Nanoapertures for biophotonics
Published in the International Journal of Materials and Product Technology, in a special issue on nanostructured materials for photonics applications :
Biophotonics applications of nanometric apertures
Jerome Wenger, Davy Gerard, Pierre-Francois Lenne, Herve Rigneault, Nicolas Bonod, Evgeny Popov, Didier Marguet, Constantin Nelep, Thomas W. Ebbesen
DOI: 10.1504/IJMPT.2009.025002
Actually, this paper was written in March 2007, revised version accepted for publication in September 2007, and finally published in April 2009 !! Never got a decent explanation with such a delay. So this explains why the reference list therein is mostly already obsolete now, with no citations to papers of late 2007 and 2008.
For personal use only, free reprints are available here.
Photonic nanojets highlighted
The CNRS Institute of Information and Engineering Sciences and Technologies (INST2I) has highlighted our recent work on photonic nanojets and their use for single molecule detection.
Read more (sorry French only) at : http://www.cnrs.fr/inst2i/recherche/faits-marquants/2009/nanojets-photoniques.htm
MOSAIC webpage updated
>>> www.fresnel.fr/mosaic


Next conference : SPP4 Amsterdam
I will be at the next international conference on surface plasmon photonics, to be hold June 21-26 in Amsterdam : http://www.spp4.org/
Meet you after my talk O-02 “Merging fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and plasmonics:
characterizing nanostructures for high rate high efficiency single molecule detection” on Monday 22nd, 10AM.
Latest paper published : 3-axis sub-lambda confinement with nanojets
Published in Optics Express, freely downloadable at :
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-4-2089
We show that latex microspheres are able to confine light in a three-dimensional region of subwavelength dimensions. A simple configuration, not involving resonances, allows to reach an effective volume as small as 0.6 (lambda/n)^3, hereby beating the far-field diffraction barrier. We relate this phenomenon to interferences between the field scattered by the sphere and the incident Gaussian beam.
The animated gif below shows the electric field intensity distribution while the microsphere is displaced towards the focus of the incident laser beam.
This paper was highlighted as picture of the week on Optics Infobase webpage, and (consequently?) ranked 6th out of the most downloaded OSA paper of March 2009.