Presentation
The Laboratory Charles Fabry (LCF – UMR 8051)
The Laboratory Charles Fabry is a Joint Research Unit (UMR) between the Institut d’Optique Graduate School, the CNRS, and Paris-Saclay University. It is the historical cornerstone of research within the Institut d’Optique Graduate School. The laboratory’s research covers a broad spectrum of optics and its applications. As such, it serves as an interface laboratory between two CNRS institutes. It is therefore affiliated with two institutes: CNRS Physique and CNRS Ingénierie.
Le laboratoire Charles Fabry est une Unité Mixte de Recherche entre l'Institut d'Optique Graduate School, le CNRS et l'Université Paris-Saclay. Il est le pilier historique de la recherche au sein de l'Institut d'Optique Graduate School. La recherche du laboratoire couvre un large spectre de l'optique et de ses applications. Il est de ce fait un laboratoire d'interface entre deux instituts du CNRS. Il est donc rattaché à deux instituts : CNRS Physique et CNRS Ingénierie.
The laboratory consists of around 135 people, including 15 CNRS researchers, 23 faculty researchers from Paris-Saclay University, and 23 research support staff members. PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and contract staff represent more than half of the laboratory’s workforce. It is organized into eight research groups with clearly defined themes, covering both fundamental topics and areas close to practical applications.
Organization
The LCF is composed of a management team (Director: Denis Boiron; Deputy Directors: Mondher Besbes and Frédéric Druon), 8 research groups, and 9 shared research support services divided between a scientific-technical division and an administrative division.
Research Themes at LCF
Biophotonics: developing and studying photonic devices in the fields of Optical Coherence Tomography, optical tweezers, plasmonic and nanoplasmonic biochips, and in vivo functional imaging.
Quantum Gases: manipulating ultracold quantum gases to study fundamental problems in quantum atomic optics, many-body physics, and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in correlated quantum systems.
Imaging and Adaptive Optics: inventing innovative imaging solutions that fully exploit digital data processing in areas such as remote sensing, astronomy, biomedical imaging, autonomous vehicles, industrial inspection, etc.
Lasers: developing diode-pumped solid-state lasers, particularly high-power femtosecond pulse emitters, as well as original source architectures based on semiconductor lasers.
Nanophotonics: exploring light-matter interactions at small scales, that is, when matter is structured on a scale smaller than the wavelength.
Quantum Optics: conducting research focused on the production, control, and use of quantum states of light, as well as the manipulation of quantum objects through interaction with light.
XUV Optics: developing original ideas for the manipulation and use of XUV radiation, whose wavelength can vary from 100 nm to 0.1 nm, for solar imaging or attosecond-timescale physics.
Industrial Photonics: design, manufacturing, and metrology of optical systems with freeform surfaces, with strong involvement in collaborative research initiatives of the FO-RS association (Freeform Optics – Research & Solutions).
Academic Partnerships
CEA, C2N, ONERA, etc.
Industrial Partnerships
Thales, STMicroelectronics, Amplitude, Pasqal, etc.