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Alain Dereux is affiliated with the University of Burgundy in France and specializes in engineering, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as biomedical engineering. Their research largely concentrates on photonic and optical devices, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, advanced fiber optic sensors, and semiconductor lasers and optical devices.

Their publication record includes contributions to the following journals and conferences:

  • Optics Express
  • Micro and Nano Engineering
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alain Dereux feature topics in plasmonic sensors and optical waveguides. Notable recent works include:

  • "Ultra-sensitive refractive index sensor using CMOS plasmonic transducers on silicon photonic interferometric platform" (2020, Optics Express)
  • "A long-range plasmonic optical waveguide corner mirror chip" (2020, Micro and Nano Engineering)
  • "Plasmonic-assisted Mach-Zehnder Interferometric photonic sensor using aluminum waveguides" (2020, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics)

Alain Dereux collaborates frequently with several researchers, indicating a network of coauthors involved in related areas:

  • Laurent Markey
  • Jean-Claude Weeber
  • Athanasios Manolis
  • E. Chatzianagnostou
  • George Dabos

The scientist's primary research fields emphasize engineering disciplines with a strong orientation toward development and study of advanced photonic systems and sensor technologies. Subfields highlight detailed work in electrical and electronic engineering as well as biomedical engineering, illustrating a multidisciplinary approach within applied physical sciences.

Best Publications

  • Surface plasmon subwavelength optics

    William L. Barnes;Alain Dereux;Thomas W. Ebbesen

  • Squeezing the Optical Near-Field Zone by Plasmon Coupling of Metallic Nanoparticles

    J. R. Krenn;A. Dereux;J. C. Weeber;E. Bourillot

  • Efficient unidirectional nanoslit couplers for surface plasmons

    F. López-Tejeira;Sergio G. Rodrigo;Luis Martín-Moreno;F. J. García-Vidal

  • Near-field optics theories

    Christian Girard;Alain Dereux

  • Generalized Field Propagator For Electromagnetic Scattering And Light Confinement

    Olivier J. F. Martin;Christian Girard;Alain Dereux

  • Near-field observation of surface plasmon polariton propagation on thin metal stripes

    J.-C. Weeber;J. R. Krenn;A. Dereux;B. Lamprecht

  • Plasmon polaritons of metallic nanowires for controlling submicron propagation of light

    Jean-Claude Weeber;Alain Dereux;Christian Girard;Joachim R. Krenn

  • Gain-assisted propagation in a plasmonic waveguide at telecom wavelength.

    Jonathan Grandidier;Gérard Colas des Francs;Sébastien Massenot;Alexandre Bouhelier

  • Launching and decoupling surface plasmons via micro-gratings

    Eloise Devaux;Thomas W. Ebbesen;Jean-Claude Weeber;Alain Dereux

  • Surface plasmon polaritons on metal cylinders with dielectric core

    Ursula Schröter;Alain Dereux

  • Thermo-optic control of dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide components

    Jacek Gosciniak;Sergey I Bozhevolnyi;Thomas B Andersen;Valentyn S Volkov

  • Surface plasmon interference excited by tightly focused laser beams.

    A. Bouhelier;F. Ignatovich;A. Bruyant;C. Huang

  • Imaging the local density of states of optical corrals.

    C. Chicanne;T. David;R. Quidant;J. C. Weeber

  • Optical near-field distributions of surface plasmon waveguide modes

    Jean-Claude Weeber;Yvon Lacroute;Alain Dereux

  • Near-field characterization of Bragg mirrors engraved in surface plasmon waveguides

    Jean-Claude Weeber;Yvon Lacroute;Alain Dereux;Eloïse Devaux

  • Molecular lifetime changes induced by nanometer scale optical fields.

    Christian Girard;Olivier J. F. Martin;Alain Dereux

  • Dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides: Figures of merit and mode characterization by image and Fourier plane leakage microscopy

    J. Grandidier;S. Massenot;G. Colas des Francs;A. Bouhelier

  • Selective Surface Modification of SiO2−TiO2 Supports with Phosphonic Acids

    P. Hubert Mutin;Vincent Lafond;Aurelian F. Popa;Michel Granier

  • Design, near-field characterization, and modeling of 45° surface-plasmon Bragg mirrors

    M. U. Gonzalez;Jean Claude Weeber;Anne Laure Baudrion;Alain Dereux

  • Iterative scheme for computing exactly the total field propagating in dielectric structures of arbitrary shape

    Olivier J. F. Martin;Alain Dereux;Christian Girard

  • Bend- and splitting loss of dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguides.

    Tobias Holmgaard;Zhuo Chen;Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi;Laurent Markey

  • Silencing and enhancement of second-harmonic generation in optical gap antennas.

    Johann Berthelot;Guillaume Bachelier;Mingxia Song;Padmnabh Rai

  • Dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide-ring resonators

    Tobias Holmgaard;Zhuo Chen;Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi;Laurent Markey

  • Optical analogy to electronic quantum corrals.

    Gérard Colas des Francs;Christian Girard;Jean-Claude Weeber;Cédric Chicane

  • Theoretical principles of near-field optical microscopies and spectroscopies

    Alain Dereux;Christian Girard;Jean-Claude Weeber

  • Wavelength selection by dielectric-loaded plasmonic components

    Tobias Holmgaard;Zhuo Chen;Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi;Laurent Markey

  • Observation of Light Confinement Effects with a Near-Field Optical Microscope.

    Jean-Claude Weeber;Eric Bourillot;Alain Dereux;Jean-Pierre Goudonnet

  • Fluorescence relaxation in the near-field of a mesoscopic metallic particle: distance dependence and role of plasmon modes

    G. Colas des Francs;A. Bouhelier;E. Finot;J. C. Weeber

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikos Pleros
Nikos Pleros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi University of Southern Denmark
Hercules Avramopoulos
Hercules Avramopoulos National Technical University of Athens
Joachim R. Krenn
Joachim R. Krenn University of Graz
Olivier J. F. Martin
Olivier J. F. Martin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Romain Quidant
Romain Quidant ETH Zurich
Emmanouil E. Kriezis
Emmanouil E. Kriezis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Christophe Finot
Christophe Finot University of Burgundy
Thomas W. Ebbesen
Thomas W. Ebbesen University of Strasbourg
Anatoly V. Zayats
Anatoly V. Zayats King's College London

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