News : Photonics, Imaging and displays

Silicon photonics was initially developed for high-performance telecommunications, but new applications quickly emerged. These include the development of LiDARs (Light Detection And Ranging) intended for environmental imaging for vehicles and autonomous systems. Indeed, existing LiDARs are made of discrete components whose mechanical assembly makes them fragile, expensive and bulky. By using a photonic chip, the […] >>

This thesis concerns the field of HgCdTe infrared detectors for astrophysical applications, for which the Infrared Laboratory of CEA -Leti is a world leader. The student will join the infrared laboratory which includes the entire detector manufacturing process. He will produce the samples using the technological means of elaboration available in the Leti clean room. […] >>

Uncooled thermal infrared cameras, based on the micro-bolometer technology, are present in several domains of application: industrial monitoring, automotive, automation, defense … To follow those high volume markets, there is a strong competition to develop more performant focal plane arrays, with smaller pixel pitch and including innovative optical functionalities. In this miniaturization context and optics […] >>

In the Optics and Photonics division of CEA-LETI, The Emissive Components Laboratory designs and fabricates micro-displays based on GaN micro-LEDs. One of the major issue of GaN µ-LEDs is the decrease of their efficiency with the size reduction. In literature, this degradation is attributed to SRH (Shockley-Read-Hall) non-radiative recombinations on pixel sidewalls, in defects induced […] >>

The development of silicon photonics technology has made it possible to integrate numerous photonic functions on the same chip, as close as possible to electronic functions, allowing the miniaturization of components in the fields of datacoms, telecoms and optical sensors. However, optical communication from chip to chip remains a key point to be developed (in […] >>