Taminiau, Tim Hugo (Date of defense: 2011-11-22)
The interaction of light with matter is a central topic in both fundamental science and applied technology. At the heart of this interaction lies the absorption or emission of a photon by an electronic ...
Chaitanya Kumar, Suddapalli (Date of defense: 2012-01-18)
High-power, continuous-wave (cw), mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser sources are of interest for variety of applications such as trace gas detection and remote sensing, which require broad spectral coverage ...
Cousin, Seth Lucien (Date of defense: 2016-09-12)
Attosecond science investigates the realm of processes that happen in fleetingly short passages of time. One attosecond to one second, is what one second is to the age of the universe! Advances in lasers ...
Akgul, M. Zafer (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
Due to the continuously increasing energy demand and the environmental concerns about climate changes raised by international community, alternative energy resources have been put under intense investigation ...
Elu Etxano, Ugaitz (Date of defense: 2022-05-03)
In the last decades, intense carrier-envelope-phase-stable (CEP-stable) and near-single-cycle, coherent mid-infrared sources have become charming for a variety of applications in physics, chemistry and ...
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 ...
Yudistira, Didit (Date of defense: 2012-02-21)
In this thesis we have investigated and proposed acoustic superLattices (ASLs) made of periodically poled ZX-cut lithium niobate (PPLN) associated ith coplanar electrodes as an effective alternative for ...
Hesp, Niels Caspar Herman (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)
Nano-optics studies the behaviour of light on the nanoscale. In particular, it probes the interaction of light with objects, often of nanometre-size, and reveals fine details of the material's optical ...
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 ...
Máttar Flores, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-10-17)
According to recent estimates, 10^18 bytes of data are generated on a daily basis around the globe. Our information society urges for radical solutions to treat such data deluge. By exploiting fundamental ...