Prof. Luc Thévenaz visited OFT Lab as one of "111 Project" supported expert on Nov. 16 2013, and gave a report entitled " Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibres: principles and applications".  
      Luc Thévenaz received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1988 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) where he currently leads a research group involved in photonics, namely fibre optics and optical sensing. His research topics include Brillouin-scattering fibre sensors, slow & fast light, nonlinear fibre optics and laser spectroscopy in gases. He achieved with his collaborators the first experimental demonstration of optically-controlled slow & fast light in optical fibres, realized at ambient temperature and operating at any wavelength since based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. The first negative group velocity of light in optical fibres was also realized in his lab using this approach. In 2000 he co-founded the company Omnisens that is developing and commercializing advanced photonic instrumentation. He is Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).