LabEx FOCUS

Sites Grenoble, Plateau de Saclay, Marseille
60 Searchers and Engineers
9 laboratories

• For the development of detectors at the ultimate performances dedicated to ground based and space observations for astrophysics
• Contribution in education and dissemination of expert knowledge related to the detection
• Expertise of the consortium : 
  • detection principle and technology
  • characterization
  • data processing
  • instrumentation

Application domains

• Visible, IR and mm Imagery dedicated to Astrophysics
• Valorization for instrumentation applied to medicine, biology, environment and security

Research Examples

• High frame rate and Low noise IR Camera
  FUI RAPID
• μ-Bolometers for sub-mm observations
  PACs/Herschel and ARTEMIS
• KiDs for mm observations
  NIKA camera
• Preparation of the instrumentation of next generation for ground based telescopes and space missions :
  exo-planets, YSO, CMB, adaptive optics and interferometry…
• Curved detectors