Press release to announce the invention of the fibre optics cryogenic thermometer (October 2001). Article published in the major regional papers (Le Temps, Agefi, Tribune de Genève) and some European papers (La Stampa, Sole 24 ore). Interview at the Swiss national radio.
• Press release to announce the invention of an intensity modulator on a silicon-on-insulator substrate (March 2002). Article published in the major national papers (Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 Heures, Sudöstschweiz). Interview at the Swiss national radio and video clip broadcast by EPFL.
• Report in Nature (News & Views) about the recent publication in Optics Express about the first control of the signal velocity in an optical fibre (February 2005).
• Report in MIT Technology Review about the same publication in Optics Express (June 2005).
• Press release to announce the first achievement of a wide control of the group velocity in an optical fibre, with an acceleration up to a speed exceeding the vacuum light velocity c (August 2005, follow-up of the publication in Applied Physics Letters). This press release had a tremendous impact, was replicated on many web sites and papers and was rated at the 5th place of all world scientific press releases in 2005 (including medicine) by the dissemination site Eurekalert.org.
The following media issued articles following this press release:
– National public press: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2 articles), Le Temps, 24 Heures, Berner Zeitung, Agefi.
– International public press: The Guardian, Nouvel Observateur, Science & Avenir, Daily Star (weekend magazine), Live Science, Fast Company, La Recherche.
– Interview at the public German radio (Deutschlandfunk)
– Specialized press: IEEE Spectrum, Optics & Laser Europe (2 articles), SPIE OE Magazine, EE Times.
– Numerous scientifically-oriented web sites. PhysicsWeb, PhysOrg, Presence-PC, ScienceDaily, SpaceDaily, RT-image, Yahoo News, etc…
The impact of this news has triggered from 2005 many invitations in major international conferences (ECOC 2005, OECC 2005, OSA Annual Meeting 2006, IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting 2006, IEEE WISP 2007, OFC 2008; SPIE Photonics Europe 2008, SPIE Photonics West 2009, CLEO 2009) and to present seminars in Institutions all over the world.
• Report in Optics & Photonics News about outstanding presentations at the conference OFC’06 (Optical Fiber Communications) (June 2006).