Professor Gian-Luca Oppo
Physics
Personal statement
Personal statement
Gian-Luca Oppo is the 1796 Freeland Chair in Natural Philosophy since 2015. He graduated from the Institute of Optics and the University of Florence, Italy, in 1983. He worked at the Universities of Toronto (1985-1987), Drexel in Philadelphia (1987-1989) and Nice (1989). Oppo joined Strathclyde in 1989 and became professor in 1998. Together with William Firth and Stephen Barnett, Oppo built the Computational Nonlinear and Quantum Optics group that was flagged 5* in the RAE in 2001. He created the Institute of Complex Systems at Strathclyde with Des Higham (Mathematics) in 2007. In 2011 Oppo was awarded the Occhialini Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and the Italian Physical Society for outstanding insights into spatio-temporal dynamics of lasers, nonlinear and quantum optical systems, achieved through the development and application of powerful techniques for large-to-small-scale computing. In 2014 and in 2016 Oppo was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award for the Most Enthusiastic Teacher at Strathclyde. Oppo's research profile and citations are available on Google Scholar.
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Prize And Awards
- Fellowship Federation de recherche Wofgang Doeblin
- Recipient
- 29/3/2024
- Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 20/5/2016
- Visiting Professor Award
- Recipient
- 1/4/2015
- 1796 Freeland Chair of Natural Philosophy
- Recipient
- 1/1/2015
- Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 7/5/2014
- Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Recipient
- 7/3/2012
Qualifications
- Winner of the Occhialini medal and prize (2011)
- Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award (2016)
- Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award (2014)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2012)
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1999)
- Fellow of the institute of Physics (1997)
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Publications
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking of cavity solitons in coupled resonators
- Ghosh Alekhya, Pal Arghadeep, Hill Lewis, Yan Haochen, Oppo Gian-Luca, Del'Haye Pascal
- 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec65582.2025.11109124
- Möbius laser cavity soliton microcomb
- Das D, Cutrona A, Oppo G-L, Cooper A, Olivieri L, Balanov A G, Chu S T, Little B E, Morandotti R, Moss D J, Totero Gongora J S, Peccianti M, Pasquazi A
- 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec65582.2025.11110783
- Experimental demonstration of an intensity-resolved coherent Ising machine based on polarization symmetry breaking
- Quinn Liam, Xu Yiqing, Fatome Julien, Oppo Gian-Luca, Murdoch Stuart G, Erkintalo Miro, Coen Stéphane
- 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec65582.2025.11110897
- Modelling of energy-dependent nonlinearities in microresonator filtered lasers
- Cutrona A, Cooper A, Gongora JS Totero, Oppo G-L, Peccianti M, Pasquazi A
- 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec65582.2025.11109759
- Polarization faticons : chiral localized structures in self-defocusing Kerr resonators
- Lucas Erwan, Xu Gang, Wang Pengxiang, Oppo Gian-Luca, Hill Lewis, Del'Haye Pascal, Kibler Bertrand, Xu Yiqing, Murdoch Stuart G, Erkintalo Miro, Coen Stéphane, Fatome Julien
- Physical Review Letters Vol 135 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/ljbj-tz7g
- Controlling frequency comb line spacing via symmetry broken faticons
- Hill Lewis, Lucas Erwan, Ghosh Alekhya, Mazo Vásquez Juan Diego, Gohsrich Julius T, Pal Arghadeep, Yan Haochen, Del'Haye Pascal, Oppo Gian-Luca, Coen Stéphane, Kunst Flore K, Fatome Julien
- 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec65582.2025.11111585
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Professional Activities
- Supersolid light
- Contributor
- 29/5/2025
- Self-organized states in quantum degenerate Boson gases with light-mediated interactions
- Contributor
- 4/9/2024
- Institut de Physique de Nice
- Visiting researcher
- 2/6/2024
- Structuring ultracold atoms with light in an optical cavity
- Contributor
- 28/1/2023
- Selection of Professor at University of Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
- Examiner
- 19/4/2022
- Dipolar and quadrupolar spontaneous magnetic ordering in an atomic spin system mediated by light
- Contributor
- 28/3/2022
Projects
- Theory and simulations of frequency combs in micro-resonator devices (£15K support from MPISL)
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Campbell, Graeme
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator) Robb, Gordon (Co-investigator) Campbell, Graeme (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Henderson, Grant
- Yao, Alison (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Henderson, Grant (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 10-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Mansfield, Elliott
- Daley, Andrew (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Mansfield, Elliott (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 12-Jan-2024
- Engineering many-body quantum states and dissipative dynamics in quantum simulators | Mansfield, Elliott
- Daley, Andrew (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Mansfield, Elliott (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 12-Jan-2024
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Hill, Lewis
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator) Yao, Alison (Co-investigator) Hill, Lewis (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 06-Jan-2021