Simon-Pierre GORZA

Research activities

Simon-Pierre Gorza is a member of the OPERA-Photonics Group. His research area covers spatial and temporal aspect of nonlinear optics in third and second order nonlinear media, pulse characterisation techniques and application of linear and nonlinear optics to bio-imaging (multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence optical probe).

He is co-author of more than 50 papers published in peer-reviewed international Journals and Conferences and co-author of one patent (Ultra-short optical pulse measurement using a thick nonlinear crystal, (http://www.google.com/patents/US7599067).

Teaching activities

PHYS-H410 : Laser physics

ELEC-H507 : Photonic communication systems

BIME-H407 : Introduction to medical imaging and optical microscopy 

Biography

Born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1978

M.Sc. Physics engineering from ULB in 2001, and PhD from ULB in 2005

2001 - 2005 : Ph.D. researcher at ULB Research activity in nonlinear optics about spatial and temporal solitons, on the stability of soliton laser beams in hyperbolic nonlinear media and on the optical gap soliton in periodically structured nonlinear waveguides

2005 - 2006 : postdoctoral researcher in the Ultrafast Optic group at the Oxford University (UK), recipient of a postdoctoral grant from the Wiener-Anspach Foundation. Developpement of new techniques for ultrashort optical pulse characterization (LX-SPIDER and CAR-SPIDER)

2007 - 2010 : FRS-FNRS postdoctoral researcher in the OPERA-Photonics Group (ULB) Research activities in Nonlinear Optics about Spatial and Temporal Aspect of Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors, and Chalcogenide Optical Waveguides. Development of new nonlinear imaging techniques (multiphoton microscopy)

2010 - ... : Assistant-Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles

Organizer of two scientific exhibitions : Ingénieux, ça marche (http://www.ulb.ac.be/ccs/Ingenieux.html) and Si nous parlions des energies? (http://expo-energies.ulb.ac.be/?lang=fr). He is also organizer of the Ateliers Jeunes Ingénieurs (http://www.ulb.ac.be/polytech/aji/aji.html) that take place each year during the Printemps des Sciences. Simon-Pierre Gorza was awarded the 2011 Wernears prize for the organization of the exhibition Si nous parlions des énergies

Publications
 

• Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity-time symmetric lasers,

J. Yelo-Sarrión, F. Leo & S.-P. Gorza

Nature Photonics 20, 310–316 (2026).

• Dynamics of driven dissipative temporal solitons in an intracavity phase trap,

N. Englebert, C. Simon, C. Mas Arabi, F. Leo & S.-P. Gorza

Light: Science & Applications 15, 117 (2026).

• Bloch oscillations of coherently driven dissipative solitons in a synthetic dimension,

N. Englebert, N Goldman, M Erkintalo, N Mostaan, SP Gorza, F Leo, J. Fatome

Nature Physics 19, 1014-1021 (2023).

• Temporal solitons in a coherently driven active resonator,

N. Englebert, C. Mas Arabi, P. Parra-Rivas, P., SP Gorza, & F. Leo

Nature Photonics 15, 536-541 (2021).

• Parametrically driven Kerr cavity solitons,

N. Englebert,, F. De Luca, P. Parra-Rivas, C. Mas Arabí, PJ Sazio, S.-P. Gorza, S.- P. & F. Leo

Nature Photonics 15, 857-861 (2021).

• Supercontinuum generation assisted by wave trapping in dispersion-managed integrated silicon waveguides,

J Wei, C Ciret, M Billet, F Leo, B Kuyken, & SP Gorza

Physical Review Applied 14, 054045 (2020).

• Self-pulsing in driven-dissipative photonic Bose-Hubbard dimers,

J. Yelo-Sarrión, P. Parra-Rivas, N. Englebert, CM Arabí, F Leo, SP Gorza, Physical Review Research 3, L042031 (2021).

• Infrared neurostimulation in ex-vivo rat sciatic nerve using 1470 nm wavelength

            Joaquin Cury, Louis Vande Perre, Hugo Smets, Lars Stumpp, Simone Vespa, Anne Vanhoestenberghe, Pascal             Doguet, Jean Delbeke, Riëm El Tahry, Simon-Pierre Gorza, Antoine Nonclercq

           Journal of neural engineering 18, 056018 (2021)

           Moins récent

• Observation of an optical event horizon in a silicon-on-insulator photonic wire waveguide

          C Ciret, F Leo, B Kuyken, G Roelkens, SP Gorza

          Optics express 24 (1), 114-124

• Generation of coherent supercontinuum in a-Si: H waveguides: experiment and modeling based on measured dispersion profile

           F Leo, J Safioui, B Kuyken, G Roelkens, SP Gorza

          Optics express 22 (23), 28997-29007