Lampo, Aniello (Date of defense: 2018-10-02)
Quantum Brownian motion represents a paradigmatic model of open quantum system, namely a system which cannot be treated as an isolated one, because of the unavoidable interaction with the surrounding ...
O'Donnell, Callum Francis (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)
High-repetition-rate femtosecond laser sources are essential laboratory tools for spectroscopy, microscopy, amongst other applications. With the relative length of one femtosecond to one second being ...
Badioli, Michela (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Since its discovery in 2004, graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has attracted huge interest from the scientific community due to its extraordinary electronic, ...
Sánchez Bautista, Enrique (Date of defense: 2015-11-26)
High-power, stable, high-repetition-rate, picosecond ultraviolet (UV) sources are of crucial importance for a variety of applications, such as atmospheric sensing, spectroscopy or optical data storage. ...
Esser, Gregor (Date of defense: 2012-06-25)
Derivation of analytical refraction, propagation and reflection equations for Higher Order Aberrations of wavefronts From literature the analytical calculation of Lower Order Aberrations (LOA) of a ...
Steinlechner, Fabian (Date of defense: 2015-12-14)
The nonlocal correlations of entangled systems are a feature inherent to quantum theory that is fundamentally at odds with our common-sense notions of realism and locality. Additionally, entanglement ...
Anzuola Valencia, Esdras (Date of defense: 2015-06-15)
In the last years free-space optical communications systems for wireless links have been proposed, studied, and implemented mainly due to the higher bandwidth that this technology is able to provide. ...
Obiso, Vincenzo (Date of defense: 2018-03-07)
In this thesis an assessment of the parameterization of the Aerosol-Radiation Interaction (ARI) in online integrated meteorology-chemistry models has been conducted. The model estimates of ARI radiative ...
Rosales Guzmán, Carmelo G. (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)
Structured light beams, this is, beams whose phase changes from point to point in the transverse plane, provides with an alternative tool to search for new applications, or simply to expand the ...
Gündoğan, Mustafa (Date of defense: 2015-10-22)
Optical quantum memories (QMs) are one of the fundamental building blocks in quantum information science (QIS). They might find important use in quantum communication and computation applications. Rare-earth ...