Current Ph.D students

• Enzo Isnard a Cifre Ph.D with Thales Research & Technology - Modeling and optimization of freeform optical metasurfaces integrated into an imaging system (2022 - present)

• Arthur Clini de souza a Cifre Ph.D with Solnil company - Machine Learning using neural networks for the design of photonic devices (2023 - present)

Funding & Ongoing projects

• Inria Exploratory action (2-years): Personal funding to work on modelling of Qunatum metasurface

• Sub-WavelEngth Electro-optic sysTems – SWEET (4-years): collaborative research project between ATLANTIS project-team, (2) LAAS-CNRS, (3) CRHEA-CNRS, and NAPA Technologies

• SEASIDE numerical Study of mEtasurfAceS by Inverse DEsign (3-years): collaborative research project between (1) ATLANTIS and (2) Solnil company for designing various photonic components based on Nanoimprint technology

• Advanced computational design of cascaded metadeflectors (2-years): collaborative research project between (1) ATLANTIS project-team, (2) Thales Research & Technology, (3) and NANOE

Publications

• Mahmoud Elsawy, Christina Kyrou, Elena Mikheeva, Rémi Colom, Jean‐Yves Duboz, Khosro Zangeneh Kamali, Stéphane Lanteri, Dragomir Neshev, and Patrice Genevet.,"Universal active metasurfaces for ultimate wavefront molding by manipulating the reflection singularities." Laser & Photonics Reviews 2023, 2200880.
• Mahmoud Elsawy, Mickaël Binois, Régis Duvigneau, Stéphane Lanteri, and Patrice Genevet,"Optimization of metasurfaces under geometrical uncertainty using statistical learning." Optics Express. 2021 Sep 13;29(19):29887-98.
• Mahmoud Elsawy, Anthony Gourdin, Mickaël Binois, Régis Duvigneau, Didier Felbacq, Samira Khadir, Patrice Genevet, and Stéphane Lanteri.,"Multiobjective Statistical Learning Optimization of RGB Metalens." ACS Photonics 2021, 8, 8, 2498–2508.
• Mahmoud Elsawy, Stéphane Lanteri, Régis Duvigneau, Jonathan A. Fan, and Patrice Genevet.,"Numerical optimization methods for metasurfaces." Laser & Photonics Reviews 14, no. 10 (2020): 1900445.
• Tintu Kuriakose, Gilles Renversez, Virginie Nazabal, Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy, Nathalie Coulon, Petr Nemec, Mathieu Chauvet.,"Nonlinear self-confined plasmonic beams: experimental proof." ACS Photonics 2020, 7, 9, 2562–2570.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy, Karim Hassan, Salim Boutami, Stéphane Lanteri.,"Bayesian optimization and rigorous modelling of a highly efficient 3D metamaterial mode converter." OSA Continuum 2020, 3, 1721-1729.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy, Stéphane Lanteri, Régis Duvigneau, G Brière, Mohamed Sabry, and Patrice Genevet.,"Global optimization of metasurface designs using statistical learning methods." Scientific reports. 2019 Nov 29; 9(1): 1-5.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Gilles Renversez.,"Exact calculation of the nonlinear characteristics of 2D isotropic and anisotropic waveguides." Optics Letters. 2018 Jun 1;43(11):2446-9.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Gilles Renversez.,"Spatial nonlinearity in anisotropic metamaterial plasmonic slot waveguides." Plasmonics. 2018 Jun;13:971-9.
• Tintu Kuriakose, Emeline Baudet, Tomáš Halenkovič, Mahmoud M. R Elsawy, Petr Němec, Virginie Nazabal, Gilles Renversez, Mathieu Chauvet.,"Measurement of ultrafast optical Kerr effect of Ge–Sb–Se chalcogenide slab waveguides by the beam self-trapping technique." Optics Communications. 2017 Nov 15;403:352-7.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Gilles Renversez.,"Study of plasmonic slot waveguides with a nonlinear metamaterial core: semi-analytical and numerical methods." Journal of Optics. 2017 Jun 9;19(7):075001.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Gilles Renversez.,"Improved nonlinear slot waveguides using dielectric buffer layers: properties of TM waves." Opt. Lett. 2016, 41:1542-1545.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Sergey Leble.,"Finite-difference solution of parabolic equation and numerical simulation for X-ray focusing." TASK QUARTERLY. 2014, 18;1:101–111.

Selected conference papers

• Mahmoud Elsawy, Alexis Gobé, Guillaume Leroy, Stéphane Lanteri, Patrice Genevet.,"Advanced computational framework for the design of ultimate performance metasurfaces." InSmart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits 2023 2023 Mar 17 (Vol. 12425, pp. 34-37). SPIE.
• Mickaël Binois, Régis Duvigneau, Mahmoud Elsawy, Patrice Genevet, Samira Kadhir, Stéphane Lanteri, and Nicolas Lebbe.,"Advanced Numerical Modeling Methods for the Characterization and Optimization of Metasurfaces." In 2022 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2022.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy, Mickaël Binois, Régis Duvigneau, Stéphane Lanteri, and Patrice Genevet.,"Statistical learning multiobjective optimization for large-scale achromatic metalens at visible regime." In CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, pp. FTh2M-3. Optica Publishing Group, 2021.
• Mathieu Chauvet, Tintu Kuriakose, Gilles Renversez, Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy, Virginie Nazabal, Tomáš Halenkovič, and Petr Němec.,"Experimental demonstration of plasmon-soliton waves." in Nonlinear Optics (NLO), OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2019), paper NTu3A.1.
• Tintu Kuriakose, Tomas Halenkovic, Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy, Petr Němec, Virginie Nazabal, Gilles Renversez, Mathieu Chauvet.,"Experimental demonstration of soliton-plasmon coupling in planar waveguides (Conference Presentation)." InNonlinear Optics and its Applications 2018 May 23 (Vol. 10684, p. 106840C). SPIE.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Gilles Renversez.,"Strong spatial nonlinear effects in anisotropic nonlinear metamaterial plasmonic waveguides: Stationary and temporal results." InNonlinear Photonics 2018 Jul 2 (pp. NpM3C-3). Optica Publishing Group.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Gilles Renversez.,"Kerr nonlinear properties of isotropic and anisotropic 2D nonlinear plasmonic waveguides." In2017 11th International Congress on Engineered Materials Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) 2017 Aug 27 (pp. 283-285). IEEE.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy and Gilles Renversez.,"Extremely enhanced figure of merit in nonlinear plasmonic waveguides in the C-band using metamaterials and a nonlinear active medium." In2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2017 Jun 25 (pp. 1-1). IEEE.
• Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy, Virginie Nazabal, Mathieu Chauvet, Gilles Renversez.,"Improved nonlinear plasmonic slot waveguide: a full study." InNanophotonics VI 2016 Apr 18 (Vol. 9884, pp. 66-84). SPIE.