Kevin Vynck

TL;DR: The theory and applications of optical micro and nanoresonators are presented from the underlying concept of their natural resonances, the so-called quasi-normal modes (QNMs), the latter are the basic constituents governing the response of resonators as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Nanophotonics aims to find reliable solutions to enhance the absorption of light in thin films, and engineering the absorbing material at the nanoscale indeed leads to interferences that can significantly increase light absorption.

TL;DR: This structure is found to exhibit a true left-handed behavior, confirming previous experiments and a scaling analysis shows that this effect holds at optical frequencies and can be obtained by using rods made, for example, of silicon.

TL;DR: The theory and applications of optical micro and nanoresonators are presented from the underlying concept of their natural resonances, the so-called quasi-normal modes (QNMs), the latter are the basic constituents governing the response of resonators as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The possibility to engineer the confinement and the mutual interaction of modes in a two-dimensional disordered photonic structure is experimentally demonstrated and selectively control the detuning between overlapping localized modes and observe both frequency crossing and anti-crossing behaviours, paving the way for the creation of open transmission channels in strongly scattering media.