispersion, Modulation, Mid-IR, Chalcogenides, Terahertz radiation, Polymers, Hybrid optics, Nonlinear optics, Optical parametric oscillators, Phase shift keying

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Proceedings Article | 16 May 2012 Paper

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Supercontinuum generation in the black light region by pumping at 355 nm a silica photonic crystal fiber

T. Sylvestre, A. R. Ragueh, M. W. Lee, B. Stiller, G. Fanjoux, B. Barviau, A. Mussot, A. Kudlinski

Proceedings Volume 8434, 843415 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922769

KEYWORDS: Raman spectroscopy, Dispersion, Silica, Supercontinuum generation, Photonic crystal fibers, Ultraviolet radiation, Picosecond phenomena, Light, Absorption, Visible radiation

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Proceedings Article | 9 May 2012 Paper

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Fiber optic Brillouin distributed sensing using phase-shift keying modulation techniques

Birgit Stiller, Min W. Lee, Duc Minh Nguyen, Jerôme Hauden, Alexandre Mottet, Hervé Maillotte, Thibaut Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 8439, 843909 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922581

KEYWORDS: Modulators, Phase shift keying, Spatial resolution, Modulation, Single mode fibers, Signal attenuation, Fiber Bragg gratings, Fiber optics, Optical sensing, Mach-Zehnder interferometers

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Proceedings Article | 14 May 2010 Paper

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Effect of inhomogeneities on backward and forward Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibers

Birgit Stiller, Michaël Delqué, Min Lee, Stella Foaleng Mafang, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Alexandre Kudlinski, Luc Thévenaz, Hervé Maillotte, Thibaut Sylvestre

Proceedings Volume 7714, 771406 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.854537

KEYWORDS: Acoustics, Scattering, Photonic crystal fibers, Single mode fibers, Refractive index, Waveguides, Polarization, Optical amplifiers, Spatial resolution, Silica

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Proceedings Article | 20 May 2009 Paper

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Role of microstructure on guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibers

J.-C. Beugnot, T. Sylvestre, E. Carry, H. Maillotte, G. Mélin, S. Lempereur, A. Fleureau, V. Laude

Proceedings Volume 7357, 73570S (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.821100

KEYWORDS: Acoustics, Phonons, Optical fibers, Scattering, Photonic crystal fibers, Waveguides, Diffraction, Finite element methods, Chemical elements, Solids

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