Conference Agenda

Invited - Gain-controlled nonlinearities and interactions for complexity-driven photonic reservoir computing

Giulia Marcucci¹, Luana Olivieri², Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora²

1: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2: Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Resonant fully dielectric metasurfaces for ultrafast terahertz pulse generation

Luke Peters^1,2, Davide Rocco³, Luana Olivieri^1,2, Unai Arregui Leon⁴, Vittorio Cecconi¹, Luca Carletti³, Carlo Gigli⁵, Giuseppe Della Valle⁴, Antonio Cutrona^1,2, Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora^1,2, Giuseppe Leo⁵, Alessia Pasquazi^1,2, Costantino De Angelis³, Marco Peccianti^1,2

1: Emergent Photonics Research Centre, Dept. of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, England, UK; 2: Emergent Photonics Lab (Epic), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK; 3: University of Brescia, Department of Information Engineering, via Branze 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy; 4: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Physics, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy; 5: Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Cité and CNRS, 10 rue A. Domon et L. Duquet, 75013, Paris, France

Generating clean few-cycle pulses in an all-bulk multipass cell scheme

Victor Wilfried Segundo Staels¹, Enrique Conejero Jarque^1,2, Julio San Roman^1,2

1: Aplicaciones del Láser y Fotónica (ALF-USAL), Spain; 2: Unidad de Excelencia en Luz y Materia Estructuradas (LUMES), Spain

Solid and hollow whispering gallery mode resonators for all optical switch

Gabriele Frigenti¹, Daniele Farnesi¹, Stefano Pelli¹, Tatyana V. Murzina², Gualtiero Nunzi Conti¹, Silvia Soria¹

1: CNR-IFAC Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; 2: Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia

Frequency comb generation dynamics in χ(2) + χ(3) AlGaAs microresonators

Francesco Rinaldo Talenti^1,2, Luca Lovisolo^1,2, Andrea Gerini¹, Pedro Parra-Rivas³, Tobias Hansson⁴, Stefan Wabnitz^3,5, Laurent Vivien¹, Carlos Alonso-Ramos¹, Giuseppe Leo²

1: Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS, Palaiseau, France.; 2: Université de Paris Cité, Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Paris, France.; 3: Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Roma, Italy.; 4: Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.; 5: CNR-INO, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy.

Invited - Spectrally selective metasurfaces for spatially encoded light-matter coupling

Andreas Tittl

LMU Munich, Germany

Exceptional points with waveguide-coupled nanolasers

Guilhem Madiot¹, Patricia Loren¹, Alexandre Bazin², Quentin Chateiller², Isabelle Sagnes², Grégoire Beaudoin², Konstantinos Pantzas², Fabrice Raineri¹

1: Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Institut de Physique de Nice, 06200, Nice, France; 2: Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 10 Boulevard Thomas Gobert, 91120 Palaiseau, France

Maximizing Fluorescence Enhancement in Metal Nanoantenna Arrays for efficient bioanalytical devices

Daniela Lospinoso, Adriano Colombelli, Arianna Cretì, Maura Cesaria, Mauro Lomascolo, Roberto Rella, Maria Grazia Manera

CNR- IMM, Italy

Metasurface enabled vortex beams from Bloch Surface Wave manipulation

Niccolò Marcucci¹, Tianlong Guo², Matthieu Roussey², Emiliano Descrovi³

1: National Research Council (CNR), Italy; 2: University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Finland; 3: Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy

Hybrid nanophotonics with 2D semiconductors and dielectric Mie resonators

Luca Sortino

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Invited - Free space whispering gallery mode microlasers as highly sensitive biosensors

Stefano Ferretti¹, Angela Capocefalo², Maria Grazia Ceraolo³, Silvia Gentilini¹, Lorenzo Barolo⁴, Paola Baiocco⁴, Claudio Conti⁵, Barbara Cortese⁶, Claudia Bearzi⁷, Roberto Rizzi⁸, Neda Ghofraniha¹

1: National Research Council - Institute for Complex Systems (CNR-ISC), c/o Department of Physics, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy; 3: Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare INGM "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy; 4: Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli", University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy; 5: Department of Physics, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy; 6: National Research Council - Institute of Nanotechnology (CNR-Nanotec), c/o Department of Physics, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy; 7: National Research Council - Institute for Biomedical Technologies (CNR-ITB), Milan, Italy; 8: Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

Femtosecond laser ablation of 3D-printed PCL Scaffolds as a strategy to enhance bone tissue regeneration efficacy

Yago Radziunas-Salinas^1,3, Bastián Carnero^1,3, María Pita-Vilar^2,3, Lucía Aboal-Castro^2,3, Luis Antonio Díaz-Gómez^2,3, María Teresa Flores-Arias^1,3

1: Photonics4Life Research Group, Applied Physics Department, Facultade de Física and Facultade de Óptica e Optometría, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida, E15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.; 2: Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy, and Pharmaceutical Technology, I+D Farma (GI-1645), Facultade de Farmacia, and Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 3: Instituto de Materiales (iMATUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman spectroscopy analysis of breast cancer cell lines with different HER2 expression profiles

Sara Spziani^1,2, Alessandro Esposito³, Giovannina Barisciano⁴, Giuseppe Quero⁵, Manuela Leo⁴, Vittorio Colantuoni⁴, Maria Mangini², Marco Pisco^1,2, Lina Sabatino⁴, Anna Chiara De Luca³, Andrea Cusano^1,2

1: Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology (CeRICT Scrl), 82100, Benevento, Italy1; 2: Optoelectronic Division-Engineering Department, University of Sannio, 82100, Benevento, Italy; 3: Institute for Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology G. Salvatore, IEOS, second unit, 80131, Naples, Italy.; 4: Department of Sciences and Technologies, University of Sannio, 82100, Benevento, Italy; 5: Biosciences and Territory Department, University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, Italy

Precision localization of cellular proteins with fluorescent Fab-based probes

Vincenzo Manuel Marzullo¹, Federica Liccardo², Matteo Lo Monte¹, Giuseppe Palumbo³, Marko Lampe⁴, Giuseppe Coppola⁵, Alberto Luini¹

1: Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italia; 2: Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA; 3: Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (MMBM) School of Medicine, University Federico II, Napoli, Italia; 4: Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany; 5: Istituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italia

In-situ assessment of laser-chemically machined surfaces by means of an indirect optical measurement approach and scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy

Claudia Niehaves¹, Yasmine Bouraoui², Tim Radel², Andreas Tausendfreund¹, Andreas Fischer¹

1: University of Bremen, Germany; 2: BIAS, Germany

Invited - Bioluminescence biosensing platforms for One Health: from paper sensors to thread-based analytical devices

Elisa Michelini, Denise Gregucci, Faisal Nazir, Emanuela Maiorano, Maria Maddalena Calabretta

Università di Bologna, Italy

Elastomeric-coated FBGs for point-of-care diagnostics

Malhar Anupamratanshanker Nagar¹, Giovanni Mingoia^1,2, Davide Janner¹

1: Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; 2: Fondazione LINKS-Leading Innovation and Knowledge for Society, Turin, Italy

Microbubble resonators for photoacoustic and photothermal characterisation of nanoparticles suspensions

Gabriele Frigenti¹, Lucia Cavigli¹, Fulvio Ratto¹, Sonia Centi¹, Tupak Garcia-Fernandez², Daniele Farnesi¹, Stefano Pelli¹, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti¹, Silvia Soria¹

1: CNR-IFAC Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; 2: Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico, Prolongacion San Isidro 151, Colonia San Lorenzo Tezonco, Ciudad de Mexico C.P. 09790, Mexico

Superimposition technique of long period fiber gratings for simultaneous detection of refractive index and temperature

Cosimo Trono¹, Federico Valeri^1,2, Farncesco Baldini¹

1: Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; 2: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Doxorubicin detection through whispering gallery mode microresonators coated with polystyrene sulfonate

Elena Maurina¹, Algı Domac², Mateusz Olszyna², Lars Dähne², Giuseppe Barillaro¹

1: University of Pisa, Department of Information Engineering, Italy; 2: Surflay Nanotec GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Invited - Inflatable on-axis and off-axis space telescope designs

Daewook Kim^1,2,3, Youngsik Kim¹, Heejoo Choi^1,3, Yuzuru Takashima¹, Christopher Walker²

1: James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; 2: Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; 3: Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Mesh-based double-sided freeform lens optimization

Yuou Sun¹, Bailin Deng², Juyong Zhang¹

1: University of Science and Technology of China; 2: Cardiff University

Generating function approach for freeform two-reflector two-target system

P. A. Braam¹, J.H.M. ten Thije Boonkkamp¹, M.J.H. Anthonissen¹, W.L. IJzerman^1,2

1: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: Signify Research, Netherlands, The

Simultaneous atmospheric pressure plasma jet etching and laser irradiation for ultra-precise optical glass processing

Robert Heinke^1,2, Thomas Arnold^1,2, Martin Ehrhardt¹, Pierre Lorenz¹, Klaus Zimmer¹

1: Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Germany; 2: Institute of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Investigations into temperature measurement in a laser-based heating process of optical, machined components

Sebastian Henkel, Daniel Paul Knoche, Michael Güpner, Sarah Koch, Christian Schulze, Thekla Boeckh, Jens Bliedtner

Ernst-Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany

Invited - New Perspectives for attosecond Science at Free Electron Lasers

Giuseppe Sansone

University of Freiburg, Germany

The role of crystal orientation in attosecond photoinjection dynamics in germanium

Matteo Talarico¹, Nicola Di Palo¹, Lyudmyla Adamska², Simone Bonetti¹, Giacomo Inzani¹, Marta Arias Velasco³, Gian Luca Dolso¹, Rocío Borrego-Varillas³, Mauro Nisoli^1,3, Stefano Pittalis², Carlo Andrea Rozzi², Matteo Lucchini^1,3

1: Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 20133 Milano, Italy.; 2: CNR - Istituto Nanoscienze, via Campi 213/A, I-41125 Modena, Italy.; 3: Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy.

High-order harmonic generation from ultrafast matter Talbot effect

Luis Plaja, Ana García-Cabrera, Carlos Hernández-García

Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Modeling extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulses in modulated waveguides

Valer Tosa¹, Ana Maria Mihaela Gherman¹, Istvan Ferenc Toth¹, Rebeca Martinez Vazquez², Anna Gabriela Ciriolo², Alessio Nistico³, Salvatore Stagira³

1: National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Romania; 2: Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, National Research Council, Milano, Italy; 3: Politecnico di Milano, Physics Department, Milano, Italy

A UV-XUV attosecond beamline with few-femtosecond tunable ultraviolet pump pulses

Lorenzo Colaizzi¹, Daniele Mocci¹, Marta Pini¹, Nikoleta Kotsina², Joleik Nordmann², Chris Brahms², John Travers², Matteo Lucchini^1,3, Rocio Borrego-Varillas^1,3, Maurizio Reduzzi¹, Mauro Nisoli^1,3

1: Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy; 2: School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom; 3: Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy

Invited - From gradient index optics to tunable ENZ: an iontronic approach

Maria Antonietta Vincenti

University of Brescia, Italy

Origin of extrinsic chirality in metasurfaces and nanoholes fabricated by nanosphere lithography

Emilija Petronijevic¹, Tiziana Cesca², Carlo Scian², Giovanni Mattei², Roberto Li Voti¹, Concita Sibilia¹, Alessandro Belardini¹

1: SBAI Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Padova, via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy

Dewetted SiGe Mie Resonators: morphological and optical properties

Sonia Freddi¹, Nicoletta Granchi², Marco Salvalaglio³, Michele Gherardi⁴, Alexey Fedorov¹, Marco Abbarchi⁵, Alex Voigt³, Maria Antonietta Vincenti⁶, Francesca Intonti², Monica Bollani¹

1: Institute for photonics and nanotechnologies - CNR, Italy; 2: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; 3: Institute of Scientific Computing, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany; 4: Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; 5: Aix Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IM2NP Marseille, France; 6: Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Sensing temperature changes with hyperbolic meta-antennas

Nils Henriksson¹, Alessio Gabbani², Gaia Petrucci³, Denis Garoli⁴, Francesco Pineider², Nicolò Maccaferri¹

1: Umeå University, Sweden; 2: University of Pisa, Italy; 3: Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy; 4: University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy

Invited - Generalized angle-orbital-angular-momentum Talbot effect

Robert Fickler

Tampere University, Finland

Invited - Structured light in attoscience

Carlos Hernández-García

Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Closing the debate on the transverse orbital angular momentum of spatiotemporal optical vortices

Miguel Ángel Porras

Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Propagating parabolic rotational beams, new family of accelerated beams

Ernesto Espindola Ramos¹, Jesús Emmanuel Gómez Correa¹, José Adán Hernández Nolasco^1,2, Sabino Chávez Cerda¹

1: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico; 2: Academic Division of Information Science and Technology, Juarez Autonomous University of Tabasco, Mexico

Secure communication based on sensing of undetected photons

Jean Sternberg¹, Julien Voisin¹, Charline Roux¹, Yannick Chassagneux², Maria Amanti¹

1: Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (MPQ), Université Paris Cité, CNRS-UMR 7162, Paris 75013, France; 2: Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

Tailoring two-photon spontaneous emission: framework and nanoantenna design for interference and directionality

Steve Smeets, Bjorn Maes, Gilles Rosolen

Micro-and Nanophotonic Materials Group, Research Institute for Materials Science and Engineering, University of Mons, 20 Place du Parc, Mons B-7000, Belgium

Realizing non-Hermitian dynamics via non-unitary photonic quantum walks with structured light

Paola Savarese¹, Sarvesh Bansal¹, Maria Gorizia Ammendola¹, Francesco Di Colandrea¹, Lorenzo Amato¹, Raouf Barboza², Bruno Piccirillo¹, Lorenzo Marrucci¹, Filippo Cardano¹

1: Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy; 2: Dipartimento di Scienze e Ingegneria della Materia, dell’Ambiente ed Urbanistica, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Large-scale unitary maps based on spin-orbit photonic quantum walks

Maria Gorizia Ammendola, Francesco Di Colandrea, Lorenzo Marrucci, Filippo Cardano

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Invited - Tunable atomically-thin Metasurfaces exploiting 2D Exciton Polaritons

Thomas Bauer

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Probing Dirac plasmon polaritons in bismuth selenide coupled nano-antennas by terahertz near-field microscopy

Chiara Schiattarella¹, Leonardo Viti¹, Lucia Sichert², Valentino Pistore¹, Zhengtianye Wang³, Stephanie Law⁴, Oleg Mitrofanov⁵, Miriam S. Vitiello¹

1: NEST, CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 56127 Italy; 2: University of Regensburg, Department of Physics, Regensburg, 93053 Germany; 3: Pennsylvania State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University Park, PA, 16802 USA; 4: University of Delaware, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Newark, DE, 19716 USA; 5: University College London, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, London, WC1E 7JE UK

Light-matter coupling in high-Q factor van der Waals metasurfaces

Luca Sortino¹, Stefan Maier^2,3, Andreas Tittl¹

1: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany; 2: School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Australia; 3: Department of Physics, Imperial College London, LondonUnited Kingdom

Advanced vibrational spectroscopy of magnetite nanoparticles

Mireia Sainz-Menchón¹, Iñigo González de Arrieta¹, Telmo Echániz², Karam Nader³, Maite Insausti^3,4, Gabriel A. López¹

1: Physics Department, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), E-48940 Leioa, Spain; 2: Applied Mathematics, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), E-48013 Bilbao, Spain; 3: Departamento Química Orgánica e Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Spain; 4: BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, UPV/EHU Science Park, 48940 Leioa, Spain

Invited - Mode coupling and sensing in plasmonic layered structures

Zouheir Sekkat

MAScIR-UM6P, Morocco

Molecular aptamer beacon-based sers biosensor for the detection of nucleic acids

Sara Martino^1,2, Deniz Yilmaz^3,4, Alessandro Esposito³, Ambra Giannetti⁵, Gabriella Misso¹, Michele Caraglia¹, Anna Chiara De Luca³, Luca De Stefano², Ilaria Rea²

1: Dept. of Precision Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy; 2: Inst. of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems “Eduardo Caianiello”, Unit of Naples, CNR, 80131 Naples, Italy; 3: Inst. of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology “G. Salvatore”-Second Unit, CNR, 80131 Naples, Italy; 4: Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center, 34956, Istanbul, Turkey; 5: Inst. of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” (IFAC), (CNR), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy

Characterization of kuwait crude oil via terahertz frequency domain spectroscopy

Carlito Jr Salonga Ponseca

Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait

Plasmon resonance detection of gas adsorption isotherms

Lucrezia Catanzaro, Marcello Condorelli, Vittorio Scardaci, Giuseppe Compagnini

Department of Chemical Sciences, Catania University– Catania, Italy

Label-free scattering snapshot classification for living cell identification

David Dannhauser¹, Paolo Antonio Netti^1,2, Filippo Causa¹

1: Università degli studi di Napoli, Federico II; 2: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Advancing optical coherence tomography through opto-electronic frequency shifting

Dorian Robert Urban^1,2, Pavel Novak², Miguel Preciado², Tom Vettenburg¹

1: University of Dundee; 2: Optos plc

Delineation of fresh gastrointestinal tumor biopsies using a fiber-based fluorescence lifetime imaging probe

Dafne Suraci¹, Luca Tirloni², Enrico Baria³, Joao Lagarto⁴, Serena Pillozzi⁵, Lorenzo Antonuzzo^6,7, Antonio Taddei^2,6, Riccardo Cicchi^1,8

1: National Institute of Optics, National Research Council; 2: Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery, Careggi University Hospital; 3: Department of Physics, University of Florence; 4: Biophotonics Platform, Champalimaud Foundation; 5: Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences 'Mario Serio', University of Florence; 6: Department of Experimental Clinical Medicine, University of Florence; 7: Clinical Oncology Unit, Careggi University Hospital; 8: European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS)

Analysis of imaging modalities for classification of tumoral vs. normal tissues using an FD-FLIM based MMF endoscopy probe

Victoria Alexandrine Fay

Laboratory of Applied Photonics Devices, Switzerland

Side-scattering spectroscopy of biological aggregates

Zita Salajkova^1,2, Lorenzo Barolo³, Paola Baiocco³, Barbara Ruzicka⁴, Alberto Boffi^1,3, Vincenzo Ricco², Giancarlo Ruocco^1,4, Marco Leonetti^2,5

1: Center for Life Nano- and Neuro-Science, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Regina Elena 291, 00161, Rome, Italy; 2: D-TAILS srl, Via di Torre Rossa, 66, 00165, Rome, Italy; 3: Department of Biochemical Sciences “Alessandro Rossi Fanelli”, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.; 4: Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy; 5: Institute of Nanotechnology of the National Research Council of Italy, CNR-NANOTEC, Rome Unit, Piazzale A. Moro 5, I-00185, Rome, Italy

Raman and Polarization-sensitive digital holographic imaging for rapid and label-free prostate cancer diagnosis

Hossein Khadem¹, Maria Antonietta Ferrara², Maria Mangini¹, Alberto Luini¹, Giuseppe Coppola², Anna Chiara De Luca¹

1: Institute for the Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology “G. Salvatore”, Secondary Unit, National Research Council, Naples, Italy; 2: Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council, Naples, Italy

Evolution of the optical scattering properties of blood plasma during clot formation

Lea Abi nassif¹, Wadih Khater^1,3, Fabrice Pellen¹, Bernard Le jeune¹, Marie Abboud², Benjamin Espinasse³, Guy Le brun¹

1: Laboratoire OPTIMAG, Université de Bretagne Occidentale - UBO, France; 2: Université Saint Joseph - USJ, Liban; 3: GETBO, Université de Bretagne Occidentale - UBO, France

Invited - Polarization optical design in AR/VR product development

Hannah Noble

Meta, United States of America

Enhanced imaging of Subsurface Damage in optical glass SF6 with Optical Coherence Tomography using KOH wet etching

Samson Frank¹, Wei Zhang¹, Dennis Thelemann¹, Oliver Elies¹, Thomas Arnold^2,3, Jens Bliedtner¹

1: Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of SciTec, 07745 Jena, Germany; 2: Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), 04318 Leipzig, Germany; 3: TU Dresden, Institute of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Fabrication of low-cost free-form optical elements with standard LCD 3D printer for advanced opto-sensing and imaging applications

Maria Amparo Hernandez Garcia, Jérémy Bell, Knut Rurack

Bundesanstalt für Materialforchung und prüfung, Germany

Light Scattering of optical Components and their Imperfections: Measurement, Modelling, and System Analysis

Tobias Herffurth, Christian Mühlig, Anne-Sophie Munser, Sven Schröder

Fraunhofer IOF, Germany

Tailored high-end optics with focussed ion beams

Christian Schindler, Steffen Gürtler, Christian Kettmann

Bühler Alzenau GmbH, Germany

Invited - Integrating optical nanofibres with cold rubidium ground-state and Rydberg atoms

Sile Nic Chormaic

OIST Graduate University, Japan

The radial memory effect

Ulas Gokay, David Phillips, Jacopo Bertolotti

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Brillouin gain measurement in silica optical nanofibers

Jean-Charles Beugnot¹, Maxime Zerbib¹, Kien Phan Huy², Thibaut Sylvestre¹

1: FEMTO-ST/CNRS, France; 2: SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM, 25000 Besançon, France

Study of self-heated tapered silica microfibers by laser in air

Ludivine Liss¹, Yanis Abdedou¹, Ruiling Weng¹, Pierre Jeunesse¹, Christophe Hecquet¹, Florence Nogrette¹, Philippe Delaye¹, Mondher Besbes¹, Jérôme Salvi², Jean-Charles Beugnot², Sylvie Lebrun¹

1: Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, France; 2: Institut Femto-ST, CNRS, Université Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon, Franc

Optical fiber meta-tips based on holey metasurface for wavefront manipulation

Maria Principe¹, Patrizio Vaiano¹, Gaia Berruti¹, Alberto Micco², Marco Consales¹, Andrea Cusano¹

1: Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy; 2: Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology, CeRICT scrl, 82100 Benevento, Italy

Rapid thermal annealing of chalcogenide thin films for mid-infrared sensing and nonlinear photonics

Tomáš Halenkovič¹, Jan Gutwirth¹, Stanislav Šlang², Radwan Chahal³, Abdelali Hammouti⁴, Joel Charrier⁴, Petr Němec¹, Virginie Nazabal^3,1

1: Department of Graphic Arts and Photophysics, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czechia; 2: Center of Materials and Nanotechnologies, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czechia; 3: Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes)–UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France; 4: Univ Rennes, CNRS, Institut Foton - UMR 6082, F-22305 Lannion, France

Random Laser and Replica Symmetry Breaking in SiO2-Rhodamine 6G xerogel powder

Josivanir Gomes Câmara¹, Davinson Mariano da Silva², Stefano Ferretti³, Silvia Gentilini³, Claudio Conti⁴, Neda Ghofraniha³

1: University of São Paulo, Brazil; 2: Faculty of Technology of São Paulo, Brazil; 3: Institute for Complex Systems, CNR (CNR-ISC); 4: Department of Physics, La Sapienza University

UV coatings using Ta2O5-SiO2 quantized nanolaminates

Manuel Bärtschi¹, Stephan Waldner², Fabian Steger¹, Thomas Frei², Silvia Schwyn Thöny², Xavier Maeder³

1: 1RhySearch, Institute for optical coatings and characterization, Switzerland; 2: Evatec Ltd., Switzerland; 3: EMPA, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials & Nanostructures, Switzerland

Fast thickness mapping of large-area exfoliated two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides by imaging spectroscopic ellipsometry

Ermes Peci¹, Nicolò Petrini^1,2,3, Nicola Curreli^2,3,4, Emma Spotorno¹, Nastaran Kazemi Tofighi², Michele Magnozzi^1,5, Francesco Scotognella⁶, Ilka Kriegel², Francesco Bisio⁷

1: Università di Genova, Italy; 2: Functional Nanosystems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy; 3: Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States; 4: Laboratory for Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland; 5: Sezione di Genova, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; 6: Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 7: CNR-SPIN, Italy

Invited - Paraxial and non-paraxial optical skyrmions

Jörg Götte, Zhujun Ye, Amy McWilliam, Claire Cisowski, Fiona Speirits, Sonja Franke-Arnold, Stephen Barnett

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Holographic fabrication of reconfigurable diffractive elements

Franscesco Reda¹, Marcella Salvatore¹, I Komang Januariyasa¹, Fabio Borbone², Stefano Luigi Oscurato¹

1: Physics Department "E.Pancini", University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 2: Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Exploiting SPDC of photons in polarization singular modes to generate heralded-single photons in remotely controlled topological classes

Samuel Corona Aquino¹, Zeferino Ibarra-Borja¹, Omar Calderòn-Losada², Bruno Piccirillo^3,4, Verònica Vicuña-Hernández^3,5, Tonatiuh Moctezuma-Quistian¹, Hector Cruz-Ramírez¹, Dorilian Lopez-Mago⁶, Alfred B. U’Ren¹

1: Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-543, 04510 Cd. Mx., MéxicoUniversity of Naples Federico II, Italy; 2: Centro de Investigacion e Innovación en Bioinformatica y Fotonica, Edificio E20 No. 1069, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, 760042, Colombia; 3: Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini”, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, 80126, Italy; 4: INFN, Sez. di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, via Cinthia, 80126 Napoli, Italy; 5: CNR-INO, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy; 6: Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L. 64849, Mexico

Optical aberrations and vector beams as a tool for hollow structured light generation

Miroslav Sulc^1,2, Jean-Christophe Gayde³, Krystof Polak^1,3

1: Technical University of Liberec, 46117 Liberec, Czech Republic; 2: Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic; 3: CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Polarization diffractive elements analyzed with the Fourier transform Jones matrix and with the beam coherence polarization matrix

David Marco¹, María del Mar Sánchez-López¹, Juan Campos², Angel Lizana², Ignacio Moreno¹

1: Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain; 2: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain