Rémi CARMINATI Born February 17, 1971 in

Rémi CARMINATI
Born February 17, 1971 in Thonon (France)
Married, two children
Nationality: French
Professional address
Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris Cedex, France
Phone: +33 1 80 96 30 72, E-mail: [email protected]
Current position: Professor of Optical Physics at ESPCI ParisTech (http://www.espci.fr)
Area of expertise: Optics in complex media
Education
• 1993: Engineer Degree from Ecole Centrale Paris (France)
• 1993: Master Degree in Transport Phenomena and Heat Transfer, Ecole Centrale Paris (France)
• 1993 - 1996: PhD in Optical Physics, Ecole Centrale Paris, defended in Sept 1996
Subject : “Analysis of the image formation in near-field optics”
Members of Committee : Profs. Boccara, Chavel (President), Girard, Greffet (Advisor), NietoVesperinas (Referee), Pohl et Van Labeke (Referee)
• 2002: “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” from the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, defended
in Nov 2002 Subject: “Propagation, scattering and thermal emission of electromagnetic radiation at small scales”
Members of Committee : Profs. Aspect (President), Boccara (Referee), Greffet, Sandoghdar
(Referee), Van Labeke (Referee), Sáenz
Employment history
• Oct 1996 - Sept 1997: Post-doctoral fellowship under a grant from the European Union,
Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (Prof. M. Nieto-Vesperinas), Institute
of Material Science of Madrid (Spain)
• Oct 1997 - Sept 2003: Assistant Professor at Ecole Centrale Paris (France), Physics Department
• Oct 2003 - Nov 2007: Professor at Ecole Centrale Paris, Physics Department
• Since Dec 2007: Professor of Optical Physics at ESPCI ParisTech, Paris (France)
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Research topics
• 1993-2000 Theory of image formation in near-field optics (with Pr J.J. Greffet, PhD
advisor, and Pr M. Nieto-Vesperinas)
– Concept of transfer function of a near-field optical microscope, inverse problem
– Perturbation theory for near-field scattering
– Reciprocity and time reversal with evanescent fields
• 1998-2006 Electromagnetic thermal fluctuations (with Pr J.J. Greffet and Dr K. Joulain)
– Coherence of thermal near fields, coherent thermal emission
– Near-field radiative heat transfer
– Introduction of the concept of thermal radiation STM (with Pr J.J. Sáenz)
(experimentally realized by Dr Y. De Wilde in 2006)
• 2000 - Nanophotonics and plasmonics (since 2009 with Dr Y. De Wilde, Dr R. Pierrat and
Dr V. Krachmalnicoff)
– Enhancement and quenching of molecular fluorescence by optical antennas
– Measurement of local density of states in nanostructures
– Magneto-optics with nanostructured materials
• 2003 - Multiple scattering of light (with Dr R. Pierrat)
– Transport models for diffuse light imaging (including biomedical imaging)
– Random lasers
– Coherence and polarization in electromagnetic speckles
• 2010 - Electrodynamics in disordered media (with Dr Y. De Wilde, Dr R. Pierrat and Dr
V. Krachmalnicoff)
– Interaction between fluorescent nanosources and strongly scattering materials
– Statistics of the Purcell factor in disordered media
– Enhanced light-matter interaction with Anderson localized modes (towards cavity QED)
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Scientific coordination and networking
Associate Director of the Langevin Institute (http://www.institut-langevin.espci.fr)
Leader of the research group on ”Mesoscopic and Theoretical Optics” at the Langevin Institute
Referee of international journals in physics and optics
Expert for French National Agency for Research (ANR) programs
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the international conferences Trends in Nanotechnology and ImagineNano
Coordinator of the “Waves and imaging in complex media” group of the CNRS French Research
network on “Waves” (french name GDR Ondes) from 2004 to 2012
Member of the French Optical Society, of the French Physical Society, of the European Optical
Society and of the Optical Society of America.
Awards
Laureate of the Fabry-De Gramont Prize of the French Optical Society in 2006
Laureate ot the iXCore Fundation for Research in 2009 (in the form of a research grant)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (2015)
Publications records
108 papers in international journals
10 book chapters
40 invited talks in international conferences
16 invited lectures in summer/winter schools
h-index: 33 (ISI Web of Science, December 2014)
List of most significant publications
Theory of image formation in near-field optics
• J.-J. Greffet, A. Sentenac and R. Carminati, Surface profile reconstruction using near-field data, Opt.
Commun. 116, 20–24 (1995).
• R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Two-dimensional numerical simulation of the Photon Scanning Tunneling
Microscope. Concept of transfer function, Opt. Commun. 116, 316–321 (1995).
• R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Influence of dielectric contrast and topography on the near field scattered
by an inhomogeneous surface, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12, 2716–2725 (1995).
• R. Carminati, J.-J. Greffet, N. Garcı́a and M. Nieto-Vesperinas, Direct reconstruction of surfaces from
near-field intensity under spatially incoherent illumination, Opt. Lett. 21, 501–503 (1996).
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• J.-J. Greffet and R. Carminati, Image formation in near-field optics, Prog. Surf. Science 56, 133–237
(1997).
• R. Carminati, M. Nieto-Vesperinas and J.-J. Greffet, Reciprocity of evanescent electromagnetic waves,
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15, 706–712 (1998).
• J.A. Porto, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Theory of electromagnetic field imaging and spectroscopy in
scanning near-field optical microscopy, J. Appl. Phys. 88, 4845–4850 (2000).
• R. Carminati, J.J. Sáenz, J.-J. Greffet and M. Nieto-Vesperinas, Reciprocity, unitarity and time-reversal
symmetry of the S-matrix of fields containing evanescent components, Phys. Rev. A 62, 12712 (2000).
Electromagnetic thermal fluctuations
• R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Near-field effects in spatial coherence of thermal sources, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 82, 1660–1663 (1999).
• R. Carminati and J.J. Sáenz, Scattering theory of Bardeen’s formalism for tunneling : new approach to
near-field microscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5156–5159 (2000).
• A.V. Shchegrov, K. Joulain, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Near-field spectral effects due to electromagnetic surface excitations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1548–1551 (2000).
• J.P. Mulet, K. Joulain, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Nanoscale radiative heat transfer between a small
particle and a plane surface, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 2931–2933 (2001).
• J.-J. Greffet, R. Carminati, K. Joulain, J.P. Mulet, S. Mainguy and Y. Chen, Coherent emission of light
by thermal sources, Nature 416, 61–64 (2002).
• K. Joulain, J.-P. Mulet, F. Marquier, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Surface electromagetic waves
thermally excited: Radiative heat transfer, coherence properties and Casimir forces revisited in the near
field, Surf. Sci. Rep. 57, 59–112 (2005).
• M. Laroche, F. Marquier, R. Carminati, J.-J. Greffet, S. Collin, N. Bardou and J.-L. Pelouard, Highly
directional radiation generated by a tungsten thermal source, Opt. Lett. 30, 2623–2625 (2005).
• M. Laroche, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Coherent thermal antenna using a photonic crystal slab,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123903 (2006).
• Y. De Wilde, F. Formanek, R. Carminati, B. Gralak, P.A. Lemoine, K. Joulain, J.-P. Mulet, Y. Chen
and J.-J. Greffet, Thermal radiation scanning tunneling microscopy, Nature 444, 740 (2006).
Nanophotonics and plasmonics
• K. Joulain, R. Carminati, J.P. Mulet and J.-J. Greffet, Definition and measurement of the local density
of electromagnetiic states close to an interface, Phys. Rev. B 68, 245405 (2003).
• M. Thomas, J.-J. Greffet, R. Carminati and J.R. Arias-Gonzalez, Single-molecule spontaneous emission
close to absorbing nanostructures, Appl. Phys. Lett. 64, 3863–3865 (2004).
• R. Carminati, J.-J. Greffet, C. Henkel and J.M. Vigoureux, Radiative and non-radiative decay of a single
molecule close to a metallic nanoparticle, Opt. Commun. 261, 368–375 (2006).
• E. Castanié, M. Boffety, and R. Carminati, Fluorescence quenching by a metal nanoparticle in the
extreme near-field regime, Opt. Lett. 35, 291 (2010).
• S. Albaladejo R. Gómez-Medina, L.S. Froufe-Pérez, H. Marinchio, R. Carminati, J.F. Torrado, G.
Armelles, A. Garcı́a-Martı́n and J.J. Sáenz, Radiative corrections to the polarizability tensor of an
electrically small anisotropic dielectric particle, Opt. Express 18, 3556 (2010).
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• C. Vandenbem, D. Brayer, L.S. Froufe-Pérez and R. Carminati, Controlling the quantum yield of a
dipole emitter with coupled plasmonic modes, Phys. Rev. B 81, 085444 (2010).
• H. Marinchio, J.J. Sáenz and R. Carminati, Light scattering by a magneto-optical nanoparticle in front
of a flat surface: Perturbative approach, Phys. Rev. B 85, 245425 (2012).
• V. Krachmalnicoff, D. Cao, A. Cazé, E. Castanié, R. Pierrat, N. Bardou, S. Collin, R. Carminati and
Y. De Wilde, Towards a full characterization of a plasmonic nanostructure with a fluorescent near-field
probe, Opt. Express 21, 11536 (2013).
• R. Carminati, Surface plasmons: A probe for graphene electronics, Nature Nanotechnology 8, 802
(2013).
• L. Aigouy, A. Cazé, P. Gredin, M. Mortier and R. Carminati, Mapping and quantifying electric and
magnetic dipole luminescence at the nanoscale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 076101 (2014).
• R. Carminati, A. Cazé, D. Cao, F. Peragut, V. Krachmalnicoff, R. Pierrat and Y. De Wilde, Electromagnetic Density of States in Complex Plasmonic Systems, invited review article, Surf. Sci. Rep. in
press (2014).
Multiple scattering of light
• R. Elaloufi, R. Carminati and J.-J. Greffet, Diffusive to ballistic transition in dynamic light transmission
through thin scattering slabs: A radiative transfer approach, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21, 1430 (2004).
• R. Carminati, R. Elaloufi and J.-J. Greffet, Beyond the diffusive-wave spectroscopy model for the temporal fluctuations of scattered light, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213903 (2004).
• R. Pierrat, J.-J. Greffet and R. Carminati, Photon diffusion coefficient in scattering and absorbing media,
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23, 1106–1110 (2006).
• R. Pierrat and R. Carminati, Threshold of random lasers in the incoherent transport regime, Phys. Rev.
A 76, 023821 (2007).
• R. Carminati, R. Pierrat, J. de Rosny and M. Fink, Theory of the time-reversal cavity for electromagnetic
fields, Opt. Lett. 32, 3107–3109 (2007).
• R. Carminati and J.J. Sáenz, Density of states and extinction mean free path of waves in random media:
Dispersion relations and sum rules, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093902 (2009).
• L.S. Froufe-Pérez, W. Guerin, R. Carminati and R. Kaiser, Threshold of a random laser with cold atoms,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 173903 (2009).
• S. M. Popoff, G. Lerosey, R. Carminati, M. Fink, A.C. Boccara and S. Gigan, Measuring the transmission
matrix in optics: An approach to the study and control of light propagation in disordered media, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 104, 100601 (2010).
• R. Carminati, Subwavelength spatial correlations in near-field speckle patterns, Phys. Rev. A 81,
053804 (2010).
• A. Cazé, R. Pierrat and R. Carminati, Spatial coherence in complex photonic and plasmonic systems,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 063903 (2013).
• K. Vynck, R. Pierrat and R. Carminati, Polarization and spatial coherence of electromagnetic waves in
uncorrelated disordered media, Phys. Rev. A 89, 013842 (2014).
• A. Dogariu and R. Carminati, Electromagnetic field correlations in three-dimensional speckles, invited
review article, Phys. Rep. in press (2014).
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Electrodynamics in disordered media
• R. Pierrat and R. Carminati, Spontaneous decay rate of a dipole emitter in a strongly scattering disordered environment, Phys. Rev. A 81, 063802 (2010).
• A. Cazé, R. Pierrat and R. Carminati, Near-field interactions and non-universality in speckle patterns
produced by a point source in a disordered medium, Phys. Rev. A 82, 043823 (2010).
• V. Krachmalnicoff, E. Castanié, Y. De Wilde and R. Carminati, Fluctuations of the local density of
states probe localized surface plasmons on disordered metal films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183901
(2010).
• R. Sapienza, P. Bondareff, R. Pierrat, B. Habert, R. Carminati and N.F. van Hulst, Long-tail statistics
of the Purcell factor in disordered media driven by near-field interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 163902
(2011).
• A. Cazé, R. Pierrat and R. Carminati, Strong coupling to two-dimensional Anderson localized modes,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 053901 (2013).
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