Institut de Ciències Fotòniques: Recent submissions
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Single quantum emitter manipulation with 2D materials
Photonics aims to manipulate light by controlling its interactions with matter to enable novel optical technologies for communication, information processing and sensing. Current efforts strive to enter the regime of quantum ...
Unravelling motor protein organization on lysosomal membranes with super-resolution microscopy
This thesis first develops new methods for high-throughput and multi-color super-resolution microscopy (Chapters 2 and 3). Subsequently, I apply these methods to study the organization of motor proteins on the lysosome ...
Simulating quantum measurements and quantum correlations
This PhD thesis is focused on the quantum measurement simulability problem, that is, deciding whether a given measurement can be simulated when only a restricted subset of measurements is accessible. We provide an operational ...
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion sources for generation of atom-resonant quantum light
This thesis studies different designs of optical parametric oscillators as sources of atom-resonant quantum light resonant with the rubidium D1 line.We analyze the mode structure and filtering techniques in a conventional ...
Double resonant character in an optical cavity for high performance and stable polymer solar cells
Solution-processed thin film solar cells emerged as very promising photovoltaic technologies suitable for a low cost roll-to-roll upscale production. Such thin film character also ensures lightweight and flexibility for ...
Electron re-collision dynamics in strong mid-IR fields for diffraction imaging of molecular structure and its fragmentation
One of the grand challenges of modern science is to image chemical reactions and biological functions while they are taking place. To realize these molecular movie, experimental techniques need to resolve the relevant ...
Novel methods for plasmonic nanoparticles imaging inside cells using dark-field microscopy
The potential impact of noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) in diverse fields, particularly medicine, is tremendous. However, before NPs can be routinely used in clinical practices, it is fundamental to comprehensively study ...
Coherent sensing of magnetic waveforms with spin-squeezed atoms
Optical magnetometers use magnetically-sensitive atomic ensembles and optical read-out to detect the amplitude of magnetic fields. They have become the most sensitive instruments for measuring low-frequency magnetic fields ...
Nanophotonic antennas for enhanced single-molecule fluorescence detection and nanospectroscopy in living cells membranes
Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy has revolutionized the field of biophysical sciences by enabling visualization of dynamic molecular interactions and nanoscopic features with high spatiotemporal resolution. ...
Superresolution fluorescence microscopy with structured illumination
The resolution of a conventional fluorescence microscope image is diffraction limited which achieves a spatial resolution of 200nm lateral and 500nm axial. Recently, many superresolution fluorescence microscopy techniques ...
Quantum memory protocols for photonic solid-state devices
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 science and is, among ...
Quantum information with black boxes : lifting protocols from theory to implementation
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 key elements of ...
New systems for quantum nonlinear optics
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 the information they ...
Strong-field processes in atoms and polyatomic molecules
In this thesis, we develop a general theory to describe the dynamics of electrons that are ionized when an atom or molecule is exposed to a strong low frequency laser field. Our approach extends and improves the well-established ...
Nanophotonics of ultrathin films and 2D periodic structures: a combined experimental and theoretical study
Photonics is a key enabling technology for many applications ranging from communications to energy and medicine. Its success is largely relying on our capability to appropriately control light in optical devices. To this ...
Cavity optomechanics with optically trapped particles
Optical trapping and manipulation have emerged as powerful tools to investigate single microscopic objects in a controlled environment. Using the momentum carried by light, forces can be exerted to confine and manipulate ...
Ultrafast optoelectronics in 2D materials and their heterostructures
Understanding and improving how light is converted into electricity in materials is one of the central goals in the field of optoelectronics. This basic physical process lies at the heart of several major technologies, ...
Single domain spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
This work reports on the construction of a new-generation system capable to create single-mode spinor Bose-Einstein condensates of 87Rb, and non-destructively probe them using optical Faraday rotation. This system brings ...
High power, high intensity few-cycle pulses in the mid-IR for strong-field experiments
High-energy, few-cycle, mid-lR radiation sources featuring high pulse repetition rates are of tremendous interest for a variety of strong-field physics and attoscience applications. Such systems could be used in combination ...
Hybrid photonic-plasmonic devices with single nanoscale light sources
The field of photonics comprehends the generation, manipulation and detection of light (photons). Over the past decades, it has underpinned many of the technological advances upon which we rely on a daily basis, from our ...
