Camille-Sophie Brès (born 1980) is a French physicist who is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her research considers optical communications and nonlinear processes in optical fibre platforms.

Early life and education

Brès was born in France. ^[1] She became interested in physics and maths at a young age, and enjoyed playing with LEGO. ^[1] She decided to specialise in engineering, and studied electrical engineering at McGill University. ^[2] She moved to Princeton University for graduate studies, where she developed optical code-division multiple access for networks. ^{[2] [3]} In 2006, she moved to the University of California, San Diego, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher. ^{[2] [4]}

Research and career

In 2011, Brès joined École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as head of the Photonics Systems Laboratory. ^[5] She was selected^{[ by whom?]} as one of 100 important women in Switzerland in 2019. ^[6] Her research develops fibre and waveguide optics for communications, with a focus on nonlinear optical materials. ^[7]

Awards and honours

• 2012 European Research Council Starting Grant ^[8]
• 2016 Early Career Women in Photonics Award ^[9]
• 2017 European Research Council Consolidator Award ^[10]
• 2019 European Research Council Proof of Concept Grants ^[11]

Selected publications

• Marcelo A. Soto; Mehdi Alem; Mohammad Amin Shoaie; Armand Vedadi; Camille-Sophie Brès; Luc Thévenaz; Thomas Schneider (1 January 2013). "Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality". Nature Communications. 4: 2898. Bibcode: 2013NatCo...4.2898S. doi: 10.1038/NCOMMS3898. ISSN  2041-1723. PMC  3863974. PMID  24301610. Wikidata  Q37394277.
• Darren Rand; Ivan Glesk; Camille-Sophie Brès; et al. (1 February 2007). "Observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in birefringent fiber". Physical Review Letters. 98 (5): 053902. doi: 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.053902. ISSN  0031-9007. PMID  17358859. Wikidata  Q51048331.
• J B Coles; B P-P Kuo; N Alic; et al. (1 August 2010). "Bandwidth-efficient phase modulation techniques for stimulated Brillouin scattering suppression in fiber optic parametric amplifiers". Optics Express. 18 (17): 18138–18150. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.018138. ISSN  1094-4087. PMID  20721202. Wikidata  Q46678517.

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