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4 TECHNOLOGICAL POLES

Innovative and high-performance technologies for the scientific and industrial community

High-Speed Optoelectronics

A wide range of instruments for characterizing optoelectronic signals.

EQUIPMENT  €4.5M

In the electrical field:

Electrical spectrum analyzers (VNA), Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWG), and oscilloscopes up to 100 GHz in real-time, multi-channel without interleaving. RF clocks and amplifiers up to 40 GHz. Lock-in Amplifier and feedback loops (PID, PLL) up to 600 MHz.

In the optical field:

Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSA) from 350 nm to 5.5 µm with a resolution of up to 20 pm. Optical sampling oscilloscope (1 THz). Imaging spectrometer from 400 nm to 20 µm. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) from 1 to 12 µm.

Component library:

Library of optoelectronic components in the visible, C+L bands, and up to 2µm for electro-optical conversion and modulation, spectral and spatial multiplexing-demultiplexing, filtering, and beam shaping.

Multimodal Microscopy

A set of original optical microscopy stations for imaging the infinitesimal and probing light-matter interactions.

EQUIPMENTS €3M

10 Stations of Optical Microscopy

10 optical microscopy stations implementing original imaging modes over a spectral range of 400 nm to 2.5 µm, with a spatial resolution of up to 10 nm per local probe and a temporal resolution of <10^-9 s by photon counting or <10^-12 s by pump-probe analysis.

5 near-field microscopy stations in the visible and near IR (up to 1.6µm) based on a-SNOM and s-SNOM approaches, including:

  • 1 IN-HOUSE SNOM STATION
    for guided mode mapping in integrated photonics
  • 1 VIS-NEASCOPE STATION (ATTOCUBE)
    for amplitude-phase analysis of the scattered field in continuous or transient regime under femtosecond excitation in pump-probe configuration
  • 1 SMENA AFM station (NT-MDT) and 2 SNOM stations

5 Remote Field Microscopy Stations:

5 Far-field microscopy stations implementing multiple excitation/detection configurations for elastic and inelastic scattering (multiphoton emission, harmonic generation, Raman scattering, photoluminescence, etc.) through confocal, hyperspectral, Fourier, bright field, dark field, or TIRF imaging.

Guided 3D Optics

Solutions for the realization, assembly, and packaging of fibered components and integrated photonic circuits through 3D printing.

EQUIPMENTS €2M

Fiber winding and stretching devices for special and infrared optical fibers

microfibers, photonic crystal fibers, suspended core fiber, chalcogenide fibers, multifunctional fibers.*

Additive manufacturing by 3D lithography on optical fibers and integrated photonic circuits

Integrated circuit interconnection, collimation lens on optical fiber or on cleaved face, mode profile adaptation, metasurfaces, 3D photonic crystals, microfluidic circuits.

Design of fiber networks and fiber components (single-mode, polarization-maintaining)

by welding, drawing, winding and polishing optical fiber.

Ultrafast lasers

Pulsed laser chains for the analysis and control of ultrafast light-matter interactions and laser machining.

EQUIPMENTS €3.5M

15 Low and high rate femtosecond laser systems covering visible, C+L telecommunications band and mid-infrared, including:

  • 5 TITANIUM-SAPPHIRE LASER CHAINS:
    Low-rate sapphire (1 kHz, from 1 to 6mJ, from 35 to 100fs) extended 230nm to 10µm by a NOPA
  • 1 HIGH-RATE YTTERBIUM LASER CHAIN ​​(1MHZ, 60µJ, 250FS):
    extended in the mid-infrared up to 16µm by an OPA and DFG modules.
  • 4 TITANIUM LASER CHAINS:
    High-rate sapphire (80MHz, 10µJ, 120fs) including 2 extended up to 2µm by an OPO
  • 5 ERBIUM FIBER LASER OSCILLATORS (80MHZ, FROM 60FS TO 3 PS, FROM 10 TO 100µJ)

1 Park of laser characterization instruments:

power meters, thermopyles, fast photodiodes, beam analyzers, beam visualizers, autocorrelators, SPIDER, FROG, DFT and pulse shapers

Many in-house fiber laser solutions

and a large library of continuous, pseudo-continuous sources and amplifiers.