Careers

Research assistant, 3-years Postdoctoral Position In Photonicss, Besançon, France

Within the framework of a research project of the European INTERREG IVA Programme and the COST Action 299, the Department of Optics of the FEMTO-ST institute invites application for a 3-years post-doctorate fellowship in photonics. This project aims at investigating the remarkable properties of Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibers in view of application for efficient distributed sensing. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Group for Fibre Optics and together with three companies in photonics and fiber technologies.
The candidate should already have strong research experience in the field of photonics, preferably in the area of nonlinear fiber optics and should have a PhD degree or its equivalent. Each application should consist of the curriculum vitae including a list of publications and names and addresses of referees.

The conditions are the following:
-A 3-year period as post-doc researcher starting from now or later.
- Net Salary: 2200€/month
-This position is not permanent and is on a year-to-year basis.

Please submit as soon as possible your CV from now on and no later than March 2009.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Hervé Maillotte at hervé.maillotte@univ-fcomte.fr and Thibaut Sylvestre at thibaut.sylvestre@univ-fcomte.fr

Further information on the Department of Optics at University of Franche-Comté can be found on the Web at http://www.femto-st.fr

Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate: integrated surface plasmon resonance biosensors (2 year appointment, immediate start)

We seek an outstanding post-doctoral researcher or research associate to join a large team that is developing advanced optical biosensors for high-throughput protein profiling. The candidate will be responsible for the implementation of integrated micro-optical surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors. This research forms part of a collaboration between four separate laboratories in Engineering and Medicine at McGill University and at Sherbrooke University, and unites experts in photonics, microfluidics, biochemistry and protein profiling.

Major activities

Design of integrated micro-optical SPR system, incorporating diffractive and refractive micro-optics

Coordination of system fabrication in local microfabrication facility, followed by system assembly

Characterization and test

Collaboration with researchers in microfluidics and protein profiling to deliver complete system for field trials

More information on our group can be found at:

http://www.photonics.ece.mcgill.ca/Kirk/Kirk.html

PhD position : measurement of nanometer-sized features by electronmagnetic scattering analysis.

The research project is related to the measurement of the nanometer-sized features that are produced in the optical lithographic process steps during the production of the newest- and futuregeneration silicon devices. The measurement and control of the actual 45-nanometer features and the future smaller ones ask for fast and reliable optical methods that are based on the far-field measurement of the scattered light over a broad range of wavelengths. An inverse electromagnetic scattering model should allow the reconstruction of the scattering features with the required nanometer accuracy. The project focuses on both the theoretical and experimental aspects of the scattering.

2 PhD Students

2 PhD students to work on the following projects :

Project 1 comprises fabrication and characterization of an optical microsystem based on electro-wetting. This optical system will allow both lateral positioning and tuning of the focal length of liquid micro-lenses.

Project 2 comprises design, fabrication and characterization of a membrane-based tunable achromatic optical system. The system may be used as a tunable lens or for introducing controlled aberrations to a imaging optical system.

Project engineer in materials research

The Flanders Materials Centre (FLAMAC) was founded by three leading companies with important research and development activities in Flanders (Agfa, Umicore and Arcelor) together with Agoria Vlaanderen.

Flamac’s objective is to become a competence centre in "High Throughput Methodologies" to support research for the materials industry. This way, innovative research for new materials and formulations, their properties and applications will be accelerated and broadened. Flamac will develop and apply combinatorial experimentation methods and pragmatic modeling techniques to that purpose. It wants to offer a service in collaborative, multi-disciplinary research between industry, universities and research centers. Current research programs and additional information about FLAMAC can be found by visiting our web site: www.flamac.be.

In order to strengthen our competence we are looking for a motivated (M/F)

PROJECT ENGINEER IN MATERIALS RESEARCH

Sales Engineer of Lambda Research Optics Europe

Lambda Reserach Optics Europe is looking for a sales engineer to market its infrared optics for CO2 lasers in Germany and Switzerland. He/she will be responsible for developing business relations with our main OEM customers. He/she will report to our office in Belgium and maintain contacts with our production site in Los Angeles.

Fluent speaking of German is an absolute requirement.

Please contact Peter Muys at

Development engineer optics medical display systems

You are part of the technology innovation team. You are responsible for the optical design of our medical display systems i.e. LCD displays, CCFL and LED backlights, and photometric and colorimetric sensors.

Designing new backlights that meet the high requirements (light output, uniformity and backlight thickness) is one of your challenges. You continuously look for
improving the optical quality of the displays e.g. by changing the optical stack (diffusers, polarizers, compensation foils, ) or adding optical elements such as
neutral density filters, AG/AR coatings, protective glass, You strive for a stable luminance and a consistent color. You prototype new algorithms and ideas by designing the appropriate software programs, mainly in a C++ windows environment.

You design, develop and verify your part of the design. The existing expertise in the company is a source of inspiration, but out of the box thinking is required for solving the complex visualization problems.

You closely follow evolutions in your field of expertise e.g. by contacts with LCD manufacturers. You work in a team and share experiences with co-developers.
State-of-the-art tools will be at your disposal.

Post doctoral position

Holographic Data Storage in micro-structured disk

Postdoctoral position in the fields of diffractive optics and optical manipulation

One or two postdoctoral positions are available at the Department of Physics, Göteborg University, Sweden, in the fileds of diffractive optics and optical manipulation.

Sales Area Manager, Benelux, Spectra Physics

Field Sales Engineer (m/v) Lasers

Postdoc Position

A postdoc position to work on modelling and simulations of optoelectronic devices for chaos-based optical communications is available under the European Project PICASSO (Photonic Integrated Components Applied to Secure chaoS encoded Optical communications systems) at the Mediterranean) Institute of Advanced Studies, (University of the Balearic Islands-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.