Antoine Duret

EPFL STI IEM GALATEA
MC A1 237 (Bâtiment MC)
Rue de la Maladière 71b, CP 526
2002 Neuchâtel 2

EPFLETUEDOCEDAM

Expertise

Micromechanics, materials science, manufacturing

Interests

  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Mechanical design
  • Materials science
  • Sensors, optical detectors
  • Linear algebra
  • Products design, systems engineering
  • Biomedical technologies
  • Teaching and learning sciences
  • Historic electrical and steam trains
Antoine Duret is a graduate EPF (Écoles Polytechniques Fédérales) engineer in Microengineering. After earning his BSc at EPFL in 2021, he continued with an MSc, complemented by a minor in biomedical technologies. In Spring 2023, he completed his master’s thesis at FEMTOprint SA in Lugano, focusing on the use of parylene coatings as mechanical protective layers for glass medical microdevices. He is currently enrolled in EPFL’s doctoral program in advanced manufacturing at Galatea Laboratory under supervision of Prof. Yves Bellouard. His research centers on the integration of fiber Fabry–Perot cavities, in collaboration with the Atom Chips Group at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory (ENS-PSL, Paris). Antoine is strongly committed to education and participates in a variety of teaching activities. In his free time, he volunteers at the Blonay-Chamby Railway Museum, where he restores historic steam trains and develops railway skills.

Awards

Best Poster Award

Doctoral School in Advanced Manufacturing (EDAM)

2024

Teaching Assistant Award

School of Engineering (STI)

2024

2025

Talks

An all glass, high finesse miniature integrated fiber Fabry-Perot microcavity produced by 3D femtosecond laser processing

A. DuretJ. ReichelR. LongY. Bellouard

High-finesse optical microcavities are at the core of a wide range of scientific advances and technical applications from quantum technologies to optical sensors. Among them, fiber Fabry-Perot cavities (FFPCs) are of particular interest because of their unique properties. However, integrating FFPCs into photonic devices remains difficult because it is complex to individually tune their resonance frequencies. Moreover, integrating them in a miniaturized device is an experimental challenge prone to errors. To tackle this problem, we combined FFPCs with femtosecond laser manufacturing to create the very first integrated FFPC on a glass substrate. Post-assembly fine tuning is performed to maximize the finesse by actuating an integrated flexible mechanism. These integrated FFPCs devices pave the way to new scalable and miniaturized photonic sensors with extremely high resolution particularly interesting for quantum applications.

Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Precision Metrology III, San Francisco, United States, 2025-01-25 - 2025-01-31.

2022

Student Projects

Fabrication of Lipid Microstructure for Oral Drug Delivery Device

A. Duret

2022

Advisor(s) : J. ParkJ. Brugger

Contributions

Theses

Printed degradable piezoelectric microsystems: From ink formulation to device fabrication and characterization

M. M. K. Monroe / D. BriandL. G. Villanueva Torrijo (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. p. 146. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10191.

Research

Current Research Fields

  • Femtosecond laser manufacturing
  • Fiber Fabry-Perot cavities
  • Integrated photonics
  • Micro-optomechanics

Master Project

Use of Parylene Coatings as Mechanical Protective Layers for Glass Medical Microdevices
A. Duret
Spring 2023
Advisor(s): A. Lovera (FemtoPrint SA); Y. Bellouard

Teaching & PhD

Teaching experience

Teaching Assistant
  • MICRO-301 Manufacturing Technologies, EPFL | STI — 2024-2026
  • MICRO-406 Products Design & Systems Engineering, EPFL | STI — 2023-2025
  • MATH-111(d) Algèbre linéaire (pour MT), EPFL | SB — 2022-2024
  • MSE-214/215 Mise en œuvre des matériaux I & II, EPFL | STI — 2021, 2022

Student Assistant
  • ME-101/106 Construction mécanique I, EPFL | STI — 2021, 2022
  • MSE-101(b) Materials: from chemistry to properties, EPFL | STI — 2022
  • PREPA-032(b) Mathématiques 2B (pour MAN), EPFL | CMS — 2020

Teacher training programs

  • ENG-629 Lecturing and Presenting in Engineering, 2 ECTS, Fall 2025
  • ENG-624 Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning, 2 ECTS, Fall 2024
  • Training for Student Assistants (given by CAPE/CePro at EPFL), 3 sessions of 3 hours, Fall 2022