Marrugo Hernández, Andrés G. (Andrés Guillermo) (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
Medical digital imaging has become a key element of modern health care procedures. It provides a visual documentation, a permanent record for the patients, and most importantly the ability to extract ...
Quintero Quiroz, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
Optical excitable systems that mimic neuronal behavior have potential to be building-blocks of novel, ultra-fast, neuron-inspired photonic information processing systems. In particular, semiconductor ...
Afa, Iduabo John (Date of defense: 2018-01-24)
Control is important for transferring theoretical scientific knowledge into practical technology for applications in numerous fields. This is why coherent control study is significant on every timescale ...
Geiselmann, Michael Wolfgang (Date of defense: 2014-04-10)
The efficient interaction of photons with single quantum emitters like nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres is essential for the elaboration of future integrated quantum optical devices. A promising strategy ...
Rudé Moreno, Miquel (Date of defense: 2016-12-01)
Photonic devices are key to implement future communication and information technologies. Their success is largely determined by our capability to appropriately control light in such devices, especially ...
Beduini, Federica A. (Date of defense: 2015-11-3)
This thesis analyses the effects of two-photon interference in a polarisation squeezed state under two different points of view: on one hand, it presents a new method to obtain the temporal wavefunction ...
Salazar Serrano, Luis José (Date of defense: 2016-10-13)
Weak Value Amplification (WVA) is a signal enhancement technique proposed in 1988 by Aharonov, Albert, and Vaidman that has been widely used to measure tiny changes that otherwise cannot be determined ...
Kuffer, Dominik (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)
In the last decade, two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted attention both in the nascent field of flexible nanotechnology as well as in more conventional semiconductor technol-ogies. Within the ...
Albrecht, Boris (Date of defense: 2015-12-01)
Optical quantum memories are important devices in quantum information science. In particular, they are building blocks of quantum repeater architectures that have been proposed to increase the range of ...
Ahmed, Waqas Waseem (Date of defense: 2018-04-17)
The quest for new artificial structures and materials uncovers novel new light-matter interactions, and intriguing physical phenomena. Since the late 80’s purely dielectric materials have been structured, ...