Postdoctoral position available in embedded electronics, Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS, France (2015)

A postdoc position is open at the Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 6285 Laboratory in the field of embedded electronics and sensors. The researcher will join the CAPTMER project funded by Brittany Region and work in close collaboration with the IFREMER marine research center. The main objective of CAPTMER is the extension of a network of optically-powered sensors in marine environment.

The candidate must either be a non-French national or must have spent at least 12 months in the past 3 years, in a country other than France.

The researcher will be employed by the ENIB (National Engineering School of Brest) in the Multi-Physics Devices and Interfaces team of the Lab-STICC laboratory. He or she will be based at IFREMER.

IFREMER and Lab-STICC/ENIB have previously worked on seafloor observatories. The cooperation was mostly focused on the possibility of simultaneously supplying power and recovering data from a remote sensor using a single optical fiber [1, 2]. The optical and optoelectronic architectures have been defined and validated in order to supply the sensor with maximum power while maintaining the quality of the data transmission.

In this context, the CAPTMER project is dedicated to the realization and the in situ implementation of a demonstrator. This project requires prior testing, optimization and experimental validation of the technological choices for electronic interfaces on both sides of the optical link, of the high-speed upstream and downstream data transmissions and of the communication protocol. The strategic and technological choices will be made based on previously conducted studies.. Ultimately, the architecture of the system should result in a miniature design.

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