Publications related to Biomimetic Pieris rapae’s Nanostructure and Its Use as a Simple Sucrose Sensor

Frequency and time domains interactions in nanophotonics

In this thesis, we discuss the problems of scattering and optical manipulation related to nanosystems of different complexities. The multipolar decomposition method is used to represent scattering processes in nanosystems as a series of elementary excitati ...

EPFL2023

Nonlinear Inverse Problems in Quantitative Phase Imaging

Thanh-An Michel Pham

The topic of this thesis is the development of new algorithmic reconstruction methods for quantitative phase imaging (QPI). In the past decade, advanced QPI has emerged as a valuable tool to study label-free biological samples and uncover their 3D structur ...

EPFL2022

Atom-surface van der Waals potentials of topological insulators and semimetals from scattering measurements

Davide Campi

The phenomenology of resonant scattering has been known since the earliest experiments upon scattering of atomic beams from surfaces and is a means of obtaining experimental information about the fundamentals of weak adsorption systems in the van der Waals ...

2021

Effects of multiple scattering on angle-independent structural color in disordered colloidal materials

Sofia Magkiriadou

Disordered packings of colloidal spheres show angle-independent structural color when the particles are on the scale of the wavelength of visible light. Previous work has shown that the positions of the peaks in the reflectance spectra can be predicted acc ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Single-Photon, Time-Gated, Phasor-Based Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging through Highly Scattering Medium

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool for biochemical and cellular investigations, including in vivo applications. Fluorescence lifetime is an intrinsic characteristic of any fluorescent dye which, to a large ext ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Angular Scattering Properties of Metasurfaces

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri

This article aims at studying the angular scattering properties of bianisotropic metasurfaces and clarifying the different roles played by tangential and normal polarization densities. Different types of metasurfaces are considered for this study and are c ...

2020

Distributed analyses using distinct classes of Brillouin scatterings in optical fibres

Desmond Chow Ming Chia

Brillouin scattering is an interaction between light and sound in a material. This inelastic light scattering had been observed in the first optical fibres that were used in cross-continent communication. Via Brillouin scattering, the guided light wave in ...

EPFL2018

Light scattering from the critical modes of the Verwey transition in magnetite

Fabrizio Carbone, Simone Borroni

We present inelastic light scattering data on a single crystal of magnetite (Fe3O4) across the Verwey transition. We identify anomalies of the lattice vibrations that originate from strong coupling to electronic excitations. We reveal spectroscopic signatu ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Imaging complex objects using learning tomography

Michaël Unser, Alexandre Goy, Demetri Psaltis, Morteza Hasani Shoreh, Joowon Lim

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) can be described using the scattering process through an inhomogeneous media. An inherent nonlinearity exists relating the scattering medium and the scattered field due to multiple scattering. Multiple scattering is oft ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Vibrationally and Rotationally Inelastic Scattering of Methane from Ni(111)

Jörn Werdecker

This thesis presents a quantum-state-resolved molecular beam study of the non-reactive scattering of methane (CH4) from a Ni(111) surface. It is one of the first experimental investigations in which the internal quantum state distribution of a polyatomic m ...

EPFL2018

Parametric amplification and bidirectional invisibility in PT-symmetric time-Floquet systems

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas

Parity-time (PT)-symmetric wave devices, which exploit balanced interactions between material gain and loss, exhibit extraordinary properties, including lasing and flux-conserving scattering processes. In a seemingly different research field, periodically ...

2018

Vibrational Energy Redistribution in a Gas-Surface Encounter: State-to-State Scattering of CH4 from Ni(111)

Rainer Beck, Maarten Eduard van Reijzen, Jörn Werdecker, Bo-Jung Chen

The fate of vibrational energy in the collision of methane (CH4) in its antisymmetric C-H stretch vibration (ν3) with a Ni(111) surface has been studied in a state-to-state scattering experiment. Laser excitation in the incident molecular beam prepared the ...

2018

Light Scattering Enhancement at the Absorption Edge in Dewetting Droplets of Cyanine Dyes

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

Diffraction properties of thin films of dewetted cyanine dye droplets are investigated and related to the complex refractive index. Strong changes in the index of refraction are often found near the absorption edge of organic dyes. Within a small window of ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Temperature sensitivity enhancement in a standard optical fiber with double coatings at low temperature

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

The thermomechanical behavior of a standard optical fiber with double coating is theoretically analyzed at room temperature and ~ 220 K. As the primary coating becomes stiffer at low temperature, the impact of the thermal expansion of the coatings is no lo ...

Ieee2017

Fourier light scattering model for treating textures deeper than the wavelength

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

We apply a Fourier-scattering model to describe light scattering in solar cells with textured surfaces. For the size and inclination angle of typical micro-textures, scattering may occur into large angles. This makes the model prone to paraxial errors. We ...

Optical Society of America2017

Coherent Rayleigh time domain reflectometry : novel applications for optical fibre sensing

Xin Lu

Owing to the advantages of the optical fibre, such as lightweight, small size, low cost and immunity to electromagnetic interferences, the fibre sensors have been applied in diverse fields and the scientific research on fibre sensing keeps improving to mee ...

EPFL2016

State-to-state scattering of CH₄ from Ni(111) and Gr/Ni(111)

Maarten Eduard van Reijzen

In this thesis, I describe the design and implementation of the first state-to-state surface scattering experiments for methane from clean single crystalline surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum. The experiments use infrared laser pumping to prepare the incident C ...

EPFL2016

Multiscattering-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy

Christian Santschi, Olivier Martin, Volodymyr Koman

An original scheme for sensitive absorption measurements, particularly well-suited for low analyte concentrations, is presented. The technique is based on multiscattering-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (MEAS) and benefits from the advantages of conventio ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Formation of in-volume nanogratings with sub-100-nm periods in glass by femtosecond laser irradiation

Yves Bellouard, Ya Cheng

We present direct experimental observation of the morphological evolution during the formation of nanogratings with sub-100-nm periods with the increasing number of pulses. Theoretical simulation shows that the constructive interference of the scattering l ...

Optical Society of America2015

Faceted phospholipid vesicles tailored for the delivery of Santolina insularis essential oil to the skin

Davide Demurtas

The aim of this work was to formulate Santolina insularis essential oil-loaded nanocarriers, namely Penetration Enhancer containing Vesicles (PEVs), evaluate the physico-chemical features and stability, and gain insights into their ability to deliver the o ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015