Experimental evidence for the quantum condensation of ultracold dipolar excitons 

    Alloing, Mathieu (Date of defense: 2014-05-28)

    In this thesis, we report experimental evidence of a "gray" condensate of excitons, as predicted theoretically by M. Combescot et al. Most importantly, the condensate is characterized by the macroscopic population of dark ...

    Light generation and manipulation from nonlinear randomly distributed domains in SBN 

    Yao, Can (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)

    Disordered media with refractive index variations can be found in the atmosphere, the ocean, and in many materials or biological tissues. Several technologies that make use of such random media, as image formation, satellite ...

    Quantum control of single spin excitations in cold atomic quantum memories 

    Albrecht, Boris (Date of defense: 2015-12-01)

    Optical quantum memories are important devices in quantum information science. In particular, they are building blocks of quantum repeater architectures that have been proposed to increase the range of quantum communication ...