PhD Defense: Apoorva Apoorva

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Published on November 26, 2025 Updated on November 26, 2025
Dates

on the December 16, 2025

14h00
 
Location
Institut de Physique de Nice
Main seminar room

Optical control of light transport in a cold ytterbium atomic cloud

Abstract:

This PhD work explores the interaction of light within an optically dense, cold atomic ensemble of ytterbium atoms. It focuses on two main aspects: the control of atomic states by engineered optical fields and the transport of light in strongly scattering media. We demonstrated a new experimental method to directly launch an in-situ optical excitation with a desired frequency in the deep core of our optically thick cloud. We further introduced a method to follow the propagation of the launched excitation spatially and temporally by monitoring the internal state population.