Hiding Under a Plasmonic Carpet
The group led by Prof. Romain Quidant reports new advances towards invisibility at optical frequencies.
Optics Express has recently published a theoretical and experimental demonstration of a carpet which can make objects invisible to the eye of an observer. The carpet is made of a metamaterial, an artificial nanopatterned material engineered to have optical properties nonexisting in natural materials. When placed in front of an object lying on a surface, these materials interact with incident light producing an optical response representative of the surface without the object, thus making the later invisible. This effect, previously observed at lower frequencies, has been achieved now over the unprecedented bandwidth of 650 to 900 nm, i.e., within the visible range.
Nanolight.es in Nature, with ultimate wave-packet control
Researchers led by Prof. Niek van Hulst publish in Nature the first observation of the vibrational dynamics of single molecules.

Ultimate Wave-Packet ControlDuring the past few decades, two techniques have transformed the ways in which researchers can probe molecular processes: coherent control over dynamic processes by manipulating quantum interference effects with shaped laser pulses, and single-molecule detection. Now ICFO PhD Student Daan Brinks and colleagues, led by ICFO/ICREA Prof. Niek van Hulst, show that the two approaches can be combined, allowing not only the observation, but also the manipulation of vibrational wave-packet interference in individual molecules at ambient conditions. The single-molecule approach ensures that the ultimate degree of coherent control can be realized, which could help unravel details of molecular function and how it may be affected by dynamics in systems as diverse as conjugated polymers, light-harvesting complexes and photo-active proteins.
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SYLVAIN GIGAN 'Can One See Through Opaque Material?'

Laboratoire d'Optique, Paris, FRANCE
ESPCI, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, FRANCE
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2nd Annual NanoLight Meeting
Cubo Rojo (SALON DE ACTOS), Universitat Politécnica de Valencia
March 9 2010
ICFO in APS Physics
A joint work of Professors Novotny, Quidant, and van Hulst in the American Physical Society web spotlight.
“Never say never to a forbidden transition”: the issue of January 19 of Physics offers a synopsis commenting on recent results by researchers from ICFO and the University of Rochester on the free space excitation of propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs).
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