Sébastien Loranger
Bacc. (Poly), M. Sc. A. (Poly), Ph.D. (Poly)
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Optical fiber components and lasers
- Optoelectronics and nonlinear optics
- Development of optical sensors and optical fiber sensors
- Distributed sensing system optimisation and application
- Bragg gratings and photonic crystals
- Waveguide and microstructure laser writing
- Integrated photonics: integration of optical frequencies and THz in single platforms
- THz photonic crystals
- Application of photonic technologies (ex: LIDAR).
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 2011 Optical materials
- 2502 Electromagnetics, compatibility and interference
- 2505 Photonic devices and networks
- 2507 Communications systems
- 3110 Optics (see also photon devices 2505)
- 3111 Lasers
- 3112 Photonics
- 3306 Optical properties
Publications
Recent publications
Journal article
Conference paper
Journal article
Conference paper
Loranger, S. & Kashyap, R. (2017). Are optical fibers really uniform? Measurement of refractive index on a centimeter scale. Optical Letters, 42(9), 1832-1835. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.42.001832
Tehranchi, A., Iezzi, V.L., Loranger, S. & Kashyap, R. (2017). Control of stokes waves in a Brillouin-erbium highly-nonlinear-fiber laser. Paper presented at the Advanced Photonics, Sensors 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1364/SENSORS.2017.SeM3E.6
Parent, F., Loranger, S., Mandal, K.K., Iezzi, V.L., Lapointe, J., Boisvert, J.-S., Baiad, M.D., Kadoury, S. & Kashyap, R. (2017). Enhancement of accuracy in shape sensing of surgical needles using optical frequency domain reflectometry in optical fibers. Biomedical Optics Express, 8(4), 2210-2221. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.8.002210
Loranger, S. & Kashyap, R. (2017). Fiber imperfections and their impact on the performance of fiber grating DFB Raman lasers. Paper presented at the Nonlinear Optics, Waikoloa, Hawaii. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2017.NW4A.17
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Biography
Sébastien Loranger graduated from his PhD at Polytechnique Montréal in Engineering Physics. He then did a post-doctoral fellowship at the renowned Max-Planck Institute in Erlangan, Germany, after which he went to acquire some industrial experience as a R&D researcher at Photonova Inc. and ITF Technologies before joining Polytechnique as a professor.
Teaching
- ELE3500 : Electromagnetic waves
- ELE8508 : Fundamental concepts in photonics
Education
- Baccalaureate in engineering physics, Polytechnique Montréal
- Masters in applied science in engineering physics, Polytechnique Montréal
- Ph.D. in engineering physics, Polytechnique Montréal
- Post-doctorate, Max-Planck Institute for the science of light, Germany
Supervision at Polytechnique
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Jafari, Foroogh. High power laser combiner and photonic devices for space applications.
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