General Manager
ROUTE DES LASERS®

Hervé Floch is the General Manager of ALPhA - Route des Lasers® french photonics cluster with 25 years of experience in optics-photonics technology development in France after graduating from École Nationale de Chimie, Physique et Biologie de Paris with a MSc in Chemistry from Faculté des Sciences d’Orsay. He is CEA employee and since 2011 on-loan to take on the role of managing ALPhA - Route des Lasers®. He has record of sustained and significant contributions and patents to the development of optical coatings by the sol-gel process and precision optics for high-power lasers (Laser Mégajoule) and his work to develop optical thin-films and its transfer in the industry has been recognized by several awards.