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 ...
Laparra Cuervo, Lara (Date of defense: 2018-03-28)
The arrival of super-resolution techniques has driven researchers to explore biological areas that were unreachable before. Such techniques not only allowed the improvement of spatial resolution in ...
Mkhitaryan, Vahagn (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
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 ...
Parsa, Shahrzad (Date of defense: 2018-07-24)
Ultrafast picosecond coherent sources in the near-to-mid-infrared (IR) spectral range are of great interest for a variety of applications such as pump-probe spectroscopy, remote sensing, photobiology ...
Hussain, Rubaiya (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
The focus of this thesis is on the design, development and validation of two novel photonic sensors for the detection and characterisation of industrial and biological samples. The first one is a PSA ...
Vallés Marí, Adam (Date of defense: 2017-02-14)
The work presented in this thesis, mostly experimental, is based on three main pillars: the concepts of entanglement, Bell's inequalities and coherence. Entanglement is a very special type of correlation ...
Lindner, Claus (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)
Several clinical studies for non-invasive estimation of tissue hemodynamics by the combination of two diffuse optical techniques, time-resolved and diffuse correlation spectroscopy, were carried out in ...
Raventós Ribera, David (Date of defense: 2019-04-15)
Understand and tame complex quantum mechanical systems to build quantum technologies is one of the most important scientific endeavour nowadays. In this effort, Atomic, molecular and Optical systems ...
Mantilla Pérez, Paola (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
Thin film photovoltaics encompass a group of technologies able to harvest light within a few microns thickness. The reduced thickness allows a low cost of manufacture while making the films flexible ...
De Bonis, Sergio Lucio (Date of defense: 2020-02-06)
Carbon nanotube (CNT) mechanical resonators are unique systems because they combine remarkable mechanical properties with rich charge transport characteristics. Thanks to their intrinsically low-dimensional ...