Manzoni, Marco Tommaso (Date of defense: 2017-10-19)
Photons travelling through free space do not interact with each other. This characteristic makes them perfect candidates to carry quantum information over long distances. On the other hand, processing ...
Neumeier, Lukas (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
In everyday life the impact of light on the motion of mechanical objects is negligible. However, modern experiments making use of high quality optical resonators are able to observe significant effects ...
Andreoli, Francesco (Date of defense: 2023-03-23)
(English) Our ability to confine, guide, and bend light has led to astonishing technological achievements, playing a fundamental role in diverse fields like microscopy, photochemistry, telecommunications ...