List of Proposals 2014-15

Institution Proposal
ICFO
Coupling radio-frequency photons of a superconducting cavity to a mechanical resonator based on graphene
Controlling fluid transport in microchannels using electrokinetics and plasmonic structures
Nano-structured optical surface for biological and medical applications
Hands-on an integrated photonic chip for quantum applications
Ultrasensitive metal nano-structures for plasmonic enhanced Raman scattering of small molecules and its biological and medical applications
Quantum optomechanics based on levitating NV centers
Large-scale classical simulations of quantum systems using the Trotter-Suzuki decomposition
Investigation of nonlinear properties of optically patterned semi-conductors for broadband mid-IR sources
Efficiency of nonlocality detection with two-body Bell inequalities
Measuring real-time femtosecond dynamics in materials
Squeezing the mechanical motion of graphene resonators
Integrated optics with graphene plasmons
Image cytometer based on lens-free microscopy
New masking methods for nano-structured optical surfaces for antireflective and superhidrophobic properties
Novel transparent adaptive optics for 3D microscopy
Thesis supervised by Morgan W. Mitchell (title to be discussed)
UPC
LED vs LASER technology: a comparative study of ocular optical quality
New modelling of aberrations and scatter using double-pass retinal images
Real time nanometric measuring sensor based on differential self-mixing interferometry
Numerical study of extreme intensity pulses in semiconductor lasers
Implementation of a depolarization channel at 532 nm for the upc earlinet lidar
Microwave Photonic Filtering Techniques for on-board satellite applications
Dynamic measurements of the eye's pupil under controlled conditions of luminance and accommodative vergences in two optical devices
UB
Triboluminescent Materials for Damage Sensors
Numerical design of focused fields with predetermined amplitude and polarization distributions
Generalization of the Richards-Wolf theory for focused beams to lenses including pupil plates
UAB
Improving photophoretic optical trapping with conical refraction
Photonic Lab-on-a-Chip for bacterial biofilms monitoring in water distribution networks
Dynamically modifiable optical elements based on biological elements
Bright matter-wave solutons in curved geometries
Light propagation in arrays of polymer optical waveguides
Photonic lab on a chip for crystallization studies