Corporate

CNRS - INSTITUT FRESNEL

Originally, Marseille played host to a few first-rate laboratories, among which the Thin Films and Surface Optics Laboratory, the Signal and Image Laboratory and the Electromagnetic Optics Laboratory. Bringing these three laboratories together into a single structure, while restructuring higher education and research in Marseille, was aimed at giving science and technology better consistency as well as more clout in such prominent areas as optics, electromagnetism and image processing.

The Fresnel Institute, placed under the joint authority of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille (ENSPM), Aix-Marseille University and the University of Provence, gathers 70 researchers, research faculty, engineers and PhD students.
One of the Institute's prime missions is to design and construct objects or object distributions capable of monitoring light or waves with the use of image and signal processing techniques. Thus, specific research fields have been defined and assigned to 6 different groups within the Institute:

CLARTE: Control of Light and Analysis of Radiation: Treatment with Electromagnetics
MAP2: Random Media and High Power Photonics
FTI: Physics and Image Processing
COM: Micro-Structured Optical Components
TEM: Remote Sensing and Micro-Wave Experiments
RCMO: Materials and Technologies for Thin Film Optics