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Theses

Every PhD 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 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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Cover of the thesis of Florian Schreck
Florian Schreck
Mixtures of ultracold gases: Fermi sea and Bose-Einstein condensate of lithium isotopes
PhD thesis (Jan. 2002), Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (Florian's own thesis, from before this lab existed)
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Master theses
  • Photoassociation spectroscopy of an ultracold Rb-Sr mixture in an optical lattice
    Tommaso Vedovello
    Master thesis (Aug. 2026)
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  • Towards Ultracold Strontium Atom Transport for a Continuous Superradiant Laser on the mHz Transition
    Elisa Wenzel
    Master thesis (Jul. 2026)
    PDF
  • Towards a moving optical lattice for trapping ultracold strontium atoms inside a ring cavity
    Luuk Michels
    Master thesis (Jul. 2026)
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  • A High-Resolution Microscope Objective for a Rb-Sr Ultracold Quantumgas Experiment
    Noah Wach
    Master thesis (Oct. 2024)
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  • Towards a new parent laser for strontium experiments
    Lluis de Miguel Blasco
    Master thesis (Oct. 2024)
    PDF
  • An ultrastable optical cavity for a strontium optical atomic clock
    Scott Wolzak
    Master thesis (Aug. 2023)
    PDF
  • Building a Sr Clock Laser
    Zeyuan Zhang
    Master thesis (Aug. 2021)
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  • A strontium Rydberg laser for quantum simulation with tweezer arrays
    Thies Plassmann
    Master thesis (Jul. 2021) (winner of the NNV AMO master thesis prize 2022)
    PDF IoP news: NNV AMO master thesis prize
  • 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
  • A proposed pathway for the creation of a ground-state RbSr molecule – Using Feshbach resonances and stimulated Raman adiabatic passage with a Mott insulator state as starting point
    Marloes Bistervels
    Master literature thesis (Feb. 2018)
    PDF
  • Repumping strontium: from laser construction to repumping in a magneto-optical trap
    Zhoumuyan Geng
    Master thesis (Jul. 2017)
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  • Narrow-linewidth ECDLs for Atomic Physics
    Tim van Leent
    Master thesis (Feb. 2017)
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  • Rebuilding a potassium quantum gas apparatus
    Namrata Dutta Mazumdar
    Master thesis (Aug. 2016)
    PDF
  • The creation of a potassium-40 magneto-optical trap
    Wouter Meinster
    Master thesis (Aug. 2015)
    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
Internship reports
  • Fiber noise cancellation for a 698 nm laser in 88Sr quantum experiments
    Milan Boers
    Internship report, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Nov. 2025) (winner of the HBO Young Talent Award 2026)
    PDF IoP news: HBO Young Talent Award
  • Alkali - alkaline earth mixtures in optical lattice potentials
    Simon Lepleux
    Internship report (Jul. 2023)
    PDF
Bachelor theses
  • Depumping a Sr magneto-optical trap via 5s5d 1D2
    Scott Wolzak
    Bachelor thesis (Jul. 2021)
    PDF

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