Publications associées à Tache de Fresnel

A Cavity-Microscope for Quantum Simulations with Locally-Controllable All-to-All Interactions

This thesis presents the development, construction, and benchmark of an experimental platform that combines cold fermionic 6Li atoms with locally controllable light-matter interactions. To enable local control, a new device, the cavity-microscope, was crea ...

EPFL2024

Phase resolved characterization of nanoscale features in optical microstructures

Michail Symeonidis

In this study, we apply interferometric microscopy to study the phase, alongside the intensity, of the light field transmitted through a wide variety of samples. Additionally, we conduct those interferometric measurements at different wavelengths within th ...

EPFL2019

Carbon Nanotube Array Based Binary Gabor Zone Plate Lenses

Sunan Deng, Chaohui Li

Diffractive zone plates have a wide range of applications from focusing x-ray to extreme UV radiation. The Gabor zone plate, which suppresses the higher-order foci to a pair of conjugate foci, is an attractive alternative to the conventional Fresnel zone p ...

Nature Research2017

Light fields behind microstructures: study of the Babinet-principle in the Fresnel regime

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim, Krishnaparvathy Puthankovilakam

The Babinet’s principle is a general theorem that holds for electromagnetic waves and is often applied to diffraction of light. Diffraction pattern of a body and that of the complement body are compared and the sum of both radiation patterns must be the sa ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

RANS computations of tip vortex cavitation

Mohamed Farhat, Matthieu Dreyer

Some two-dimensional (2D) exfoliated zeolites are single- or near single-unit cell thick silicates that can function as molecular sieves. Although they have already found uses as catalysts, adsorbents and membranes precise determination of their thickness ...

Institute of Physics2015

Delivery of ultrashort spatially focused pulses through a multimode fiber for two photon endoscopic imaging

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Salma Farahi, Edgar Emilio Morales Delgado

Due to their high number of supported modes, multimode optical fibers carry large amount of spatio-temporal information. However, propagation of a light pulse through a multimode optical fiber suffers from spatial distortions due to superposition of the va ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Phase Anomalies in Micro-Optics

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We present a comprehensive review on the latest research activities that explore the Gouy phase and indicate the recent experimental progresses for its observations in studies that rely on a longitudinal-differential interferometer. The latter is a far-fie ...

Elsevier, Amsterdam2013

Prospects of warm dense matter research at HiRadMat facility at CERN using 440 MeV SPS proton beam

Juan Blanco Sancho, Rudiger Schmidt

In this paper we present numerical simulations of heating of a solid copper cylinder by the 440 GeV proton beam delivered by the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. The beam is made of 288 proton bunches while each bunch comprises of 1.15.10(11) so tha ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Hard-X-ray Zone Plates: Recent Progress

Giorgio Margaritondo

The technology to focus hard-X-rays (photon energy larger than 1-2 keV) has made great progress in the past three years. The progress was particularly spectacular for lenses based on the Fresnel zone plate concept. The spatial resolution notably increased ...

Mdpi Ag2012

Full-field microimaging with 8 keV X-rays achieves a spatial resolutions better than 20 nm

Giorgio Margaritondo

Fresnel zone plates (450 nm thick Au, 25 nm outermost zone width) used as objective lenses in a full field transmission reached a spatial resolution better than 20 nm and 1.5% efficiency with 8 keV photons. Zernike phase contrast was also realized without ...

Optical Society of America2011

Photonic Nanojet engineering: Focal point shaping with scattering phenomena of dielectric microspheres

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We experimentally engineer Nanojets produced by dielectric spheres by varying the illumination and observe the effect with a high-resolution interference microscope (HRIM). Converging and diverging spherical wavefronts and Bessel- Gauss beams are considere ...

SPIE2011

Huygens-Fresnel diffraction and evanescent waves

Demetri Psaltis

Based on a modified Huygens-Fresnel principle valid in the near field, we analytically verify the exponential wave decay of evanescent waves. This field decay along the propagation direction can be considered as the result of interference between elementar ...

2011

Measuring amplitude and phase of light emerging from microstructures with HRIM

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

Ultra high-resolution measurements of amplitude and phase fields emerging from fine period amplitude gratings are presented and discussed. In the axial direction periodically repeated features are found, whose origins are the Talbot effect within the Fresn ...

SPIE Digital Library2011

Phase Retrieval and Gaussian Beam Mode Decomposition of Gyrotron Beams

In this dissertation, we have developed the necessary basis for the characterization of the RF output of a gyrotron. The characterization includes the phase reconstruction and Gaussian beam mode decomposition. In order to analyze the phase reconstruction i ...

EPFL2010

Time-Intensity Superposition for Photoinitiated Polymerization of Fluorinated and Hyperbranched Acrylate Nanocomposites

Yves Leterrier, Sara Dalle Vacche, Valérie Geiser

The validity of the time-intensity superposition principle for the photoinitiated polymerization of nanocomposites based on a monofunctional fluorinated acrylate and on a multifunctional hyperbranched polyether acrylate was investigated in this work. Maste ...

2010

Fabrication of Fresnel zone plates for hard X-rays

Christian David

A method to fabricate gold structures with high aspect ratio is presented. Fresnel zone plates with an outermost zone width of 100nm and structures of 1μm height are fabricated. Preliminary focusing results at an X-ray energy of 8keV are presented and ways ...

2007

Nanometer focusing properties of Fresnel zone plates described by dynamical diffraction theory

Christian David

The x-ray focusing properties of linear Fresnel zone plates have been derived by solving the Helmholtz equation for the field propagating through the zones. We consider the imaging of a point object into the first diffraction order of a volume zone plate h ...

2006

Multiple scattering in optical coherence tomography. I. Investigation and modeling

Theo Lasser, Boris Clément Karamata, Marcel Leutenegger, Stéphane Bourquin, Markus Laubscher

We present a new model of optical coherence tomography (OCT) taking into account multiple scattering. A theoretical analysis and experimental investigation reveals that in OCT, despite multiple scattering, the field backscattered from the sample is general ...

2005

Electrochemical modification and photoelectronic properties of carbon nanotubes

Kannan Balasubramanian

This thesis reports on the investigations performed on electrochemical functionalization and photoelectronic transport properties of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The first part of the thesis is concerned with the controlled modificatio ...

EPFL2005