Mathieu Manceau

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Office: D003, Campus Villetaneuse

Research group website1 and website2
Laboratory website


My research background:

I completed my thesis at the Kastler-Brossel laboratory (Sorbonne University) under the supervision of Alberto Bramati (2011-2014), on the study of fluorescence from colloidal nanocrystal quantum boxes. The aim was to explore the potential of these light sources in quantum optics, particularly as single-photon sources.

From 2015 to 2017, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the “Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light” (Erlangen, Germany), in the “Quantum Radiation” team led by Maria Chekhova. There I studied Bright Squeezed Vacuum (BSV), a quantum state of light that can consist of a large number of photons, and has quantum properties including quantum correlations and reduced electromagnetic field noise compared with a classical state of light. I have demonstrated the interest of this state of light in precision interferometry.

Since October 2017, I have joined the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers (LPL, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord/USPN) for a second postdoctorate in the MMTF team under the direction of Benoît Darquié and Anne Amy-Klein. There, I developed ultra-high resolution rovibrational spectroscopy techniques for the study of complex molecules. In 2020, I continued this research as an associate professor at USPN.

Courses taught:

  • Physique de la Chaîne de Mesure 2 : Signal et bruit
  • Physique Quantique 3 : Optique quantique
  • Physique de la Chaîne de Mesure 3 : Chaîne de mesure quantique
  • Physique pour les Technologies Quantiques 4 : Techniques du vide, cryogénie

Research themes:

  • Frequency metrology
  • Molecular rotational spectroscopy
  • Microwave rotational spectroscopy
  • Mid-infrared photonics
  • Cold molecules
Beam alignment of a CO2 laser.

A few selected articles

  • D. B. A. Tran, O. Lopez, M. Manceau, A. Goncharov, M. Abgrall, H. Alvarez-Martinez, R. Le Targat, E. Cantin, P.-E. Pottie, A. Amy-Klein, and B. Darquié, «Near- to mid-IR spectral purity transfer with a tunable frequency comb: Methanol frequency metrology over a 1.4 GHz span», APL Photonics 9, 030801 (2024).
    DOI: 10.1063/5.0170227
  • Mathieu Manceau, Kirill Yu. Spasibko, Gerd Leuchs, Radim Filip, and Maria V. Chekhova, «Indefinite-Mean Pareto Photon Distribution from Amplified Quantum Noise», Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 123606 (2019).
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.123606