Guillaume DUCOURNAU

Associate Professor
IEMN – UMR 8520
Avenue Poincaré
59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex
+33 (0)3 20 19 78 47
guillaume.ducournau@iemn.univ-lille1.fr

G. Ducournau received his MsC degree and PhD degree in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since 2007, his is with IEMN. G. Ducournau is mainly involved in THz communications research using optoelectronic THz photomixers, THz instrumentation and imaging. He has >15 years of experience in the domain of optical fibers technology and THz instrumentation. In order to carry out his research, he developed several experimental setups dedicated to the characterization of optoelectronics and THz devices, THz Tx and Rx for communications. He is author or co-author of more than 110 publications in peer-reviewed international journals or peer reviewed conferences proceedings. He has worked on several ANR and European projects (ITN “MITEPHO” and STREP “ROOTHz”). G. Ducournau is actually the coordinator of COM’TONIQ project (2014-2017), where the main goal is the achievement of a THz system demonstrator based on photonic devices.

Current research interests

–    THz communications, quasi-optics and THz instrumentation
–    Lasers, photomixers, Schottky based devices.

Five most recent selected publications

[1] VK Chinni, P Latzel, M Zégaoui, C Coinon, X Wallart, E Peytavit, JF Lampin, K Engenhardt, P Szriftgiser, M Zaknoune, G Ducournau, Single-channel 100 Gbit/s transmission using III–V UTC-PDs for future IEEE 802.15. 3d wireless links in the 300 GHz band, Electronics Letters 54 (10), 638-640.
[2] E. Lacombe, C. Belem-Goncalves, C. Luxey, F. Gianesello, C. Durand, D. Gloria, and G. Ducournau, “10 Gbps indoor THz communications using Industrial Si Photonics Technology”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 362-364, 2018.
[3] Philipp Latzel, Fabio Pavanello, Maximilien Billet, Sara Bretin, Alexandre Beck, Mathias Vanwolleghem, Christophe Coinon, Xavier Wallart, Emilien Peytavit, Guillaume Ducournau, Mohammed Zaknoune, Jean-François Lampin, « Generation of mW Level in the 300-GHz Band Using Resonant-Cavity-Enhanced Unitraveling Carrier Photodiodes, » in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 800-807, Nov. 2017.
[4] J Ma, NJ Karl, S Bretin, G Ducournau, DM Mittleman, “Frequency-division multiplexer and demultiplexer for terahertz wireless links”, Nature communications 8 (1), 729, 2017.
[5] T Nagatsuma, G Ducournau, CC Renaud, « Advances in terahertz communications accelerated by photonics”, Nature Photonics 10, 371–379 (2016) doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.65, 2016.