iXblue
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iXblue is recognized worldwide for delivering advanced navigation, photonics and maritime autonomy solutions. Founded in 2000, iXblue employs around 750 people, including 350 engineers and doctors, with a turnover of €150 million, 80% of which is generated internationally. It has 9 industrial sites in France and its headquarters are in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The photonics branch within iXblue is designed to address the space, sensors and metrology, geosciences, fiber lasers and intense lasers, communications and quantum technologies markets.
Within AQuRA iXblue will develop the 813nm magic wavelength laser which creates the lattice of the optical lattice clock (Tasks). |
Team members
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Bruno Desruelle is currently managing director, quantum sensors division at iXblue. He received his doctorate from University Paris XI for his work on Bose-Einstein Condensation in Alain Aspect’s group. He has acquired a solid industrial experience in the field of high-technology photonics business while working for Corning Incorporated in the field of DWDM optical communication systems, then for THALES Optronique where he managed the development of several complex optronics systems. He was appointed Head of the photonics domain at the office for advanced research and innovation of the French Ministry of Defence in 2005, as well as government representative for the two main competitiveness clusters in photonics. He left this position in 2010 to prepare the creation of Muquans and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the company at its creation in 2011. Muquans was aquired in May 2021 by iXblue.
Contact: bruno.desruelle@ixblue.com |
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With a multidisciplinary academic experience in optronics, management and business administration, Yves-Vincent BARDIN joined the optical and laser technology center ALPhANOV as an R&D engineer in 2015. He has worked on special optical fibers functionalization, power scaling of fiber laser architectures by developing KW-class fiber components, high power LMA fiber amplifiers and fiber pulsed laser sources for Supercontinuum generation applications. In 2018, he notably participated in the design and development of fiber based high power low noise single frequency lasers systems within the company AzurLight. Recently, he joined Ixblue Quantum Sensor Department where he will be in charge of R&D activities and new laser sources development for optical quantum application.
Contact: yves-vincent.bardin@ixblue.com |
