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François Sanchez
Also published under: Francois Sanchez, F. Sanchez
Affiliation
Laboratoire de Photonique d’Angers
Université d’Angers
Angers, France
Biography
François Sanchez was born in Paris, in 1962. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris-Sud (Thales Research and Technology), Orsay, France, in 1987. The subject of the thesis was the investigation of wave mixing in liquid crystals and semiconductors in the middle infrared. In 1988, he obtained an Assistant Professor position at ENSSAT where he was involved in several projects on fiber lasers and microchip lasers. In 1997, he became a Full Professor at the University of Rouen where he initiated the activities on double-clad fiber lasers. In 1999, he obtained the prize, Arnulf Françon from the Société Française d'Optique (French Optical Society) for his book Optique Non-Linéaire. In 2000, he joined the laboratory, POMA (now La... Author's Published Works