Electromagnetic Fields and Photonics Group
Nanophotonics:

Our efforts are devoted to conceive new devices able to foster light-matter interactions at the nanoscale to facilitate the generation, propagation, manipulation, and detection of light from the infrared to the ultraviolet.
Envisaged applications and goals range from small scale photon sources and on-chip light modulators to solar cells and spectroscopy.
Main research topics:
- Photonics in two-dimensional materials;
- Plasmonics;
- Plasmonics;
- Dielectric optical antennas;
- Photonic crystal and microstructure fibers;
- Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale.
- Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale.

Our current main activities are focused in nonlinear optical processes, where “light acts on itself” inside suitable materials.
This includes applications to all-optical photonic devices, imaging, and quantum optics.
Main research topics:
- Supercontinuum generation.
- Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale.
- Nonlinear dynamics of epsilon-near-zero materials.
Antennas and Microwaves:

Our attention has been focused on increasing the directivity of compact antennas printed on low-cost substrates. State of the art solutions based on electromagnetic bandgap metamaterials and unconventional plastic substrates are also investigated.
Main research topics:
- Printed antennas for WLAN and UWB;
- Antennas for RFID;
- Feeding networks for printed antennas;
- Electromagnetic bandgap devices.
Optical Communications:

Main research topics:
- Optical frequency combs;
- Spatio-temporal nonlinear effects in multimode fibers;
- Ultrashort pulse generation and fiber laser dynamics;
- Nonlinearity compensation in optical communication systems.