Glass Photonics

Maurizio Ferrari, formerly director of research at the National Research Council’s Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN-CNR), is a senior associate at IFN-CNR. His main research area is glass photonics. Dr Ferrari is associate editor of Ceramics International and a member of the Advisory Board of Optical Materials. He is a coauthor of more than 500 publications and is an OPTICA and SPIE fellow.Anna Łukowiak is associate professor at the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She has a doctorate in chemistry. Her research interests are in glasses, nanoceramics, and carbon-based materials as photonic structures, Ln-doped nanocrystals, bioactive glasses, and GO antibacterial composites.Luigi Sirleto is a senior researcher at CNR. He is head of the Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics Laboratory at the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems “Eduardo Caianiello” and an associate editor of Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials. His main scientific interests are in nonlinear optics spectroscopy and microscopy and photonics devices. He is a coauthor of more than 200 publications.

• 1. Tailoring the Optical Properties of Optical Fiber with Nanoparticles 2. Inside the Wizard Sphere: Glass Microspheres and Their Application as Optical Source 3. Nonlinear Frequency Generation in Glass Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators 4. Nanostructured Glasses: Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Raman Gain Investigations 5. Stained Glass Revisited: Photovoltaics Meets Glass Photonics 6. Optical Biosensing with the Use of Glass Substrates 7. Glasses and Glass-Ceramics: Functionalization and Biomedical Applications 8. Additive Manufacturing of Transparent Ceramic Materials for Photonics