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NAME	DESCRIPTION
Applied Physics and Photonics Department (TONA)	• Optics and Photonics in interconnect Demonstrators • Micro-Lasers and Laser Dynamics • Technologies and Instrumentation for Micro-Optics • Micro-Photonics in Sensing and in Nuclear Environments • Mid and Far Infrared Micro-Photonics and Instrumentation • Quantum Information • Nuclear Physics • Photonics and Optics in Education
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	• High-Frequency EPR of High-Spin Transition Metal Compounds • Point Defects in Wide-Bandgap Materials • Photographic Materials • Semiconductor Nanostructures and Devices • Organic Electrooptic Materials • Organic Non-Linear Optics
Gamma Optics group	Interference effects of gamma radiation • Stroboscopic Heterodyne Spectroscopy • Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Image Processing & Machine Vision (IRIS)	Image/video processing and machine vision
Laboratoire d'Information Quantique	• Quantum Information Theory • Experimental quantum optics (quantum communication protocols)
Laboratory for Micro- & Photonelectronics	• Optoelectronics - Infrared modulators: Integrated mirror optical switch (IMOS) - The spatially modulated light detector - Photon Link - Light Emitting Diodes - Half conductive coupling - Field Emission Devices • Analog Circuit design • Living Systems (EVOL) •Coupling mechanisms for YAG-lasers • Millimeter Imaging Systems • Micro sensors
Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group	- Optics and switching in ferroelectric and anti-ferroelectric LCDs - one-, two- and three-dimensional ion transport in LCDs - Improvement of the viewing angle characteristics of LCDs Also some non-display applications of liquid crystals are under investigation: - Spatial light modulators - Solitons - Liquid Crystal claddings for SOI nanophotonics (In association with the Photonics Group of Intec) - Liquid crystals in biological applications New research topics in the field of photonics are: - Electronic ink ( Electrophoretic Display) - OLED displays - Electro wetting
Optique et Holographie (HOLOLAB)	• Design and realization of optical systems integrated in a plan • Holographic imagery • Relief projection: optically active screens • Colors reproduction in holography and Lippmann photography • Optical properties characterization by surface plasmon resonance • Optical study of recording materials during the development phase • Dynamic measurements in real time of optical properties • Study of polymeric materials for holographic recording • Realization of integrated microsensor • Materials for holographic recording • Non-linear characterization of materials by Z-scan spectroscopy • Design and realization of materials for sol-gel nonlinear optics • Conoscopy
Optique non-linιaire thιorique	• Nonlinear dynamic of lasers: multimode couplings in isotropic and birefringent cavities, second harmonic generation, parametric, coupled semiconductors laser oscillators, subjected to an injected signal or a feedback loop • Transverse effects and structures localised in the cavities out of rings • Diagrams of lasers without inversion of population • Effects of populations trapped in microchip lasers
Photonics Research Group	• Nanophotonics and photonic crystals • Non-linear all-optical functions • Photonic Ics • Photonic modelling tools • Polymer micro-optics for optical interconnect • Sensors and bio-sensors • SOA-based optical signal processing • WDM sources
Physique des Semi-conducteurs	Electronic (electric transport), optical and opto-electronic properties of semiconductor materials, in particular III-V and II-VI compounds
Semiconductor Physics Laboratory	• Phonon spectroscopy on local modes at low temperatures • Electrical and optical properties of amorphous silicon • Chalcogenides : electrical and optical properties • Electron spin resonance • Defects in diamond • Electrical and optical properties of non-metallic thin films and crystals
Service d'Optique et Acoustique	• Optics - Quantum key distribution over highly noisy channels - Serpentine instability of the temporal spatially wide soliton - Dispersion influence on Raman gain - Implementation of Deutsh-Josza and Bernstein-Vazirani algorithms to three qubits in integrated optics - Symmetry rupture of vectorial multimode solitons - Characterization of short impulses by beats • Acoustics
Vision Lab	Visie Lab is gespecialiseerd in verschillende domeinen van signaal- en beeldverwerking. Vnl. worden Artificiλle Intelligentie technieken ontwikkeld voor beeldcompressie, beeldrestauratie en patroon herkenning.