Symposium CL
Inorganic Materials Systems
for Optical and Photonic Applications
Advisory Board
Invited Lectures
Inorganic Materials Systems
for Optical and Photonic Applications
Advisory Board
Invited Lectures
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Optical materials and photonic structures are among the forefront enabling technologies to address successfully social-economical challenges that we are facing in many fields going from health care to security, from energy production and saving to efficient and clean industrial cycles, from environmental protection to fast and efficient communications.
This symposium is to provide insight into the fabrication, characterisation and exploitation of inorganic optical materials and photonic structures based on ceramics (oxides, oxinitrides, fluorides, sulphides, etc..), oxide-organic hybrids, inorganic non-metallic glasses, and ceramic/metal and glass/metal combinations in the form of nanostructured bulk and graded materials and coatings, fibres, thin films and other small confined systems, nanomaterials, nanocomposites and functional nanoparticles.
Focus will be on fundamental principles, modelling, and fabrication technologies of novel adaptive and active material systems for the intelligent management of light including e.g. luminescent and laser materials, smart optical fibres, active plasmonic heterostructures and optical metamaterials, novel confined nano-microstructures, etc. with the aim of underlying possible convergences and interactions among them.
Session Topics
CL-1 Optical materials and photonic structures
- Optically active colloidal nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nano-micro cavities...
- Nanostructured materials, biomimetic and bio-inspired optically active nanostructures
- Plasmonic nanostructures
- Photonic metamaterials
- Luminescent/chromogenic materials
- Transparent ceramics, electro-optical and magneto-optical ceramics, laser materials, optical fibers, waveguides
- Advanced processing (self assembly, particle beams, colloidal processing..)
- Non linear optical properties, tunability
- Nanosize effects on optical properties
- Theory, modelling and simulation of materials and processes
CL-2 Advances in characterization techniques
- Synchroton radiation based technologies (NEXAFS, XANES, XPS..)
- Scanning Probe microscopies, confocal microscopy, SNOM
- Interferometer techniques for imaging and testing
- SERS, CARS, Raman, Brillouin and optical spectroscopies
- THz spectroscopies
- Advanced imaging techniques
- Innovative tools
CL-3 Light management for active applications
- Scintillators
- Phosphors
- Frequency conversion
- Laser actions, amplifiers
- Integrated optics
- Sensing
- Luminescent systems
- Imaging
- Switches, modulators
CL-4 R& Advances in research and applications
- Solid state lighting, displays
- Optical communications
- Superlensing, cloaking
- Bioimaging
- Healthcare
- Clean energy
- Aerospace, defence, security
- Structural health monitoring
- Laser assisted manufacturing and micro/nano fabrication...