Autor: Frédérique de Fornel

Olivier Bouchet works in the field of free-space optics atFrance Telecom Research and Development. Hervé Sizun is a specialist of theelectromagnetic wave propagation at France Telecom. Christian Boisrobert is one of the designers of the firstdigital link using optical fibres in France at France Telecom. Heis a professor at the University of Nantes. Frédérique de Fornal is the director ofResearch at CNRS and is Head of the Near Field Optics Group at theUniversity of Bourgogne. Pierre-Noël Favennec works as a consultant engineerand is the author of numerous scientific books and papers. He isalso the Chairman of URSI France.