COUTAZ Jean-Louis

Teaching activities

Former teaching activities

• Solid State Physics
• Statistical Physics
• Optics and Optoelectronics
• Physical Acoustics of Hearing and Speaking
• Basic Level Physics

 

Research activities

Up to 1993: CNRS researcher at INP Grenoble

• Integrated Optics
• Nonlinear Optics at surfaces
   

Since 1993: Professor at University Savoie Mont-Blanc (emeritus since 2020)

• Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy
• Electroptics
• Ultrafast semiconductors (material and devices)

Research activities

 
 

Publications 2018-2023

Principles of TeraHertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy
Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore (2018)
622 pages, ISBN 9789814774567
J.-L. Coutaz, F. Garet and V. P. Wallace

Comparative Study of Material Parameter Extraction Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy in Transmission and in Reflection
Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 39, 349-366 (2018)
M. Bernier, F. Garet, E. Kato, B. Blampey, and J.-L. Coutaz

Influence of Two-Photon Absorption Anisotropy on Terahertz Emission Through Optical Rectification in Zinc-Blende Crystals
Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 39, 378-386 (2018)
F. Sanjuan, G. Gaborit, and J.-L. Coutaz

Characterization of ultrafast InGaAs photoconductors and their application to signal processing in radio over fiber telecommunications
Invited paper, special issue devoted to A. Krotkus 70^th anniversary, Lithuanian Journal of Physics 58, pp. 90-98 (2018).
R. Horvath, J- F. Roux, J- L. Coutaz, J. Poëtte

Second order nonlinear optical processes in [111] cubic crystals for terahertz optoelectronics
Invited paper, special issue devoted to A. Krotkus 70^th anniversary, Lithuanian Journal of Physics 58, pp. 24-37 (2018).
G. Gaborit, F. Sanjuan, and J.-L. Coutaz

Full electro-optic terahertz time-domain spectrometer for polarimetric studies
Applied Optics 57, 6055-6060 (2018).
F. Sanjuan, G. Gaborit, and J.-L. Coutaz

Sub-wavelength terahertz imaging through optical rectification
Scientific Reports 8, 13492 (2018).
F. Sanjuan, G. Gaborit, and J.-L. Coutaz

Terahertz biophotonics as a tool for studies of dielectric and spectral properties of biological tissues and liquids related to water content
Progress in Quantum Electronics 68, 1-77 (2018).
O. A. Smolyanskaya, N. V. Chernomyrdin, A. A. Konovko, K. I. Zaytsev, I. A. Ozheredov, O. P. Cherkasova, M. M. Nazarov, J.-P. Guillet, S. A. Kozlov, Yu. V. Kistenev, J.-L. Coutaz, P. Mounaix, V. L. Vaks, J.-H. Son, H. Cheon, V. Wallace, Yu. Feldman, I. Popov, A. N. Yaroslavsky, A. P. Shkurinov, and V. V. Tuchin.

Detection of weak terahertz pulsed signals using kinetic inductance detectors
Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves 40 (1), 31-37 (2019)
G. Soylu, F. Sanjuan, E. Hérault, J.-F. Roux, F. Levy-Bertrand, M. Calvo, A. Monfardini and J.-L. Coutaz

Terahertz Wave Generation from Liquid Nitrogen
Photonics Research 7, 678-686 (2019)
A. V. Balakin, J.-L. Coutaz, V. A. Makarov, I. A. Kotelnikov, Y. Peng, P. M. Solyankin, Y. Zhu, and A. P. Shkurinov

Electrodynamic resonance of surface conduction and THz transmission through arrays of rectangular apertures in opaque metallic thin films
J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A36, 964-974 (2019)
Ch. Minot, Ch. Dupuis, E. Cambril, F. Garet, and J.-L. Coutaz

An Analytical Model for the Current Voltage Characteristics of GaN-capped AlGaN/GaN and AlInN/GaN HEMTs Including Thermal and Self-Heating Effects
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 10, 1791-1804 (2020)
A. Bellakhdar, A. Telia, and J.-L. Coutaz

Terahertz imaging and spectroscopy for security and defense applications,
in Explosives Detection: Sensors, Electronic Systems and Data Processing, edited by Lorenzo Capineri, and Eyup Turmus, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, pp. 247-272, Springer Verlag (2019), ISBN : 978-94-024-1728-9
M. Lazoul, N. Maamar, B. Amel, F. Laurell and J.-L. Coutaz

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy: advanced techniques,
in Molecular and Laser Spectroscopy: Advances and Applications – Part II, edited by V. Gupta and Y. Ozaki , pp. 121-166, Elsevier (2020), ISBN: 978-01-281-8870-5
J.-L. Coutaz and A. P. Shkurinov

Evaluation of eight nonlinear crystals for phase-matched terahertz second-order difference-frequency generation at room temperature
Optical Material Express 10, 561 (2020)
C. Bernerd, P. Segonds, J. Debray, J.-F. Roux, E. Hérault, J.-L. Coutaz, I. Shoji, H. Minamide, H. Ito, D. Lupinsky, K. Zawilski, P. Schunemann, X. Zhang, J. Wang, Z. Hu, B. Boulanger

Single Free-Falling Droplet of Liquid Metal as a Source of Directional Terahertz Radiation
Physical Review Applied 14, 034033 (2020)
P. M. Solyankin, B. V. Lakatosh, M. S. Krivokorytov, I. P. Tsygvintsev, A. S. Sinko, I. A. Kotelnikov, V. A. Makarov, J.-L. Coutaz, V. V. Medvedev, and A. P. Shkurinov

Sub-wavelength THz imaging through optical rectification
Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves 41, 1144-1154 (2020)
G. Soylu, E. Hérault, B. Boulanger F. Laurell J.-L. Coutaz

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy characterization of nitrocellulose in transmission and reflection configurations
Optik 224, 165711 (2020)
N. Maamar, M. Lazoul, F. Y. Letreche, D. Trache, and J.-L. Coutaz

THz generation in Gase crystals pumped with laser photon energy below and around the bandgap
Applied Physics Letters 112, 011103 (2023)
D. Zhai, E. Hérault, F. Garet and J.-L. Coutaz, and C.-L. Pan

Dopant profiling of ion-implanted GaAs by Terahertz Time-domain Spectroscopy
to appear in Journal of Appled Physics (2023)
A. K. Sahoo, W. C. Au, Y.C. Hong, C.-L. Pan, D. Zhai, E. Herault, F. Garet, and J.-L. Coutaz