1st Edition
Glass Photonics Materials, Properties, and Applications
1. Tailoring the Optical Properties of Optical Fiber with Nanoparticles
Wilfried Blanc, Laeticia Petit, and John Ballato
2. Inside the Wizard Sphere: Glass Microspheres and Their Application as Optical Source
Simone Berneschi, Francesco Baldini, Daniele Farnesi, Gabriele Frigenti, Ambra Giannetti, Stefano Pelli, Silvia Soria, Sara Tombelli, Cosimo Trono, and Gualtiero Nunzi Conti
3. Nonlinear Frequency Generation in Glass Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators
Gabriele Frigenti, Daniele Farnesi, Xavier Rosello-Mecho, Martina Delgado-Pinar, Miguel V. Andres, Stefano Pelli, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, and Silvia Soria
4. Nanostructured Glasses: Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Raman Gain Investigations
Pasquale Pernice, Luigi Sirleto, Alessandro Vergara, and Antonio Aronnne
5. Stained Glass Revisited: Photovoltaics Meets Glass Photonics
Sandile Kumalo, Francis Otieno, Nhluvuko Mayimele, Daniel Wamwangi, and Alexander Quandt
6. Optical Biosensing with the Use of Glass Substrates
Sara Tombelli and Ambra Giannetti
7. Glasses and Glass-Ceramics: Functionalization and Biomedical Applications
Giorgio Speranza
8. Additive Manufacturing of Transparent Ceramic Materials for Photonics
Jan Hostasa, Rakesh Kumar Pandey, Alex Sangiorgi, and Laura Esposito
Biography
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.
