Since its first observation, a decade ago, high harmonic generation (HHG) in crystals has proved to be an efficient, controllable and compact source of coherent XUV radiation. In this thesis, we investigate HHG in 2D materials, particularly graphene, and in different se...

This doctoral thesis, funded within the framework of a European Marie-Curie H2020 SUPUVIR project, focuses on the design and fabrication of new photonic crystal fibers from infrared soft glasses making it possible to produce a wide emission spectrum in the mid-infrared ...

Dictionaries could be considered as the most comprehensive reservoir of human knowledge, which carry not only the lexical description of words in one or more languages, but also the common awareness of a certain communityabout every known piece of knowledge in a time fr...

Spontaneous Raman scattering is a physical process that provides a unique knowledge of materialsat the molecular level. Its high chemical specificity with no labels motivates its use in manydifferent fields, ranging from biomedical research to industrial quality control...

Despite the astonishing diversity of plants, animals and macroscopic fungi, most eukaryotic diversity is actually microbial. The eukaryotic tree comprises several large monophyletic supergroups. One of these groups is the Opisthokonta, which encompasses two branches, Ho...

The primate visual system strongly relies on the small differences between the two retinal projections to perceive depth. However, it is not fully understood how those binocular disparities are computed and integrated by the nervous system. On the one hand, single-unit ...

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is the only non-invasive and in-vivo imaging modality able to provide human brain structural connectivity information. This is done via an estimation of the fiber orientation distribution (FOD) of white matter and dMRI tractog...

Magneto- and Electro-encephalography (M/EEG) are two non-invasive functional imaging modalities which measure the electromagnetic activity of the brain. These tools are used in cognitive studies as well as in clinical applications as, for example, epilepsy. Besides the ...

This theoretical and numerical thesis is devoted to electron acceleration from the interaction between a relativistic intensity laser pulse and an overdense plasma. This interaction is very sensitive to the density profile at the plasma front surface and two different r...

The earthquake characterization is a fundamental research field in seismology, which final goal is to provide accurate estimations of earthquake attributes. In this study field, various questions may rise such as the following ones: when and where did an earthquake happ...