Kumar, Nikhil P. (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Recent advancement in Photonics have brought about a new era of miniaturisation. Along came a need for technology to allow the manipulation of light at the micrometer scale, with precise control over ...
Deshmukh, Chetan (Date of defense: 2022-04-29)
Encoding information into quantum mechanical properties of a system can lead to applications many fields, including computing and communication. Devices that will enable these applications could be part ...
Burgos Fernandez, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
Goniochromatic pigments, such as automotive coatings, are known by their appearance changes - especially of colour and visual texture - as a function of the angles of illumination and observation; they ...
Passaro, Elsa (Date of defense: 2016-05-30)
Quantum information science is a rapidly evolving field both from the theoretical and the experimental viewpoint, motivated by the fact that protocols exploiting quantum resources can perform tasks that ...
Zielińska, Joanna Ada (Date of defense: 2018-03-19)
This thesis studies different designs of optical parametric oscillators as sources of atom-resonant quantum light resonant with the rubidium D1 line.We analyze the mode structure and filtering techniques ...
Piga, Angelo (Date of defense: 2020-03-30)
During the past two decades, thanks to the mutual fertilization of the research in quantum information and condensed matter, new approaches based on purely quantum features without any classical analog ...
Pérez Salinas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
In the recent decades, there has been a surge of interest in the wide array of emergent phenomena found in strongly correlated materials. Understanding the inner workings of this type of systems is a ...
Mukherjee, Samyobrata (Date of defense: 2021-10-05)
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are modes that remain radiationless though they exist in the part of the spectrum that corresponds to radiating waves. They are a general wave phenomenon and following ...
De Vega Esteban, Sandra (Date of defense: 2020-02-17)
Ever since the advent of modern technology, major developments have come hand in hand with miniaturization and speed of operation. A proof of this is provided by the impressive success of Moore's law, ...
Pérez Rosas, Juan Miguel (Date of defense: 2020-07-28)
Early detection of microorganisms in environmental and biomedical applications is critical for the effective response to potential pathogenic treats. Most traditional methods and instrumentation for the ...