Sanz Paz, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
Photonic antennas are metallic (or dielectric) nanoscale structures that convert propagating light into highly confined fields, and vice versa, in analogy to common radio antennas but on nanometric ...
Negash, Awoke (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
The resolution of a conventional fluorescence microscope image is diffraction limited which achieves a spatial resolution of 200nm lateral and 500nm axial. Recently, many superresolution fluorescence ...
Coop, Simon (Date of defense: 2018-09-06)
This thesis reports on theory and results from two experiments related to nonlinear behaviour in ensembles of optically-trapped ultracold atoms. The first experiment, performed at ICFO in Barcelona, ...
Buades, Bárbara (Date of defense: 2018-07-31)
Attoscience aims to study electron dynamics in matter with unprecedented temporal resolution by using the shortest pulses generated on Earth. Currently, such resolution is only provided by sources that ...
Valdés Escobar, Claudia Patricia (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)
Blood flow and its regulation, as well as hemodynamics in general, are important for the health of tissues and hence the measurement of these quantities has many applications in research and clinical ...
Rojo Badenas, Pilar (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)
This thesis proposes a method to evaluate and quantify in a precise way the peripheral refraction induced by an ophthalmic lens. The motivation for this work stems from the progression of myopia and its ...
Neumeier, Lukas (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
In everyday life the impact of light on the motion of mechanical objects is negligible. However, modern experiments making use of high quality optical resonators are able to observe significant effects ...
Wei, Junxiong (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
The goal of this thesis has been the development of a new class of advanced solid-state photonic sources for the mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral regions, where there exists a severe shortage of practical ...
Morell Bennasser, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2018-12-17)
Suspended monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) aremembranes that combine ultralow mass and exceptional optical prop-erties, making them intriguing materials for opto-mechanical applica-tions. ...
Tura i Brugués, Jordi (Date of defense: 2015-07-20)
Entanglement and nonlocal correlations constitute two fundamental resources for quantum information processing, as they allow for novel tasks that are otherwise impossible in a classical scenario. ...