Franck Delmotte elected Fellow Member of Optica

  • Institut
  • Institut d'Optique
  • Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Optique XUV

Franck Delmotte, Professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School(IOGS)/Université Paris-Saclay and head of the "XUV Optics" group at Laboratoire Charles Fabry (LCF) has been elected a Fellow Member of Optica by the Society’s Board of Directors.

Optica is dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving, and dissemination of knowledge in the field. Founded in 1916, it is the leading organization for scientists, engineers, business professionals, students and others interested in the science of light.

Fellow membership in Optica is limited to no more than ten percent of the membership and is reserved for members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. 

Franck Delmotte is being honored specifically for pioneering and sustained contributions in the field of extreme ultraviolet and x-ray optics.

Franck joined LCF in 1998, after obtaining a PhD in Applied Sciences at the University of Paris-Sud. He was Dean of Studies at IOGS from 2019 to 2024 and teaches courses on optical coatings and X-ray optics.

He has made fundamental contributions in short-wavelength optics, which enable many scientific and technological applications, from extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to X-rays: dual-band mirrors for solar physics, attosecond pulse compression by multilayer mirrors, broadband diagnostics for laser fusion (Laser MegaJoule and National Ignition Facility), innovative optics for next-generation X-ray sources, new multilayer interference coatings with several reflectivity world records.

He was responsible for the development of multilayer optics for the two EUV telescopes and is co-Investigator of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission launched in 2020. He is currently leading an CNRS International Research Project in collaboration with the Center for X-ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (California).

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