Yao, Can (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)
Disordered media with refractive index variations can be found in the atmosphere, the ocean, and in many materials or biological tissues. Several technologies that make use of such random media, as image ...
Grün, Alexander (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)
In this thesis I investigate two methods for generating ultrashort laser pulses in spectral regions which are ordinarily difficult to achieve by the existing techniques. These pulses are specially ...
Mariano Juste, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
Considering that the most abundant renewable energy source is the Sun, photovoltaic technology possesses one of the highest potentials to provide environmental benign and sustainable energy worldwide. ...
Sainz, Ana Belén (Date of defense: 2014-02-10)
In the past century, experimental discoveries have witnessed phenomena in Nature which challenge our everyday classical intuition. In order to explain these facts, quantum theory was developed, which ...
Huwer, Jan Henning (Date of defense: 2014-01-29)
One promising approach for future quantum networks is the combination of strings of trapped ions as quantum-information processors with entangled photon pairs produced by spontaneous parametric down ...
Grass, Tobias (Date of defense: 2013-04-23)
The present thesis studies a variety of cold atomic systems in artificial gauge fields. In the first part we focus on fractional quantum Hall effects, asking whether interesting topological states can ...
Gallego López, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2013-02-22)
The device-independent formalism is a set of tools to analyze experimental data and infer properties about systems, while avoiding almost any assumption about the functioning of devices. It has found ...
Jofre Cruanyes, Marc (Date of defense: 2013-04-15)
An important issue in today's information society is the security of data transmission against potential intruders, which always put at risk the confidentiality. Current methods to increase security ...
León Montiel, Roberto de Jesús (Date of defense: 2014-09-30)
For many years, the fields of quantum optics and biology have rarely shared a common path. In quantum optics, most of the concepts and techniques developed over the years stand for systems where only a ...
Agarwal, Hitesh (Date of defense: 2023-01-23)
(English) Despite the extensive research in the semiconductor industry, Moore’s law is finally slowing down due to increased complexity. Hence, intense efforts are being carried out to explore hybrid ...