Réal Vallée

Centre d’optique photonique et laser, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Lecture Title: Recent Advances in Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers 

Réal Vallée joined Université Laval in 1987 after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester. Since 2000, he has been the Director of the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL), the province of Quebec network center of excellence in photonics. His research interests are in fiberoptics components (namely fiber lasers for the mid-infrared) and their applications, non-linear propagation of ultrafast pulses in fiber, inscription of waveguides and Bragg gratings with femtosecond pulses and the study of infrared glasses for integrated optics.  He currently holds an NSERC-funded Industrial Research Chair in Femtosecond Photo-Inscribed Photonic Components and Devices. Professor Vallée has supervised over 75 graduate students to date, authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals and holds 12 patents.  He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.