The institute currently brings together about 200 researchers, lecturer-researchers, and doctoral students divided into 14 research teams. Its dominant scientific themes relate to optics and imaging, more specifically in the fields of photonics, electromagnetism, image processing, signal processing, metamaterials, random waves, advanced imaging, biophotonics, biomedical imaging, nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical components, damage, and laser processes. It has an annual budget in of about 13M €.