The Coblentz Society is happy to announce that the 2013 recipient of the Coblentz Award is Dr. Nathalie Picqué.  Dr. Picqué is a senior research scientist
with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France). She is
conducting her research in Munich (Germany) at the Max Planck Institute of
Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilian University. In Munich, her group is
pioneering novel applications of laser frequency combs to molecular
spectroscopy. Recent experiments in Picqué’s team have demonstrated that frequency
combs are dramatically improving the resolution and recording speed of Fourier
spectrometers for broad spectral bandwidth linear absorption spectroscopy. Moreover,
since laser frequency combs involve intense ultrashort laser pulses, nonlinear
interactions can be harnessed, such as two-photon excitation or stimulated
Raman transitions. The intriguing potential of frequency combs for new
approaches to broadband nonlinear spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging is
therefore also being explored in the group of Nathalie Picqué. Envisioned
applications range from optical labeling for the simplification and
disentanglement of complex spectra to coherent control for the selective
microscopic imaging of unlabeled biomolecules.
Nathalie Picqué received her doctor degree in Physics in 1998 from Université Paris-Sud Orsay (France) under Dr. Guy Guelachvili. After a post-doctoral stay at the European Laboratory for Frequency Comb Spectroscopy (Florence, Italy), she was appointed as a permanent scientist with the CNRS (France) in 2001 and quickly became a group leader at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay. Dr. Picqué has also received the 2007 Bronze Medal of the CNRS, the 2008 Jean Jerphagnon Prize of the French Physical Society and the 2010 Beller Award of the American Physical Society. |
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