Patents by Inventor Hervé Rigneault
Hervé Rigneault has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11947101Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device (200) for transporting and controlling light beams comprising a light guide (40) comprising a bundle (50) of uncoupled single-mode optical fibers (Fi), each single-mode optical fiber (Fi) being intended to receive an elementary light beam (B1i) at a proximal end and to emit a light beam (B2i) at a distal end, said bundle of single-mode optical fibers comprising, in operation, a minimum radius of curvature corresponding to a maximum curvature of the bundle of fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université d'Aix-Marseille, Université de Lille, Ecole Centrale de MarseilleInventors: Hervé Rigneault, Géraud Bouwmans, Esben Andresen, Siddarth Sivankutty, Viktor Tsvirkun, Olivier Vanvincq
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Patent number: 11428924Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device for transporting and controlling light beams for endo-microscopic imaging without a lens on the distal side comprising a single-mode optical fibre bundle (40) on the distal side, wherein each single-mode optical fibre is intended to receive an elementary light source and to emit a light beam at a distal end; a single-mode optical fibre section (50) arranged at the distal end of the optical fibre bundle and intended to receive the light beams emitted by the single-mode optical fibres of the optical fibre bundle; an optical phase control device arranged on the side of the proximal end of the single-mode optical fibres.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Marseille (ECM), Université d'Aix-Marseille (AMU)Inventors: Hervé Rigneault, Esben Ravn Andresen, Siddarth Sivankutty
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Publication number: 20210381985Abstract: According to one aspect, the present description relates to a device for detecting an SRS resonant non-linear optical signal induced in a sample. The device comprises a light source configured for emitting a first train of pump pulses at a first angular frequency and a second train of Stokes pulses at a Stokes second angular frequency, and first and second amplitude modulators configured to amplitude modulate the train of pump pulses at a first modulation frequency and the train of Stokes pulses at a second modulation frequency different from the first modulation frequency, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicants: LIGHTCORE TECHNOLOGIES, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UNIVERSITÉ D'AIX MARSEILLE, Ecole Centrale de MarseilleInventors: Hervé Rigneault, Sandro Heuke
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Publication number: 20210382290Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device (200) for transporting and controlling light beams comprising a light guide (40) comprising a bundle (50) of uncoupled single-mode optical fibers (Fi), each single-mode optical fiber (Fi) being intended to receive an elementary light beam (B1i) at a proximal end and to emit a light beam (B2i) at a distal end, said bundle of single-mode optical fibers comprising, in operation, a minimum radius of curvature corresponding to a maximum curvature of the bundle of fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicants: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université d'Aix-Marseille, Université de Lille, Ecole Centrale de MarseilleInventors: Hervé Rigneault, Géraud Bouwmans, Esben Andresen, Siddarth Sivankutty, Viktor Tsvirkun, Olivier Vanvincq
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Publication number: 20210018744Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device for transporting and controlling light beams for endo-microscopic imaging without a lens on the distal side comprising a single-mode optical fibre bundle (40) on the distal side, wherein each single-mode optical fibre is intended to receive an elementary light source and to emit a light beam at a distal end; a single-mode optical fibre section (50) arranged at the distal end of the optical fibre bundle and intended to receive the light beams emitted by the single-mode optical fibres of the optical fibre bundle; an optical phase control device arranged on the side of the proximal end of the single-mode optical fibres.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2017Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - CNRS, Universite d'Aix-Marseille (AMU), Ecole Centrale de Marseille (ECM)Inventors: Hervé Rigneault, Esben Ravn Andresen, Siddarth Sivankutty
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Patent number: 10571678Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention concerns a device for transporting and controlling light pulses for lensless endo-microscopic imaging and comprises: a bundle of N monomode optical fibers (Fi) arranged in a given pattern, each monomode optical fiber being characterized by a relative group delay value (Ax) defined relative to the travel time of a pulse propagating in a reference monomode optical fiber (F0) of the bundle of fibers (40), an optical device for controlling group velocity (50) comprising a given number M of waveplates (Pj) characterized by a given delay (8tj); a first spatial light modulator (51) suitable for forming from an incident light beam a number N of elementary light beams (Bi) each of which is intended to enter into one of said optical fibers, each elementary beam being intended to pass into a given waveplate such that the sum of the delay introduced by said waveplate and the relative group delay of the optical fiber intended to receive said elementary light beam is minimal in absType: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université d' Aix-MarseilleInventors: Esben Andresen, Hervé Rigneault
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Patent number: 10436707Abstract: A method for detecting the presence of an analyte (1) in a solution (2) comprising: providing at least a first and a second probes (A, B) different from each other, each probe (A,B) comprising a nanoparticle conjugated with a receptor specific to the analyte (1); contacting the solution (2) suspected of including the analyte (1) with the first and the second probes (A, B) to form a sample solution (3), wherein the sample solution (3) comprises aggregates (4) comprising the analyte (1) combined with the first and the second probes (A, B); illuminating the sample solution (3) with a light source having at least a first and a second exciting wavelengths (?eA, ?eB) different from each other wherein the first and the second wavelength are chosen to get specific optical responses from the first probe (A) and the second probe (B) respectively when illuminated; detecting as a function of time the light scattered by the first probe (A) at a first detection wavelength (?dA) and the light scattered by the second probe (Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS, Université d'Aix-MarseilleInventors: Jérôme Charles Wenger, Hervé Rigneault
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Publication number: 20190028641Abstract: According to one aspect, the present description relates to a system for high resolution imaging of an object comprising a fiber bundle (1) comprising an array of optical fiber cores (A), said fiber bundle being adapted to receive a plurality of light beams issued from spatially incoherent point sources of an object; the system further comprises a two-dimensional detector (240) with a detection plane, located at a proximal end of the fiber bundle, adapted to receive speckle patterns, each speckle pattern resulting from the transmission of one of said light beams through at least a plurality of the fiber bundle cores, the ensemble of speckle patterns detected by the two-dimensional detector forming a multiple speckles image; and a processing unit (250) adapted to determine an image of the object from said multiple speckles image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicants: Université d'Aix-Marseille, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - CNR S, Ecole Centrale de Marseille (ECM), Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)Inventors: Hervé Rigneault, Esben Andresen, Amir Porat, Dan Oron, Ori Katz, Sylvain Gigan
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Publication number: 20180011309Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention concerns a device for transporting and controlling light pulses for lensless endo-microscopic imaging and comprises: a bundle of N monomode optical fibers (F1) arranged in a given pattern, each monomode optical fiber being characterized by a relative group delay value (Ax) defined relative to the travel time of a pulse propagating in a reference monomode optical fiber (F0) of the bundle of fibers (40), an optical device for controlling group velocity (50) comprising a given number M of waveplates (Pj) characterized by a given delay (8tj); a first spatial light modulator (51) suitable for forming from an incident light beam a number N of elementary light beams (Bi) each of which is intended to enter into one of said optical fibers, each elementary beam being intended to pass into a given waveplate such that the sum of the delay introduced by said waveplate and the relative group delay of the optical fiber intended to receive said elementary light beam is minimal in absType: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicants: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université d'Aix-MarseilleInventors: Esben Andresen, Hervé Rigneault
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Publication number: 20170241901Abstract: A method for detecting the presence of an analyte (1) in a solution (2) comprising: providing at least a first and a second probes (A, B) different from each other, each probe (A,B) comprising a nanoparticle conjugated with a receptor specific to the analyte (1); contacting the solution (2) suspected of including the analyte (1) with the first and the second probes (A, B) to form a sample solution (3), wherein the sample solution (3) comprises aggregates (4) comprising the analyte (1) combined with the first and the second probes (A, B); illuminating the sample solution (3) with a light source having at least a first and a second exciting wavelengths (?eA, ?eB) different from each other wherein the first and the second wavelength are chosen to get specific optical responses from the first probe (A) and the second probe (B) respectively when illuminated; detecting as a function of time the light scattered by the first probe (A) at a first detection wavelength (?dA) and the light scattered by the second probe (Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicants: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS, Université d'Aix-MarseilleInventors: Jérôme Charles Wenger, Hervé Rigneault
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Patent number: 9494522Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device for detecting a resonant non-linear optical signal of Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) type induced in a sample. The device comprises electro-optical means for making interact in the sample, at a first modulation frequency, trains of light pulses of angular frequencies ?1 and ?2 and, at a second modulation frequency, trains of light pulses of angular frequencies ?2 and ?3, such that ?2??1=?3??2=?R where ?R is a molecular vibrational resonant angular frequency of the sample. Moreover, the device comprises means for synchronous detection at the first and second modulation frequencies of non-linear optical signals resulting from the interaction of the light pulses in the sample, and electronic processing means making it possible to obtain, from electronic signals resulting from the synchronous detection, a signal characterizing the molecular vibrational resonance of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignees: Université Aix-Marseille, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Pascal Berto, Esben Andresen, Hervé Rigneault
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Publication number: 20160047750Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device for detecting a resonant non-linear optical signal of Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) type induced in a sample. The device comprises electro-optical means for making interact in the sample, at a first modulation frequency, trains of light pulses of angular frequencies ?1 and ?2 and, at a second modulation frequency, trains of light pulses of angular frequencies ?2 and ?3, such that ?2??1=?3??2=?R where ?R is a molecular vibrational resonant angular frequency of the sample. Moreover, the device comprises means for synchronous detection at the first and second modulation frequencies of non-linear optical signals resulting from the interaction of the light pulses in the sample, and electronic processing means making it possible to obtain, from electronic signals resulting from the synchronous detection, a signal characterizing the molecular vibrational resonance of the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Applicants: UNIVERSITÉ AIX-MARSEILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Pascal Berto, Esben Andresen, Hervé Rigneault
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Patent number: 9097674Abstract: A method and a device for detecting a resonant non-linear optical signal induced in a sample including a resonant medium and a non-resonant medium forming an interface is disclosed. The device includes an excitation light beam that intercepts the sample along an optical axis. The device further includes a first optical detection module for detecting a nonlinear optical signal resulting from the interaction of the beam with the sample, and a mirror that reflects the excitation beam. The device further includes a second optical detection module for detecting a nonlinear optical signal resulting from the interaction of the reflected excitation beam with the sample, and a processing module for processing the optical signals, detected by the first and second detection modules. Processing the optical signals includes calculating a difference in the detected signals, the difference being characteristic of a vibrational or electronic resonance of the resonant medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique—CNRSInventors: Hervé Rigneault, David Gachet, Sophie Brustlein, Franck Billard
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Patent number: 8858885Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pixel-type biological analysis device comprising a photosensitive layer, a capture mixture for the capture of targeted proteins, the capture mixture being placed on an external surface of the photosensitive layer and comprising a protein probe grafted to a hydrogel, collection means for collecting photoelectrons in the photosensitive layer, and reading and treatment means of an electrical quantity supplied by the collection means, for the supply of a characteristic value of a luminous intensity detected by the photosensitive layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignees: STMicroelectronics (R&D) Limited, Universite Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille IIIInventors: Jeffrey M. Raynor, Michael Maurin, Mitchell O'Neal Perley, Pierre-Francois Lenne, Hervé Rigneault, Renaud Vincentelli
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Patent number: 8804117Abstract: A method and device for detecting a resonant non-linear optical signal induced in a sample, the sample including a resonant medium and a non-resonant medium forming an interface. The device includes an emission source of at least one first excitation light beam, called a pump beam, at a given angular frequency ?p for the excitation of the resonant medium of said sample, an optical detection module for detecting a non-linear optical signal resulting from the interaction of said pump beam with an axial interface between the resonant and non-resonant media of the sample, in at least two symmetrical directions ({right arrow over (k)}, {right arrow over (k)}?) relative to the optical axis of said excitation beam incident in the sample, and a processing unit for processing signals (IFwd({right arrow over (k)}), IFwd({right arrow over (k)}?)) thus detected, allowing the difference between said signals to be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRSInventors: Hervé Rigneault, David Gachet, Sophie Brustlein
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Patent number: 8502169Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for detecting the emission of a target particle (6) at an emission wavelength, said device comprising: a photo-detector (2, 2A, 2B) comprising a sensitive detection surface having a high optical index; wherein said target particle (6) can be positioned in the vicinity of said sensitive surface in an analysis medium (13) having a low optical index; said device being characterized in that it further comprises: a mask (3) covering said sensitive surface, said mask including at least one area (4) opaque at said emission wavelength and at least one hole (5), said hole being capable of receiving the target particle; and in that the mask includes at least one interface; 7 said device further comprising at least one groove (10, 10A, 10B) provided at said interface, each of said at least one groove surrounding each of said at least one hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2007Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRS, Universite d'Aix-MarseilleInventors: Hervé Rigneault, Pierre-François Lenne, Jérôme Wenger, Evgueni Popov, Thomas Ebbesen
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Patent number: 8440470Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fabrication process of a biosensor on a semiconductor wafer, comprising steps of: making a central photosensitive zone comprising at least one pixel-type biological analysis device comprising a photosensitive layer, and a first peripheral zone surrounding the central photosensitive zone, comprising electronic circuits. The first peripheral zone is covered by a hydrophilic coating, and the central photosensitive zone is covered with a hydrophobic coating. A barrier of a bio-compatible resin is formed on the second peripheral zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignees: STMicroelectronics (R&D) Limited, Universite Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille IIIInventors: Jeffrey M. Raynor, Michaël Maurin, Mitchel O'Neal Perley, Pierre-Francois Lenne, Herve Rigneault, Renaud Vincentelli
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Publication number: 20130038871Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for detecting a resonant non-linear optical signal induced in a sample (805) comprising a resonant medium (61) and a non-resonant medium forming an interface, the device comprising: an emission source (801) of at least one first excitation light beam of a resonant medium, called a pump beam, at a first given angular frequency ?p, said pump beam being incident on a sample along an optical axis, and intercepting the sample at a given position of a transverse interface between the resonant and non-resonant medium, a first optical detection module (803) for detection of the nonlinear optical signal resulting from the interaction of said beam or beams with the sample, means of reflection (813) of said excitation beam or beams, the excitation beam or beams thus reflected intercepting said transverse interface substantially at the same position as the incident excitation beam or beams, a second optical detection module (806) for detection of the nonlinear optical sigType: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE- CNRSInventors: Hervé Rigneault, David Gachet, Sophie Brustlein, Franck Billard
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Publication number: 20130021606Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device (100) for detecting a resonant non-linear optical signal induced in a sample (105), the sample comprising a resonant medium (41) and a non-resonant medium (42) forming an interface (43), the device comprising: an emission source (101) of at least one first excitation light beam, called a pump beam, at a first given angular frequency ?p for the excitation of the resonant medium of said sample, an optical detection module (106) for detecting a non-linear optical signal resulting from the interaction of said pump beam with an axial interface between the resonant and the non-resonant media of the sample, in at least two symmetrical directions (, ?) relative to the optical axis of said excitation beam incident in the sample, and a processing unit (125) for processing signals (IFwd(), IFwd(?)) thus detected, allowing the difference between said signals to be obtained, the resulting difference signal being characteristic of a vibrational or electronic resonance of thType: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE- CNRSInventors: Hervé Rigneault, David Gachet, Sophie Brustlein
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Publication number: 20120228518Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescence correlation spectroscopy system (1) for analyzing particles in a medium (2), including a means (3) for detecting the light (7) emitted by the particles in the medium (2), said means (3) being coupled to a waveguide (4), for which purpose the end piece of the guide (4) comprises a means (4b; 5) for confining the light (7) injected into the guide (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - CNRSInventors: Herve Rigneault, Jerome Wenger, Heykel Aouani, Patrick Ferrand, Neso Sojic, Frederique Deiss