A - Adaptive Optics & Wavefront Controls (M.Ferrari, Lab Astrophysique Marseille)

Adaptive Optics systems have achieved a high level of sophistication and maturation. Controlling the wavefront shape has largely contributed to the expansion of this technique. These Optical Complex Systems go beyond applications for astronomy and the military, into medicine, nuclear, manufacturing and communications. All these new applications are based on developments and technological break-throughs (deformable mirrors, wavefront sensors, control algorithms and real-time processing. Data analysis and specific images reconstruction techniques are fundamental parts of these systems and contribute to their success.

B - High resolution laser processing (P.Coudray, Directeur Sté Kloé)

Electronics, optics, mechanics or fluidics devices are more and more often miniaturized. So, traditional technologies of replication become limited in resolution because of accuracy losses linked to replication. These processes are often replaced by lithography, ion beam etching or electron beam methods. Direct laser writing offers more flexible and cheaper solutions compatible with larger surfaces. The session will emphasize solutions of fast prototyping, submicron structuring by lithography, direct laser ablation, etching or surface cleaning.

C - LED sources (J-M.Decaudin, Directeur Light Technologies)

Thanks to their technical and economical benefits Light Emitting Diodes (LED) will have a leading position for general lighting. Nowadays instrumentation begins to replace classical sources (Laser, arc or halogen lamps, ..) by LED sources.
The session will be devoted to improvements in the various technologies linked to the LED implementation : optical design software , molded lenses, TIR (total internal reflection) lenses, diffractive components, filters, … electronics for safe power supply and modulation , thermal and mechanical integration. Out coming results will be compared to classical solutions.

D - Micro-Nano optical systems (F.Flory, Ecole Centrale Marseille)

Nano-photonics involve light-dependent phenomena and interactions at nano level.
Thanks to nanoscale structures, favourable properties that do not exist in microscale can be exploited with advantages. For instance, quantum dots could be used in various photonics components for light detection or light emission. Other examples are photonic crystals which may be produced by nanotechnology, plasmon resonances to enhance the electromagnetic field in optical materials. Integrated nanosystems require a strong cross-disciplinary approach, non-traditional manufacturing techniques, and a holistic system approach, from materials, characterization, to final packaging.

E - Spectroscopy & Colour Vision (M.Marcelin, Lab d’Astrophysique de Marseille)

This session is devoted to spectroscopy, colour vision and their combination (hyperspectral imaging). Colour vision benefits from new detectors and systems working at very low light levels or at very at high speed but also from new data processing techniques. Spectroscopy benefits from high performance gratings, linear filters and new optical fibers or MOEMS technology. Topics to be discussed include submarine exploration, environment survey, astrophysics, biological and medical imaging or earth resources observations.

F - Environment & Agriculture (A.Bourély, Directeur Pellenc Selective Technology)

Environment is a major market for innovative optics. Non contact and real time inspection of natural objects is required . Applications include gas sensors, water quality control, soil analysis and on line fruit or meat quality control in packing houses. Sorting of refuse in various forms (packaging, electronic or automobile shredder residue, non ferrous metals) also present high detection challenges. These applications share a very high variability because of unpredictable lighting conditions, object shape and colour, or the need to determine internal properties. Innovative optical designs are a key part of these systems. Cost effective solutions for low carbon energies, especially photovoltaic systems with quick energy return times, also benefit from the latest developments of optics and material science.

G – Hostile & Space Environment (C.Singer, Thales-Alenia-Space)

Photonic is a good solution for remote control or sounding or observation. Furthermore, within hostile environments it becomes the single choice. That is why optical instruments are widely selected for applications such as submarine exploration, nuclear environment control or space based astronomy or Earth observations. Hostile environment becomes a driver in the instrument design or technology selection and bring specific constraints in development and performances verifications. The objective of the session is to focus on the solutions which have been implemented to face these hostile environments which always exhibit the same type of extreme parameters such as temperatures, radiations, high or low pressure, vacuum, mechanical perturbations.

H - Optical Instruments & Technologies for Medical Diagnosis (P.Nerin, Sté ABX Diagnostic)

This session covers the intensive growth of optical instruments and related technologies for in vitro Medical Diagnosis. Presentations pointing out basic research as well as industrial realisation are expected. The topics are the following : technologies and methods for blood cell monitoring, single molecule detection, bioassays, optical property measurements, polarized light, imaging and spectroscopy techniques, optical coherent tomography (OCT) developments and applications, optothermal and optoacoustic interaction of light with biological matter, fluorescence, nonlinear spectroscopy, inelastic light scattering and dedicated Optical Instruments.