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Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media

The interaction of light and matter enables nonlinear frequency conversion and the creation of coherent currents. The optical control of electric currents is of fundamental relevance and prominent research focus in the last decades. These photocurrents ena ...

EPFL2024

Engineering Absorption for Foil Applications

Sebastian Mader

Light matter interactions such as extinction, reflection, and transmission can be described by classical optics. Dur-ing the past decades, research focused on a novel resonant extinction type called plasmonics that allows for en-hancement of both types of ...

EPFL2022

Holographic imaging of electromagnetic fields via electron-light quantum interference

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Enrico Pomarico, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Tatiana Latychevskaia

Holography relies on the interference between a known reference and a signal of interest to reconstruct both the amplitude and the phase of that signal. With electrons, the extension of holography to the ultrafast time domain remains a challenge, although ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2019

Attosecond coherent control of free-electron wave functions using semi-infinite light fields

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Brett Eugene Barwick, Enrico Pomarico, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer

Light–electron interaction is the seminal ingredient in free-electron lasers and dynamical investigation of matter. Pushing the coherent control of electrons by light to the attosecond timescale and below would enable unprecedented applications in quantum ...

Nature Research2018

Ultra-coherent nano-mechanical resonators for quantum optomechanics at room temperature

Amir Hossein Ghadimi

Mechanical oscillators are among the most important scientific tools in the modern physics. From the pioneering experiments in 18th by founding fathers of modern physics such as Newton, Hooke and Cavendish to the ground braking experiments in the 21th cent ...

EPFL2018

Coherent creation and destruction of orbital wavepackets in Si:P with electrical and optical read-out

The ability to control dynamics of quantum states by optical interference, and subsequent electrical read-out, is crucial for solid state quantum technologies. Ramsey interference has been successfully observed for spins in silicon and nitrogen vacancy cen ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Temporally resolved second-order photon correlations of exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate formation

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Marcia Portella Oberli, Hadis Abbaspour, Albert Adiyatullin, Mitchell David Anderson

Second-order time correlation measurements with a temporal resolution better than 3 ps were performed on a CdTe microcavity where spontaneous Bose-Einstein condensation is observed. After the laser pulse, the nonresonantly excited thermal polariton populat ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Heralded Single-Phonon Preparation, Storage, and Readout in Cavity Optomechanics

Nicolas Gisin, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Tobias Kippenberg, Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

We show how to use the radiation pressure optomechanical coupling between a mechanical oscillator and an optical cavity field to generate in a heralded way a single quantum of mechanical motion (a Fock state). Starting with the oscillator close to its grou ...

American Physical Society2014

Combining Monte Carlo methods with coherent wave optics for the simulation of phase-sensitive X-ray imaging

Peter Modregger, Marco Stampanoni

Phase-sensitive X-ray imaging shows a high sensitivity towards electron density variations, making it well suited for imaging of soft tissue matter. However, there are still open questions about the details of the image formation process. Here, a framework ...

International Union of Crystallography2014

Cavity Quantum Optomechanics: Coupling Light And Micromechanical Oscillators

Tobias Kippenberg, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

Cavity optomechanics(1) is a new research field that has seen spectacular advances in recent years. Optomechanics combines advances in nano-and electromechanical systems with radiation pressure enabled control. The radiation pressure backaction enables to ...

Ieee2014

Development of Tunable Optical MEMS for Advanced Laser Beam Shaping, Homogenizing and Speckle Reduction

Jonathan Masson

In this thesis, the development, design, fabrication and characterization of three innovative laser beam shaping, homogenizing and speckle reduction devices are reported. Typical beam shaping devices are static and not easily adaptable to a large variety o ...

EPFL2012

Quantum-coherent coupling of a mechanical oscillator to an optical cavity mode

Tobias Kippenberg, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

Optical laser fields have been widely used to achieve quantum control over the motional and internal degrees of freedom of atoms and ions(1,2), molecules and atomic gases. A route to controlling the quantum states of macroscopic mechanical oscillators in a ...

2012

Endoscopic low coherence interferometry applied to tri-dimensional contouring of upper airways

Yves Delacrétaz

This thesis presents a novel approach for optical tri-dimensional contouring, requiring only one acquisition to extract a contour depth. It is based on an interferometric setup, using a reduced coherence light source, and is fully adaptable to endoscopic p ...

EPFL2009

Chemical exchange in proteins : relaxation of multiple- and single-quantum coherences studied by NMR

Mariachiara Verde

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy offers many ways to investigate dynamic properties of molecules. A wide variety of experimental techniques can probe molecular dynamics on time scales that range from 10-12 to 103 seconds. Many lines of evidenc ...

EPFL2009

Realization and study of InAs/GaAs quantum dot superluminescent diodes emitting at 1.3µm

Marco Rossetti

A quantum dot is a semiconductor nanostructure that confines the motion of conduction band electrons and valence band holes in all three spatial directions, thus creating fully discrete energy levels. The confinement in the InAs/GaAs material system is gen ...

EPFL2007

Coherence properties of microcavity polaritons : from parametric scattering to Bose-Einstein condensation

Stefan Kundermann

This thesis presents the coherence properties of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. Semiconductor microcavities are microstructures in which the exciton ground state of a semiconductor quantum well is coupled to a photonic mode of a microresonator. ...

EPFL2006

Multiple scattering in optical coherence tomography. I. Investigation and modeling

Stéphane Bourquin, Boris Clément Karamata, Marcel Leutenegger, Theo Lasser, Markus Laubscher

We present a new model of optical coherence tomography (OCT) taking into account multiple scattering. A theoretical analysis and experimental investigation reveals that in OCT, despite multiple scattering, the field backscattered from the sample is general ...

2005