Tuesday 8 September
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Plenary Session Conference Chair: Annamaria Cucinotta – University of Parma 8:30 – 8:45 |
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Session A1 - Plasmons and Metamaterials 8:45 – 9:35 Chair: Ivo Rendina |
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8:45 – 8:55 “STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE THE PHOTOSTABILITY OF PLASMONIC PARTICLES” Fulvio Ratto1*, Lucia Cavigli1, Sonia Centi1, Boris Khlebtsov2, Alessio Milanesi1,3, Claudia Borri1, Patrizia Bogani4, Nikolai Khlebtsov2,5, Roberto Pini1 1 Istituto di Fisica Applicata ‘Nello Carrara’, CNR, Via Madonna del Piano, 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy 2 Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganism, RAS, 13 Prospekt Entuziastov, Saratov 410049, Russia 3 Dipartimento di Chimica ‘Ugo Schiff’, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia, 3-13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy 4 Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano, 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy 5 Saratov State University, 83 Ulitsa Astrakhanskaya, Saratov 410026, Russia * f.ratto@ifac.cnr.it |
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We discuss strategies to improve the stability of photoacoustic conversion from gold nanorods by protecting their shape against overheating by the use of various containment shells, or the implementation of concepts for faster heat dissipation. |
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8:55 – 9:05 “NANOSCALE IMAGING OF PLASMON-EXCITON COUPLING IN AU-ZNO TETRAPODS” Giovanni Bertoni1, Filippo Fabbri2, Marco Villani3, Laura Lazzarini3, Stuart Turner4, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo4, Davide Calestani3, Silvija Gradečak5, Andrea Zappettini3, Giancarlo Salviati3 * 1 CNR-NANO c/o UNIMORE, Via Giuseppe Campi, 213, 41125 Modena MO, Italy * giancarlo.salviati@cnr.it We show nanoscale spectroscopy and mapping of plasmon-excition coupling in Au/ZnO nanostructure by STEM-EELS and STEM-CL. Interestingly, the Au plasmon resonance is localized at Au/vacuum interface, while the ZnO signal is localized inside Au nanoparticle. 9:05 – 9:15 “MONOLITHIC LITHIUM NIOBATE METASURFACES FOR MAGNETIC-DIPOLE DRIVEN SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION” L. Carletti 1,2,3,*, A. Zilli 4, F. Moia 5, A. Toma 5, M. Finazzi 4, M. Celebrano 4, C. De Angelis2, D. N. Neshev 3 1 Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/a, Padova 35131, Italy 3 Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 4 Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy 5 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego, 30 16163 Genova, Italy We demonstrate monolithic lithium niobate metasurfaces for enhanced second-harmonic generation in the visible spectrum. We predict a conversion efficiency up to 5×10-5, enabling applications to novel nonlinear and quantum light sources. 9:15 – 9:25 “HYPERBOLIC METASURFACES BY SELF-ASSEMBLED DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS” Angelo Angelini1, Irdi Murataj1,2, Marwan Channab1,2, Eleonora Cara1, Natascia De Leo1, Candido Fabrizio Pirri2, Luca Boarino1, Federico Ferrarese Lupi1 1 Advanced materials metrology and life sciences, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, Torino IT – 10135, Italy 2 Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino IT – 10129, Italy *a.angelini@inrim.it
“ULTRAFAST DICHROISM VIA PHOTOINDUCED SYMMETRY-BREAKING IN PLASMONIC METASURFACES” Andrea Schirato1,3, Margherita Maiuri1,2, Andrea Toma3, Remo Proietti Zaccaria3,4, Paolo Laporta1,2, Peter Nordlander5,6, Giulio Cerullo1,2, Alessandro Alabastri5, Giuseppe Della Valle1,2* 1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy 2 Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, CNR, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy 3 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, I-16136 Genova, Italy 4 Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1219 Zhangguan West Road, Ningbo 315201, China 5 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005 6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX *giuseppe.dellavalle@polimi.it We theoretically predict and show by ultrafast pump-probe experiments a sub-picosecond transient dichroism in a plasmonic metasurface driven by the inhomogeneous space-time dynamics of the photogenerated hot carriers. |
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Session B1 - Photonics for Cultural Heritage 1 Chair: Daniela Comelli 8:45 – 9:40 |
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8:45 – 8:55 “COMBINED PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING TO DELINEATE THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF PAINTINGS” Alice Dal Fovo1*, George J. Tserevelakis2, Krystalia Melessanaki2, Athanasia Papanikolaou2, Giannis Zacharakis2, Raffaella Fontana1 1 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche—Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (CNR-INO), Largo Enrico Fermi 6, 50125, Firenze, Italy 2 Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL-FORTH), N. Plastira 100, Heraklion, Crete, Greece *alice.dalfovo@ino.it Photoacoustic methods are tested for the 3D survey of painting artworks to achieve both the micrometric cross-sectional measurement of pictorial layers and the visualization of hidden underdrawings in a non-invasive way. 8:55 – 9:05 “MORE THAN IMAGES: HOW MA-XRF MAPS AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES WORK TOGETHER IN THE STUDY OF PAINTING MATERIALS” Anna Galli1,2*, Michele Caccia2, Simone Caglio2, Letizia Bonizzoni3, Michele Gironda4, Roberto Alberti4, Marco Martini2 1 CNR-IBFM, via Fratelli Cervi 93, Segrate (MI), Italy 2 Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, via R. Cozzi 55, Milano, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo Pontremoli”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, Milano, Italy 4 XGLab-Bruker Nano Analytics, via Conte Rosso 53, Milano, Italy *anna.galli@unimib.it
9:05 – 9:15 “IMAGE DATA FUSION APPLIED TO THE RECOGNITION OF PICTORIAL LAYERS” Giuseppe Bonifazi1, Giuseppe Capobianco1*, Rosalba Calvini2, Silvia Serranti1* 1 Department of Chemical Engineering Materials & Environment (DICMA), La Sapienza – Rome University, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy 001842 2 Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Pad. Besta - Via Amendola, 2, 42122, Reggio Emilia, Italy *giuseppe.capobianco@uniroma1.it Painting materials were investigated through two hyperspectral cameras adopting a data fusion approach, allowing to identify and characterize the pigment materials in a rapid, non-invasive and reliable way. 9:15 – 9:25 “VIS-NIR REFLECTANCE SPECTRA CLASSIFIER FOR PIGMENTS IN THE MOBARTECH PROJECT” Letizia Bonizzoni1*, Jacopo Melada1, Rebecca Bonini1, Ambra Cattaneo1, Marco Gargano1, Emanuela Grifoni1, Nicola Ludwig1 1 Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo Pontremoli”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, Milano, Italy *letizia.bonizzoni@mi.infn.it The present work presents the preliminary outcome of one of the tasks inside the MOBARTECH project; in detail, the creation of the prototype for a compact FORS spectrophotometer capable of automatically identifying pigments and dyes. 9:25 – 9:40 Invited paper: “PHOTONICS AND MATERIAL HISTORY: INSIGHTS INTO OUR PAINTED HERITAGE” Austin Nevin*1, Victoria Skallenberg1, Marta Ghirardello2, Maria Teresa Pullano3, Ravit Linn4, Iacopo Osticioli5, Gianluca Valentini2, Daniela Comelli2 1 Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 130, 40530, Göteborg, Sweden 2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy 3 Göteborg Museum of Art, Götaplatsen 6, 412 56 Göteborg, Sweden 4 The Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel Haifa 3498838, Israel 5 IFAC-CNR, Via Madonna del Piano, 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Firenze, Italy *austin.nevin@gu.se |
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9:45 – 10:00 Break
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Session A2 - Optical Sensing I: Physical sensing 10:00 – 11.20 Chair: Francesco Baldini |
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10:00 – 10:10 “ENHANCING THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF CHIRPED-PULSE PHASE- SENSITIVE OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY USING DIGITAL SUB-BAND SIGNAL PROCESSING” Marcelo A. Soto1*, Leonardo Marcon2, Miguel Soriano-Amat3, Luis Costa3, Hugo F. Martins4, Luca Palmieri2, Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez3 1 Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, 2390123 Valparaíso, Chile 2 Department of Information Engineering - University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6/B, 35131 Padova (PD), Italy 3 Departamento de Electrónica, Universidad de Alcalá, Edificio Politécnico, Madrid 28871, Spain 4 Instituto de Óptica “Daza de Valdés”, IO-CSIC, C/Serrano 121, Madrid 28006, Spain *marcelo.sotoh@usm.cl A method based on digital filtering and an additional optical carrier is here proposed to enhance the spatial resolution of chirped pulse ϕ-OTDR distributed sensors. Results demonstrate a 10-fold resolution improvement with minimum SNR impact.
10:10 – 10:20 “INNOVATIVE CABLE DESIGN FOR DISTRIBUTED SENSING APPLICATIONS BASED ON STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING” Filippo Bastianini1, Paweł Bocheński2, Raffaella Di Sante3, Francesco Falcetelli3, Diego Marini4, Gabriele Bolognini4* 1 SestoSensor S.r.l., via Gesso 140, Zola Predosa 40069, Italy 2 Fibrain Sp. z.o.o., Wspólna 4A, Rzeszów 35-205, Poland; 3 Dept. of Industrial Engineering - DIN, Univ. of Bologna, via Fontanelle 40, Forlì 47100, Italy 4 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IMM Institute, via Piero Gobetti 101, Bologna 40129, Italy; *bolognini@bo.imm.cnr.it An innovative optical fibre cable designed for Brillouin sensing applications is presented. The stages of the project are discussed, and the cable performance are tested through numerical modelling and experiments. 10:20 – 10:30 “BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS EMPLOYING A DOUBLY RESONANT SHORT CAVITY FIBER RING LASER WITH ACTIVE STABILIZATION” L. Rossi1,2, D. Marini1, F. Bastianini3, G. Bolognini1* 1 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IMM Institute, 101 via P. Gobetti, 40129 Bologna Italy 2 Università degli Studi di Bologna, 40129 Bologna, Italy 3 Sestosensor S.r.l., 34 via A. Calzolari, 40128 Bologna Italy *bolognini@bo.imm.cnr.it We employ a new Brillouin ring laser (BRL) source based on an actively stabilized doubly resonant short cavity layout for Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensing. Compared to BRL designs that we have previously demonstrated, it presents improved SNR, lower spectral bandwidth and pump-probe frequency shift values with high temporal stability. 10:30 – 10:40 “SUPERIMPOSED LONG PERIOD GRATINGS OBTAINED BY DISCRETIZED SINUSOIDAL REFRACTIVE INDEX PATTERN” Cosimo Trono1*, Federico Valeri1,2, Francesco 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 *c.trono@ifac.cnr.it A novel technique for the inscription of superimposed long period gratings with arbitrary grating pitches, based on the discretization of an ideal continuous sinusoidal refractive index pattern is proposed and experimentally validated. 10:40 – 10:50 “STRUCTURAL VIBRATION SENSING IN A DEPLOYED PON INFRASTRUCTURE” Ilaria Di Luch1*, Maddalena Ferrari1, Pierpaolo Boffi1, Giuseppe Rizzelli2, Haoyi Wang2, Roberto Gaudino2 1. Politecnico di Milano - PoliCom Lab, Dipartimento di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy 2. Politecnico di Torino – Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, Italy *ilaria.diluch@polimi.it Deployed Passive Optical Network (PON) infrastructures are proved to potentially support remote structural vibration monitoring while simultaneously downstreaming 10Gbit NRZ transmission
10:50 – 11:00 “RADIATION DOSE MONITORING USING OFDR AND ENHANCED BACKSCATTERING OPTICAL FIBERS” Massimo Olivero1*, Alessandro Mirigaldi1, Wilfried Blanc2, Mourad Benabdesselam2, Franck Mady2, Carlo Molardi3, Daniele Tosi3, Alberto Vallan1, Guido Perrone1 1 Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy 2 Universitè Côte d'Azur - CNRS, Nice, France 3 Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan *massimo.olivero@polito.it An in-situ real-time dosimeter capable of evaluating both the cumulative dose and the radiation intensity profile is demonstrated using an enhanced back-scattering optical fibre interrogated with a high-resolution optical back-scattering reflectometer. Particular interesting are possible applications in the biomedical field, such as in tumour therapy. 11:00 – 11:10 “AN OPTICAL FIBRE CABLE FOR DISTRIBUTED PRESSURE SENSING WITH HIGH RESOLUTION AND SENSITIVITY” Luca Schenato1*, Riccardo Veronese2, Alessandro Pasuto1, Andrea Galtarossa2, Luca Palmieri2 1 Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, I-35137 Padova ITALY 2 Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, I-35121 Padova, ITALY *luca.schenato@cnr.it In this work, we present an optical fibre cable for distributed pressure sensing employing standard single-mode fibres. The cable can be interrogated with a distributed strain sensing interrogator, either based on Rayleigh or Brillouin scattering. By using an optical frequency domain reflectometer with 1 με of strain resolution on a cable prototype, we found that the spatial resolution is approx. 8.5 cm, and the pressure resolution and accuracy are approximately 5 Pa and 10 hPa, respectively.
11:10 – 11:20 “DETECTING DEBRIS FLOWS BY DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING” Luca Schenato1*, Pia R. Tecca1, Andrea M. Deganutti1, Hugo F. Martins2, Andrés García-Ruiz2, María del Rosario Fernández-Ruiz2, Sonia Martín-López2, Francesco Zarattini3, Antonio Pol3, Fabio Gabrieli3, Riccardo Veronese4, Gianluca Guerra4, Gianluca Marcon4, Andrea Galtarossa4, Alessandro Pasuto1, Miguel González-Herráez2, Luca Palmieri4 1 Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, I-35137 Padova ITALY 2 Department of Electronics, University of Alcalá, E-28805 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain 3 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, ITALY 4 Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, I-35121 Padova, ITALY *luca.schenato@cnr.it In this work, we have monitored some debris flows in an artificial inclined flume, instrumented with approx. 800 m of fiber, wound in 20 coils. The fiber was interrogated using a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system based on a chirped-pulses phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer and the acquired signals were analyzed confirming the viability of DAS for debris flows monitoring. |
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Session B2 - Optical Networking Techniques 10:00 – 11:20 Chair: Paolo Serena |
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10:00 – 10:15 Invited paper: “SMART-A: AN SDN APPLICATION FOR RECONFIGURING OPTICAL NETWORKS” Annalisa Morea, Nokia Italia, Vimercate (MB), Italy
10:15 – 10:30 Invited paper: "OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS FOR SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS" Liam Barry, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
10:30 – 10:40 “OPENROADM-CONTROLLED SILICON PHOTONICS INTEGRATED RECONFIGURABLE SWITCH MATRIX” Andrea Sgambelluri1, Philippe Velha1, Claudio J. Oton1, Alessio Giorgetti1, Antonio D’Errico2, Stefano Stracca2, Filippo Cugini3* 1: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy 2: Ericsson 3: CNIT, Pisa, Italy * filippo.cugini@cnit.it A fully packaged photonic integrated switch matrix including 1398 circuit elements interconnected in a 3-D stack is controlled through OpenROADM NETCONF/YANG Agent and experimentally validated in an ONOS-based SDN testbed encompassing OpenConfig-driven 100G pol-mux transponders. 10:40 – 10:50 “A NEW DEFRAGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR DYNAMIC OPTICAL NETWORKS” Marta Buffa1*, Annalisa Morea1, Federica Poli2, Andrea Paparella1 1 Nokia Italy, Vimercate (MB), Italy 2 Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Parma, Italy *marta.buffa@nokia.com Three different strategies are proposed to mitigate the fragmentation issue and minimize the amount of occupied resources in dynamic optical networks. Strategies with rerouting accommodate up to 7% further traffic with respect to recoloring strategies. 10:50 – 11:00 “NETWORK ELEMENTS BASED ON A MODULAR APPROACH FOR MULTI-TB/S SUSTAINABLE MANs” P. Parolari1*, A. Gatto1, M. Rapisarda1, C. Neumeyr2, M. Svaluto Moreolo3, L. Nadal3, J. M. Fabrega3, N. Calabretta4, R. Stabile4, N. Tessema4, G. Delrosso5, S. Bhat5, P. Boffi1 1 Politecnico di Milano, Dip. di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, via G. Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy 2 Vertilas GmbH, Daimlerstr. 11d, D-85748 Garching, Germany 3 Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain 4 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Electrical Engineering Department, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5 VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland *paola.parolari@polimi.it The H2020 research project PASSION proposes an innovative photonic modular approach for the implementation of metropolitan area network elements, developing a photonic integrated transmitter with multi-Tb/s capacity and a switching node architecture featuring different levels of aggregation. 11:00 – 11:10 “CURRENT TRENDS TOWARDS PON SYSTEMS AT 50+ GBPS” R. Gaudino1*, P. Torres-Ferrera1, H. Wang1, M. Valvo2, A. Pagano2, R. Mercinelli2, V. Ferrero1 1 Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino (TO), Italy, roberto.gaudino@polito.it 2 Telecom Italia (TIM), Via Reiss Romoli 274, 10148 Torino (TO), Italy Next generation PON physical layer will target 50 Gbit/s/lambda while using significant lower bandwidth transceivers. In this paper, we review our results on best modulation formats and equalization strategies. 11:10 – 11:20 “NGAN OPTICAL NETWORKS: CONSTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURES AND EVOLUTION OF OPTICAL CABLES” |
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11:20 – 11:45 Break
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Session A3 - Biomedical applications 11:45 – 12:50 Chair: Fulvio Ratto |
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11:45 – 12:00 Invited paper: “NANOPHOTONICS FOR PRECISION MEDICINE: THE HOSPITAL IN THE NEEDLE AND A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE” Antonello Cutolo, Università Federico II, Napoli
12:00 – 12:10 “CIS-TRANS PHOTODYNAMICS OF BENZODIAZOPYRROLE DERIVATIVES IN VIEW OF BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS” Carlo Altucci1,5*, Concetta Imperatore2, Mohammadhassan Valadan1, Luciana Tartaglione2,3, Marco Persico2, Anna Ramunno4, Marialuisa Menna2, Marcello Casertano2, Carmela Dell’Aversano2,3, Manjot Singh1, Maria Luisa d’Aulisio Garigliota4, Francesco Bajardi1,5, Elena Morelli2, Caterina Fattorusso2, Michela Varra2* 1 Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples 80126, Italy 2 Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples 80131, Italy 3 CoNISMa – Italian Interuniversitary Consortium on Marine Sciences, Rome 00196, Italy 4 Department of Pharmacy/DIFARMA, University of Salerno, Salerno 84084, Italy 5 INFN- Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Section of Naples, Naples 80126, Italy *carlo.altucci@unina.it, *michela.varra@unina.it Benzodiazopyrrole derivatives have been reported as microtubules targeting agents on colon cancer cells. Their irradiation at 435 nm is related to trans/cis isomerization and degree of cell growth inhibition. An investigation of their photo-responsive behaviour at different pH is reported. 12:10 – 12:20 “OPTICAL SETUP FOR SPECROSCOPY-BASED MONITORING OF BLOOD PARAMETERS DURING HAEMODIALYSIS” Cristoforo Decaro1*, Giovanni Battista Montanari2, Alessio Giberti2, Riccardo Molinari3, Davide Bagnoli4, Marco Bianconi2, Gaetano Bellanca1 1 Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara,Via Saragat 1, 44122, Ferrara, Italy 2 MIST E-R, via Piero Gobetti 101, 40129, Bologna, Italy 3 Tecnoideal s.r.l., via Lea Cazzuoli, 43, 41037, Mirandola, Italy 4 Medica s.p.a., via Degli Artigiani 7, 41036, Medolla, Italy *cristoforo.decaro@unife.it In this work, the development of a spectroscopy-based optical setup for monitoring hematic parameters of blood is presented. Integration with machine learning techniques makes this device suitable for effective use during haemodialysis treatments. 12:20 – 12:30 “ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECT ON CANDIDA ALBICANS BIOFILM BY APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS AND DYES AND THE SYNTHETIC KILLER DECAPEPTIDE KP” E. Merigo1,2 *, M. Chevalier2, S. Conti1, T. Ciociola1, C. Fornaini2, M. Manfredi1, P. Vescovi1, A. Doglio2 1 Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Via Gramsci, 14 - 43126 Parma, Italy 2 Micoralis Laboratory EA7354, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 24 Avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice, France * elisabetta.merigo@gmail.com This in vitro study aimed to test the application of different low fluence laser wavelengths with and without proper photosensitizing dyes on Candida albicans biofilm with or without a synthetic killer decapeptide (KP). 12:30 – 12:40 “SILK FIBROIN BASED OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES” D. Vurro1*, N. Korakas2, M. Konstantaki2, O. Tsilipakos2, S. Selleri3, A. Cucinotta3, S. Pissadakis2, S. Iannotta1 1 Inst. Of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM-CNR), Campus Area delle Scienze 37A-43127 Parma, Italy 2 Institute of Electronic and Laser (IELS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), N.Plastira 100, Heraklion, Greece 3 Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy *davide.vurro@imem.cnr.it Silk fibroin represents the most promising bio-material for optical devices. This work explores the development of optical sensors based on silk fibroin for several targets (e.g. alcohols). 12:40 – 12:50 “3D RECONSTRUCTION CUTTING AND SMART DEVICES FOR PERSONALISED MEDICINE” Ruben Foresti1,2*, Claudio Macaluso1, Stefano Rossi1, Stefano Selleri3, Paolo Perini1, Antonio Freyrie1, Edoardo Raposio4, Privato Fenaroli5, Giorgio Concari1, Massimo De Filippo1 and Chiara Martini1 1 Medicine and Surgery Department, University of Parma, Italy 2 CERT Centre of Excellence for Research in Toxicology, University of Parma, Italy 3 Engineering and Architecture Department, University of Parma, Italy 4 Plastic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery and Related Methodologies (DICMI), University of Genova, Italy 5 Breast Surgery Unit, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy *ruben.foresti@unipr.it The 5D printing of anatomical models requires smart devices to assure the continuous improvement. Thus, after functional elaboration, we printed and scanned 5 glenoids by CT, to obtain 5D models as potential surgical devices. |
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Session B3 - Space-division multiplexed and quantum communications 11:45 – 13:00 Chair: Pierpaolo Boffi |
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11:45 – 12:00 Invited paper: “SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING IN OPTICAL FIBERS: CHALLENGES AND GOALS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF FIRST (FIBER-OPTIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION)” Antonio Mecozzi, Università dell’Aquila, Italy
12:00 – 12.10 “INTRA-MODE COUPLING LENGTH ANALYSIS IN FEW-MODE FIBERS” Gianluca Guerra*, Gianluca Marcon, Riccardo Veronese, Marco Santagiustina, Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy *gianluca.guerra@phd.unipd.it A method to assess the coupling length within groups of degenerate modes in few-mode fibers is proposed and applied to a case scenario where a step-index fiber is affected by stress birefringence and core ellipticity. 12:10 – 12:20 “MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED GAIN DESIGN OF FEW-MODE FIBER RAMAN AMPLIFIERS” Gianluca Marcon1*, Gianluca Guerra1, Riccardo Veronese1, Andrea Galtarossa1, Luca Palmieri1, Marco Santagiustina1 1 Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6/B, 35131 Padova (PD), Italy *gianluca.marcon@dei.unipd.it This work proposes a fast Machine Learning-based approach to design the gain spectrum of a Raman amplification scheme in few-mode optical fibers, suitable for next-generation spatial division multiplexing elastic optical networks. 12:20 – 12:30 “MEASUREMENT OF STRESS-INDUCED MODAL BIREFRINGENCE IN FEW-MODE FIBERS” Riccardo Veronese*, Gianluca Guerra, Gianluca Marcon, Marco Santagiustina, Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, via G. Gradenigo 6B, 35131 Padova, Italy *riccardo.veronese@phd.unipd.it The temperature-induced effective refractive index variation on the LP11 mode group of a 6-modes few-mode fiber is measured distributedly along the fiber by means of spectral correlation analysis on the fiber’s Rayleigh backscattered signal
12:30 – 12:40 “COEXISTENCE OF QKD AND CLASSICAL WDM CHANNELS” Paolo Martelli*, Marco Brunero, Alberto Gatto, Paola Parolari, Alberto Tosi, Mario Martinelli Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria, Via G. Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy *paolo.martelli@polimi.it The coexistence of a cost-effective QKD solution with classical WDM channels has been experimented, allocating the QKD channel in the L band, while the conventional data channels are in the C band. 12:40 – 12:50 “QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS” Francesco Matera Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, via del Policlinico 147, 00161, Rome, Italy fmatera@fub.it This paper reports an investigation about the incorporation of Quantum Key Distribution systems into existing telecommunications infrastructures, analysing the solutions and performance in each network segment to define safe end-to-end physical paths compatible with the 5G slicing concept.
12:50 – 13:00 “NONLINEAR FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING: THEORETICAL ASPECTS, NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS, AND EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION” Stella Civelli (IEEE Best PhD Thesis Award) – Dottorato in Emerging Digital Technologies dell’Istituto TeCIP della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna |
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Plenary Session 13:00 – 13:20 Invited paper: “EVOLUTION OF RF OVER FIBER TECHNOLOGIES” Dalma Novak – Past President IEEE Photonics Society (2014-2015), Octane Wireless, USA |
