Since the invention of the Michelson interferometer in 1881, designed to demonstrate the existence of ether (supposed to carry light), optical detection systems have become widespread, and research in wave physics has made significant progress.
Interferometry (link: interférométrie) has thus given birth to very high-precision surface state measurement methods or even holography. Optical coherence tomography, (link: tomographie par cohérence optique), or OCT for short, is one of these new approaches allowing, in particular, the non-invasive analysis of biological samples (biology, ophthalmology, oncology...). This revolutionary procedure (link: procédé révolutionnaire), providing additional information on the structure and composition of the object in particular, is the starting point of the imaging systems of the startup Damae Medical, co-founded by students and a researcher from the Institut d'Optique.