Benjamin Vest

Dr. Benjamin Vest

Maître de Conférences en Optique & Photonique

Plasmonique et Nanophotonique Quantique

benjamin.vest@institutoptique.fr
Tel : +33 6 45 15 55 63
ORCID: 0000-0003-3640-4560

 

Short Bio

Benjamin (Benji) Vest is Assistant Professor of Light Sciences at the Institute of Optics (Institut d’Optique) in Palaiseau, France, south of Paris. His research focus includes experiments investigating collective effects due to interactions between emitters, regimes of light-matter interactions between a single emitter and a nanostructure, and quantum plasmonics.

Before getting a permanent position in France Benjamin (Benji) Vest joined the Atwater reserach group  at Caltech in November 2017 as a Postdoctoral Scholar. His research interests lie in the understanding of light-matter interactions at the nanoscale and in the quantum regime. As an experimentalist at Caltech, he worked on two different topics: quantum emission from defects in multilayers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and quantum plasmonics.

Before coming to Caltech, Benji graduated from the Institut d’Optique in Palaiseau (France) with a M.Sc. in Optical Engineering. He later received his PhD from Ecole Polytechnique in 2015. His dissertation involved the theoretical and experimental study of non-linear processes (namely two-photon absorption) in nanostructured devices for infrared light detection. Thereafter, he became a Postdoctoral Scholar in the group of Jean-Jacques Greffet at Institut d’Optique (France).

Aside from physics, Benji loves narratives, and is a dedicated story-listener, whether they are found in movies, literature, theatre, boardgames or table-top roleplaying games. In his free time, he also likes hiking, running and biking. Finally, as an authentic French citizen, Benji enjoys great food, and in particular cheese with a nice bottle of wine.

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Recherche

Publications

 

  1. « Silicon sub-bandgap photon linear detection in two-photon experiments: A photo-assisted Shockley-Read-Hall mechanism. » B. Vest, E. Lucas, J. Jaeck, R. Haïdar, E. Rosencher, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 031105 (2013). doi.org/10.1063/1.4788705

  2. « Resonant metallic nanostructure for enhanced two-photon absorption in a thin GaAs p-i-n diode. » B. Portier, B. Vest, F. Pardo, N. Péré-Laperne, E. Steveler, J. Jaeck, C. Dupuis, N. Bardou, A. Lemaître, E. Rosencher, R. Haïdar, and J.-L. Pelouar , Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 011108 (2014). doi.org/10.1063/1.4887375

  3. « Competition between sub-bandgap linear detection and degenerate two-photon absorption in gallium arsenide photodiodes. » B. Vest, B. Fix, J. Jaeck, R. Haïdar, J. Eur. Opt. Soc. 12, 10–14 (2016). doi.org/10.1186/s41476-016-0022-8

  4. « High-quality-factor double Fabry–Perot plasmonic nanoresonator. » B. Fix, J. Jaeck, P. Bouchon, S. Héron, B. Vest, and R. Haïdar , Opt. Lett. 42, 5062 (2017). doi.org/10.1364/OL.42.005062

  5. « Nanostructured diode for infrared photodetection through nondegenerate two-photon absorption. » B. Fix, J. Jaeck, B. Vest, M. Verdun, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, J. L. Pelouard, and R. Haïdar , Appl. Phys. Lett. 111 (2017). doi.org/10.1063/1.4996369

  6. « Anti-coalescence of bosons on a lossy beam splitter. » B. Vest, M.-C. C. Dheur, É. Devaux, A. Baron, E. Rousseau, J.-P. P. Hugonin, J.-J. J. Greffet, G. Messin, and F. Marquier, Science (80-. ). 356, 1373–1376 (2017). doi.org/10.1126/science.aam9353

  7. « Remote preparation of single-plasmon states. » M.-C. Dheur, B. Vest, É. Devaux, A. Baron, J.-P. Hugonin, J.-J. Greffet, G. Messin, and F. Marquier, Phys. Rev. B. 96, 045432 (2017). doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.045432

  8. « Plasmonic interferences of two-particle N00N states. » B. Vest, I. Shlesinger, M. Dheur, É. Devaux, J. Greffet, G. Messin, and F. Marquier, , New J. Phys. 20, 053050 (2018). doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aac24f

  9. « Quantum Coherence Preservation in Extremely DIspersive Plasmonic Media. » Y. S. Tokpanov, J. S. Fakonas, B. Vest, H. A. Atwater , Phys. Rev. Applied  12, 044037 (2019). doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.044037

  10. « Strong Coupling of Nanoplatelets and Surface Plasmons on a Gold Surface » I. Shlesinger, H. Monin, J. Moreau, J.-P. Hugonin, M. Dufour, S. Ithurria, B. Vest, J.-J. Greffet , ACS Photonics (2019). doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01133

  11. « General relation between spatial coherence and absorption» D. Tihon, S. Withington, E. Bailly, B. Vest, J.-J. Greffet , Opt. Express 29(1) (2021). 10.1364/OE.405484

  12. «Temperature-dependent Spectral Emission of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Quantum Emitters on Conductive and Dielectric Substrates» H. Akbari, W. H. Lin, B. Vest, P.K. Jha, H.A. Atwater , Physical Review Applied 15 (1), 014036 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.014036

  13. « An incandescent metasurface for quasimonochromatic polarized mid-wave infrared emission modulated beyond 10 MHz» L. Wojszvzyk, A. Nguyen, A.-L. Coutrot, C. Zhang., B. Vest  J.-J. Greffet , ACS Photonics (2021). 10.1038/s41467-021-21752-w

  14. « Electrical generation of visible surface plasmon polariton by a nanopillars antenna array » C. Zhang, J.-P. Hugonin, A.-L. Coutrot,  B. Vest  J.-J. Greffet , APL Photonics 6, 056102 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046013

  15. « Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves » E. Baill, J.-P. Hugonin, B. Vest, J.-J. Greffet, Physical Review Research, 3, L032040 (2021) ; doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032040

  16. «Method to measure the refractive index for photoluminescence modelling» Elise Bailly, Kevin Chevrier, Camilo Perez de la Vega, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Yannick De Wilde, Valentina Krachmalnicoff, Benjamin Vest, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Opt. Mater. Express 12, 2772-2781 (2022) ; https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.461515

  17. «Lifetime-Limited and Tunable Quantum Light Emission in h-BN via Electric Field Modulation »  Hamidreza Akbari, Souvik Biswas, Pankaj Kumar Jha, Joeson Wong, Benjamin Vest, Harry A Atwater, Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 19, 7798–7803 ; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02163

  18. «Controlling light emission by a thermalized ensemble of colloidal quantum dots with a metasurface»  H. Monin, A. Loirette-Pelous, E. De Leo, A. Rossinelli, F. Prins, D. Norris, E. Bailly, J. Hugonin, B. Vest, and J.-J. Greffet , Opt. Express  31, 4851-4861 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.471744 

  19. «Large circular dichroism in the emission from an incandescent metasurface»  Anne Nguyen, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Anne-Lise Coutrot, Enrique Garcia-Caurel, Benjamin Vest, and Jean-Jacques Greffet , Optica  10, 232-238 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.480292

  20. «Plasmon-mediated energy transfer between two systems out of equilibrium»  Camilo R Pérez de la Vega, Elise Bailly, Kévin Chevrier, Benjamin Vest, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Antoine Bard, Alban Gassenq, Clémentine Symonds, Jean-Michel Benoit, Joel Bellessa, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Yannick De Wilde, Valentina Krachmalnicoff, ACS photonics  10, 4  1169-1176 (2023) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01931

  21. «2D Silver-Nanoplatelets Metasurface for Bright Directional Photoluminescence, Designed with the Local Kirchhoff’s Law»   Elise Bailly, Jean-Paul Hugnin, Jean-René Coudevylle, Corentin Dabard, Sandrine Iturria, Benjamin Vest, Jean-Jacques Greffet, ACS Nano 2024, 18, 6, 4903–4910 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01931

 

Apparitions médiatiques

Une histoire de l'intrication quantique.

Vidéo réalisée pour les 80 ans du CNRS
Participation à l'émission de médiation scientifique de France 5 "On n'est pas que des cobayes", avec une petite intervention sur le thème de la réfraction de la lumière.
Intervention sur France Culture dans le cadre de ma participation au concours Ma Thèse en 180 secondes

Les Nouvelles Vagues sur France Culture : "Faire Bref : leurs thèses en 180 secondes"
Finale Paris-Saclay de Ma Thèse en 180 secondes (2014)
Finale nationale de Ma Thèse en 180 secondes

Revue de presse :

Libération : Les neurones du rectum chez le ver : vous avez trois minutes : Lire l’article

Educpros : Ma thèse en 180 secondes : comment les établissements ont entraîné leurs champions : Lire l’article


Le Monde : « Ma thèse en 180 secondes » : le stand up n’est pas réservé aux comédiens : Lire l’article

Les lumières de Benjamin Vest : Article paru dans la Croix
   

Médiation scientifique - Histoire

 

Aux origines de l'Institut d'Optique : la mission scientifique française aux Etats-Unis

Benjamin Vest, Photoniques 126 , pp 37-40 (2024)

Two-photon Interference and the Hong-Ou-Mandel

Effect

 

Benjamin Vest, Lionel Jacubowiez Photoniques 125 , pp 24-28 (2024)