Sébastien Grot is with more than 7 years of experience in the field of fibre lasers and amplifiers, Laser Product Line Manager at Manlight. In 1999 Sébastien gratuated as an engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie (ENSSAT) with a specialisation in optical science. He achieved his PhD in Physics with the Université Rennes 1 in 2006. All over these years, he mastered the development of high-power pulsed and CW fibre lasers and amplifiers based on Ytterbium doped fibres.