Ce travail consiste en l'étude et la mise en oeuvre d'une microscopie optique en champ proche utilisant des nano- antennes annulaires dans le but de distinguer les composantes électriques et magnétiques du champ électromagnétique, détectées au voisinage d'un échantillon. Nous présentons la genèse de la microscopie en champ proche en mettant en avant l'importance des caractéristiques intrinsèques du système d'éclairage employé mais également le rôle primordial du nanocollecteur en interaction avec le champ électromagnétique. Les antennes étant un des enjeux majeurs dans l'art de détecter les champs électromagnétiques, nous donnons ensuite une cartographie des antennes dans différents domaines de fréquences ainsi que leurs applications respectives en champ proche. Puis nous exposons les étapes nécessaires à la fabrication d'une nano-antenne annulaire métallique aux dimensions spécifiques, à l'extrémité d'une fibre optique. La description du système d'éclairage et du montage général de caractérisation nous amène enfin à présenter l'étude d'un nouveau type de sonde que constitue une nano-antenne annulaire usinée à l'extrémité d'un micro-axicon fibré. En exploitant les propriétés d'un faisceau de Bessel polarisé polychromatique, nous accédons aux propriétés de collection de la structure annulaire. Nous mettons en évidence le fait que ces antennes peuvent collecter spécifiquement la composante longitudinale du champ électrique en polarisation radiale ou du champ magnétique en polarisation orthoradiale. L'analyse des propriétés magnétiques et électriques d'échantillons en microscopie optique champ proche s'annoncent, de ce fait, sous un nouveau jour.

What is a plasmon? Is it a particle, like a photon or a wave? Plasmonics stands at the frontier of condensed matter physics, which is the world of electrons, optics and of photons. Plasmonics is one of the most active fields in nanophotonics. This book begins by exploring the concepts behind waves, and the electromagnetic description of light when it interacts with metals; it dedicates every chapter thereafter to all aspects of plasmonics. In particular, the surface plasmon polariton wave is explained in full detail, as well as the localized surface plasmon resonance of metallic nanoparticles. The active research area opened by plasmonics, as well as its applications, are also briefly explained, such as advanced biosensing, subwavelength waveguiding, quantum plasmonics, nanoparticle-based cancer therapies, optical nano-antenna and high-efficiency photovoltaic cells.The book is adapted for graduate students and places a special emphasis on providing complete explanations of the fundamental concepts of plasmonics. Further, each of these concepts is illustrated with examples drawn from the most recent scientific literature. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises that will help the reader revise the concepts and go deeper into the world of plasmonics. More than 70 exercises are included.

Today the cost of solid-state two-dimensional imagers has dramatically dropped, introducing low cost systems on the market suitable for a variety of applications, including both industrial and consumer products. However, these systems can capture only a two-dimensional projection (2D), or intensity map, of the scene under observation, losing a variable of paramount importance, i.e., the arrival time of the impinging photons. Time-Of-Flight (TOF) Range-Imaging (TOF) is an emerging sensor technology able to deliver, at the same time, depth and intensity maps of the scene under observation. Featuring different sensor resolutions, RIM cameras serve a wide community with a lot of applications like monitoring, architecture, life sciences, robotics, etc. This book will bring together experts from the sensor and metrology side in order to collect the state-of-art researchers in these fields working with RIM cameras. All the aspects in the acquisition and processing chain will be addressed, from recent updates concerning the photo-detectors, to the analysis of the calibration techniques, giving also a perspective onto new applications domains.

The International Conference on Diffusion in Materials (DIMAT) is the benchmark conference series for diffusion in solids. DIMAT 2011 was organized by the University of Bourgogne in association with CNRS, Dijon (France). The conference showcased new results concerning theoretical tools as well as applied research approaches. Diffusion processes affect all types of materials: nanomaterials, materials for energy, metallurgy, glasses and ceramics, but each requires its own numerical tools. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). This volume comprises most of the contributions presented at DIMAT 2011: 4 plenary lectures delivered by famous high-level scientists plus 88 contributions in the form of keynote lectures, talks and posters.

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