Maring, Nicolas (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
The ability to control the optical frequency of quantum state carriers (i.e. photons) is an important functionality for future quantum networks. It allows all matter quantum systems - nodes of the network ...
Rieländer, Daniel (Date of defense: 2016-11-24)
This PhD thesis is in the scope of experimental quantum communication. It deals with correlated photon pairs of which one photon is stored in a solid state device, while the other photon is at telecom ...
Seri, Alessando (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
Quantum memories (QMs) for light represent a fundamental ingredient for the development of a quantum internet. Among other applications, they are a building block for the distribution of entanglement ...
Kutluer, Kutlu (Date of defense: 2017-10-23)
A photonic quantum memory (QM) is a device that has the capability of storing a quantum state of light and retrieving back after a controlled time. It is an important element in quantum information ...
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 ...
Padrón Brito, María Auxiliadora (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)
Photons are good candidates for carrying quantum information because they are very stable particles: they interact weakly with the medium and barely with each other. However, this has drawbacks when ...
Distante, Emanuele (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)
Nonlinear optics at the single-photon level enables deterministic photonphoton interaction, a long-standing goal in quantum photonics science. Besides its implication in fundamental aspects of physics, ...
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 ...
Gündoğan, Mustafa (Date of defense: 2015-10-22)
Optical quantum memories (QMs) are one of the fundamental building blocks in quantum information science (QIS). They might find important use in quantum communication and computation applications. Rare-earth ...
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 ...