Former Ph.D. students
| Surname | Name | Years | Current position |
| Van der Sluijs | Anne-Marie | 1993-1996 | Research engineer, Thales |
| Filipe | Antoine | 1994-1997 | Technical Director, Tronics-TDK |
| Bertrand | Philippe | 1995-1999 | Armement engineer, DGA |
| Cacho | Céphise | 1997-2000 | Researcher, DIAMOND |
| Wirth | Thibaut | 1997-2000 | Engineer, TRIXELL |
| Rattier | Maxime | 1998-2001 | R&D Director, iXBlue |
| Landraud | Natalie | 1999-2002 | Teacher, "classe préparatoire", lycée du Parc à Lyon |
| Olivier | Ségolène | 1999-2002 | Research engineer, CEA-LETI-MINATEC |
| Rougemaille | Nicolas | 2000-2003 | CNRS researcher, Institut Neel |
| Schwoob | Emilie | 2001-2004 | Research engineer, CEA |
| David | Aurelien | 2002-2005 | Chief scientist, Soraa |
| Garrot | Damien | 2002-2006 | Assistant professor, UVSQ |
| Lamine | Driss | 2004-2007 | Research engineer, Saint Gobain |
| Roux | Frédéric | 2004-2008 | Research engineer, CEA |
| Fabbri | Filippo | 2006-2009 | Assistant professor C2N, University Paris-Saclay |
| Vu | Duong | 2007-2010 | Researcher, Vietnamese Academy of Sciences |
| Li | Xiaoxin | 2009-2011 | Researcher, Chinese ministry of industry and information technologies |
| Favorskiy | Igor | 2011-2014 | Research engineer, Coventor |
| Desboeufs | Nicolas | 2011-2014 | Research engineer, Saint Gobain |
| Vu | Duc Anh | 2011-2014 | Research engineer, Sebia |
| Cadiz | Fabian | 2012-2015 | Assistant professor, Ecole polytechnique |
| Dasgupta | Tapayoti | 2012-2015 | Assistant Professor, IISc Bangalore (India) |
| Polovodov | Petr | 2012-2016 | Post-doctorant, I.E.M.N. (Lille) |
| Piccardo | Marco | 2013-2016 | Chercheur, IIT (Italy) |
| Zhaksylykova-Ustinov | Indira | 2015-2018 | Invisensing |
| Li | Heng | 2016-2019 | Huawei (China) |
| Chevalier | Sylvain | 2016-2019 | Chauvin Arnoux - Spectralys Innovation |
| Hahn | Wiebke | 2017-2020 | II-VI Laser Entreprise (Switzerland) |
| Lentali | Jean-Marie | 2017-2021 | |
| Thayil | Abel | 2018-2022 | WAIS |
| Park | Sangjun | 2019-2022 | IMEC |
| Sauty | Mylène | 2019-2022 | Researcher CEA |
| Ulibarri | Agatha | 2020-2023 | Post-doc, University of Melbourne |
Former post-docs
| Surname | Name | Years | Current position |
| Parent | Gilles | 1999 | Assistant professor, University of Nancy |
| Martinelli | Lucio | 2004-2006 | Research engineer, CNRS |
| Milne | Jason | 2010-2011 | Founder, Senstrali |
| Jegenyes | Nikoletta | 2012-2013 | Post-doc at C2N |
| Van den Heever | Stanley | 2015-2016 | Research engineer PragmatIC |
| Peugeot | Ambroise | 2020-2023 | Researcher, ENS Lyon |
Former faculty
| Surname | Name | Years | Role |
| Safarov | Viatcheslav | 1991-1995 | Invited researcher |
| Drouhin | Henri-Jean | 1980-2004 | Armement engineer, Ecole polytechnique |
| Richter | Christine | 2004-2006 | Assistant professor, Université Cergy-Pontoise |
| Hermann | Claudine | 1969-2006 | Professor, Ecole polytechnique |
| Benisty | Henri | 1994-2006 | Professor, University Paris XI, Institut d’Optique |
| Lampel | Georges | -2018 | Researcher |
| Martinelli | Lucio | 2011-2019 | Research engineer |
| Ranély Vergé Dépré | Claude-Alban | 2020 | Research engineer |
| Paget | Daniel | -2023 | Researcher |
| Arrighi | Everton | 2022-2025 | Research engineer |