People : V. Bardinal, B. Reig, I. Seguy, J. Launay
T. Camps (N2IS), E. Daran (TEAM), J.B. Doucet (TEAM), J.B. Pourciel (I2C)

NEWS : Polymer MOEMS arrays for VCSEL active focusing
illustrate Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering June cover:

-  VCSELs-based optical microsystems

Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have drained much attention as an attractive light sources for short-distance optical interconnects, optical storage, and laser printing. The proven potentials and flexibility of these optoelectronic devices have recently attracted much attention from novel fields of application such as microsensors and biomedical instrumentation.

Due to this new interest, new functionalities have now to be developed to further extend the integration capabilities of the VCSELs in optical microsystems. Two aspects have to be addressed in this prospect: the adaptation of the laser source to the microsystem through integrated microoptics, and the diversification and/or association of other optical functionalities such as internal photodetection.

- Polymer micro-optics and MOEMS

- Photodetection in VCSELs

- Electrical injection in broad-area VCSELs

                   

>> Link to the 4th european Workshop on VCSELs: VCSELday 2011

- Organic LEDs and photodetectors

Projects

• NIR OPTICS : "Micro-optiques sur VCSELs  par photopolymérisation auto-guidée dans le proche Infrarouge" (ANR blanc 2009-2012; coll. IS2M, LNIO)
  
• FIAB SU-8 : "Tenue Thermique en atmosphère humide des propriétés optiques et mécaniques de la SU-8"  (projet région 2008-2012, labellisé Aerospace Valley ; coll.CIRIMAT, EADS-Astrium, NOVAMEMS) 
• FAST MOEMS : "Micro-optique polymère à actionnement ultra-rapide pour l'imagerie biomédicale" (AO1 2012)

Former Projects  (PHOTO group)

• MIOPY : MIcro-Optique intégrée à base de PolYmères (projet LAAS 2006-2009)
  
• Optonanogen - Integrated OPTO-NANOmechanical Biosensor for functional GENomic Analysis - (IST-2002-2005) (coll.
  
• FunFACS - Fundamentals, Functionalities and Applications of Cavity Solitons - (IST-FET-STREP 2004-2007)
• OSA 131 - Multi-standard transmitter micro-module working at 1.31 µm and 10 Gbit/s - (RMNT - French Research Network in Micro and Nano Technologies)