Ihsan Fsaifes

Ihsan Fsaifes received his M.S. and PhD degrees in electronic and communication from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Télécom ParisTech; Paris, France) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He joined Ecole Polytechnique in 2015. His research interests include fiber lasers, coherent beam combining, and phase-sensitive optical amplifiers and their applications.

FIGURE 1. Shown are XCAN’s 61 Yb-doped fiber amplifier bundle (a) and its near-field interference pattern (b).
Lasers & Sources

Shaping the light: The advent of digital lasers

June 23, 2021
A new approach to coherent beam combining opens the path to a new era of full digital lasers with potential for light shaping in various power regimes.