A metallic nanostructure consisting of a disk inside a thin ring supports superradiant and
very narrow subradiant modes. Symmetry breaking in this structure enables a coupling …

With nanosecond radiative lifetimes, quenching dominates over enhancement for
conventional fluorescence emitters near metal interfaces. We explore the fundamentally …

We report on the realization of an open plane-concave Fabry-Perot resonator with a mode
volume below λ 3 at optical frequencies. We discuss some of the less-common features of …

Electromagnetic fluctuation-induced forces between atoms and surfaces are generally
known as Casimir–Polder interactions. The exact knowledge of these forces is rapidly …

Nanoscale Gold colloidal dimers are built thanks to the convective capillary force assembly
(CFA) technique. CFA efficiently demonstrates precise dimer localization, particle separation …

Scanning probe microscopes scan and manipulate a sharp tip in the immediate vicinity of a
sample surface. The limited bandwidth of the feedback mechanism used for stabilizing the …

Nanoantennas made of spheroidal metal nanoparticles are studied as a function of several
parameters, namely aspect ratio, volume, background index and metal. Single …

We investigate the interaction of tightly focused light with the surface-plasmon-polariton
resonances of metal nanospheres. In particular, we compute the scattering and absorption …

Convective-capillary force assembly (CFA)[1] and the capillary separation effect [2] are
combined in order to fabricate Au colloidal dimers with modulated edge-to-edge inter …

The atom is the most elementary constituent of any model that describes the quantum nature
of light–matter interaction. Because atoms emit and absorb light at well-defined frequencies …