ARC 19/02/09

ARC : Space and Ground-based Imaging in Astrophysics

Service d’optique - Hololab

Bât. B5a / S. Habraken

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The Team

http://www.phg.ulg.ac.be/Hololab/index.php • Yvon Renotte• Pascal Blain• Christian Delacroix• Juryi Hastanin• Fabian Languy• Fabrice Michel• Grégory Martin• Gautier Ravet• Serge Habraken

-- Collaborator within the ARC

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The ARC Fields

• Collaborative projects with AGO and CSL within the ARC :

– Gravitational lenses (optical modeling and bench)

– Phase Mask Coronography (AGPM) : Ch. Delacroix

– Nulling interferometry (ZOG) : Ch. Hanot

– Polarimetric optical bench : Ch D + Ch H + P. Piron (TFE)

– Liquid Mirror (ILMT) : Follow-up and testing procedure (L. Finet+A. Magette+…)

– X-rays detector based on Surface Plasmon Resonance : J. Hastanin

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Other research fields

3D Metrology : – Shearography : F. Michel + P. Blain + Y. Renotte

– Moiré (Interference fringe projection : cf. Deios scanner) : P. Blain + G. Martin + Y. Renotte

– Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry (DSPI) : P. Blain + Y. Renotte

• Solar Concentrators– Non imaging design of concentrators : F. Languy

– Achromatic Diffractive (Hybrid) Fresnel lenses : F. Languy

• Plasmonics and metamaterials– Negative index : collaboration with S. Lecler (University L. Pasteur,

Strasbourg. Study based on Rigorous Coupled Wave Theory. Comparison with FDTD algorithm.

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Other research fields

• Plasmobio (with CSL, Univ. Mons and Lille)– Interreg project on micro bio fluidic and new architectures of SPR

sensors

• Iglesias : (Promotor : J. Verly, with UPMH and ISIL)– Diffractive imaging optics for drowsiness survey : G. Ravet

• Illumination devices for less-lethal devices– Inside the ULg pole on less-lethal systems (Criminology dept, P. Thys)

– Coordinated by FN Herstal

– Architecture of dazzling (reversible blindness) optical systems

• Optical design for industry– Small projects