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Methods of generating carrier-envelope-phase stabilized, intense, few-cycle laser pulses
(2015-02-12)
Ultrafast laser pulses have become an integral part of the toolbox of countless laboratories doing physics, chemistry, and biological research. The work presented here is motivated by a section in the ever-growing, interdisciplinary research towards understanding the fundamental workings of light-matter interactions. Specifically, attosecond pulses can be useful tools to obtain the desired insight. However access to, and the utility of, such pulses is dependent on the generation of intense, few-cycle, carrier-envelope-phase ...
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Efficient Characterisation and Optimal Control of Open Quantum Systems - Mathematical Foundations and Physical Applications
(2015-06-19)
Since no physical system can ever be completely isolated from its environment, the study of open quantum systems is pivotal to reliably and accurately control complex quantum systems. In practice, reliability of the control field needs to be confirmed via certification of the target evolution while accuracy requires the derivation of high-fidelity control schemes in the presence of decoherence.
In the first part of this thesis an algebraic framework is presented that allows to determine the minimal requirements on ...
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Optimizing Robust Quantum Gates in Open Quantum Systems
(2015-05-27)
We are currently at the cusp of a revolution in quantum technology that relies not just on the passive use of quantum effects, but on their active control. At the forefront of this revolution is the implementation of a quantum computer. Encoding information in quantum states as “qubits” allows to use entanglement and quantum superposition to perform calculations that are infeasible on classical computers. The fundamental challenge in the realization of quantum computers is to avoid decoherence – the loss of quantum ...
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Theory of laser-induced ultrafast structural changes in solids
(2010-04-21)
The present thesis is a contribution to the study of laser-solid interaction.
Despite the numerous applications resulting from the recent use of laser technology, there is still a lack of satisfactory answers to theoretical questions regarding the mechanism leading to the structural changes induced by femtosecond lasers in materials.
We provide here theoretical approaches for the description of the structural response of different solids (cerium, samarium sulfide, bismuth and germanium) to femtosecond laser ...
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High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers based on Low-Dimensional Active Materials for Optical Telecommunication
(2012-07-10)
The scope of this work is the fundamental growth, tailoring and characterization of self-organized indium arsenide quantum dots (QDs) and their exploitation as active region for diode lasers emitting in the 1.55 µm range. This wavelength regime is especially interesting for long-haul telecommunications as optical fibers made from silica glass have the lowest optical absorption. Molecular Beam Epitaxy is utilized as fabrication technique for the quantum dots and laser structures. The results presented in this thesis ...
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Development of directly modulated high speed telecommunication lasers based on surface defined feedback gratings
(2012-10-31)
High-speed semiconductor lasers are an integral part in the implemen- tation of high-bit-rate optical communications systems. They are com- pact, rugged, reliable, long-lived, and relatively inexpensive sources of coherent light. Due to the very low attenuation window that exists in the silica based optical fiber at 1.55 μm and the zero dispersion point at 1.3 μm, they have become the mainstay of optical fiber com- munication systems. For the fabrication of lasers with gratings such as, distributed bragg reflector ...
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Deterministic Genericity and the Computation of homological Invariants
(2016-08-10)
The main goal of this thesis is to discuss the determination of homological invariants of polynomial ideals. Thereby we consider different coordinate systems and analyze their meaning for the computation of certain invariants. In particular,
we provide an algorithm that transforms any ideal into strongly stable position if char k = 0. With a slight modification, this algorithm can also be used to achieve a stable or quasi-stable position. If our field has positive characteristic, the Borel-fixed position is the ...
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Harmonische Funktionen auf dem Bruhat-Tits-Gebäude der PGL_3 über Funktionenkörpern
(2016-05-09)
Harmonische Funktionen auf dem Bruhat-Tits-Gebäude der PGL(3) über Funktionenkörpern lassen sich als ein Analogon zu den auf der oberen Halbebene definierten klassischen Spitzenformen verstehen. An die Stelle des starken Abklingens der Spitzenformen tritt hier die Endlichkeit des Trägers modulo einer gewissen Untergruppe. Der erste Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit befaßt sich mit der Untersuchung und Charakterisierung dieses Trägers. Im weiteren Verlauf werden gewisse Konzepte der klassischen Theorie auf harmonische ...
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Modulsymbole und Bruhat-Tits-Gebäude der PGL(3) über Funktionenkörpern
(2015-01-21)
Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Bestimmung von Basen von Räumen spezieller harmonischer 2-Koketten auf Bruhat-Tits-Gebäuden der PGL(3) über Funktionenkörpern. Hierzu wird der Raum der speziellen harmonischen 2-Koketten auf dem Bruhat-Tits-Gebäude der PGL(3) zunächst mit gewissen komplexen Linearkombinationen von 2-Simplizes des Quotientenkomplexes, sogenannten geschlossenen Flächen, identifiziert und anschließend durch verallgemeinerte Modulsymbole beschrieben. Die Darstellung der Gruppe der Modulsymbole durch ...
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Theory of Vesicle Motion and Interpretation of Electrophysiological Experiments in Chromaffin Cells, Hippocampal Neurons and Neuromuscular Junctions
(2018-07-16)
Communication among secretory cells, neurons and other related cells is accompanied by a
process called exocytosis, which consists in the release of neurotransmitters into the intercellular space. The neurotransmitter molecules are transported inside vesicles, which move
towards the cell membrane. Once at an active site of the membrane, vesicles can undergo
fusion with the membrane. As a result of fusion, a pore in the membrane is produced, through
which neurotransmitter molecules leave the cell. Exocytosis is ...