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Infiltrating a thin or single layer opal with an atomic vapour: sub-doppler signals and crystal optics
Elias Moufarej, Isabelle Maurin, Ilya Zabkov +4
Artificial thin glass opals can be infiltrated with a resonant alkali-metal vapour, providing novel types of hybrid systems. The reflection at the interface between the substrate a…
The optical interface of a photonic crystal: Modeling an opal with a stratified effective index
Isabelle Maurin, Elias Moufarej, Athanasios Laliotis +1
An artificial opal is a compact arrangement of transparent spheres, and is an archetype of a three-dimensional photonic crystal. Here, we describe the optics of an opal using a fle…
Casimir-Polder forces in the presence of thermally excited surface modes
Athanasios Laliotis, Thierry Passerat de Silans, Isabelle Maurin +2
The temperature dependence of the Casimir-Polder interaction addresses fundamental issues for understanding vacuum and thermal fluctuations. It is highly sensitive to surface waves…
Experimental observations of temperature effects in the near-field regime of the Casimir-Polder interaction
Thierry Passerat de Silans, Athanasios Laliotis, Isabelle Maurin +4
We investigate the temperature dependence of the Casimir-Polder interaction in the electrostatic limit. This unusual phenomenon relies on the coupling between a virtual atomic tran…