2025-07-17
Ali Successfully defended his PhD thesis on Terahertz Nonlinear Optics of Graphitic Materials. Congrats Ali!
2025-07-07
Congratulations to Clément who won the Undergraduate Research Scholarship and decided to join our group to gain research experience before starting the physics program at uOttawa
2025-06-27
Aswin and Hesam’s work were presented in Munich at CLEO Europe
2025-05-20
Our group is well represented at PN2025 with 8 presentations
2025-05-08
Congratulations to Emma Saunders for receiving the Woman in Science and Engineering (WISE) award
2025-05-05
Welcome to Jakob McBride and Emma Saunders who are joining the lab as undergrad research assistants for the summer
2025-04-25
Our group had the pleasure of hosting 42 Grade 12 students from St. Joseph High School for an engaging experience of hands-on science and exploration. Thanks to Let’s Talk Science, the André E. Lalonde National Facility in AMS, and the Optica-SPIE student chapter for helping us to inspire the next generation of scientists!
2025-03-13
We report in arXiv several THz spectral windows to speed up future wireless technologies
2025-03-06
Our group welcomed a Grade 11 class from Immacula High School for an afternoon of presentations and experiments on photonics
2025-01-23
Prof. Ménard has been awarded the University Research Chair in Quantum THz Photonics in partnership with Iridian, a division of IDEX Optical Technologies
2025-01-16
Ali Maleki is awarded the Graduate Entrepreneurship Experience Program (GEEP) fellowship. Congrats Ali!
2025-01-10
Paper published in Light: Science & Applications - We combine strategies to enhance THz nonlinearities in graphene-based structures.
2025-01-04
Paper published in Scientific Reports - We demonstrate a sensitive detector for >6G high-speed wireless applications using a bull’s-eye antenna that concentrates an incident THz field within a sub-wavelength volume.
2024-12-25
Paper finalized in 2021 but only recently published in Physics in Canada - We address a question of great interest to anyone studying physics: What are the employment prospects? Our findings indicate that they are generally quite promising!
2024-12-20
Group outing - Xmas Bowling
2024-12-12
Physics holiday party - Aswin wins the Mentorship Excellence Award 2024
2024-12-02
Paper published in APL Photonics - Super sensitive THz detector based on nanoresonator demonstrated in collaboration with Chang Zhang and the St-Gelais research group
2024-11-12
Congrats Ali for winning the 1st place in the Desjardins Elevator Pitch Competition 2024
2024-07-22 to 2024-07-26
Annual meeting of the Max Planck-uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics
2024-07-19
Group outing - Kayak on Dow’s Lake
2024-06-08
Dr. Wei Cui and Dr. Nicolas Couture receive their PhD diploma at Convocation. Good job guys!
2024-05-28
Aswin Vishnuradhan is finalist for the Best Student Oral Presentation Award at Photonics North 2024!
2024-05-24
Paper published in Nature Communications - We demonstrate a hybrid quantum system involving THz light and glucose molecules
2024-05-16
Nicolas Couture wins the Governor General’s Gold Medal 2023 in Sciences and Engineering. It’s the highest disctinction a PhD student can receive at uOttawa.
2023-12-09
Ihlem a défendu sa thèse de doctorat à Tunis avec succès et obtient la mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury (la plus haute distinction)!
2023-12-09
Ahmed wins best paper prize at IRMMW-THz 2023