PhD Theses

2011

Dominik Kandula
XUV Frequency Comb Metrology and the Ground State of Helium (pdf)
promotores: K.S.E. Eikema, W.M.G. Ubachs
defence: 1 december 2011

Anne Lisa Wolf
Frequency comb spectroscopy on trapped calcium ions (pdf)
promotores: W.M.G. Ubachs, K.S.E. Eikema; co-promtor: S. van den Berg
defence: 7 juli 2011

Thomas van Dijk
Experimental and Theoretical studies in Optical Coherence Theory (pdf)
promotores: T.D. Visser, W.M.G. Ubachs
defence: 4 april 2011

2010

Maria Ofelia Vieitez Hornos
XUV laser studies of Rydberg-valence states in N2 and H+H− heavy Rydberg states (pdf)
promotores: W. Ubachs, C. A. de Lange, L. E. Berg; copromotor: O. Launila
defence: 2 June 2010

Toncho Ivanov
XUV spectroscopy of highly excited states in H2, HD and D2 (pdf)
promotores: W. Ubachs, C. A. de Lange
defence: 7 December 2010

2009

Dmitry Ityaksov
Cavity Ring-Down Optical Extinction Measurements of Atmospheric Molecules (pdf)
promotores: W. Ubachs, H.V.J. Linnartz
defence: 30 November 2009

John McNamara
A Quantum Degenerate Mixture of Metastable Helium-3 and Helium-4 Atoms (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defence: 26 October 2009

Edcel John Salumbides
Laser metrology studies for probing variation of fundamental constants (pdf)
promotor: W. Ubachs; copromotor: K.S.E. Eikema
defense: 26 May 2009

2008

Lineke van der Sneppen
Liquid-phase cavity ring-down spectroscopy for improved analytical detection sensitivity (pdf)
promotores: W. Ubachs and C. Gooijer; copromotor: F. Ariese
defense: 10 Nov. 2008

Andrey Tychkov
Bose-Einstein condensation of metastable helium atoms (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 6 Nov. 2008

Roel Zinkstok
Direct frequency comb spectroscopy in the vacuum ultraviolet (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: K.S.E. Eikema
defense: 19 Mar. 2008

Tom Jeltes
Quantum Statistical effects in ultracold gases of metastable helium (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 11 Mar. 2008

2007

Rutger van Deelen
Rotational Raman scattering in the Earth's atmosphere (pdf) 
promotor: E.A.A. Aben; copromotor: J. Landgraf
defense: 27 Nov. 2007

Bastiaan van Diedenhoven
Satellite remote sensing of cloud properties in support of tropospheric trace gas retrievals (pdf)  promotor: E.A.A. Aben; copromotor: O.P. Hasekamp
defense: 1 Nov. 2007

Stefan Witte
Terawatt-intensity few-cyle laser pulses (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: K.S.E. Eikema
defense: 13 June 2007

Sandro Hannemann
Deep-ultraviolet frequency metrology (pdf)
with a narrowband titanium:sapphire laser 
promotor: W. Ubachs; copromotor: E.-J. van Duijn
defense: 24 May 2007

2006

Arjan Sprengers
Extreme ultraviolet laser excitation of molecular nitrogen;
perturbations and predissociation (pdf)
promotor: W. Ubachs; copromotor: B.R. Lewis (Canberra, Australia)
defense: 29 Jun. 2006

2005

Roland Stas
Trapping fermionic and bosonic helium atoms (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 1 Jun. 2005

Marc Smits
Multi active electron effects in the strong field ionization of transition metal atoms and clusters (pdf)
promotores: W. Ubachs and C.A. de Lange; copromotor: A. Stolow (Ottawa, Canada)
defense: 22 Feb. 2005

Paul Tol
Trapping and evaporative cooling of metastable helium (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 9 Feb. 2005

2004

Maarten Sneep
The atmosphere in the laboratory:
cavity ring-down measurements on scattering and absorption (pdf)
promotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 23 Nov. 2004

Fernando Brandi
Table-top tunable narrow-band extreme ultraviolet sources:
from low to high-order optical harmonic generation (pdf)
promotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 1 Jul. 2004

Stefan Petra
Nanolithography with cold metastable helium atoms (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 28 Jun. 2004

Jeroen Koelemeij
Interaction of UV light with cold metastable helium atoms (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 15 Jun. 2004

2003

Joop Mes
Frequency conversion by nonlinear optics:
narrow bandwidth sources and applications (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotores: J.C. van den Heuvel, E.J. van Duijn
defense: 2 Dec. 2003

Norbert Herschbach
Trapped triplet helium atoms; Inelastic collisions and evaporative cooling
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 10 Apr. 2003

2002

Rüdiger Lang
Spectral Sampling Techniques for Atmospheric modeling (pdf) 
promotores: W. van der Zande, W. Ubachs; copromotor: E.A.A. Aben
defense: 31 Oct. 2002

Arno de Lange
XUV Multi-resonance spectroscopy of hydrogen and nitrogen
promotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 14 Feb. 2002

2001

Iavor Veltchev
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Pulse Compression and Harmonic Generation (pdf)
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 7 June 2001

Hester Volten
Light scattering by small planetary particles
promotor: J. Hovenier; copromotores: J. de Haan and W. Vassen
defense: 8 May 2001

Ellen Brinksma
LIDAR investigations of the middle atmosphere
promotores: J. Hovenier, W. Hogervorst; copromotor: J. de Haan
defense: 3 May 2001

Hans Naus
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy on Atmospheric Molecules
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 13 Feb. 2001

2000

Elmar Reinhold
Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Spectroscopy of the hydrogen molecule:
excited states with large internuclear separation
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 18 May 2000

1999

Annemieke Kips
Spectroscopy of Rydberg atoms in an electric field;
a classical view on atomic physics
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 25 May 1999

Kees Karremans
Signatures of Chaos in spectra of diamagnetic helium Rydberg atoms
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 18 May 1999

1997

Paul Hinnen
XUV-laser spectroscopy of H₂ and the mystery of the diffuse interstellar bands
promotores: W. Hogervorst, S. Stolte; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 15 Sep. 1997

Joke Boon-Engering
Optical Parametric Oscillators:
Investigation of Single Longitudinal mode operation
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: E. Bente
defense: 23 June 1997

Wilbert Rooijakkers
Laser Cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 27 Jan. 1997

Gerrit Kuik
High Resolution studies of electric fields on autoionisaing states of barium
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 8 Jan. 1997

1996

Kjeld Eikema
QED and the ground state of helium;
precision extreme ultraviolet laser spectroscopy
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotores: W. Ubachs and W. Vassen
defense: 24 June 1996

1995

Robert van Leeuwen
Electron correlation in autoionizing states of barium
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 11 Dec. 1995

1993

Tony van der Veldt
Diamagnetism in helium Rydberg states
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Vassen
defense: 18 Feb. 1993

1992

Pieternel Levelt
A coherent XUV-source for high resolution spectroscopy:
application to diatomic molecules
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 11 Nov. 1992

Ilse Aben
Resonance CARS in I₂ and Br₂
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 29 Sep. 1992

1991

Robert de Graaff
Dielectronic states in barium
promotor: W. Hogervorst; copromotor: W. Ubachs
defense: 17 Oct. 1991