This book, devoted to glass photonics, is homage to Prof. Dr Giancarlo C. Righini on his 80th birthday. This milestone signifies a lifetime of rich scientific experiences and notable achievements in optics and photonics, with special regard to glass and other optical materials.
The book shows how glass photonics plays a crucial role in the current Age of Light. The former part of book focuses on photonic devices in fiber and integrated optics format. It discusses the basic aspects concerning linear and non-linear interactions of light with optical fibers with nanoparticles glasses, microspheres, particularly in the form of whispering gallery mode resonators, microbubble resonators, and nanostructured glasses, and the main application, which could lead to technological and scientific breakthroughs. In the latter part of the book, first, the potential use of glass-based light management technologies for the design of novel types of solar cells is illustrated. Then, the sensing devices based on glass substrates are described. Finally, additive manufacturing technologies in the production of transparent ceramic components are presented. The book provides both experts and newcomers a detailed view of a few subfields of research and development in peculiar properties of glasses and glass ceramics and glass-based devices.
This book, devoted to glass photonics, is homage to Prof. Dr Giancarlo C. Righini on his 80th birthday. This milestone signifies a lifetime of rich scientific experiences and notable achievements in optics and photonics, with special regard to glass and other optical materials.
1. Tailoring the Optical Properties of Optical Fiber with Nanoparticles
2. Inside the Wizard Sphere: Glass Microspheres and Their Application as
Optical Source
3. Nonlinear Frequency Generation in Glass Whispering Gallery
Mode Resonators
4. Nanostructured Glasses: Synthesis, Structural
Characterization and Raman Gain Investigations
5. Stained Glass Revisited:
Photovoltaics Meets Glass Photonics
6. Optical Biosensing with the Use of
Glass Substrates
7. Glasses and Glass-Ceramics: Functionalization and
Biomedical Applications
8. Additive Manufacturing of Transparent Ceramic
Materials for Photonics
Maurizio Ferrari, formerly director of research at the National Research Councils 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 ukowiak 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.
