Devi, Kavita (Date of defense: 2013-10-24)
High-power, continuous-wave (cw) optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), from the ultraviolet (UV) and visible to the near- and mid-infrared (IR) wavelength range, are of interest for a variety of ...
Prettico, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)
Quantum Information Theory (QIT) studies how information can be processed and transmitted when encoded on quantum states. Practically, it can be understood as the effort to generalize Classical Information ...
Wolfgramm, Florian (Date of defense: 2012-06-29)
The use of light, especially of laser light, is in many cases the most sensitive way to perform measurements. However, the highest sensitivity that can be achieved with laser light as probe is bounded ...
Napolitano, Mario (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
In this manuscript we present an experimental and theoretical investigation of quantum-noise-limited measurement by nonlinear interferometry, or from another perspective, quantum-noise-limited ...
Walasik, Wiktor (Date of defense: 2014-10-13)
In this PhD thesis, we study properties of stationary transverse magnetic polarized waves in structures built of a Kerr-type nonlinear dielectric layer, metal and linear dielectric layers. Although these ...
Acomovic, Srdjan S. (Date of defense: 2012-10-30)
In recent times, metallic nanoparticle plasmonics coupled with applications towards biosensing has gathered momentum to the point where commercial R&D are investing large resources in developing the ...
Valadés Cruz, César Augusto (Date of defense: 2014-07-12)
While super-resolution microscopy has brought a significant improvement in nano-scale imaging of molecular assemblies in biological media, its extension to imaging molecular orientation using fluorescence ...
Ebling, Ulrich (Date of defense: 2014-11-03)
Ultracold atomic gases have established themselves as quantum systems, which are clean and offer a high degree of control over crucial parameters. They are well isolated from their environment and thus ...
Marro Sánchez, Mònica (Date of defense: 2013-07-12)
Since its discovery in 1928, Raman spectroscopy (RS) has produced a revolution in the fields of analytical chemistry and molecular detection. Thanks to the latest technical advances, the expectations ...
Gómez García, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-04-24)
Recent advancements in single-molecule localization-based microscopy have made it possible to visualize biological structures and dynamic processes within the cell with unprecedented spatial resolution. ...