Institut Langevin - Ondes et images

Institut Langevin is a joint research unit between ESPCI Paris and CNRS, and was founded in 2009 by Mathias Fink. It was created by merging two ESPCI laboratories: the "Waves and Acoustics laboratory", and the "Optics Physics laboratory". The aim was to create a laboratory in which the activities would cover all kinds of waves. The Langevin Institute combines fundamental research, applied research and business creation in a very multidisciplinary spirit. The spectrum of waves concerned is very broad: mechanical waves (acoustic, elastic and seismic waves, waves), electromagnetic waves (radiofrequencies, microwaves, Terahertz) and optical waves (infrared and visible). The Institute's researchers aim to understand the propagation mechanisms of these different types of waves in the most complex media and to take advantage of this better understanding to design original instruments for the manipulation of these waves and the imaging of these media.