The Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Physics (LIPhy), France
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LIPhy is composed of 9 teams including the lasers, molecules and environment team (LAME, Kassi). The LIPhy activity is geared towards the interfaces of physics with other disciplines, especially life sciences and environmental sciences, mechanics or applied mathematics. The LIPhy aims at developing state-of-the-art techniques in the fields of high resolution and high sensitivity spectroscopy, optical imaging in scattering media, force measurements at micro and nano scale. The laboratory also has an important component of theoretical physics, modeling and high-performance computing, particularly in the fields of statistical physics and complex fluids. It is actively involved in the field of complex matter and biological macromolecules and offers to an access to several experimental platforms (mechanical workshop, microfluidic fabrication, confocal microscopy, microbiology). The LAME team has a long tradition in the innovation and development of techniques for high sensitivity absorption spectroscopy, motivated by applications ranging from the spectroscopic characterization of extremely weak transitions in molecules of atmospheric or planetological interest, to the quantification of trace concentrations and isotopic ratios in gas samples for environmental, geophysical and medical applications. Thanks to an adapted set of software suites and access to LAME’s mechanical facility the team developed several highly automated and robust laboratory and field-deployed instruments.