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Sophie LaRochelle, ing.

Professeure titulaire

Sophie Larochelle s’intéresse aux systèmes de communications optiques pour la transmission de signaux numériques ou analogiques. Elle étudie également les dispositifs à fibre optique et les circuits photoniques intégrés sur silicium. Depuis 2012, elle est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en technologies photoniques d’avant-garde pour les communications.

Champs d'intérêts

  • Composants à fibre optique (filtres, amplificateurs, lasers)
  • Communications numériques et analogiques sur fibre optique
  • Circuits photoniques intégrés
  • Traitement optique du signal
Sophie LaRochelle, professeure au Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique

  • GEL-2000 Électromagnétisme
  • GEL-4201 Communications optiques
  • GEL-7068 Simulation des systèmes de communications optiques

Une liste plus complète est disponible sur le curriculun vitae ainsi que sur le site du Centre d'optique, photonique et laser (COPL).

  • A. D. Simard, B. Filion, D. Patel, D. Plant, and S. LaRochelle, "Segmented Silicon MZM for Pam-8 Transmissions at 114 Gb/S with Binary Signaling," Opt. Express 24, no. 17, pp.19467-194672 (2016).
  • R. Mirzaei Nejad, K. Allahverdyan, P. Vaity, S. Amiralizadeh, C. Brunet, Y. Messaddeq, S. LaRochelle, and L. A. Rusch, "Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Division Multiplexing over 1.4 km Ring Core Fiber," IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., vol.34, no.18, pp. 4252 - 4258 (July 2016).
  • H. Chen, C. Jin, B. Huang, N. K. Fontaine, R. Ryf, K. Shang, N. Grégoire, S. Morency, R.-J. Essiambre, G. Li, Y. Messaddeq, and S. LaRochelle, "Spatially Integrated Optical Fiber Amplifier," Nature Photonics vol.10, no.8 pp.529-533 (August 2016).
  • A. D. Simard and S. LaRochelle, "A Dynamic Model of Silicon Bragg Grating Modulators," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol.22, no.6, #3400109 (Nov-Dec 2016).
  • K. Bédard, A. D. Simard, B. Filion, Y. Painchaud, L. A. Rusch, and S. LaRochelle, "Dual phase-shift Bragg grating silicon photonic modulator operating up to 60 Gb/s," Opt. Express., vol. 24, no 3, pp.2413-2419 (January 2016).
  • R. Dubé-Demers, S. LaRochelle, and W. Shi, "Ultra-Fast Pulse-Amplitude Modulation with a Femtojoule Silicon Photonic Modulator," Optica, vol.3, no.6, pp.622-627, (June 2016).
  • H. Chen, N. K. Fontaine, R. Ryf, C. Jin, B. Huang, K. Shang, R.-J. Essiambre, L. Wang, T. Hayashi, T. Nagashima, T. Sasaki, Y. Messaddeq and S. LaRochelle, "Demonstration of Cladding-Pumped Six-Core Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier," Top-scored paper in IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., vol.34, no.8, pp.1654-1660, (April 2016).
  • L. Wang, P. Vaity, S. Chatigny, Y. Messaddeq, L. A. Rusch, and S. LaRochelle, "Orbital-Angular-Momentum Polarization Mode Dispersion in Optical Fibers," Top-scored paper in IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., vol.34, no.8, pp.1661-1671, (April 2016).
  • J. St-Yves, H. Bahrami, P. Jean, S. LaRochelle, and W. Shi, "Ultra-compact, widely bandwidth-tunable silicon filter with an unlimited free-spectral range" Opt. Lett., vol. 40, no. 23, pp.5471-5474, (December 2015).
  • L. Wang and S. LaRochelle, "Design of 8-Mode Polarization-Maintaining Few-Mode Fiber for MIMO-free Spatial Division Multiplexing," Opt. Lett., vol.40, no.24, pp. 5846-5849 (December 2015).
  • C. Jin, B. Ung, Y. Messaddeq, and S. LaRochelle, "Annular-cladding erbium doped multicore fiber for SDM amplification," Opt. Express., vol.23, no.23, pp. 26947-29659 (Novembre 2015).
  • A. D. Simard, and S. LaRochelle, "Complex Apodized Bragg Grating Filters without circulators in Silicon-on-Insulator," Opt. Express, vol. 23, no.13, pp-16662-16675 (June 2015).
  • B. Filion, A.T. Nguyen, L. A. Rusch, and S. LaRochelle, "Digital Post-Compensation of Nonlinear Distortions in Wavelength Conversion Based on Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier," IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., vol.33, no.15, pp.3254-3264, (August 2015).
  • C. Brunet, B. Ung, P. Vaity, L. Wang, Y. Messaddeq, S. LaRochelle and L. A. Rusch, "Design of a family of ring-core fibers for OAM transmission studies," Opt. Express, vol. 22, no.21, pp. 26117-26127 (October 2014).
  • B. Ung, P. Vaity, L. Wang, Y. Messaddeq, L. A. Rusch and S. LaRochelle, "Few-mode fiber with inverse-parabolic graded-index profile for transmission of OAM-carrying modes," Opt. Express, vol. 22, no. 15, pp. 18044-18055 (July 2014).
  • M. A. Jebali, J.-N. Maran, and S. LaRochelle, "264 W output power at 1585 nm in erbium-doped fiber laser using in-band pumping," Opt. Lett., vol.39, no.13, pp.3974-3977, (July 2014).
  • B. Filion, W. C. Ng, An. T. Nguyen, L. A. Rusch and S. LaRochelle, "Wideband wavelength conversion of 16 Gbaud 16-QAM and 5 Gbaud 64-QAM signals in a semiconductor optical amplifier," Opt. Express vol. 21, no. 17, pp. 19825-19833 (2013).

  • Membre de l'Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
  • Chaire de recherche du Canada APTC (niv. 1) sur les technologies photoniques d’avant-garde pour les communications (titulaire)
  • Membre du Centre d’optique, photonique et laser (COPL)

  • Ph.D. – University of Arizona/États-Unis – 1992
  • M.Sc – Université Laval/Canada - 1989
  • B.Sc.A – Université Laval/Canada – 1987