PARTNER 5 – CRSA
Dr. Remi Carminati

Address:
Ecole Centrale Paris, CNRS

92295 Chatenay-Malabry, France

Telephone: + 33 1 41 13 10 66

Fax: + 33 1 47 02 80 35

Members

Name	Email	Telephone
CARMINATI Rémi	remi.carminati@em2c.ecp.fr	+ 33 1 41 13 10 66
GREFFET Jean-Jacques	greffet@em2c.ecp.fr	+ 331 41 13 10 61
PIERRAT Romain	romain.pierrat@em2c.ecp.fr	+ 33 1 41 13 10 78

Main Research Activities

Nano-optics : theory of near-field optical microscopy, single-molecule fluorescence, surface waves (plasmon and phonon polaritons), coherent thermal emission of light (theory and experiments).

Light propagation and imaging in scattering media :radiative transfer equation, diffusion approximation, intensity fluctuations, coherence theory.

Most Relevant Publications

J. Ripoll, M. Nieto-Vesperinas and R. Carminati, "Spatial resolution of diffuse photon-density waves'', J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16, 1466 (1999).

J.B. Thibaud, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, "Scattering of a diffusive wave by a subsurface object'', J. Appl. Phys. 87, 7638 (2000).

R. Carminati and J.J. Saenz, "Scattering theory of Bardeen's formalism for tunneling: New approach to near-field microscopy'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5156 (2000).

J. Ripoll, V. Ntziachristos, R. Carminati and M. Nieto-Vesperinas,

"Kirchhoff approximation for diffusive waves'', Phys. Rev. E 64, 51917 (2001).

S. Gomez-Monivas, L.S. Froufe, R. Carminati, J.-J. Greffet and

J.J. Saenz, "Tip-shape effects on electrostatic force microscopy

resolution'', Nanotechnology 12, 496 (2001).

J.-J. Greffet, R. Carminati, K. Joulain, J.P. Mulet, S. Mainguy and Y. Chen, "Coherent emission of light by thermal sources'', Nature 416, 61 (2002).

R. Elaloufi, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, "Time-dependent transport through scattering media : from radiative transfer to diffusion'', J. Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 4, S103 (2002).

R. Elaloufi, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, "Definition of the diffusion coefficient in scatttering and absorbing media'', J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20, 678 (2003).

R. Carminati, R. Elaloufi and J.-J. Greffet, "Beyond the diffusive-wave spectroscopy model for the temporal fluctuations of scattered light'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213903 (2004).

R. Elaloufi, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, "Diffusive to ballistic transition in dynamic light transmission through thin scattering slabs: A radiative transfer approach'', J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21, 1430 (2004).

M. Thomas, J.-J. Greffet, R. Carminati and J.R. Arias-Gonzalez, "Single-molecule spontaneous emission close to absorbing nanostructures'', Appl. Phys. Lett. 64, 3863 (2004).

M. Laroche, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, "Resonant optical transmission through a photonic crystal in the forbidden gap'', Phys. Rev. B, to appear (2005).

R. Pierrat, J.-J. Greffet and R. Carminati, "Spatial coherence in strongly scattering media'', submitted to J. Opt. Soc. Am. A (2005).