Quantum and Molecular Photonics Laboratory (LPQM)

The Quantum and Molecular Photonics Laboratory is a CNRS joint research unit run by INSIS and ENS Paris-Saclay.

Organization

The LPQM is headed by Ledoux Rak and has three research teams:

• Photonics components and technologies
• Nonlinear nanophotonics and biophotonics
• Ultrafast nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics and heat transfer

Research

List of the various research themes addressed by the LPQM teams:

• Applications of nonlinear two-photon microscopy in biology
• Active and passive components for optical telecommunications and sensors without fluorescent markers and sensors
• Polymer-based photonic structures and applications
• Development of new techniques in non-linear microscopy
• Molecular engineering
• Organic microlasers
• Ultrafast photon modulation in a plasmonic cavity
• Nanoimaging and nanomanufacturing
• Nano-sources of heat for chemistry and biology
• Optoelectronic oscillator
• Nonlinear properties of nanoparticles and isolated nanostructures
• Thermo-optical properties of nanocomposite media
• Ultrafast plasmonics in metal nanoparticles
• Tracking and manipulation of nanoobjects using one-photon fluorescence techniques
• Photo-induced heat transfer over short time and space scales
• Towards the detection of action potentials in artificial membranes and neurons