Name:
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Clément Paradis
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Date
of Birth:
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July 1, 1989 (France)
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Citizenship:
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French
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Oct. 2013 –
Dec. 2017:
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PhD degree in the group of Prof. Thomas Südmeyer, Laboratoire
Temps-Fréquence (LTF), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Sept. 2009 –
Nov. 2013:
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Diplôme d’ingénieur (Master’s
degree), ENSTA ParisTech (École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques
Avancées - ParisTech), France.
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Oct. 2012 –
Nov. 2013:
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Master
of Science with Distinction in Applied Photonics, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom.
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Sept. 2011 –
Sept. 2012:
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Master
of Science (M.Sc.) Degree Program in Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
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Jan. 2018 – Mai 2019 1.5 years:
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Post-doc
researcher,
Laboratoire
Temps-Fréquence (LTF), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Novel applications for
ultrafast high-power thin-disk laser oscillators
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Oct. 2013 – Dec. 2017 4.3 years:
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PhD candidate, Laboratoire
Temps-Fréquence (LTF), Physics department, University of Neuchâtel,
Switzerland.
Development of novel
ultrafast high-power thin-disk laser oscillators and applications for
metrology and XUV generation
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Feb. 2013 – Aug. 2013 6 months:
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Master
Thesis, Quantum Optics and Laser Science (QOLS)
research group, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom.
Progress in hollow-fiber pulse compression for high-energy
few-cycle pulses with double-differential pumping system
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Mai 2012 – Aug. 2012 3 months:
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Lab
internship, Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), Abbe
Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
Femtosecond laser nanostructuring and doping of silicon surfaces
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Mai 2011 – Jul. 2011 3 months:
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Lab
internship, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser
(IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH),
Heraklion, Greece.
Building of nonlinear optical setups: non-collinear optical
parametric amplifier (NOPA) and intensity autocorrelator.
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2018:
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Co-author
of the paper “Frequency Comb Stabilization of a 4 W, 50-fs Thin-Disk
Laser Oscillator,” awarded
outstanding result prize in the student paper competition at 32nd European Frequency and Time Forum
(EFTF 2018).
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2017:
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Co-author of the paper “Towards Few-Cycle Ultrafast Thin-Disk
Lasers,” awarded outstanding student poster presentation prize at Laser Congress 2017 (ASSL, LAC).
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2011:
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Erasmus Mundus
Scholarship
to pursue the Erasmus Mundus Master course OPSCITECH (Optics in Science
and Technology).
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French:
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Mother tongue
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English:
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Fluent
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German:
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Advanced
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Spanish:
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Advanced
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Leisure:
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Active member of the Swiss Alpine Club
(SAC) since 2014. Mountaineering, trail running: Alphubel, 4 206 m in
2018; Swiss Canyon Trail, 75 km, +3000 m in 10h45 in 2015.
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2018-2019
4 months
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World
trip during sabbatical leave: USA, French Polynesia, Fiji Islands, New Zealand,
Australia and Indonesia.
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Social:
2013 – today
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Social event coordinator on the research group
Time and Frequency Laboratory. Organization of skiing seminars, Christmas
dinners, hikes, excursions, leisure day.
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Societies:
2010
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Main organizer of a one-week seminar on energy in Paris for 22 foreign guest students for the Board of
European Student of Technology (BEST).
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C. Paradis, N. Modsching, V. J. Wittwer,
B. Deppe, C. Kränkel, and T. Südmeyer, “Generation of 35-fs pulses from a
Kerr lens mode-locked Yb:Lu2O3 thin-disk laser,” Opt.
Express 25(13), 14918–14925 (2017).
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.014918
Paper highlighted as an Editor's Pick
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C.
Paradis, N. Modsching, M. Gaponenko, F. Labaye,
F. Emaury, A. Diebold, I. Graumann, B. Deppe, C. Kränkel, V. J. Wittwer,
and T. Südmeyer, “Sub-50-fs Kerr Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Lasers,”
in 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and
European Quantum Electronics Conference, (Optical Society of America,
2017), talk PD_1_4.
https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=EQEC-2017-PD_1_4
Oral presentation given during the postdeadline session
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C. Paradis, N. Modsching, M.
Gaponenko, F. Labaye, V. J. Wittwer, and T. Südmeyer, “Frontiers in
Ultrafast Thin-Disk Laser Oscillators,” in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest
(online) (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper SF2N.3.
https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2018.SF2N.3
Invited presentation
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