William Guerin

I'm a member of the cold-atom team.

Main current projects:

• Cold atoms in 1D lattices: photonic and quantum properties (since 2022)
• Intensity correlations for astrophysics (since 2015) 

• Super- and subradiance in dilute and disordered cold atomic samples (2013-2022)
• Random laser in cold atoms (2007-2016)
• Photonic band gaps and DFB lasing in cold atoms (2010-2012, at Tübingen University)
• Lévy flights of light in hot vapors (2008-2009)
• Bose-Einstein condensation and atom laser (2003-2007, at Institut d'Optique)

Personal information: born 1^st November 1980 ; one child.

Education:

• 2020: Habilitation in physics, Université Côte d'Azur (Nice, France).
• 2007: PhD in physics, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France). Doctoral advisor: Alain Aspect.
• 2003: Master degree "Optics and photonics", Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France).
• 2003: Engineering degree from Institut d’Optique (Palaiseau, France).

• Since Oct. 2012: CNRS Research Associate at INPHYNI (formerly INLN).
• Jan. 2010 – Aug. 2012: Post-doc (project leader) at Tübingen University (Germany) in the group of Claus Zimmermann. Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• June 2007 – Sept. 2009: Post-doc at INLN in the group of Robin Kaiser.
• Oct. 2003 – May 2007: Graduate student at Institut d'Optique (Palaiseau, France) in the group of Alain Aspect and Philippe Bouyer.

• 2022: Research grant of the French National Research Agency (ANR), project "Novel approaches for light-matter interfaces with 1D ordered atomic ensembles" (1DOrder) (co-PI, 155 k€ for our team).
• 2020: Research grant of the French National Research Agency (ANR), project "Intensity Interferometry at Calern" (I2C) (PI of the consortium, 409 k€ in total, 227 k€ for our team).
• 2017: Research grant of Université Côte d'Azur (IDEX), project "Intensity Correlations: from Atoms to Stars" (28 k€).
• 2012: Post-doc grant of the Carl Zeiss Foundation (160 k€ for two years). I declined to take the CNRS position.
• 2009: Post-doc grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (two years: 2010 – 2011).
• 2003: PhD grant of the DGA (three years: 2003 – 2006).

For citation data, see my author page on Web Of Science.

Proceedings are included only if they contain original material not published otherwise.

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2023:

• Super- and subradiance in dilute disordered cold atomic samples: observations and interpretations
  W. Guerin
  in Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 72, 2023, pages 253-296
  Edited by L. DiMauro, H. Perrin, and S. Yelin (Elsevier)
  Preprint: arXiv:2306.02891 
   
• Intensity interferometry observations of the Hα envelope of γ Cas with MéO and a portable telescope
  N. Matthews, J.-P. Rivet, D. Vernet, M. Hugbart, G. Labeyrie, R. Kaiser, J. Chabé, C. Courde, O. Lai, F. Vakili, O. Garde, W. Guerin
  Astron. J. 167, 117 (2023), preprint: arXiv:2301.04878

2022:

• Optical interpretation of linear-optics superradiance and subradiance
  S. Asselie, A. Cipris, W. Guerin
  Phys. Rev. A 106, 063712 (2022), preprint: arXiv:2209.00918
   
• Field and intensity correlations: the Siegert relation from stars to quantum emitters
  P. Lassègues, M. A. F. Biscassi, M. Morisse, A. Cidrim, N. Matthews, G. Labeyrie, J.-P.-Rivet, F. Vakili, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin, R. Bachelard, M. Hugbart
  Eur. Phys. J. D 76, 246 (2022), preprint: arXiv:2209.06480
   
• Intensity interferometry at Calern and beyond: progress report
  N. Matthews, J.-P. Rivet, M. Hugbart, G. Labeyrie, R. Kaiser, O. Lai, F. Vakili, D. Vernet, J. Chabé, C. Courde, N. Schuhler, P. Bourget, W. Guerin
  Proc. SPIE 12183, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII, 121830G (2022), preprint: arXiv:2209.02477 
   
• Combined spectroscopy and intensity interferometry to determine the distances of the blue supergiants P Cygni and Rigel
  E. S. G. de Almeida, M. Hugbart, A. Domiciano de Souza, J.-P. Rivet, F. Vakili, A. Siciak, G. Labeyrie, O. Garde, N. Matthews, O. Lai, D. Vernet, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin
  MNRAS 515, 1 (2022), preprint: arXiv:2204.00372  

2021:

• Revival of intensity interferometry with modern photonic technologies
  W. Guerin, J.-P. Rivet, M. Hugbart, F. Vakili, E. S. G. de Almeida, A. Domiciano de Souza, G. Labeyrie, N. Matthews, O. Lai, P.-M. Gori, D. Vernet, J. Chabé, C. Courbe, E. Samain, B. V. Castilho, A. M. Magalhaes, E. Janot-Pacheco, A. Carciofi, P. Bourget, N. Schuhler, R. Kaiser
  Proceedings of the annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics, p. 331 (SF2A, 2021)
   
• Subradiance in dilute atomic ensembles: Role of pairs and multiple scattering
  Y. A. Fofanov, I. M. Sokolov, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin
  Phys. Rev. A 104, 023705 (2021), preprint: arXiv:2012.10659
   
• I3T: Intensity Interferometry Imaging Telescope
  P.-M. Gori, F. Vakili, J.-P. Rivet, W. Guerin, M. Hugbart, A. Chiavassa, A. Vakili, R. Kaiser, G. Labeyrie
  MNRAS 505, 2328 (2021), preprint: arXiv:2105.07072
   
• van der Waals dephasing for Dicke subradiance in cold atomic clouds
  A. Cipris, R. Bachelard, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin
  Phys. Rev. A 103, 033714 (2021), preprint: arXiv:2012.06248 
   
• Subradiance with saturated atoms: population enhancement of the long-lived states
  A. Cipris, N. A. Moreira, T. S. do Espirito Santo, P. Weiss, C. J. Villas-Boas, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin, R. Bachelard
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103604 (2021), preprint: arXiv:2009.05172
   
• Superradiance as single scattering embedded in an effective medium
  P. Weiss, A. Cipris, R. Kaiser, I. M. Sokolov, W. Guerin
  Phys. Rev. A 103, 023702 (2021), preprint: arXiv:2011.05201 

• Connecting field and intensity correlations: The Siegert relation and how to test it
  D. Ferreira, R. Bachelard, W. Guerin, R. Kaiser, M. Fouché
  Am. J. Phys. 88, 831 (2020), preprint: arXiv:2002.05425 
   
• A comparison of g⁽¹⁾(t), g^(3/2)(t) and g⁽²⁾(t) for radiation from harmonic oscillators in Brownian motion with a coherent background
  A. Siciak, M. Hugbart, W. Guerin, R. Kaiser, L. A. Orozco
  Phys. Scr. 95, 104001 (2020), preprint: arXiv:2007.06470 
   
• Intensity interferometry of P Cygni in the Hα emission line: towards distance calibration of LBV supergiant stars
  J.-P. Rivet, A. Siciak, E. S. G. de Almeida, F. Vakili, A. Domiciano de Souza, M. Fouché, O. Lai, D. Vernet, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin
  Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 494, 218 (2020), preprint: arXiv:1910.08366 
   
• Mirrorless lasing and cooperative scattering with cold atoms
  William Guerin 
  Habilitation thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2020 (Nice, France)
  Reprint: tel-02924393
   
• Optical-depth scaling of light scattering from a dense and cold atomic 87Rb gas
  K. J. Kemp, S. J. Roof, M. D. Havey, I. M. Sokolov, D. V. Kupriyanov, W. Guerin
  Phys. Rev. A 101, 033832 (2020), preprint: arXiv:1807.10939
   
• Collective excitation dynamics of a cold-atom cloud
  T. S. do Espirito Santo, P. Weiss, A. Cipris, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin, R. Bachelard, J. Schachenmayer 
  Phys. Rev. A 101, 013617 (2020), preprint: arXiv:1910.06679 
  Editors' suggestion

• Collective Multi-mode Vacuum Rabi Splitting
  W. Guerin, T. S. do Espirito Santo, P. Weiss, A. Cipris, J. Schachenmayer, R. Kaiser, R. Bachelard
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243401 (2019), preprint: arXiv:1909.06454 
   
• Robustness of Dicke subradiance against thermal decoherence
  P. Weiss, A. Cipris, M. O. Araújo, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin
  Phys. Rev. A 100, 033833 (2019), preprint: arXiv:1906.02918 
   
• Dressed dense atomic gases
  I. Lesanovsky, B. Olmos, W. Guerin, R. Kaiser
  Phys. Rev. A 100, 021401(R) (2019), preprint: arXiv:1902.02989 
   
• Comparison of three approaches to light scattering by dilute cold atomic ensembles
  I. M. Sokolov, W. Guerin
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36, 2030 (2019), preprint: arXiv:1902.04289 

• Intensity interferometry revival on the Côte d'Azur
  O. Lai, W. Guerin, F. Vakili, R. Kaiser, J.-P. Rivet, M. Fouché, G. Labeyrie, J. Chabé, C. Courde, E. Samain, D. Vernet
  Proc. SPIE 10701, Interferometry and Imaging VI, 1070121 (2018), preprint: arXiv:1810.0823
   
• Optical long baseline intensity interferometry: prospects for stellar physics
  J.-P. Rivet, F. Vakili, O. Lai, D. Vernet, M. Fouché, W. Guerin, G. Labeyrie, R. Kaiser
  Exp. Astron. 46, 531 (2018) [free link for online reading], preprint: arXiv:1805.06078
   
• Spatial intensity interferometry on three bright stars
  W. Guerin, J.-P. Rivet, M. Fouché, G. Labeyrie, D. Vernet, F. Vakili, R. Kaiser
  Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 480, 245 (2018), preprint: arXiv:1805.06653
   
• Subradiance and radiation trapping in cold atoms
  P. Weiss, M. O. Araújo, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin
  New J. Phys. 20, 063024 (2018), preprint: arXiv:1803.01646 
   
• Diffusing-wave spectroscopy of cold atoms in ballistic motion
  A. Eloy, Z. Yao, R. Bachelard, W. Guerin, M. Fouché, R. Kaiser
  Phys. Rev. A 97, 013810 (2018), preprint: arXiv:1710.03974 
   
• Decay dynamics in the coupled-dipole model
  M. O. Araújo, W. Guerin, R. Kaiser
  J. Mod. Opt. 65, 1345 (2018) [link for 50 free copies], preprint: arXiv:1705.02190

• Temporal intensity interferometry: photon bunching on three bright stars
  W. Guerin, A. Dussaux, M. Fouché, G. Labeyrie, J.-P. Rivet, D. Vernet, F. Vakili, R. Kaiser
  Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 472, 4126 (2017), preprint: arXiv:1708.06119
   
• Population of collective modes in light scattering by many atoms
  W. Guerin, R. Kaiser
  Phys. Rev. A 95, 053865 (2017), preprint: arXiv:1702.01053
   
• Light interacting with atomic ensembles: collective, cooperative and mesoscopic effects
  W. Guerin, M. T. Rouabah, R. Kaiser
  J. Mod. Opt. 64, 895 (2017) [link for 50 free copies], preprint: arXiv:1605.02439

• Noise spectroscopy with large clouds of cold atoms
  S. Vartabi Kashanian, A. Eloy, W. Guerin, M. Lintz, M. Fouché, R. Kaiser
  Phys. Rev. A 94, 043622 (2016), preprint: arXiv:1606.07658
   
• Collective effects in the radiation pressure force
  R. Bachelard, N. Piovella, W. Guerin, R. Kaiser
  Phys. Rev. A 94, 033836 (2016), preprint: arXiv:1607.01157
   
• Diffusive to quasi-ballistic random laser: incoherent and coherent models
  W. Guerin, Y. D. Chong, Q. Baudouin, M. Liertzer, S. Rotter, R. Kaiser
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33, 1888 (2016), preprint: arXiv:1606.03679
  Editors' Pick
   
• Superradiance in a large and dilute cloud of cold atoms in the linear-optics regime
  M. O. Araújo, I. Krešić, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073002 (2016), preprint: arXiv:1603.07204
   
• Temporal intensity correlation of light scattered by a hot atomic vapor
  A. Dussaux, T. Passerat de Silans, W. Guerin, O. Alibart, S. Tanzilli, F. Vakili, R. Kaiser
  Phys. Rev. A 93, 043826 (2016), preprint: arXiv:1601.00853
   
• Subradiance in a Large Cloud of Cold Atoms
  W. Guerin, M. O. Araújo, R. Kaiser
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 083601 (2016), preprint: arXiv:1509.00227
  PRL Editors' Suggestion; see also: Storing Light in the Dark, by A. Carmele, Physics 9, 20 (2016)
  Press: Brazilian Physical Society, INP CNRS