Soutenance de thèse de Britton HOFER

Soutenance de thèse de Britton HOFER, doctorante dans le groupe Optique quantique du Laboratoire Charles Fabry, le lundi 4 mai 2026 à 10h00 dans l'Auditorium de l'Institut d'Optique Graduate School à Palaiseau, sur le thème : "Collective light scattering in arrays of dysprosium atoms".

Résumé : "This thesis focuses on the development of an optical tweezer experiment using dysprosium atoms and on the implementation of experimental protocols to study collective light scattering. When atoms are driven by resonant light, they can radiate electromagnetic fields that mediate resonant dipole–dipole interactions between them. When sufficiently strong, these interactions modify the atomic response to the driving field. Achieving this regime requires interatomic distances comparable to the optical wavelength. This work presents the experimental techniques developed to reach this goal as well as measurements of the collective response of an array of 30 atoms."