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Theses

Every PhD here ends with a book. Here they are, together with the master theses and reports written in our lab.

PhD theses

Cover of the thesis of Ivo Knottnerus
Ivo Knottnerus
Long-range interactions in arbitrary geometries
PhD thesis (Mar. 2026)
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Cover of the thesis of Sana Boughdachi
Sana Boughdachi
Fiber-based Frequency Combs with High Spectral Purity and Very Low-Frequency Noise – Development of fiber-based optical frequency combs for quantum metrology
PhD thesis (2026) (external PhD at TOPTICA Photonics)
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Cover of the thesis of Camila Beli Silva
Camila Beli Silva
Cavity-atom interactions in a thermal strontium beam - Development of a simple apparatus for quantum metrology
PhD thesis (Jun. 2025)
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Cover of the thesis of Francesca Famà
Francesca Famà
Waltz of the Atoms: Collective Behaviors in a Sr Stream
PhD thesis (Mar. 2025)
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Cover of the thesis of Sheng Zhou
Sheng Zhou
Towards a continuous active optical clock based on superradiant lasing using strontium
PhD thesis (Dec. 2024)
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Cover of the thesis of Premjith Thekkeppatt
Premjith Thekkeppatt
A tale of two species: ultracold rubidium and strontium - Stable mixtures, open-shell molecules and precision measurement
PhD thesis (Oct. 2024)
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Cover of the thesis of Alex Urech
Alex Urech
Single strontium atoms in optical tweezers
PhD thesis (Apr. 2023)
PDF Defense video in Wes Anderson style
Cover of the thesis of Rodrigo González Escudero
Rodrigo González Escudero
Quantum gases are forever: Achieving continuous Bose-Einstein condensation
PhD thesis (Jun. 2022)
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Cover of the thesis of Vincent Barbé
Vincent Barbé
Ultracold RbSr: Optical and magnetic spectroscopy, Feshbach resonances and molecular structure
PhD thesis (Feb. 2021)
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Cover of the thesis of Sergei Piatchenkov
Sergei Piatchenkov
A versatile ultracold strontium apparatus: from construction to new tools for quantum simulation
PhD thesis (Jun. 2020)
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Cover of the thesis of Oleksiy Onishchenko
Oleksiy Onishchenko
Ultracold atomic gases of strontium: production and narrow-line spectroscopy
PhD thesis (Feb. 2020)
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Cover of the thesis of Shayne Bennetts
Shayne Bennetts
1000 times closer to a continuous atom laser: Steady-state strontium with unity phase-space density
PhD thesis (Oct. 2019)
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Cover of the thesis of Chun-Chia Chen
Chun-Chia Chen
An atomic marble run to unity phase-space density
PhD thesis (Apr. 2019)
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Cover of the thesis of Alessio Ciamei
Alessio Ciamei
Taming ultracold RbSr and Sr2
PhD thesis (Sep. 2018)
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Cover of the thesis of Alex Bayerle
Alex Bayerle
Ultracold strontium and rubidium: mixtures, quantum gases and molecules
PhD thesis (Mar. 2017)
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Cover of the thesis of Simon Stellmer
Simon Stellmer
Degenerate quantum gases of strontium
PhD thesis (Jan. 2013)
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Master theses
  • A High-Resolution Microscope Objective for a Rb-Sr Ultracold Quantumgas Experiment
    Noah Wach
    Master thesis (Oct. 2024)
    PDF
  • Towards a new parent laser for strontium experiments
    Lluis de Miguel Blasco
    Master thesis (Oct. 2024)
    PDF
  • Building a Sr Clock Laser
    Ze-Yuan Zhang
    Master thesis (Aug. 2021)
    PDF
  • A strontium Rydberg laser for quantum simulation with tweezer arrays
    Thies Plassmann
    Master thesis (Jul. 2021)
    PDF
  • Pumping the Zeeman slower
    Jens Samland
    Master thesis (Apr. 2019)
    PDF
  • Tweezer machine for Sr atoms using a homebuilt microscope objective from commercial lenses
    Ivo Knottnerus
    Master thesis (Aug. 2018)
    PDF
  • Narrow-linewidth ECDLs for Atomic Physics
    Tim van Leent
    Master thesis (Feb. 2017)
    PDF
  • Building a Strontium Clock Laser
    Florian Vogl
    Master thesis (Jun. 2013)
    PDF
  • Linewidth Reduction of a Diode Laser by Optical Feedback for Strontium BEC Applications
    Bo Huang
    Master thesis (Nov. 2009)
    PDF
Bachelor theses & internship reports
  • Alkali - alkaline earth mixtures in optical lattice potentials
    Simon Lepleux
    Internship report (Jul. 2023)
    PDF

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