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Devi, Kavita (Date of defense: 2013-10-24)
High-power, continuous-wave (cw) optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), from the ultraviolet (UV) and visible to the near- and mid-infrared (IR) wavelength range, are of interest for a variety of applications such as ...
Roque Fernández, Pablo Manuel de (Date of defense: 2022-10-18)
(English) Nanophotonics can be defined as the science and technology studying the control optical fields at the nanoscale and their interaction with matter. In order to spatially control such fields we would need structures ...
Neumann, Lars (Date of defense: 2012-04-18)
Un tema central en la ciencia y la tecnología es la exploración y explotación de sistemas cada vez más pequeños por medio de técnicas ópticas. A menudo, la longitud de onda viene dictada por el sistema de interés: los ...
Julià Farré, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-06-28)
The last decades have witnessed impressive technical advances in all the fields of quantum science, including solid-state systems or atomic, molecular, and optical physics, allowing one to control materials at the microscopic ...
Hancu, Ion Michael (Date of defense: 2019-01-18)
The emission and detection of light is a main pillar of both fundamental research and the advancement of modern technologies. From digital communications and quantum computing to novel cancer treatments and faded jeans, ...
So, David (Date of defense: 2016-10-19)
The ubiquity of solar energy conversion technology is an exciting target which we aspire for in this century. Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells are an attractive platform, being low-cost and allowing facile control ...
Gregori Pla, Clara (Date of defense: 2019-03-06)
I have used and developed a practical new platform in the clinics for the noninvasive estimation of cerebral hemodynamics. The latform combines two diffuse optical techniques: near-infrared spectroscopy and diffuse ...
Urrego González, Daniel Fernando (Date of defense: 2023-11-14)
(English) This Ph.D. thesis presents research in imaging and optical sensing, exploring novel concepts, and diverse applications. The experimental schemes put forward here are based on simulating specific aspects of quantum ...
Ortega. M, María A. (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)
Nowadays cancer is a devastating illness, so its early diagnosis could represent a powerful advantage in the struggle to eradicate it. The most recent technologies allowed the development of sensing platforms that led to ...
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 of a quantum network ...
Hussain, Rubaiya (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
The focus of this thesis is on the design, development and validation of two novel photonic sensors for the detection and characterisation of industrial and biological samples. The first one is a PSA in a collimated beam ...
Palombo Blascetta, Nicola (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
The study of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale is a very promising field of research, providing the possibility to manipulate the interaction with single quantum systems like single atoms, molecules, atomic defects ...
Gómez García, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-04-24)
Recent advancements in single-molecule localization-based microscopy have made it possible to visualize biological structures and dynamic processes within the cell with unprecedented spatial resolution. Determining the ...
Nandy, Biplob Kumar (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)
Tunable narrow-linewidth and broadband laser sources in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength range are extremely desirable in all time scales for their several useful applications in spectroscopy, imaging, optical communication ...
Sánchez Peacham, Daniel Alexander (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
The continuous development of laser sources delivering ultra-short light pulses underpins much of the current progress in experimental science, particularly in the domain of physics concerned with strong-field phenomena. ...
Olarte, Omar E. (Date of defense: 2014-03-20)
In the quest for better and faster images of cellular and subcellular structures, biology-oriented optical microscopes have advanced significantly in the last few decades. Novel microscopy techniques such as non-linear ...
Bernardello, Matteo (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)
The observation of biological processes in their native environments is of critical importance for life science. While substantial information can be derived from the examination of in-vitro biological samples, in-vivo ...
Supic, Ivan (Date of defense: 2018-09-19)
The last two decades have been a very fruitful period for the fundamental research related to quantum information theory. Today we have a fairly good understanding of how intrinsically quantum properties affect various ...
Gallego López, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2013-02-22)
The device-independent formalism is a set of tools to analyze experimental data and infer properties about systems, while avoiding almost any assumption about the functioning of devices. It has found applications both in ...
Blanco Núñez, Igor D. (Date of defense: 2015-01-31)
The study of the brain using diffuse optical methods has progressed rapidly in the recent years. The possibility of studying the cerebral microvasculature in addition to the portability and low cost of these devices, opens ...