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A Cavity-Microscope for Quantum Simulations with Locally-Controllable All-to-All Interactions

Nick Jacob Sauerwein

This thesis presents the development, construction, and benchmark of an experimental platform that combines cold fermionic 6Li atoms with locally controllable light-matter interactions. To enable local control, a new device, the cavity-microscope, was crea ...

EPFL2024

Laser-based manufacturing of freeform glass micro-optics through topological transformation

Samuel Youcef Benketaf

Glass has been the material of choice for making optical elements, in large part due to its intrinsic properties: a temperature-dependent viscosity, which enables shaping the material into a broad variety of functional and artistic glassware. Silica glass ...

EPFL2024

Searching for Strong Gravitational Lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Cameron Alexander Campbell Lemon

Strong gravitational lenses provide unique laboratories for cosmological and astrophysical investigations, but they must first be discovered - a task that can be met with significant contamination by other astrophysical objects and asterisms. Here we revie ...

Springer2024

Challenges and prospects for multi-chip microlens imprints on front-side illuminated SPAD imagers

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Scott Anthony Lindner, Tommaso Milanese, Ermanno Bernasconi, Vladimir Pesic

The overall sensitivity of frontside-illuminated, silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays has often suffered from fill factor limitations. The fill factor loss can however be recovered by employing microlenses, whereby the challenges specific t ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

The impact of human expert visual inspection on the discovery of strong gravitational lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Hung-Hsu Chan, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Karina Alexandra Rojas Olate, Elodie Marie Charlène Savary, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Rémy Elie Joseph

We investigate the ability of human 'expert' classifiers to identify strong gravitational lens candidates in Dark Energy Survey like imaging. We recruited a total of 55 people that completed more than 25 per cent of the project. During the classification t ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

LensWatch. I. Resolved HST Observations and Constraints on the Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernova 2022qmx ("SN Zwicky")

Frédéric Courbin

Supernovae (SNe) that have been multiply imaged by gravitational lensing are rare and powerful probes for cosmology. Each detection is an opportunity to develop the critical tools and methodologies needed as the sample of lensed SNe increases by orders of ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Strong and micro lensing in distant quasars

Eric Gérard Guy Paic

Most large galaxies contain Super Massive Black Holes at their centers, drawing matter nearby to form swirling accretion disks emitting electromagnetic radiation. These are Active Galactic Nuclei. The brightest quasars are the most luminous Universe object ...

EPFL2023

Femtosecond laser-induced modifications and self-organization in complex glass systems

Gözden Torun

Ultrashort laser pulses, i.e., pulses emitted shorter than a picosecond, can tailor material properties by introducing permanent modifications locally in three dimensions. Remarkably, under a certain exposure condition, these modifications are accompanied ...

EPFL2023

TOCOSMO VIII. A key test of systematics in the hierarchical method of time-delay cosmography

Frédéric Courbin

The largest source of systematic errors in the time-delay cosmography method likely arises from the lens model mass distribution, where an inaccurate choice of model could in principle bias the value of H-0. A Bayesian hierarchical framework has been propo ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

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

Low-Loss Anisotropic Image Polaritons in van der Waals Crystal alpha-MoO3

Sergejs Boroviks

Orthorhombic molybdenum trioxide (alpha-MoO3), a newly discovered polaritonic van der Waals crystal, is attracting significant attention due to its strongly anisotropic mid-infrared phonon-polaritons. At the same time, coupling of polariton with its mirror ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Lithium-Niobate-Based Frequency-Agile Integrated Lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Guanhao Huang, Anat Siddharth, Mikhail Churaev, Viacheslav Snigirev, Grigorii Likhachev

We demonstrate narrow- linewidth ultrafast tunable integrated lasers based on heterogeneously integrated thin-film lithium niobate on ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonic circuits. Using self-injection locking of a hybrid microresonator, we a ...

IEEE2022

Prototype mitre bends of the ex-vessel waveguide system for the ITER upper launcher: Thermal hydraulic simulations and experiments with off-center mm-wave beams

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou, Matteo Vagnoni, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

On ITER, long pulse gyrotrons are required as a power source for electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (CD). The microwaves are guided from the gyrotrons, which are placed far from the Tokamak, into the plasma by transmission lines (TLs) and a ...

Elsevier2021

ON WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS IN ASYMMETRIC AND MULTIPLE APERTURE OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Alessandro Grosso

The present work deals with monochromatic wavefront aberrations in optical systems without symmetries. The treatment begins with a class of systems characterized by misaligned spherical surfaces whose behavior is analyzed using the wavefront aberration exp ...

EPFL2021

Controllable Pure Dephasing Pathways in Single SiteControlled Pyramidal Quantum Dot - Nanocavity System

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Benjamin Dwir, Alessio Massimiliano Davide Miranda

We demonstrate the controllable exciton-cavity mode interaction mediated by pure dephasing in a single site-controlled quantum dot-nanocavity system. With varying detuning, Purcell enhanced dynamics and phonon-assisted cavity feeding sequentially dominate ...

IEEE2021

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum generation with intrinsic nonlinear filtering

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Miles Henry Anderson, Tobias Herr, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

We demonstrate broadband soliton-based resonant supercontinuum generation in a chip-based microresonator. We show that the soliton possesses an intrinsic ability to filter RF noise transfer from the input pulses, which can be further improved with asynchro ...

IEEE2020

Dot pattern generation using thick sinusoidal phase grating under Gaussian beam illumination

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi

Far-field dot pattern generation is analyzed for a Gaussian beam source that illuminates a sinusoidal phase grating which is placed at a certain distance behind the beam waist. We obtain a bigger field of view with more numbers of points using a Gaussian b ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Fast focus field calculations

Theo Lasser, Marcel Leutenegger, Ramachandra Rao

We present a fast calculation of the electromagnetic field near the focus of an objective with a high numerical aperture (NA). Instead of direct integration, the vectorial Debye diffraction integral is evaluated with the fast Fourier transform for calculat ...

2006

Compact fast-steering tip/tilt laser scanner for high power material processing applications

Moustapha Hafez

The common configuration for deflecting laser beams in two dimensions is based on two single-axis galvanometric scanners placed perpendicular to each other. Over recent years, these fast scanners have proved to be both very reliable and very accurate. They ...

EPFL2000