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Adrien Bolliand will defend his thesis entitled “ Angularly and spatially resolved measurement of scattered fluxes for quantifying the impact of localized defects on light scattering losses in optical components.” on June 24, 2025 at 02:30 p.m. in Ponte Amphitheater, Campus St Jérome, Marseille. The defense will be in french.   […]

Valérie Halté from IPCMS – Université de Strasbourg Will give a séminal entitled “Optically induced phase transition at ultimate timescales in Fe3O4 thin films” on Friday, May 23 at 09:30 a.m. in Pierre Cotton’s room, Institut Fresnel, on campus St Jerome, Marseille.   Abstract :  Using time-resolved magneto-optics ability to […]

Prithu ROY, after the Doctoral School “ED352 prize”, has obtain AMU Thesis 2024 prize on April 4 during an official ceremony. The prize, awarded by President Eric Berton during a major scientific evening (04/04/25), rewards 16 new PhDs each year, as well as a number of leading scientists who have […]

Jules VANARET will defend his PhD thesis entiteled « Exploring tissue patterning and stochastic cellular dynamics in photon-limited imaging of light-scattering organoids: combined deep learning and bayesian strategies » on Monday, May 12, 2025 at 09:30 a.m., in Hexagone Auditorium on the Luminy Campus in Marseille. The presentation will be […]

The Next Edition of “PhD Days” will be on June 11 & 12, 2025 at Club Miléades in Carry le Rouet. Every year, the laboratory gets together for 2 days so that all doctoral students can present their thesis work to all the members of our unit. The last edition […]

  Institut Fresnel 25th Anniversary on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 Scientific Conference & Gala Amphi Ginestié –  Bât INSPE, Campus St Jérôme, Marseille   09h30 – Opening & Official Speechs 10h00 – Keynote speaker : Philippe Lalanne, LP2N Bordeaux 11h00 – coffee break 11h30 – Keynote speaker : Mattéo Barsuglia, LAC, […]

  Thematic School From the First to the Second Quantum Revolution – Theory & Applications From Monday, June 9, to Thursday, June 12, 2025 at Peyresq, France     Objectives of the School : The second quantum revolution builds on key concepts of quantum mechanics—superposition, entanglement, and measurement—to drive the emergence […]

  The 14th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA 2025) aims at gathering international researchers, innovators, educators, and practitioners in image processing for attending extensive educational high level materials, sharing their achievements, exchanging their experiences and discussing future orientations. The conference aims to provide an […]

This PhD project is part of an interdisciplinary projet gathering experts in physics, optics, computational science and chemists. The candidate will be based between the Institut Fresnel and the IM2NP both in Marseille. At the Institut Fresnel, the candidate will work within the RCMO team experts in nanophotonics, optical nearfield […]

Fernando Guevara Vasquez from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, will give a seminar entitled “Imaging small polarizable dipoles using Stokes parameters” on Thursday March 20th 2025 at 11h00 in room Pierre Cotton of our laboratory.   Abstract : We present a method to image the polarization properties of small […]

Sjoerd Stallingra, head of Department of Imaging Physics at Delft University of Technology, will give a seminar on Friday, March 07 at 09:30 in room Pierre Cotton) entitled “Computational methods in super-resolution microscopy”. Abstract :  Surpassing the diffraction limit has become daily practice in the field of microscopy. This is made […]

Maxim A. Yurkin from CORIA (Rouen) will give a seminar on “The discrete dipole approximation: efficient formulations and novel applications” on Friday, March 21st 2025 at 10h30 in Room Pierre Cotton.   Abstract : The discrete dipole approximation (DDA) is a general method to simulate light scattering by particles of […]

  Geogia GOLFIS, from Imaris, visualisation and processing tool for 3D imaging datasets, will be leading a workshop on Tuesday 11 March 2025 from 13:30 to 17:30 in our Lab (Pierre Cotton room). The software presentation will be followed by a test session on the researchers’ data (live demonstration on […]

Nikita Kaydanov, from the Prevedel group at EMBL Heidelberg, will give a seminar entitled ” Towards photoacoustic neuroimaging in mice using novel calcium probes” on Friday, February 28th at 09:30 a.m. in Pierre Cotton room Abstract : Photoacoustic Tomography (PAT) combines the absorption specificity of optical imaging with the deep tissue […]

Centrale Méditerranée est engagée dans une démarche visant à placer la formation des ingénieurs au cœur des enjeux de transformation des entreprises et des organisations, dans un monde en pleine évolution. Dans cet esprit, elle intègre dans l’ensemble de ses missions la prise en compte des enjeux environnementaux et sociétaux. […]

CONCOURS Physics and Matter Sciences Doctoral School – ED 352 Aix-Marseille Université To apply for our 2025 doctoral student recruitment campaign, Contact directly the researcher(s) in charge of the subject(s) you are interested in DEADLINE : March 20th 2025 (1st round of selection) – April 15th 2025 (2nd round of […]

Labeled as an “Aix-Marseille Platform,” the PHOTONICS platform provides academic and industrial partners with cutting-edge, world-unique equipment and associated services. Managers: Sébastien MAILFERT and Antonin MOREAU Contact: Sébastien MAILFERT or Antonin MOREAU Division 1 – OPTICAL THIN FILMS We can meet your needs for optical thin-film deposition, the creation of […]

DEPOSIT MACHINES POWER LASERS OPTICAL MICROSCOPES Plasma-assisted spraying and evaporation in cleanrooms Pulsed lasers (ns/ps/fs), mJ-J 200W lasers (CO2, fiber, or fiber-coupled diodes) Polarization-resolved microscopy, Raman (CARS, SRS), nonlinear, quantitative phase, FCS, FLCS, etc. LASER PROCESSES CHARACTERIZATION L2 LABORATORY Cutting, machining, polishing, annealing Optical profilometry, spectrophotometry, AFM, electron microscopy / […]

Instrumental Development   Data Acquisition and Analysis Through its expertise in optics, instrumentation, industrial computing and peripheral control, the platform supports the development of experimental systems. Our services also include the automation of data acquisition and control procedures for complex systems. Peripheral control via NI Labview and Mathworks Matlab. We […]

INSTRUMENTATION axis COMPONENTS axis Sébastien MAILFERT, PhD Facility manager CNRS research engineer With a PhD in Systems Electronics (2006, Université Montpellier 2), I have managed research platforms in instrumentation and methodology at the Marseille Luminy Immunology Center. Since 2023, I have been managing the Institut Fresnel platform, developing Imaging and […]

Adrien KUNTZ, from the Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation (CENTRA), Lisbon, will give a seminar entitled “Quasi-Normal modes of Black Holes” on Thursday March 6th 2025 at 10h30 in room Pierre Cotton.   Abstract : The recent detection of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers motivated the study of […]

Henrik Birkedal, from Aarhus University will give a seminar entitled “Bone and Orientation” on Friday, February 14, 2025 at 09:30 a.m. room Pierre Cotton.   Abstract : Bone has a complex hierarchical structure [1] – as is indeed the case for most biological tissues. This impacts all aspects of bone function, but the interrelation of […]

Context : Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) are optically transparent thin films of metal oxides used as functional thin films in many applications such as photovoltaics, OLEDs, touch screens, insulating and smart glazing and are crucial for energy transition. High conductivity TCO films require an energetically costly baking step of the […]

Jérôme Degallaix, resaercher at Laboratory of Advanced Materials (Lyon), will give a seminar entitled “Extraordinary mirrors listening to the vibrations of spacetime” on Tuesday, February 4, at 10:00 a.m. in room Pierre Cotton of our Lab. Abstract : The first direct detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black […]

Simon Mahler will give a seminar entitled “Laser Speckle Imaging for Neurological Diseases: Non-Invasive Monitoring of Cerebral Blood Flow and Its Significance” on Tuesday, February 11 at 09:30 a.m. in room Pierre Cotton of our Lab.   Abstract : Optical imaging techniques, such as laser speckle imaging, offer a non-invasive, […]

In this Phd thesis, we will seek to develop new imaging procedures adapted to this studied case (based on existing ones), so as to extract quantitative information on the internal structure of comets and asteroids from data that can be measured in real space experiments. These procedures will be applied […]

Subject : In November 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission encountered comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. One of the instruments on this mission is the CONSERT radar. CONSERT explored the nucleus of this comet using electromagnetic waves in the radio wave regime by exploiting a bistatic configuration. One of its scientific objectives […]

Principal investigator: Guillaume Baffou Thermoplasmonics is the field that explores the heat generation capabilities of metal nanostructures when illuminated at their plasmonics resonance wavelengths [31]. Since almost any field of science features temperature induced effects, thermoplasmonics enables the investigations of a large variety of phenomena, from physics to chemistry and […]

Principal investigator: Guillaume Baffou   Imaging the phase of light, and not only the intensity, is the domain of quantitative phase imaging (QPI) [27].  QPI techniques are conventionally used in microscopy for measuring specific properties of semi-transparent samples without any labelling. The QPI technique we use is a wavefront imaging […]

  Inès MARTIN will defend her PhD thesis entitled “Low-noise tunable parametric source and ultra-fast agile delay line for spectroscopy and imaging via Coherent Raman Scattering” on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. in Ponte Amphitheater, Campus de l’étoile, Marseille. The presentation will be conducted in French, with slides […]

Alice Vanel – CR CNRS who had just arrived in Epsilon team will give a seminar entitled “Approximations modales en nano plasmonique et applications à la super localisation” on Monday, December 16 at 10:30 a.m. in Pierre Cotton’s room. Abstract : We present recent results on the spectral analysis of […]

Isaël HERRERA will defend his PhD thesis entitled “From 2D polarized fields to 3D Stokes polarimetric imaging at nanoscales” on the 19th of December at 10:00 a.m. in Pierre Cotton’s room. The presentation and slides will be in English.   List of the jury members : – Rafael PIESTUN, Professor. […]

  Sisira SURESH will defend her PhD thesis entitled Impulsive stimulated Raman scattering imaging using ultra-fast acoustic-optic delay lines on wednesday, December 18 at 01:30 p.m. in Ponte Amphitheater on Campus St Jérôme, Marseille. The presentation will be in English, and so will be the slides.   List of the […]

Ravel Carlos de Miranda Pimenta PhD defense entitled “Non-Diffractive Bessel Beams for Near-Field Wireless RF Links” will take place on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 02:00 p.m. in Amphi Ponte, Campus de l’étoile, Marseille.   List of Jury members : – Alessandra Costanzo, Professor, University of Bologne – Walter Fuscaldo, […]

Post‐doctoral position “Direct interferometric measurement of the thermal noise of multi‐dielectric components of gravitational wave detectors” Gravitational astronomy (Nobel Prize 2017) is booming thanks to the unique performance of giant interferometers operating with arms of the order of km (Virgo/LIGO/KAGRA). To further extend the observation of the universe, new instruments […]

Yusuf Oluwatoki will defend his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Pathways to Robust Tomographic Full-Wave Radar Imaging of Small Solar System Bodies’ Interior” in auditorium TB109 of Tietotalo, Tampere University (Korkeakoulunkatu 1) in Finland on 29 November 2024 at 14:00 French time. The presentation will be in English, and you can join […]