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Theory of photoluminescence by metallic structures
Aurelian Loirette-Pelous, Jean-Jacques Greffet
Light emission by metals at room temperature is quenched by fast relaxation processes. Nevertheless, Mooradian reported in 1969 the observation of photoluminescence by metals pumpe…
Chiral TeraHertz surface plasmonics
Ian Aupiais, Romain Grasset, Dmitri Daineka +5
Chiral engineering of TeraHertz (THz) light fields and the use of the handedness of light in THz light-matter interactions promise many novel opportunities for advanced sensing and…
General relation between spatial coherence and absorption
Denis Tihon, Stafford Withington, Elise Bailly +2
Despite the fact that incandescent sources are usually spatially incoherent, it has been known for some time that a proper design of a thermal source can modify its spatial coheren…
Upper bound for light absorption assisted by a nanoantenna
Emilie Sakat, Léo Wojszvzyk, Jean-Jacques Greffet +2
We study light absorption by a dipolar absorber in a given environment, which can be a nanoantenna or any complex inhomogeneous medium. From first-principle calculations, we derive…
Generalized Kirchhoff law
Jean-Jacques Greffet, Patrick Bouchon, Giovanni Brucoli +2
Thermal emission can be conveniently described using Kirchhoff law which states that the emissivity is equal to the absorptivity for isothermal bodies. For a finite size system, ab…
Superlens in the time domain
Alexandre Archambault, Mondher Besbes, Jean-Jacques Greffet
It has been predicted theoretically and demonstrated experimentally that a planar slab supporting surface plasmons or surface phonon polaritons can behave as a super lens. However,…
Enhanced radiative heat transfer between nanostructured gold plates
R. Guérout, J. Lussange, F. S. S. Rosa +5
We compute the radiative heat transfer between nanostructured gold plates in the framework of the scattering theory. We predict an enhancement of the heat transfer as we increase t…
Diamond particles as nanoantennas for nitrogen-vacancy color centers
J. -J. Greffet, J. -P. Hugonin, M. Besbes +3
The photoluminescence of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond nanoparticles exhibits specific properties as compared to NV centers in bulk diamond. For instance large fluctuati…
Quantum theory of spontaneous and stimulated emission of surface plasmons
Alexandre Archambault, François Marquier, Christophe Arnold +1
We introduce a quantization scheme that can be applied to surface waves propagating along a plane interface. An important result is the derivation of the energy of the surface wave…
Surface plasmon Fourier optics
Alexandre Archambault, Tatiana V. Teperik, François Marquier +1
Surface plasmons are usually described as surface waves with either a complex wavevector or a complex frequency. When discussing their merits in terms of field confinment or enhanc…
Radiative heat transfer between metallic nanoparticles
Pierre-Olivier Chapuis, Marine Laroche, Sebastian Volz +1
In this letter, we study the radiative heat transfer between two nanoparticles in the near field and in the far field. We find that the heat transfer is dominated by the electric d…
Effects of spatial dispersion in near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel metallic surfaces
Pierre-Olivier Chapuis, Sebastian Volz, Carsten Henkel +2
We study the heat transfer between two parallel metallic semi-infinite media with a gap in the nanometer-scale range. We show that the near-field radiative heat flux saturates at d…
Surface Electromagnetic Waves Thermally Excited: Radiative Heat Transfer, Coherence Properties and Casimir Forces Revisited in the Near Field
Karl Joulain, Jean-Philippe Mulet, François Marquier +2
We review in this article the influence of surface waves on the thermally excited electromagnetic field. We study in particular the field emitted at subwalength distances of materi…
Coupled surface polaritons and the Casimir force
Carsten Henkel, Karl Joulain, Jean-Philippe Mulet +1
The Casimir force between metallic plates made of realistic materials is evaluated for distances in the nanometer range. A spectrum over real frequencies is introduced and shows na…
Definition and measurement of the local density of electromagnetic states close to an interface
K. Joulain, R. Carminati, J. -P Mulet +1
We propose in this article an unambiguous definition of the local density of electromagnetic states (LDOS) in a vacuum near an interface in an equilibrium situation at temperature…
Spatial coherence of thermal near fields
C. Henkel, K. Joulain, R. Carminati +1
We analyze the spatial coherence of the electromagnetic field emitted by a half-space at temperature T close to the interface. An asymptotic analysis allows to identify three diffe…