Ramírez Pérez, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-06-09)
There is a growing concern for protection and conservation of coastal ecosystems, which require a proper understanding of ecosystem dynamics and the ability to detect and predict changes in the ecosystem ...
Wolfgramm, Florian (Date of defense: 2012-06-29)
The use of light, especially of laser light, is in many cases the most sensitive way to perform measurements. However, the highest sensitivity that can be achieved with laser light as probe is bounded ...
Napolitano, Mario (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
In this manuscript we present an experimental and theoretical investigation of quantum-noise-limited measurement by nonlinear interferometry, or from another perspective, quantum-noise-limited ...
Valadés Cruz, César Augusto (Date of defense: 2014-07-12)
While super-resolution microscopy has brought a significant improvement in nano-scale imaging of molecular assemblies in biological media, its extension to imaging molecular orientation using fluorescence ...
Ebling, Ulrich (Date of defense: 2014-11-03)
Ultracold atomic gases have established themselves as quantum systems, which are clean and offer a high degree of control over crucial parameters. They are well isolated from their environment and thus ...
Marro Sánchez, Mònica (Date of defense: 2013-07-12)
Since its discovery in 1928, Raman spectroscopy (RS) has produced a revolution in the fields of analytical chemistry and molecular detection. Thanks to the latest technical advances, the expectations ...
Pastorelli, Francesco (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
In this century some of our main issues are energy shortage and pollution. This work will briefly describe these problems, proposing a plan of action combining energy saving and different sustainable ...
Maigyte, Lina (Date of defense: 2014-07-01)
The research developed in the framework of this PhD thesis is a theoretical, numerical and experimental study of light beam shaping (spatial filtering, beam collimation and focusing) in the visible ...
Vidas, Luciana (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
The physics of transition-metal oxides presents a challenge to our current understanding of condensed matter physics. The main difficulty arises from a competition between electron-electron and ...
Gieseler, Jan (Date of defense: 2014-02-03)
Nanotechnology was named one of the key enabling technologies by the European Commission and its tremendous impact was envisioned early by 20th century physicist R.Feynman in his now oft-quoted talk ...