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    Versatile nonlinear frequency conversion sources in the near- and mid-infrared 

    Sukeert, Sukeert (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)

    Tunable laser sources in different spectral regions are of interest for a variety of applications including spectroscopy, trace gas sensing, medical diagnostics, LIDAR and material processing. Existing lasers have limited ...

    A versatile source of light-matter quantum states based on laser-cooled atoms 

    Farrera Soler, Pau (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)

    Quantum information is a fascinating field that studies situations in which information is encoded as quantum states. This encoding is affected by quantum physical effects (such as superposition or entanglement) and its ...

    Vibrations and energy transfer in molecules enhanced by single nanoantennas 

    Ockova, Jana (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)

    (English) Light is a powerful non invasive tool for probing matter down to its fundamental molecular properties. The past three decades saw advent of metallic nanoantennas engineered to concentrate light into sub diffraction ...

    Weak value amplification : new insights and applications 

    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 because of technical ...

    Whispering gallery microresonator for second harmonic light generation 

    Domínguez Juárez, Jorge Luís (Date of defense: 2014-07-22)

    In recent years, it has been proposed that circular microresonators may become an important element in the core of many photonic devices. The high Q-factors seen in fused silica micro-spheres and micro-toroids for light ...

    Witnessing non-Markovian evolutions 

    De Santis, Dario (Date of defense: 2021-06-22)

    The formulation of quantum physics stands among the most revolutionary theories of the twentieth century. During the first decades of this century, many phenomena concerning the microscopic world were unexplained or had ...