- Position
- Associate Professor
- Speciality
- Experimental Physics
- Field
- Optics Sensing & Metrology
- Institution
- Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers (LPL), Villetaneuse University, France
- Research page
- ResearchGate
Short bio
After a PhD at Paris Observatory (France) on an experiment aiming at measuring short-range forces using atom interferometry techniques on cold atoms trapped in an optical lattice, Adèle Hilico (she/her) joined the group of A. Rauschenbeutel to work on a CQED experiment. There, she participated in the realization of the first quantum optical circulator, where the state of a single atom controlled the direction of propagation of a single photon.
She then obtained a position as Associate Professor at the LP2N laboratory in Bordeaux (France), working in a joint laboratory in partnership with the company AzurlightSystems (now Toptica France). There, Adèle contributed to the development of low-noise, high-power fibered amplifiers and lasers in the UV and visible range (via nonlinear processes), suitable for quantum experiments such as optical tweezers, cold atom and ion trapping, and neutral-atom quantum computing.
After six years, she joined the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers (LPL) in Villetaneuse, France, where she works on time–frequency metrology within the framework of the REFIMEVE project, which aims to deliver an ultrastable frequency reference via fiber links.
Key words
optics laser metrology time–frequency metrology atom interferometry