Publications by Nicolas Le Thomas

3DPD: A photogrammetric pipeline for a PUSH frame stereo cameras

An innovative photogrammetric pipeline has been developed by INAF-Padova for the processing of the stereo images from the CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Imaging System) (Thomas et al., 2014). CaSSIS is the multispectral stereo push frame camera on board ExoMars ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Imaging of high-Q cavity optical modes by electron energy-loss microscopy

Romuald Houdré, Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Nicolas Le Thomas

We show a technique that images the intensity distribution and local state of polarization of the optical field of high-quality factor optical modes confined in dielectric planar photonic crystal nanocavities. Based on energy-loss spectroscopy of swift ele ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Spectral heterogeneity on Phobos and Deimos: HiRISE observations and comparisons to Mars Pathfinder results

Nicolas Le Thomas, Anton Ivanov

The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been used to observe Phobos and Deimos at spatial scales of around 6 and 20 m/px, respectively. HiRISE (McEwen et al., JGR, 112, CitelD E05502, DOI: 10.10 ...

2011

Inhibited emission of electromagnetic modes confined in subwavelength cavities

Romuald Houdré, Nicolas Le Thomas

We experimentally demonstrate the active inhibition of subwavelength confined cavity modes emission and quality factor enhancement by controlling the cavity optical surrounding. The intrinsic radiation angular spectrum of modes confined in planar photonics ...

2011

Statistical analysis of subnanometer residual disorder in photonic crystal waveguides: Correlation between slow light properties and structural properties

Romuald Houdré, Hua Zhang, Nicolas Le Thomas, Zhaolu Diao

The authors present a statistical study of residual disorder in nominally identical planar photonic crystal waveguides operating in the slow light regime. The focus is on the role played by the subnanometer scaled residual disorder inherent to state-of-the ...

2011

Refractive Index Gas Sensing in a Hollow Photonic Crystal Cavity

Romuald Houdré, Hua Zhang, Nicolas Le Thomas, Jana Jágerská, Zhaolu Diao

We investigate hollow photonic crystal structures consisting in air-slot photonic crystal nanocavities. The high quality factor similar to 2.6x10(4) of such cavities along with a strong overlap between the resonant mode and the hollow core region allows fo ...

Ieee2011

Cathodoluminescence Mapping of Cherenkov-Radiation Generated Bloch-Modes in Planar Photonic Crystals by Fast Electrons

Romuald Houdré, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Nicolas Le Thomas, Simon Schneider

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2010

Refractive index sensing with an air-slot photonic crystal nanocavity

Romuald Houdré, Hua Zhang, Nicolas Le Thomas, Jana Jágerská, Zhaolu Diao

We investigate an air-slot photonic crystal cavity for high-precision refractive index sensing. The high quality factor ∼2:6 × 10^4 of the cavity, along with a strong overlap between the resonant mode and the hollow core region, allows us to achieve an exp ...

Optical Society of America2010

Fourier space imaging of light localization at a photonic band-edge located below the light cone

Romuald Houdré, Nicolas Le Thomas

We observe light localization in a two-dimensional geometry, induced by residual disorder at a photonic band edge located below the light cone. The combination of a spectrally selective illumination and a grating assisted k-space imaging technique allows u ...

2009

Radiation loss of photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguides

Romuald Houdré, Hua Zhang, Nicolas Le Thomas, Jana Jágerská

We experimentally investigate the out-of-plane radiation losses of photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguides. We observe a strong variation in the losses along the dispersion curve and show that such variation is closely linked with the specific far-field ...

American Institute of Physics2009