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Optique des nanostructures, LCFIO/CNRS

Institute:	Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique
Address:	bâtiment 503, centre scientifique 91403 Orsay France
Website:	http://www.iota.u-psud.fr/
Contact person	Chavel Pierre
Presentation:	CNRS_IOTA.pdf (388.47 kB)

Description

The “Institut d’Optique Théorique et Appliquée” (IOTA), a private institution initiated by the French governement in 1920 comprise a School of Engineering « The Ecole Supérieure d’Optique », a research lab, the « Laboratoire Charles Fabry » (LCFIO) and a platform for transfer of technology towards industry. The LCFIO is a joint research lab of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and IOTA Headed by Dr Pierre Chavel, it houses research activities ranging from fundamental research in Atom Optics and Quantum Optics to applications for industry. In both domains, the laboratory is at the leading edge of international competition.
The team Optics of Nanostructures directed by Philippe Lalanne at the LCFIO, comprises two senior scientists, one engineer, one PhD student and one postdoc. Formally involved in micro-optics for information processing and optical interconnects (ESPRIT Basic Research Programme 1992 and RODCI Melhari Programme 1998), since 1996, it has launched original and powerful simulation methods based on grating theories in diffractive optics and integrated optics and original and high-performance subwavelength diffractive optical elements. Its studies in the electromagnetism of optical nanostructures has evolved from diffraction by subwavelength periodic structures (1995-1999), to photonic crystals and plasmonics (1997-2001) towards microcavities, light confinements, complex nanostructures for emission and detection (2001-nowadays). The past few years, the team has been involved in the COST 268 action and in the two French programmes in micro-optics ( PROJET MICROSYSTEMES 2001, Action Concerté Optique 2002) and one industrial contracts with NETTEST.