Paper 14092-55
Paper 14092-55
From solitons to wave-breaking: let the data classify the light
14 April 2026 • 18:10 - 20:00 CEST | Galerie Erasme (Niveau/Level 0)
Abstract
We demonstrate that an unsupervised classification approach, based on the clustering of temporal intensity profiles, enables the automatic identification of various physical regimes of nonlinear propagation in optical fibers. Despite the absence of spectral or phase information, this straightforward method highlights characteristic regions of solitonic dynamics and normal dispersion propagation.
Presenter
Christophe Finot
Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (France)
Christophe FINOT is professor of Physics at the University Bourgogne-Europe (Dijon, France). Born in France in 1978, he graduated from the Institut d’Optique Graduate School (Paris-Saclay University in 2002), and received a PhD in Physics from the University of Bourgogne in 2005 before spending a year at the Optoelectronics Research Center, in Southampton (UK). Appointed associate professor in 2006, he was promoted to professor in 2010 and is currently vice-dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies. He was elected junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2017.
His main research areas dedicated to ultrafast photonics in fiber concern nonlinear optical shaping, all-optical information processing, extreme events, analogies between diffractive and dispersive optics as well as fiber lasers. More recently, he has taken an interest in the implementation of machine-learning approaches. He has coauthored more than 200 publications in international journals.