Polarization conversion spectroscopy of hybrid modes (2009)
Nikitin, A. Yu., Artigas, David, Torner, Lluis, Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
Enhanced polarization conversion in reflection for the Otto and Kretschmann configurations is introduced as a new method for hybrid-mode spectroscopy. Polarization conversion in reflection appears...
Nikitin, A. Yu., Rodrigo, Sergio G., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
Surface electromagnetic modes supported by metal surfaces have a great potential for uses in miniaturised detectors and optical circuits. For many applications these modes are excited locally. In the...
Nikitin, A. Yu., Zueco, D., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
The non-resonant electromagnetic transmission of a normal-incident plane wave through a single hole in a perfect conductor metal slab of finite width is studied. The cases of rectangular and circular...
Brucoli, G., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
The scattering of light and surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) by finite arrays of either holes or dimples in a metal film is treated theoretically. A modal expansion formalism, capable of handling...
Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton Modes Propagating Along Periodically Corrugated Wires (2008)
Fernandez-Dominguez, A. I., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Andrews, Steven R, Maier, S. A.
In this paper, we analyze in detail the characteristics of surface electromagnetic modes that can propagate along a periodically corrugated, perfectly conducting wire. We show how these modes, termed...
Modulation of surface plasmon coupling-in by one-dimensional surface corrugation (2007)
Lopez-Tejeira, F., Rodrigo, Sergio G., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Devaux, E., Dintinger, J., ...
Surface plasmon-polaritons have recently attracted renewed interest in the scientific community for their potential in sub-wavelength optics, light generation and non-destructive sensing. Given that...
Efficient unidirectional nanoslit couplers for surface plasmons (2007)
Lopez-Tejeira, F., Rodrigo, Sergio G., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Devaux, E., Ebbesen, T. W., ...
Plasmonics is based on surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes which can be laterally confined below the diffraction limit, thereby enabling ultracompact optical components. In order to exploit this...
Channel plasmon-polaritons: modal shape, dispersion, and losses (2006)
Moreno, Esteban, Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Rodrigo, Sergio G., Martin-Moreno, L., Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.
We theoretically study channel plasmon-polaritons (CPPs) with a geometry similar to that in recent experiments at telecom wavelengths (Bozhevolnyi et al., Nature 440, 508 (2006)). The CPP modal...
Scattering of surface plasmon polaritons by one-dimensional inhomogeneities (2006)
Nikitin, A. Yu., Lopez-Tejeira, F., Martin-Moreno, L.
The scattering of surface plasmons polaritons by a one-dimensional defect of the surface is theoretically studied, by means of both Rayleigh and modal expansions. The considered defects are either...
Bravo-Abad, J., Fernandez-Dominguez, A. I., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
By using a theoretical formalism able to work in both real and k-spaces, the physical origin of the phenomenon of extraordinary transmission of light through quasi-periodic arrays of holes is...
Scattering of surface plasmons by one-dimensional periodic nanoindented surfaces (2005)
Lopez-Tejeira, F., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
In this work, the scattering of surface plasmons by a finite periodic array of one-dimensional grooves is theoretically analyzed by means of a modal expansion technique. We have found that the...
On the transmission of light through a single rectangular hole (2005)
Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Moreno, E., Porto, J. A., Martin-Moreno, L.
In this Letter we show that a single rectangular hole exhibits transmission resonances that appear near the cutoff wavelength of the hole waveguide. For light polarized with the electric field...
Extraordinary optical transmission without plasmons: the s-polarization case (2005)
Moreno, Esteban, Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J.
It is shown that extraordinary optical transmission through perforated metallic films is possible for s-polarization. Although surface plasmons do not exist for this polarization, their role can be...
Resonant transmission of light through finite chains of subwavelength holes (2004)
Bravo-Abad, J., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
In this paper we show that the extraordinary optical transmission phenomenon found before in 2D hole arrays is already present in a linear chain of subwavelength holes, which can be considered as the...
Theory of Plasmon-Assisted Transmission of Entangled Photons (2004)
Moreno,E., Garcia-Vidal,F. J., Erni,D., Cirac,J. Ignacio, Martin-Moreno,L.
Optical bistability in subwavelength apertures containing nonlinear media (2004)
Porto, J. A., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J.
We develop a self-consistent method to study the optical response of metallic gratings with nonlinear media embedded within their subwavelength slits. An optical Kerr nonlinearity is considered. Due...
Theory of Plasmon-Assisted Transmission of Entangled Photons (2004)
Moreno, E., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Erni, D., Cirac, J. Ignacio, Martin-Moreno, L.
Bravo-Abad, J., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J.
In this work we explore the transmission properties of a single slit in a metallic screen. We analyze the dependence of these properties on both slit width and angle of incident radiation. We study...
Enhanced millimiter wave transmission through subwavelength hole arrays (2003)
Beruete, M., Sorolla, M., Campillo, I., Dolado, J. S., Martin-Moreno, L., Bravo-Abad, J., ...
In this letter we explore, both experimentally and theoretically, the existence in the millimeter wave range of the phenomenon of extraordinary light transmission though arrays of subwavelength...
Bravo-Abad, J., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
In this paper we explore the transmission properties of single subwavelength apertures perforated in thin metallic films flanked by asymmetric configurations of periodic arrays of indentations. It is...
Enhanced transmission and beaming of light via photonic crystal surface modes (2003)
Moreno, Esteban, Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Martin-Moreno, L.
Surface modes are generally believed to be an undesirable feature of finite photonic crystals (PC), unlike point or line defect modes. However, it is possible to make the surface mode radiate by...
Theory of Plasmon-assisted Transmission of Entangled Photons (2003)
Moreno, Esteban, Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Erni, Daniel, Cirac, J. Ignacio, Martin-Moreno, L.
The recent surface plasmon entanglement experiment [E. Altewischer et al., Nature (London) 418, 304 (2002)] is theoretically analyzed. The entanglement preservation upon transmission in the...
Chessboard magnetoconductance of a quantum dot in the Kondo regime (2002)
Tejedor, C., Martin-Moreno, L.
Transport through a quantum dot (QD) in the Kondo regime shows alternating regions of high and low conductance when both an external magnetic field and the gate potential controlling the depth of the...
Theory of extraordinary optical transmission through subwavelength hole arrays (2000)
Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Lezec, H. J., Pellerin, K. M., Thio, T., Pendry, J. B., ...
We present a fully three-dimensional theoretical study of the extraordinary transmission of light through subwavelength hole arrays in optically thick metal films. Good agreement is obtained with...
Canted ground state in artificial molecules at high magnetic fields (2000)
Martin-Moreno, L., Brey, L., Tejedor, C.
We analyze the transitions that a magnetic field provokes in the ground state of an artificial homonuclear diatomic molecule. For that purpose, we have performed numerical diagonalizations for a...
Kondo effect in multielectron quantum dots at high magnetic fields (2000)
Tejedor, C., Martin-Moreno, L.
We present a general description of low temperature transport through a quantum dot with any number of electrons at filling factor $1
Spin-isospin textured excitations in a double layer at filling factor $\nu =2$ (1999)
Paredes, B., Tejedor, C., Brey, L., Martin-Moreno, L.
We study the charged excitations of a double layer at filling factor 2 in the ferromagnetic regime. In a wide range of Zeeman and tunneling splittings we find that the low energy charged excitations...
Self-Assembled Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces as moulds for Photonic Band Gap Materials (1998)
Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., Somoza, A. M.
We propose systems with structures defined by self-assembled triply periodic minimal surfaces (STPMS) as candidates for photonic bandgap materials. To support our proposal we have calculated the...
Skyrmions and edge spin excitations in quantum Hall droplets (1995)
Oaknin, J. H., Martin-Moreno, L., Tejedor, C.
We present an analysis of spin-textures in Quantum Hall droplets, for filling factors $\nu \simeq 1$. Analytical wavefunctions with well defined quantum numbers are given for the low-lying states of...
Low-lying excitations of Quantum Hall Droplets (1994)
Oaknin, J. H., Martin-Moreno, L., Palacios, J. J., Tejedor, C.
We present the adequate circular representation of charge density excitations in Quantum Hall droplets at filling factor 1. A novel set of operators describes magnetoexcitons with well defined both...
Capacitance spectroscopy in quantum dots: Addition spectra and decrease of tunneling rates (1994)
Palacios, J. J., Martin-Moreno, L., Chiappe, G., Louis, E., Tejedor, C.
A theoretical study of single electron capacitance spectroscopy in quantum dots is presented. Exact diagonalizations and the unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation have been used to shed light over...
Correlation Effects on Transport Through Few-Electrons Systems (1993)
Palacios, J. J., Martin-Moreno, L., Tejedor, C.
We study lateral tunneling through a quantum box including electron-electron interactions in the presence of a magnetic field which breaks single particle degeneracies. The conductance at zero...