The research activities of the Nanodevices Research Group are focused on the development of micro- and nano-platforms and devices for different applications: from nano-optics to telecom, from holography to microscopy and astronomy, from biology to materials science.
The main research interests of the Nanodevices Research Group concern the following fields:
The Nanodevices Research Group has extensive experience in designing and fabricating diffractive optical elements for the generation and control of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light.
Metasurfaces have become one of the most rapidly expanding frontiers of nanophotonics in line for revolutionizing optics by displacing refractive and diffractive optics in many large-scale applications and creating entirely altogether new functionalities.
The Nanodevices Research Group is skilled to realize high-resolution optical elements to be integrated and positioned into compact optical devices like fiber connectors or next-generation switchers and routers for use both in classical and quantum communication.
The Nanodevices Research Group is equipped to manufacture all types of holographic elements for applications to certification and document security and for play purposes. We are specifically specialized in the fabrication of high-security optical elements, based on structured light, for anti-counterfeiting applications.
Multi-photon microscopy is a laser-scanning microscopy technique based on a nonlinear, strongly localized light-matter interaction, which depends on a higher power of the illumination intensity. The Nanodevices Research Group has access to a state-of-the-art custom developed multiphoton microscope capable of performing both traditional Two-Photon Microscopy (TPM) and cutting-edge Label-Free Microscopy (LFM), with the option to work at increased resolution via Two-Photon STED Microscopy.