Experience

ICON Photonics

• France
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder and CTO

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Greater Paris Metropolitan Region Lead the engineering and scientific team activities of ICON Photonics, Develop the IP and patent actions, Pilot the manufacturing production capacities and Articulate the company with the scientific and industrial community clusters.

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Champs-sur-Marne ICON Photonics proposes innovative high performance optical coupling and packaging solutions for very high speed optical communications. An optical packaging technology with multiple technical and industrial advantages: - Smaller-size higher-speed chip optical coupling and packaging - Applicable with PICS, VCSELs, Photodiodes, Optical Quantum sources and detectors - Coupling to he fiber (SMF, MMF, MCF) or beam-shaping light into free-space - High tolerance to… Show more ICON Photonics proposes innovative high performance optical coupling and packaging solutions for very high speed optical communications. An optical packaging technology with multiple technical and industrial advantages: - Smaller-size higher-speed chip optical coupling and packaging - Applicable with PICS, VCSELs, Photodiodes, Optical Quantum sources and detectors - Coupling to he fiber (SMF, MMF, MCF) or beam-shaping light into free-space - High tolerance to optical misalignment, vibrations and temperature - Compatible with passive alignment and assembly equipment - Chip, array and wafer level compatibility and integrability - One technology, multiple applications : (1) Datacom/telecom from pluggable to co-packaged optics from 40Gbps to above 100Gbps per wavelength, (2) Quantum photonics, (3) Sensing and free-space, (4) Microwave-Photonics



Hub Optics & Photonics

• France
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of The Board of Advisors

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Greater Paris Metropolitan Region



ESIEE PARIS

• France
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director of International Relations

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2022

  Région de Noisy-Le-Grand, France In charge of the development of ESIEE Paris International relations, in the field of education, research and support to company. ESIEE Paris is the school of technological innovation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris Region, France, in the field of ICTs. It has more than 100 partnership over 36 countries, with 260 international student in Paris, and more than 200 ESIEE Paris students abroad per year. ESIEE Paris also has a hub in South-Africa, CapeTown and Pretoria, through the… Show more In charge of the development of ESIEE Paris International relations, in the field of education, research and support to company. ESIEE Paris is the school of technological innovation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris Region, France, in the field of ICTs. It has more than 100 partnership over 36 countries, with 260 international student in Paris, and more than 200 ESIEE Paris students abroad per year. ESIEE Paris also has a hub in South-Africa, CapeTown and Pretoria, through the French-South African Institute of Technology (F'SATI) with TUT and CPUT. Jean-Luc Polleux is also researcher at the ESYCOM lab in the field of microwave-photonics. He contributes to the development of semiconductor and polymer technologies for Radio-over-Fiber, Free-space-optics and biomedical applications. He also contributes as a scientific advisor and co-founder of a ICON Photonics company in the field of optical coupling and packaging of high-speed devices.

• Associate Professor

  • Sep 2001 - Sep 2022

  Jean-Luc Polleux received a Master degree / Diplôme d’ingénieur in microelectronic from ENSEIRB, Bordeaux, France, and the DEA degree in electronic and telecommunications from the University of Bordeaux 1, France, both in 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree in the opto-microwave field from CNAM, Paris, in 2001. He then joined ESIEE-Paris at Université Paris-Est (UPE), France, and the joint laboratory ESYCOM. His current research involves microwave-photonics devices and systems for… Show more Jean-Luc Polleux received a Master degree / Diplôme d’ingénieur in microelectronic from ENSEIRB, Bordeaux, France, and the DEA degree in electronic and telecommunications from the University of Bordeaux 1, France, both in 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree in the opto-microwave field from CNAM, Paris, in 2001. He then joined ESIEE-Paris at Université Paris-Est (UPE), France, and the joint laboratory ESYCOM. His current research involves microwave-photonics devices and systems for Radio-over-Fibre applications with special emphasis on microwave phototransistors (SiGe/Si and InGaAs/InP), Silicon-based integration and opto-microwave devices modelling.

• Head of ESIEE Paris International Master of Electronics

  • Sep 2010 - Jul 2017

  Noisy-le-Grand, Île-de-France, France



ESYCOM

• France
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • Sep 2001 - Aug 2022

  Greater Paris Metropolitan Region Researcher at the ESYCOM lab in the field of microwave-photonics, I contributes to the development of semiconductor and polymer technologies for Radio-over-Fiber, Free-space-optics and biomedical applications. I disseminated my results on optical interconnects through the creation of the ICON Photonics startup in the field of optical coupling and packaging of high-speed devices (FUI project in 2010, maturation project in 2014, incubation in 2017, incorporation in 2018). I also proud to have… Show more Researcher at the ESYCOM lab in the field of microwave-photonics, I contributes to the development of semiconductor and polymer technologies for Radio-over-Fiber, Free-space-optics and biomedical applications. I disseminated my results on optical interconnects through the creation of the ICON Photonics startup in the field of optical coupling and packaging of high-speed devices (FUI project in 2010, maturation project in 2014, incubation in 2017, incorporation in 2018). I also proud to have developed the technology of SiGe/Si microwave phototransistor since the early 2000 which is today under investigation for a deployment with ST-Microelectronics SiGe BiCMOS foundry. Show less



Optics'Valley

• Member of the administration board

  • 2012 - Jun 2019