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PhD in France
I often get applications from students wishing to start a PhD in France . Therefore, I think it’s necessary to clarify the eligibility conditions for a PhD funding grant from the French ministry of research (the standard grant in France, but there exist...
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Quantum optics movie
An amazing video found on Google : http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=physics&pr=goog-sl Young’s double slit experiment explained in a classical and in a quantum world. It's worth having a look ! Note : it's seems the link doesn't...
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Cells under the nanospotlight : latest publication
Our latest publication has been released in the February edition of the Biophysical Journal : J. Wenger, F. Conchonaud, J. Dintinger, L. Wawrezinieck, T.W. Ebbesen, H. Rigneault, D. Marguet, et P.-F. Lenne, Diffusion analysis within single nanometric...
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Autumn 2006 article selection
As member of the OMNT “materials and components for optics” committee, I regularly give a selection and a brief description of articles, that I found particularly relevant to the field. Here is my latest selection : "Creating hot nanoparticle pairs for...
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Latest (collaboration) article published
Title : Single-scattering theory of light diffraction by a circular subwavelength aperture in a finitely conducting screen Authors : Evgeny Popov, Michel Nevière, Anne Sentenac, Nicolas Bonod, Anne-Laure Fehrembach, Jérome Wenger, Pierre-François Lenne,...
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Training periods and PhD positions in optics & biophotonics
The Mosaic group at the Institut Fresnel offers training periods for graduate students in optics and photonics. PhD positions are also available based on the different internship subjects, depending on the applicant’s profile and fundings. More information...
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Comments on fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy in a nanoaperture
A point that is always missed by readers of peer-reviewed articles is the discussion with referees, which I believe often contains interesting comments and should somehow be available to the scientific community. To (locally) correct for this, I give...
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OMNT June selection
If you visit this blog, the following articles may be of interest to you, these are my recent papers selection for the OMNT : "Engineered SERS Substrates with Multiscale Signal Enhancement: Nanoparticle Cluster Arrays", B. Yan, A. Thubagere, R. Premasiri,...
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Winter 2007 article selection
As member of the OMNT “materials and components for optics” committee, I regularly give a selection and a brief description of articles, that I found particularly relevant to the field. Here is my latest selection : " Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding";...
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Optics eLearning
I would like to support here a link to Marcel Leutenegger’s webpages on facilities towards optics learning and teaching. Very nice videos introducing the principles of image formation are available (to watch the videos, you’ll need a DivX decoder, see...
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Upcoming publication : review on biophotonics applications of nanoapertures
Nanometric apertures in a metallic film are easy to produce, robust and highly reproducible nanophotonic devices that possess a number of desirable properties for biophotonics. In a special issue of the International Journal of Materials and Product Technology,...
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Charting a course for a (successful?) research career
Found that e-book free online, might be of interest for PhD students / young postdocs: Charting a Course for a Successful Research Career - 2nd edition by Prof. Alan M Johnson As researchers operate in a progressively competitive research environment,...
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Review Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence
Emmanuel Fort and Samuel Grésillon recently published a very nice and complete review on surface-enhanced fluorescence. Highly recommended ! Fluorescence is widely used in optical devices, microscopy imaging, biology, medical research and diagnosis. Improving...
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PhD Thesis Quantum Optics
A copy of my PhD thesis can be downloaded here (supervisor Philippe Grangier). This work aims at exploiting the quantum properties of light in order to develop new communication devices. The study is devoted to the quadrature components (quantum continuous...
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Fresnel diffraction experiment 1/7: official trailer
Is there light in the center of a shadow from a black disk? What is the shadow of a hole milled in an opaque screen? Can adding light to light create darkness? The Institut Fresnel releases a series of short videos answering various questions about light...
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Rejection rate at CLEO Europe EQEC
As we had a large number of submitted abstracts but a limited number of slots at the conference, the selection process was very fierce. About 50% of abstracts could be selected for talks, 25% for poster and unfortunately we had to reject about 25% of...
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Invited Talks 2016
In addition to the Benasque NanoLight2016 conference, meet Jerome and get our latest results on optical nanoantennas for fluorescence enhancement at the following conferences (invited talks): - European Materials Research Society EMRS Spring Meeting,...
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End of year thinking: stay true to yourself
Good period to take some distance from our daily routine and think about ourselves. But who are we by the way? True individuals or mirrors of somebody else? Think of it, and til next time, live like a nanopirate! Warning: the video below is giving the...
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[Edit] Wenger on defeat, discipline, Barcelona
Arsene Wenger speaks about Barcelona: "They are better than us, everybody knows that, but I think we could’ve won the game tonight if we kept the discipline until the end." Obviously thinking about ICFO, wasn't he? Let's follow coach Wenger's advice....
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Bye X-twitter, we're leaving and won't look back
Our account @Photonicsnano was essentially on hold over the last year, waiting to see how X/twitter evolves. Thanks Elon for making things evidently clear by using a sign instantly recognisable by (almost) everybody on this planet. We don't recognize...
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Johann Berthelot receives Marie Curie fellowship
Congratulation Johann for this excellent result!
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Johann Berthelot joins the ERC team
Since the beginning of November, Johann Berthelot (formerly at ICFO in Romain Quidant's group) has joined the team to work on the ERC ExtendFRET project and develop new optical read-out for enhanced molecular energy transfer.
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NanoRodzzz
Custom design for PHOCCS ERC project. Made @ Fresnel.
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New website for Institut Fresnel
The new website for Institut Fresnel has just been released: www.fresnel.fr We are still working on writing some parts, so apologies for any inconvenience. Hope you will enjoy this version.
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Tips for writing an ERC proposal
The most complete set of advice is found on Prof. Andreas Zeller's excellent post. Additionally, the EPFL research office has released a very useful pdf document to help during ERC proposal writing. Both highly recommended!
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