À la surface d’un métal, la lumière visible peut se coupler avec les électrons libres pour engendrer une quasi-particule particulièrement intéressante, le plasmon-polariton de surface. Cet objet a pour propriété d’être évanescent dans les directions perpendiculaires à la surface, ce qui en fait un support idéal pour transporter l’information lumineuse à deux dimensions, et sur des échelles sub-longueur d’onde. S’il est excité par une source quantique, il conserve cet aspect quantique du signal, même si des millions d’électrons sont impliqués dans sa propagation.Dans ce manuscrit, je présente les résultats expérimentaux et théoriques obtenus en plasmonique de surface durant mon doctorat. En associant l’utilisation de centres colorés azote-lacune (NV) dans les nanodiamants, qui sont des émetteurs de photons uniques, et d’un microscope optique en champ proche (SNOM), j’ai pu étudier de nombreuses propriétés du centre NV et des plasmons de surface dans les domaines classique et quantique.Notamment, j’ai réalisé une étude complète de la photo-dynamique interne du centre NV, dans différents régimes d’excitation. De plus, j’ai étudié le mode d’imagerie des plasmons de surface qu’est la microscopie à fuite radiative, en mettant en lumière certaines aberrations optiques pouvant survenir dans des conditions de désaccord d’indices optiques. J’ai ensuite effectué des mesures de corrélations spatio-temporelles de plasmons de surface excités par des centres NV, grâce à un système expérimental spécifique que j’ai mis en œuvre.Enfin, je décris dans ce manuscrit les toutes premières études de l’interaction des plasmons avec différentes cavités elliptiques et paraboliques gravées dans le métal, qui ont mené notamment à des mesures de densité locales d’états (LDOS) plasmonique. / On a metal surface, visible light can couple with surface free electrons to form a very interesting quasi-particle, the surface plasmon-polariton. The main property of this object is to be evanescent in the directions perpendicular to the surface. This feature makes the plasmon ideally suited to transport electromagnetic information in two dimensions and on a sub-wavelength scale. If it is excited by a quantum source, it retains this quantum aspect of the signal, even if millions of electrons are involved in its propagation.In this manuscript, I present the experimental and theoretical results obtained during my PhD in surface plasmonics. By combining the use of nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in nanodiamonds, which are single photon emitters, and of a scanning near field optical microscope (SNOM), I was able to study numerous properties of the NV center and surface plasmons, both in the classical and quantum regimes.In particular, I have performed a complete study of the internal photo-dynamics of the NV center in different excitation regimes. Moreover, I have studied the leakage radiation microscopy, a dedicated imaging mode in plasmonics , by highlighting some optical aberrations that can arise in conditions of optical index mismatch. Furthermore, I have ran spatio-temporal correlation measurements on surface plasmons excited by NV centers with a specific experimental system I implemented.Finally, I describe in the manuscript the very first studies of the interaction between plasmons and different elliptical and parabolic cavities milled in the metal. This has led to the measurements of the plasmonic local density of states.

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Les lasers femtosecondes à modes bloqués révèlent une structure spectrale de peigne de fréquence, couvrant plusieurs dizaines de THz. Mon travail de thèse s'est concentré sur l'étude et la mise en place d'un dispositif optique couplant le peigne laser dans une cavité optique. Le peigne et les résonances de cavités y sont délibérément désaccordés à la manière d'un Vernier, faisant apparaitre dans la transmission spectrale de la cavité un Moiré de fréquence dont la périodicité est inversement proportionnelle à ce désaccord. La première partie présente un formalisme permettant une compréhension fine de ce couplage et identifiant deux régimes en filtrages dits de «haute» résolution, où la structure de peigne est entièrement résolue, et de «basse» résolution où la résolution est donnée par le désaccord. La seconde partie décrit la réalisation expérimentale de ce couplage, détaillant la stratégie d'asservissement employée afin de stabiliser les résonances de la cavité (F=3000) par rapport au peigne laser au kHz. Enfin, ce couplage est appliqué à la spectroscopie moléculaire. Les spectres mesurés de l'air ambiant, dans des temps d'acquisition d'une seconde, exploitent l'intégralité du spectre du laser, soit 40THz (750 850nm), avec une résolution de 2GHz. La sensibilité en absorption atteint 10−9 /cm après moyenne. Cette haute sensibilité résulte d'une immunité aux bruits de conversion fréquence-Amplitude du couplage Vernier «basse» résolution et permet l'obtention d'un rapport signal sur bruit supérieur à 104. Ces performances conduisent à établir une figure de mérite de 4 × 10−11 cm−1/ √ Hz, plaçant ce résultat au troisième rang de l'état de l'art international / Femtosecond mode-Locked lasers are generators of optical frequency ‘combs’, whose distinct frequencies cover many tens or hundreds of THz. My PhD work has focused on the study and construction of a particular coupling scheme in an optical cavity, named Vernier coupling. Here, the laser comb and the cavity resonances are deliberately mismatched, as a Vernier rule. This creates Moiré pattern in the cavity spectral transmission, with a periodicity related to the inverse of the mismatch. The first part details the theory behind the coupling of laser and optical cavity modes. Two regimes are identified, called “high” resolution Vernier filtering, when the laser comb structure is probed mode by mode, and “low” resolution filtering where the linewidth of one Vernier order is given by the mismatch. The second part describes the experimental realization of this coupling scheme. It details the locking strategy used to control the resonance position of the cavity (F=3000) in regards of the laser comb (kHz scale). Finally, I present spectra recorded with this setup, focusing on molecular spectroscopy. The spectra of ambient air are recorded in acquisition times around 1 s, that cover the full bandwidth of the femtosecond laser ( 40 THz, 750-850 nm), at 2 GHz resolution. The sensitivity of the absorption measurement reaches 10−9 /cm, with averaging. This high sensitivity comes from an immunity to the frequency-To-Amplitude noise conversion of the “low” resolution Vernier coupling, leading to a signal to noise ratio better than 104. These performances give the spectrometer figure of merit of 4×10−11 cm−1/√ Hz, currently taking third place in rank international state of the art ranking

Orientadores: Hugo Enrique Hernández Figueroa, Gustavo Silva Wiederhecker / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T11:40:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MalheirosSilveira_GilliardNardel_D.pdf: 5160562 bytes, checksum: 33058c0e1fc01da7e9a2ea1ab88b0ad4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta tese aborda o emprego de nano-antenas e antenas ópticas com configurações e materiais diversos, envolvendo atividades de modelagem e simulação. Tais propostas visam viabilizar novas soluções para problemas desafiadores de acoplamento, e também, de comunicação, no sentido da tecnologia de comunicações sem-fio entre dispositivos ópticos integrados, incluindo os do tipo plasmônico. Neste sentido, foram avaliadas novas propostas de nano-antenas; com particular ênfase em estruturas baseadas nas chamadas antenas dielétricas ressonantes / Abstract: This thesis addresses the use of nano-antennas and optical antennas with various configurations and materials, involving modeling and simulation activities. Such proposals are intended to enable new solutions to challenging problems of coupling, and also, communication, in the sense of wireless communications between integrated optical devices, including the plasmonic ones. Accordingly, proposals for new nano-antennas were evaluated; with particular emphasis on structures based on the dielectric resonator antennas / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

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<p>The main contributions of this thesis include two points: firstly, we originally establish Complex STM to semi-analytically calculate the mode profiles of multi-layer planar waveguide terminated with both PML and PRB ; secondly, although CMMM has been generally applied to the simulation of waveguide facets, Bragg gratings, etc[52-53], we for the first time demonstrate that CMMM can also be utilized for the modeling of couplings of radiation field outgoing perpendicularly to the waveguide axis with an incident wave launched in the examples of high-index-contrast waveguide crossings and corners. CMMM is proved to be able to estimate the field profiles and power flows accurately through the validation with FDTD.</p> / <p>Optical waveguides are basic building blocks of high-density photonic integrated circuits and play crucial roles in optical access networks, biomedical system, sensors and so on. Various kinds of dielectric waveguides apply the total internal reflection condition to transmit optical field [9] and even more complicated structures based on waveguide interconnects, Bragg grating, photonic crystals are actively developed by corporations and academic institutes. Especially, the fast developing pace of Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD), Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and other fabrication techniques has predicted the increasing complication and thus more advanced function of modern optics integrated circuits. Under such circumstances, convenient and accurate modeling and simulation schemes are necessary for the exploration, designing and optimization of photonic devices, systems and networks before the time-consuming and expensive fabrication process.</p> <p>The thesis summarizes several frequency-domain modeling schemes for the calculation of mode profile or beam propagation in 2D dielectric waveguide. The thesis mainly covers conventional Smooth Transition Method (STM), High Order Finite Difference (HOFD) scheme, Complex STM, and Complex Mode Matching Method (CMMM) based on the 2D waveguide model terminated with Perfect Matching Layer (PML) and Perfect Reflection Boundary (PRB). The mode spectrums and modal patterns obtained from Complex STM are compared with those of HOFD, and the simulation of waveguide crossings and corners with CMMM is validated with Finite-Difference-Time-Domain (FDTD) Method.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

Dans cette thèse, nous décrivons une approche jusqu’à maintenant inexplorée dans le développement des interféromètres atomiques; la rétroaction des états atomiques au cours de leur évolution. Le long de cet objectif, nous présentons des nouvelles techniques expérimentales, comme la condensation de Bose-Einstein tout-optique d’atomes de rubidium-87 à l’aide d’une cavité optique, une nouvelle technique de stabilisation de laser décalage de fréquence serrodyne et le développement de la spectroscopie par modulation de fréquence comme un outil non-destructif pour mesurer des différences de population atomique. Cette détection non destructive est combinée à la rétroaction, soit directement sur les atomes avec un rayonnement micro-onde soit sur l’oscillateur à micro-ondes. De cette manière, nous montrons que les états quantiques atomiques peuvent être protégés contre la décohérence d’un bruit collectif. Grâce à cette méthode, nous développons des protocoles de rétroaction dédiés pour améliorer les interféromètres atomiques, et démontrons expérimentalement l’un d’entre eux dans le cas d’une horloge atomique. Nous montrons que le temps d’interrogation dans les interféromètres atomiques peut être prolongé, ce qui est prometteur pour augmenter la sensibilité des senseurs atomiques. / In this thesis, we describe an until now unexplored approach in the operation of atomic interferometers; the feedback control of the atomic states during their evolution. Towards this goal, we present several novel experimental techniques, such as the all-optical Bose-Einstein condensation of rubidium-87 in a cavity enhanced dipole trap, a new laser stabilization technique based on serrodyne frequency shifting and the development of frequency modulation spectroscopy as a minimal destructive tool for the measurement of atomic population differences. This nondestructive detection is combined with feedback, either directly on the atoms with microwave radiation or on the microwave oscillator. In this way, we show that atomic quantum states can be protected against decoherence from collective noise. We develop dedicated feedback protocols to use this method to improve atomic interferometers, and experimentally demonstrate one such protocol in an atomic clock. We show that the interrogation time in atomic interferometers can be prolonged, which holds promise for increasing the sensitivity of atomic sensors.

In this thesis we investigate advanced techniques for the readout and control of various interferometers. In particular, we present experimental investigations of interferometer configurations and control techniques to be used in second generation interferometric gravitational wave detectors. We also present a new technique, tilt locking, for the readout and control of optical interferometers. ¶ We report the first experimental demonstration of a Sagnac interferometer with resonant sideband extraction (RSE). We measure the frequency response to modulation of the length of the arms and demonstrate an increase in signal bandwidth of by a factor of 6.5 compared to the Sagnac with arm cavities only. We compare Sagnac interferometers based on optical cavities with cavity-based Michelson interferometers and find that the Sagnac configuration has little overall advantage in a cavity-based system. ¶ A system for the control and signal extraction of a power recycled Michelson interferometer with RSE is presented. This control system employs a frontal modulation scheme requiring a phase modulated carrier field and a phase modulated subcarrier field. The system is capable of locking all 5 length degrees of freedom and allows the signal cavity to be detuned over the entire range of possibilities, in principle, whilst maintaining lock. We analytically investigate the modulation/demodulation techniques used to obtain these error signals, presenting an introductory explanation of single sideband modulation/demodulation and double demodulation. ¶ This control system is implemented on a benchtop prototype interferometer. We discuss technical problems associated with production of the input beam modulation components and present several solutions. Operation of the interferometer is demonstrated for a wide range of detunings. The frequency response of the interferometer is measured for various detuned points and we observe good agreement with theoretical predictions. The ability of the control system to maintain lock as the interferometer is detuned is experimentally demonstrated. ¶ Tilt locking, a new technique to obtain an error signal to lock a laser to an optical cavity, is presented. This technique produces an error signal by efficient measurement of the interference between the TEM00 and TEM10 modes. We perform experimental and theoretical comparisons with the widely used Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique. We derive the quantum noise limit to the sensitivity of a measurement of the beam position, and using this result calculate the shot noise limited sensitivity of tilt locking. We show that tilt locking has a quantum efficiency of 80%, compared to 82% for the PDH technique. We present experimental demonstrations of tilt locking in several applications including frequency stabilisation, continuous-wave second harmonic generation, and injection locking of a Nd:YAG slab laser. In each of these cases, we demonstrate that the performance of tilt locking is not the limiting factor of the lock stability, and show that it achieves similar performance to the PDH based system. ¶ Finally, we discuss how tilt locking can be effectively applied to two beam interferometers. We show experimentally how a two beam interferometer typically gives excellent isolation against errors arising from changes in the photodetector position, and experimentally demonstrate the use of tilt locking as a signal readout system for a Sagnac interferometer.

The topic of this thesis is the theoretical analysis of theoptomechanical coupling effects in a high-finesse optical cavity, and the experimental realization of such a device.Radiation pressure exerted by light limits the sensitivity of high precision optical measurements. In particular, the sensitivity of interferometric measurements of gravitational wave is limited by the so called standard quantum limit. cavity with a movable mirror. The internal field stored in such cavity can be orders of magnitude greater than the input field, and it's radiation pressure force can change the physical length of the cavity. In turn, any change in the mirror's position changes the phase of the out put field. This optomechanical coupling leads to an intensity-dependent phase shift for thelight equivalent to an optical Kerr effect. Such a device can then be used for squeezing generation or quantum nondemolition measurements.In our experiment, we send a laser beam in to a high-finesse optical cavity with a movable mirror coated on a high Q-factor mechanical resonator. Quantum effects of radiation pressure become therefore, at low temperature, experimentally observable. However, we've shown that the phase of the reflected field is very sensitive to small mirror displacements, which indicate other possible applications of thistype of device like high precision displacements measurements. We've been able to observe the Brownian motion of the moving mirror. We've also used an auxiliary intensity modulated laser beam to optically excite the acoustic modes. We've finally obtained a sensitivity of2x10^(-19) m/sqrt(Hz), in agreement with theoretical prediction.

Un siècle après leur prédiction par Albert Einstein, le 14 septembre 2015 des ondes gravitationnelles provenant de la coalescence de deux trous noirs ont été observées, ouvrant ainsi le champ à une toute nouvelle astronomie et une nouvelle manière d'étudier la gravitation. La faible amplitude des ondes gravitationnelles nécessite des détecteurs spécifiques et très sensibles. Advanced Virgo est un interféromètre kilométrique de deuxième génération dédié à la détection des ondes gravitationnelles. Un des éléments nécessaires pour atteindre la sensibilité requise est le système optique de filtrage appelé l’Output Mode Cleaner ou OMC, placé en sortie de l'interféromètre, et composé de deux cavités optiques. Ce manuscrit présente l'étude et la caractérisation de ce système optique de filtrage. Ce travail a permis de sélectionner les deux cavités actuellement installées dans le détecteur Advanced Virgo. Les performances de filtrage et l’impact de l’OMC sur la sensibilité du détecteur sont également décrits. / About 100 years after their prediction by Albert Einstein gravitational waves produced by the coalescence of two black holes were observed on the 14th of September 2015, opening the field of gravitational wave astronomy and a new way to study gravitation. The small amplitude of gravitational waves requires specific and very sensitive detectors. Advanced Virgo is a second generation kilometric interferometer dedicated to the detection of gravitational waves. A necessary element to reach the required sensitivity is the filtering optical system named the Output Mode Cleaner or OMC, placed at the output of the interferometer, and composed of two optical cavities. This thesis shows the study and characterization of this optical system. This work informed the selection of the two optical cavities actually installed in the Advanced Virgo detector. The filtering performances and impact of the OMC on the detector sensitivity are also described.