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Philippe Lalanne

Philippe Lalanne

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Engineering and Technology
France
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
77
Citations
23729
World Ranking
648
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2010 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2008 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the theory of periodic and non periodic structures, including subwavelength diffractive optics, photonic crystal microcavities and metallic nanostructures.

Overview

Philippe Lalanne is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and specializes in research intersecting physics, astronomy, and engineering. Their scholarly activity encompasses extensive work in atomic and molecular physics, optics, and electrical and electronic engineering, with a focus on biomedical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their research topics cover a range of photonics fields, including photonic and optical devices, photonic crystals and their applications, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, mechanical and optical resonators, orbital angular momentum in optics, and gyrotron and vacuum electronics research.

Recent publications by Philippe Lalanne showcase contributions to both theoretical and applied photonics, with notable papers including:

  • "RETICOLO software for grating analysis," 2021, published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "Nanoscale Light Confinement: the Q's and V's," 2021, published in ACS Photonics
  • "Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces," 2024, published in Applied Physics Letters
  • "Normalization, orthogonality, and completeness of quasinormal modes of open systems: the case of electromagnetism [Invited]," 2022, published in Optics Express
  • "The visual appearances of disordered optical metasurfaces," 2022, published in Nature Materials

Philippe Lalanne collaborates frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Tong Wu (21 co-authored publications)
  • Kévin Vynck (18 co-authored publications)
  • Carsten Rockstuhl (6 co-authored publications)
  • Mark L. Brongersma (6 co-authored publications)
  • Adrian Agreda (5 co-authored publications)

The main venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 14 publications
  • ACS Photonics with 8 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 7 publications
  • Photoniques with 5 publications
  • Optica with 3 publications

Regarding recognition, Philippe Lalanne has received distinctions such as being named an SPIE Fellow in 2010 and an OSA Fellow in 2008, the latter awarded for contributions to the theory of periodic and non-periodic structures. These contributions include research on subwavelength diffractive optics, photonic crystal microcavities, and metallic nanostructures.

Best Publications

  • Highly improved convergence of the coupled-wave method for TM polarization

    Philippe Lalanne;G. Michael Morris

  • A highly efficient single-photon source based on a quantum dot in a photonic nanowire

    Julien Claudon;Joël Bleuse;Nitin Singh Malik;Maela Bazin

  • Microscopic theory of the extraordinary optical transmission

    Haitao Liu;Philippe Lalanne

  • Theory of the spontaneous optical emission of nanosize photonic and plasmon resonators.

    Christophe Sauvan;Jean-Paul Hugonin;Ivan Maksymov;Philippe Lalanne

  • Negative role of surface plasmons in the transmission of metallic gratings with very narrow slits

    Qing Cao;Philippe Lalanne

  • Light Interaction with Photonic and Plasmonic Resonances

    Philippe Lalanne;Wei Yan;Kevin Vynck;Christophe Sauvan

  • Metalenses at visible wavelengths: past, present, perspectives

    Philippe Lalanne;Pierre Chavel;Pierre Chavel

  • Use of grating theories in integrated optics.

    Eric Silberstein;Philippe Lalanne;Jean-Paul Hugonin;Qing Cao

  • Interaction between optical nano-objects at metallo-dielectric interfaces

    Philippe Lalanne;Jean Paul Hugonin

  • Optimization of sensitivity in Long Period Fiber Gratings with overlay deposition.

    Ignacio Del Villar;Ignacio R. Matías;Francisco J. Arregui;Philippe Lalanne

  • Theory of Surface Plasmon Generation at Nanoslit Apertures

    P. Lalanne;J. P. Hugonin;J. C. Rodier

  • Blazed binary subwavelength gratings with efficiencies larger than those of conventional échelette gratings

    Philippe Lalanne;Simion Astilean;Pierre Chavel;Edmond Cambril

  • Design and fabrication of blazed binary diffractive elements with sampling periods smaller than the structural cutoff

    Philippe Lalanne;Simion Astilean;Pierre Chavel;Edmond Cambril

  • On the effective medium theory of subwavelength periodic structures

    Philippe Lalanne;Dominique Lemercier-lalanne

  • Antireflection behavior of silicon subwavelength periodic structures for visible light

    Philippe Lalanne;G Michael Morris

  • Perfectly matched layers as nonlinear coordinate transforms: a generalized formalization

    Jean Paul Hugonin;Philippe Lalanne

  • Solid-state single photon sources: the nanowire antenna

    Inbal Friedler;Christophe Sauvan;Jean-Paul Hugonin;Philippe Lalanne

  • Inhibition, enhancement and control of spontaneous emission in photonic nanowires

    Joël Bleuse;Julien Claudon;Megan Creasey;Nitin. S. Malik

  • Improved formulation of the coupled-wave method for two-dimensional gratings

    Philippe Lalanne

  • Rigorous modal analysis of plasmonic nanoresonators

    Wei Yan;Rémi Faggiani;Philippe Lalanne

  • Efficient and intuitive method for the analysis of light scattering by a resonant nanostructure

    Qiang Bai;Mathias Perrin;Christophe Sauvan;Jean-Paul Hugonin

  • Photon confinement in photonic crystal nanocavities

    Philippe Lalanne;Christophe Sauvan;Jean Paul Hugonin

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabelle Sagnes
Isabelle Sagnes Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Thomas F. Krauss
Thomas F. Krauss University of York
Stéphane Collin
Stéphane Collin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Carsten Rockstuhl
Carsten Rockstuhl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jean-Michel Gérard
Jean-Michel Gérard Grenoble Alpes University
Graham T. Reed
Graham T. Reed University of Southampton
Otto L. Muskens
Otto L. Muskens University of Southampton
David J. Thomson
David J. Thomson University of Southampton
Jean-Luc Pelouard
Jean-Luc Pelouard University of Paris-Saclay
Goran Z. Mashanovich
Goran Z. Mashanovich University of Southampton

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