M.Sc. EuroPhotonics
Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille
| Application deadline: | EU: February 1, 2013; Non EU: January 7, 2013 |
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| Start date: | October 2013 |
| Credits: | 120 ECTS |
| Duration full-time: | 24 months |
| Partnership: | Erasmus Mundus Scholarship |
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| Delivery mode: | On Campus |
| Educational variant: | Full-time |
Description
The Master for Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics covers one of the most expanding field in physics and material sciences, dealing with the control, manipulation and monitoring of light and its interaction with matter.
This master program aims at giving an extensive two-year teaching program from fundamentals to advanced research topics in Photonics and its interdisciplinary applications. Master students benefiting from this program will be able to work on today´s new challenges in their academic or applied research carriers : understanding and control matter and optical phenomena at the ultimate nanometric scale, providing new imaging tools for the most complex biological processes from cells and tissues to clinical applications, bringing original tools in line with future optical devices.
This two years master program is organized by three groups of institutions :
- Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III University (France)
- Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (Germany)
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya/Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona/ University of Barcelona/ICFO (Institute of Photonic Sciences) (Spain).
These institutions are recognized for their high quality training and research centers in the field of Optics and Photonics and their applications, with the unique opportunity to benefit from the presence of excellence and interdisciplinary research institutes, high level advice by professors and administrative staff, as well as local companies and international cooperation networking.
Contents
Students selected on the basis of their scientific and English-language levels will follow a first semester of fundamental lectures in optics and its applications in Marseille. The second semester on core subjects will be spent in Kalsruhe. The third specialization semester is proposed as a choice between the three institutions: Marseille (imaging : biophotonics/biomedical optics/astronomy), Karlsruhe (photonic materials and devices/nanobiology/optical engineering), and Barcelona (quantum optics/nanophotonics/optical engineering). The last semester is dedicated to the master thesis and summer school.
Teaching program:
In Marseille: 1st semester (1st October - end March) - Fundamentals in Optics and Photonics
- Fundamentals in optics
- Light radiation and lasers
- Fundamentals in optical imaging and microscopy
- Fundamentals in Biophotonics
- Fundamentals in Imaging in astronomy
- Lab practice courses + Personal project
- French language
In Karlsruhe: 2nd semester (1st April - end July) - Core subjects
- Theoretical optics
- Nonlinear optics
- Optoelectronic components
- Spectroscopic methods
- Micro-optics and lithography
- Lab courses
- German language
- Industry internship
3rd semester (1st October - end March) - Specialization
In Marseille :
- Advanced microscopy - towards super-resolution : near field/far field microscopy, nonlinear microscopy, synthetic aperture imaging, ultra-resolution imaging
- Biology - Biophotonics : introduction to cell biology, fluorescence imaging in biological systems, single molecule spectroscopy, biotechnology
- Biomedical optics : introduction to tissues in biology, optical coherence tomography, scattering in tissues, image reconstruction techniques, optical imaging for medical applications
- Tools from large scale instrumentation imaging : large scale imaging instruments, spectro-imaging and spectral analysis, adaptative optics, image analysis
- From data to information and images : image and data anlaysis, noise and fluctuations, estimation theory, image reconstruction, numerical methods
- Lab practice / Project course : introduction to photonics instrumentation in research laboratories, project presentation
- Additive key competencies : communication, industrial applications of biophotonics and biotechnologies, research publications analysis
In Karlsruhe :
- Photonic materials and devices: Solid-State Optics, Field propagation and coherence, Advanced Optical Materials, Numerical Methods in Photonics, Advanced Inorganic Materials , Plastic Electronics, Photovoltaics,
- Advanced Spectroscopy: Molecular Spectroscopy, Combustion Diagnostics, Nano-Optics , Laser Metrology, Laser Physics
- Nanobiology: Imaging Techniques in Light Microscopy , Optics and Vision in Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Optics in Medical Technologies, Photochemistry
- Optical Engineering: Systems and Software Engineering, Machine Vision, Optical Communication Systems, Light and Display Engineering
- Additive key competencies: Entrepreneurial opportunities in Optoelectronics, a variety of courses provided by the house of competence of the university
In Barcelona :
- Optical engineering: Optical Metrology, Optomechanical Systems Design, Laser systems and technology, Active and adaptive Optics, Color Science, Fabrication of Optical Elements, Advanced Optical Instrumentation, and Optical Remote Sensing.
- Quantum Optics: Quantum Optics, Milestone Experiments in Quantum Optics, Atom Optics and BEC, Quantum Communication, Quantum Computation.
- Nanophotonics and Biophotonics: Nanophotonics, Advanced optical techniques in Biology, Optical micromanipulation workshop, applied nonlinear optics and nonlinear dynamics, photovoltaic devices, and ultrafast and ultra-intense light.
- Imaging (for optical engineering): Machine vision applications, Fourier optics applications, Image processing, Digital holography.
- Additive key competencies: Photonics & business, and Seminars & skills (including communication skills) or Spanish language.
4th semester (1st April - end of July) - Master thesis
Based on this scheme, the students will be able to lead studies in the field of photonics:
- they will have the capacity of analysing a scientific problem and presenting possible solutions in optics and photonics
- they will have the necessary scientific culture to provide answers in interdisciplinary topics linking physics and biology
- they will be able to present scientific results and write scientific proposals
- they will be able to cooperate with industry on applied projects
- they will know the companies´ way of thinking, the problems companies using photonic technologies are facing, and what companies expect from photonic master-graduate persons
- they will know how challenging (and exciting) research work is
Requirements
Prerequisite is a B.Sc. degree in engineering sciences or natural sciences.
Funding
Students benefiting from a EMMC Scholarship get a monthly allowance of:
- Non EU students (Category A) : 1 000 EUR/month
- EU students (Category B) : 500 EUR/month
- Installation Cost provided to the students
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