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

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

Frequency and time domains interactions in nanophotonics

Andrei Kiselev

In this thesis, we discuss the problems of scattering and optical manipulation related to nanosystems of different complexities. The multipolar decomposition method is used to represent scattering processes in nanosystems as a series of elementary excitati ...

EPFL2023

Optical metasurfaces: synthesis, nanofabrication, and colorful applications

Hsiang-Chu Wang

In this thesis, we mainly utilize silver to construct the meta-atoms. Although suffering from easily oxidized, its excellent lossless property throughout the visible range makes it suitable for study. When preserved properly, silver-made metasurfaces can s ...

EPFL2022

Ultra low quantum decoherence nano-optomechanical systems

Mohammadjafar Bereyhi

Thermal motion of a room-temperature mechanical resonator typically dominates the quantum backaction of its position measurement. This is a longstanding barrier for exploring cavity optomechanics at room temperature. In order to enter the quantum regime of ...

EPFL2022

Structured light generation by refractive-diffractive micro optical array illuminators

Maryam Yousefi

Structured light generation having broad applications in different optical fields, is the topic of this thesis. Our structured light generation strategy is based on applying periodic microoptical elements at the refraction-diffraction limit, under a focuse ...

EPFL2021

Physics of optically driven nanojunctions

Philippe Andreas Rölli

Recent years have seen spectacular developments in the domain of nano-optics. Alongside the well-known techniques of super-resolution microscopy progress in nanofabrication has enabled important improvements in the fields of optical imaging and spectros ...

EPFL2020

Probing intraband excitations in ZrTe5: A high-pressure infrared and transport study

Helmuth Berger, Ana Akrap, Mathieu François Padlewski, Edoardo Martino, Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke

Zirconium pentatetelluride, ZrTe5, shows remarkable sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure. In this work we address the high-pressure transport and optical properties of this compound, on samples grown by flux and chemical vapor transport. The high-pressure r ...

2020

Low resistivity Ru1-xTixO2 thin films deposited by hybrid high-power impulse magnetron sputtering and direct current magnetron sputtering technique

Rosendo Sanjines, Alireza Karimi, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Arnaud Magrez

The present paper reports on an experimental investigation of the structural, electrical and optical properties of Ru rich Ru1-xTixO2 thin films. Rutile single-phaseRu(1-x)Ti(x)O(2) thin films have been deposited by reactive hybrid High-power impulse magne ...

2019

Nanoscale Lithography and Thermometry with Thermal Scanning Probes

Samuel Tobias Howell, Samuel Zimmermann

Thermal scanning probe lithography (t-SPL) is an advanced lithography technique in which a heated atomic force microscope tip locally modifies a sample material. Due to the nanometer-sized tip apex diameter, t-SPL enables patterning of sub-10 nm structures ...

EPFL2018

Near-field characterization of Bloch surface waves based 2D optical components

Richa Dubey

Bloch surface waves (BSWs) are surface electromagnetic modes that propagate at the interface between a multilayer substrate and a homogeneous external medium. The optical field of the surface mode is confined near the surface of the multilayer. This vertic ...

EPFL2017

Quantum Correlations of Light from a Room-Temperature Mechanical Oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Vivishek Sudhir, Ryan Daniel Schilling, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Sergey Fedorov

When an optical field is reflected from a compliant mirror, its intensity and phase become quantum-correlated due to radiation pressure. These correlations form a valuable resource: the mirror may be viewed as an effective Kerr medium generating squeezed s ...

American Physical Society2017

Radiative characterization of random fibrous media with optically large long cylindrical fibers

Sophia Haussener

Radiative heat transfer is analyzed in participating media consisting of long cylindrical fibers with a diameter in the limit of geometrical optics. The absorption and scattering coefficients and the scattering phase function of the medium are determined b ...

Elsevier2017

Coherent Rayleigh time domain reflectometry : novel applications for optical fibre sensing

Xin Lu

Owing to the advantages of the optical fibre, such as lightweight, small size, low cost and immunity to electromagnetic interferences, the fibre sensors have been applied in diverse fields and the scientific research on fibre sensing keeps improving to mee ...

EPFL2016

Bosonic lasing and trapping of a dressed photon fluid in InGaN at room temperature

Munise Nevin Cobet

The generation of a quantum fluid of dressed photons at room temperature is experimentally demonstrated in an InGaN microcavity which is divided into two-and one-dimensional sections, resulting in single- and switchable multilevel coherent light emission. ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Brillouin dynamic gratings in optical fibres for distributed sensing and advanced optical signal processing

Andrey Denisov

This thesis presents results of a research on applications of Brillouin dynamic gratings - distributed reflectors that can be dynamically created in an optical fibre by two optical waves. A basic theory of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is introduce ...

EPFL2015

Pressure Tuning of the Optical Properties of GaAs Nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Emanuele Uccelli

The tuning of the optical and electronic properties of semiconductor nanowires can be achieved by crystal phase engineering. Zinc-blende and diamond semiconductors exhibit pressure-induced structural transitions as well as a strong pressure dependence of t ...

American Chemical Society2012

Couches minces nanoporeuses pour la réalisation de dispositifs optiques

Gaëtan Wicht

The physical-chemical properties of polymer films can be modified by embedding inorganic materials (e. g. inorganic nanoparticles) into the polymer matrix. Depending both on the material properties (e. g. nanoparticles concentration) and on the fabrication ...

EPFL2010

Optomechanically Induced Transparency

Tobias Kippenberg, Emanuel Gavartin, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

Electromagnetically induced transparency is a quantum interference effect observed in atoms and molecules, in which the optical response of an atomic medium is controlled by an electromagnetic field. We demonstrated a form of induced transparency enabled b ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2010

Accordabilité de la réponse optique des cristaux photoniques par infiltration de matériaux organiques

Pascale El-Kallassi

Photonic crystals are stuctures in which the refractive index varies periodically on the wavelength scale in one, two or three dimensions. Due to interference effects, these structures can forbid light propagation over a large spectral range called "the ph ...

EPFL2009

Near-field cavity optomechanics with nanomechanical oscillators

Tobias Kippenberg, Albert Schliesser

Cavity-enhanced radiation-pressure coupling between optical and mechanical degrees of freedom allows quantum-limited position measurements and gives rise to dynamical backaction, enabling amplification and cooling of mechanical motion. Here, we demonstrate ...

2009