Category: Press and Outreach

Nonlinear Optics 2019 at Hawaii launched !!!

The NLO 2019 OSA workshop has been launched. This is the periodical world-famous event on the last developments of nonlinear optics.

The NLO 2019 edition will be open to new directions as quantum nonlinear optics, machine learning, novel soft- and bio-materials, nanomedicine and imaging applications.

Stay tuned and do not miss the opportunity to visit Hawaii and enjoy an exciting scientific and natural environment.

The Bathynomus propinquus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

Testing the new Gutenberg editor of WordPress : the visit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

One of the most surprising animals of the last century : the Bathynomus propinquus.

Why this nice fluffy has such big eyes if he leaves in the soil of the dark deep ocean?

I first read about the giant isopod in the wonderful book “In the Blink of an Eye” by Andrew Parker, a surprising tour in evolution and the Cambrian explosion , see the enlightened game of life.

Recently, I was able to visit the Harvard Museum of Natural Hystory, where you find the footprints of writers and scientists as Stephen Jay Could, and you can meet the fluffy puppy above.

With a primitive fish (the one smiling but without glasses) at the Harvard Museum

Read many books for many years ! (and visit the museums)

Great success for Tailored Disorder at MRS 2018

The Tailored Disorder Symposium EP07 at the MRS FALL 2018 meeting received more than 80 papers, well beyond any expectation!

The symposium is organized by Z. Cordt, C. Conti, H. Cao and S. Mujumdar, and will be held in Boston from 25 to 30 November.

2018 MRS fall meeting Tailored Disorder : deadline for submission june 14

” Symposium EP07: Tailored Disorder─Novel Materials for Advanced Optics and Photonics” at the MRS Fall Meeting 2018 in Boston, USA.

Download the Call for Paper

Prize PREMIO FUTURO to Valentina Palmieri for antibacterial graphene

Valentina Palmieri wins the prize PREMIO FUTURO for the research on antibacterial coatings by graphene!!!

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MRS Fall : Tailored Disorder

11 February 2018

We are announcing the Tailored Disorder Symposium at the MRS (Material Research Society) Fall Meeting 2018 Disorder and perturbed periodicity in materials are in the process of becoming a vital research area that has started to show that optical media do not necessarily have to be regular. Photonic materials with deliberately introduced disorder in their respective geometries and compositions show interesting novel and tunable unforeseen properties. So far, countable scientific achievements have been reported in the areas of biology, materials science, nano-optics and -photonics that, however, already point towards a wealth of interesting effects with several applicative dimensions.

Quantum Gravity Slingshot

10 May 2018

Modified uncertainty principle and non-commutative variables may phenomenologically account for quantum gravity effects, independently of the considered theory of quantum gravity. We show that quantum fluids enable experimental analogs and direct tests of the modified uncertainty principle expected to be valid at the Planck scale. We consider a quantum clock realized by a long-lasting quantum fluid wave-packet orbiting in a trapping potential.

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6 August 2017

Optical parametric oscillators are widely-used pulsed and continuous-wave tunable sources for innumerable applications, as in quantum technologies, imaging and biophysics. A key drawback is material dispersion imposing the phase-matching condition that generally entails a complex setup design, thus hindering tunability and miniaturization. Here we show that the burden of phase-matching is surprisingly absent in parametric micro-resonators adopting monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides as quadratic nonlinear materials.