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C. Chicanne
Phenomenological Model for Gold-Copper Electrodeposition: Application to Thick Coatings
Pure gold-copper alloys are known to be difficult to electrodeposit because of a strong variation in composition after a few microns have been deposited. Commissariat al’Energie Atomique (CEA) stud...
Characterization of optogeometric parameters of optical fibers by near-field scanning probe microscopies
The combination of atomic-force and scanning-near-field optical microscopies is useful for characterizing the physical and optical parameters of optoelectronic devices. With a commercial atomic-force microscope adapted to perform scanning-near-field optical measurements, we succeed in determining core diameters, localizing the erbium doping zone, and analyzing propagation modes in erbium-doped and multimodal optical fibers.
Ultra-low density metallic foams synthesized by contact glow discharge electrolysis (CGDE) for laser experiments★
International audience; The goal of this work is to realize metallic foams synthesized by contact glow discharge electrolysis with specific characteristics. In this paper, we show the results of our studies, consisting in investigating parameters that influence the foams characteristics. Thus, the morphology of metallic foams is examined through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations with the acid nature. Moreover, the evolution of the mass and the volume of metallic foams with two experimental parameters (overvoltage and gold concentration) is also investigated. The acid nature affects the foams microscopic structure highlighted by the SEM observations, but for now no valid explan…
Germanium Doped CHxMicroshells for LMJ Targets
AbstractAt the CEA Laser “Megajoule” facility, amorphous hydrogenated carbon (a-C:H or CHx) is the nominal ablator used to achieve inertial confinement fusion experiments. These targets are filled with a fusible mixture of deuterium-tritium in order to perform ignition.Since the achievement of ignition greatly depends on the physical properties of the shell, there must be precise control of thicknesses, doping concentration, and roughness. Experimental devices associated with suitable characterizations are described in this paper. The tolerances and yields for each specification are also presented. Some specifications are largely reached; high-frequency surface roughness due to isolated sur…
Subwavelength mapping of surface photonic states
We show that the spectral tailoring of optical local density of states (LDOS) may be achieved by lithographically designed nanostructures and that the subwavelength mapping of the spectral variation of the optical LDOS is feasible by varying the driving frequency of the effective dipole used in an illumination mode scanning near-field optical microscope.
Imaging the Local Density of States of Optical Corrals
International audience; This paper reports the experimental observation, at optical frequencies, of the electromagnetic local density of states established by nanostructures corresponding to the recently introduced concept of optical corral [G. Colas des Francs et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4950 (2001)]. The images obtained by a scanning near-field optical microscope under specific operational conditions are found in agreement with the theoretical maps of the optical local density of states. A clear functionality of detection by the scanning near-field optical microscope is thereby identified since the theoretical maps are computed without including any specific tip model.