Metasurfaces for ultrafast light structuring

Project Information

METAFAST

Grant agreement ID: 899673

DOI

10.3030/899673

Project closed

EC signature date 6 April 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 31 March 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 2 498 831,25

EU contribution

€ 2 498 831,25

Coordinated by

POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Modelling dichroism of anisotropic metaatoms
Optimal configurations for transient dichroism
Dissemination and Exploitation plan update
Reduced models for nonlinear inhomogeneous metasurfaces
Ultrafast polarization control with anisotropic metasurfaces
Dissemination and Exploitation plan
Dissemination and Exploitation plan update 2
Ultrafast wavefront modulation including OAM struct.

Ultrafast wavefront modulation including OAM struct

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (86)

Equivalence of reflection paths of light and Feynman paths in stacked metasurfaces

Author(s): Jan Sperrhake, Matthias Falkner, Stefan Fasold, Thomas Kaiser, Thomas Pertsch
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 102/24, 2020, Page(s) 245108, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.245108

All-optical free-space routing of upconverted light by metasurfaces via nonlinear interferometry

Author(s): Agostino Di Francescantonio, Attilio Zilli, Davide Rocco, Vincent Vinel, Laure Coudrat, Fabrizio Conti, Paolo Biagioni, Lamberto Duò, Aristide Lemaître, Costantino De Angelis, Giuseppe Leo, Marco Finazzi, Michele Celebrano
Published in: Nature Nanotechnology, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) 298-305, ISSN 1748-3387
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01549-2

Third-harmonic light polarization control in magnetically resonant silicon metasurfaces

Author(s): Andrea Tognazzi, Kirill I. Okhlopkov, Attilio Zilli, Davide Rocco, Luca Fagiani, Erfan Mafakheri, Monica Bollani, Marco Finazzi, Michele Celebrano, Maxim R. Shcherbakov, Andrey A. Fedyanin, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29/8, 2021, Page(s) 11605, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.419829

Opto-thermally controlled beam steering in nonlinear all-dielectric metastructures

Author(s): Davide Rocco, Marco Gandolfi, Andrea Tognazzi, Olesiya Pashina, George Zograf, Kristina Frizyuk, Carlo Gigli, Giuseppe Leo, Sergey Makarov, Mihail Petrov, and Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29(23), 2021, 2021, Page(s) 37128-37139, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.440564

Design of femtosecond microstructured poly lactic acid temporal scaffolds coated with hydroxyapatite by pulse laser deposition method for bone tissue regeneration

Author(s): L. Angelova, A. Daskalova, R. Mincheva, E. Filipov, A. Dikovska, M. H. Fernandes, S. Vig, I. Buchvarov
Published in: Optical and Quantum Electronics, Issue 56, 2024, ISSN 1572-817X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11082-024-06500-w

Broadband control of topological–spectral correlations in space–time beams

Author(s): Marco Piccardo, Michael de Oliveira, Veronica R. Policht, Mattia Russo, Benedetto Ardini, Matteo Corti, Gianluca Valentini, Jorge Vieira, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Antonio Ambrosio
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) 822-828, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01223-y

Visualizing hot carrier dynamics by nonlinear optical spectroscopy at the atomic length scale

Author(s): Yang Luo, Shaoxiang Sheng, Andrea Schirato, Alberto Martin-Jimenez, Giuseppe Della Valle, Giulio Cerullo, Klaus Kern, Manish Garg
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60384-2

Directionally tunable co- and counterpropagating photon pairs from a nonlinear metasurface

Author(s): Maximilian A. Weissflog, Jinyong Ma, Jihua Zhang, Tongmiao Fan, Shaun Lung, Thomas Pertsch, Dragomir N. Neshev, Sina Saravi, Frank Setzpfandt, Andrey A. Sukhorukov
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 3563-3573, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0122

Ultrafast switching of a metasurface quasi-bound state in the continuum via transient optical symmetry breaking

Author(s): Giulia Crotti, Andrea Schirato, Olesiya Pashina, Olga Sergaeva, Mihail Petrov, Costantino De Angelis, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-025-01885-z

Ultrafast Q-boosting in semiconductor metasurfaces

Author(s): Ziwei Yang, Mingkai Liu, Daria Smirnova, Andrei Komar, Maxim Shcherbakov, Thomas Pertsch, Dragomir Neshev
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 2173-2182, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0718

Tunable high-order harmonic generation in GeSbTe nano-films

Author(s): Viacheslav Korolev, Artem D. Sinelnik, Mikhail V. Rybin, Petr Lazarenko, Olga M. Kushchenko, Victoria Glukhenkaya, Sergey Kozyukhin, Michael Zuerch, Christian Spielmann, Thomas Pertsch, Isabelle Staude, Daniil Kartashov
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 3411-3419, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0859

Ultra-Short Laser Surface Properties Optimization of Biocompatibility Characteristics of 3D Poly-epsilon-Caprolactone and Hydroxyapatite Composite Scaffolds

Author(s): Daskalova, Albena and Filipov, Emil and Angelova, Liliya and Stefanov, Radostin and Tatchev, Dragomir and Avdeev, Georgi and Sotelo, Lamborghini and Christiansen, Silke and Sarau, George and Leuchs, Gerd and Iordanova, Ekaterina and Buchvarov, Ivan
Published in: Materials, Issue 14(24), 2021, 2021, Page(s) 7513, ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/ma14247513

Multiresponsive Dielectric Metasurfaces Based on Dual Light- and Temperature-Responsive Copolymers

Author(s): Chengjun Zou, Purushottam Poudel, Sarah L. Walden, Katsuya Tanaka, Alexander Minovich, Thomas Pertsch, Felix H. Schacher, and Isabelle Staude
Published in: Advanced Opotical Materials, Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 2202187, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202202187

Genetic semi-analytical optimization approach for the inverse design of layered metasurfaces

Author(s): M. Braasch, J. Sperrhake, T. Pertsch
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 2181, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.493492

Two-Color Spatially Resolved Tuning of Polymer-Coated Metasurfaces

Author(s): Sarah L. Walden, Purushottam Poudel, Chengjun Zou, Katsuya Tanaka, Pallabi Paul, Adriana Szeghalmi, Thomas Siefke, Thomas Pertsch, Felix H. Schacher, Isabelle Staude
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 5079-5088, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c11760

Spatially Controlled All-Optical Switching of Liquid-Crystal-Empowered Metasurfaces

Author(s): Maximilian Beddoe, Sarah L. Walden, Slobodan Miljevic, Dmitry Pidgayko, Chengjun Zou, Alexander E. Minovich, Angela Barreda, Thomas Pertsch, Isabelle Staude
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 963-970, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c02029

Second Harmonic Emission from Dielectric Nanoresonators in the Absorption Regime

Author(s): Andrea Tognazzi, Paolo Franceschini, Davide Rocco, Luca Carletti, Andrea Locatelli, Marco Gandolfi, Dario Zappa, Alfonso Carmelo Cino, Elisabetta Comini, Giuseppe Leo, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2023, ISSN 1941-0174
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2023.3260878

Nonlocal resonances in pedestal high-index-contrast metasurfaces based on a silicon-on-insulator platform

Author(s): P. Franceschini, A. Tognazzi, G. Finco, L. Carletti, I. Alessandri, A. C. Cino, C. De Angelis, O. Takayama, R. Malureanu, A. V. Lavrinenko, D. de Ceglia
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 123, 2023, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0159275

Ultrafast Plasmonics Beyond the Perturbative Regime: Breaking the Electronic-Optical Dynamics Correspondence

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Giulia Crotti, Mychel Gonca̧lves Silva, Danielle Cristina Teles-Ferreira, Cristian Manzoni, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Paolo Laporta, Ana Maria de Paula, Giulio Cerullo, and Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 22(7), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2748–2754, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04608

Optical tuning of dielectric nanoantennas for thermo-optically reconfigurable nonlinear metasurfaces

Author(s): Michele Celebrano, Davide Rocco, Marco Gandolfi, Attilio Zilli, Francesco Rusconi, Andrea Tognazzi, Andrea Mazzanti, Lavinia Ghirardini, Eva A. A. Pogna, Luca Carletti, Camilla Baratto, Giuseppe Marino, Carlo Gigli, Paolo Biagioni, Lamberto Duò, Giulio Cerullo, Giuseppe Leo, Giuseppe Della Valle, Marco Finazzi, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 46/10, 2021, Page(s) 2453, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.420790

High Quality Factor Silicon Membrane Metasurface for Intensity-Based Refractive Index Sensing

Author(s): Andrea Tognazzi, Davide Rocco, Marco Gandolfi, Andrea Locatelli, Luca Carletti and Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Optics, Issue 2021, 2(3), 2021, Page(s) 193-199, ISSN 2673-3269
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/opt2030018

Disentangling the Temporal Dynamics of Nonthermal Electrons in Photoexcited Gold Nanostructures

Author(s): Patrick O'Keeffe, Daniele Catone, Lorenzo Di Mario, Francesco Toschi, Michele Magnozzi, Francesco Bisio, Alessandro Alabastri, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Andrea Toma, Giuseppe Della Valle, Alessandra Paladini
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, Issue 15/6, 2021, Page(s) 2100017, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202100017

Ultrafast, All Optically Reconfigurable, Nonlinear Nanoantenna

Author(s): Eva Arianna Aurelia Pogna, Michele Celebrano, Andrea Mazzanti, Lavinia Ghirardini, Luca Carletti, Giuseppe Marino, Andrea Schirato, Daniele Viola, Paolo Laporta, Costantino De Angelis, Giuseppe Leo, Giulio Cerullo, Marco Finazzi, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 15/7, 2021, Page(s) 11150-11157, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c03386

Investigating Potential Effects of Ultra-Short Laser-Textured Porous Poly-ε-Caprolactone Scaffolds on Bacterial Adhesion and Bone Cell Metabolism

Author(s): E. Filipov, L. Angelova, S. Vig, M.H. Fernandes, G. Moreau, M. Lasgorceix, I. Buchvarov, A. Daskalova
Published in: Polymers, Issue 14(12), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2382, ISSN 2073-4360
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym14122382

Transient optical symmetry breaking for ultrafast broadband dichroism in plasmonic metasurfaces

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Margherita Maiuri, Andrea Toma, Silvio Fugattini, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Paolo Laporta, Peter Nordlander, Giulio Cerullo, Alessandro Alabastri, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 14/12, 2020, Page(s) 723-727, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-020-00702-w

THz‑photonics transceivers by all‑dielectric phonon‑polariton nonlinear nanoantennas

Author(s): Unai Arregui Leon, Davide Rocco, Luca Carletti, Marco Peccianti, Stefano Maci, Giuseppe DellaValle, Costantino DeAngelis
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 4590, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08695-y

All-Optical Reconfiguration of Ultrafast Dichroism in Gold Metasurfaces

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Andrea Toma, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Alessandro Alabastri, Giulio Cerullo, Giuseppe Della Valle, and Margherita Maiuri
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 10(10), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2102549, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202102549

Giant ultrafast dichroism and birefringence with active nonlocal metasurfaces

Author(s): Giulia Crotti, Mert Akturk, Andrea Schirato, Vincent Vinel, Anton A. Trifonov, Ivan C. Buchvarov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Paolo Laporta, Aristide Lemaître, Giuseppe Leo, Giulio Cerullo, Margherita Maiuri, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01545-8

Analog image processing with nonlinear nonlocal flat optics

Author(s): Domenico de Ceglia, Andrea Alù, Dragomir N. Neshev, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 14, 2024, Page(s) 92, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.507644

Chemically-Controlled Ultrafast Photothermal Response in Plasmonic Nanostructured Assemblies

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Luca Moretti, Zhijie Yang, Andrea Mazzanti, Giulio Cerullo, Marie-Paule Pileni, Margherita Maiuri, and Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Issue 126(14), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 6308–6317, ISSN 1932-7455
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00364

The impact of loss on high-Q resonant metasurfaces: a case study for heated a-Si:H

Author(s): Angela Barreda, Athira Kuppadakkath, Lilit Ghazaryan, Ziyang Gan, Kirill Koshelev, Tobias Bucher, Thomas Pertsch, Antony George, Andrey Turchanin, Adriana Szeghalmi, Yuri Kivshar, Duk-Yong Choi, Isabelle Staude, Falk Eilenberger
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Issue 292, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 108348, ISSN 0022-4073
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2022.108348

Unravelling the nonlinear generation of designer vortices with dielectric metasurfaces

Author(s): Laure Coudrat, Guillaume Boulliard, Jean-Michel Gérard, Aristide Lemaître, Aloyse Degiron, Giuseppe Leo
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-025-01741-0

Near-unity third-harmonic circular dichroism driven by a quasibound state in the continuum in asymmetric silicon metasurfaces

Author(s): Marco Gandolfi, Andrea Tognazzi, Davide Rocco, Costantino De Angelis, Luca Carletti
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 104/2, 2021, Page(s) 023524, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.023524

Resonant Fully Dielectric Metasurfaces for Ultrafast Terahertz Pulse Generation

Author(s): Luke Peters, Davide Rocco, Luana Olivieri, Unai Arregui Leon, Vittorio Cecconi, Luca Carletti, Carlo Gigli, Giuseppe Della Valle, Antonio Cutrona, Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora, Giuseppe Leo, Alessia Pasquazi, Costantino De Angelis, Marco Peccianti
Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences, Issue 309, 2024, Page(s) 08008, ISSN 2100-014X
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202430908008

Nonlinear nanoresonators for Bell state generation

Author(s): Maximilian A. Weissflog, Romain Dezert, Vincent Vinel, Carlo Gigli, Giuseppe Leo, Thomas Pertsch, Frank Setzpfandt, Adrien Borne, Sina Saravi
Published in: Applied Physics Reviews, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 1931-9401
Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC
DOI: 10.1063/5.0172240

Second order nonlinear frequency generation at the nanoscale in dielectric platforms

Author(s): D.Rocco, R.C.Morales, L.Xu, A.Zilli, V.Vinel, M. Finazzi, M. Celebrano, G.Leo, M.Rahmani, C. Jagadish, H. Tan, D.Neshev, C. De Angelis
Published in: Advances in Physics: X, Issue 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2022992, ISSN 2374-6149
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2021.2022992

Quantifying Ultrafast Energy Transfer from Plasmonic Hot Carriers for Pulsed Photocatalysis on Nanostructures

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Stephen Keith Sanders, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Peter Nordlander, Giuseppe Della Valle, Alessandro Alabastri
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 18933-18947, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c01802

Precision Tailoring Quasi-BIC Resonance of a-Si:H Metasurfaces

Author(s): Athira Kuppadakkath, Ángela Barreda, Lilit Ghazaryan, Tobias Bucher, Kirill Koshelev, Thomas Pertsch, Adriana Szeghalmi, Duk Choi, Isabelle Staude, Falk Eilenberger
Published in: Nanomaterials, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 1810, ISSN 2079-4991
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/nano13111810

Finite-Size and Illumination Conditions Effects in All-Dielectric Metasurfaces

Author(s): Luca Ciarella, Andrea Tognazzi, Fabio Mangini, Costantino De Angelis, Lorenzo Pattelli, Fabrizio Frezza
Published in: Electronics, Issue 11(7), 2022, 2022, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics11071017

Hot carrier spatio-temporal inhomogeneities in ultrafast nanophotonics

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Giulia Crotti, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Alessandro Alabastri and Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 24, 2022, 2022, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac6009

Transient absorption, femtosecond dynamics, vibrational coherence and molecular modelling of the photoisomerization of N -salicylidene- o -aminophenol in solution

Author(s): Nikolai Petkov, Anela Ivanova, Anton A. Trifonov, Ivan C. Buchvarov, Stanislav S. Stanimirov
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 23/37, 2021, Page(s) 20989-21000, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02339j

Coupling into Hyperbolic Carbon-Nanotube Films with a Deep-Etched Antenna Grating

Author(s): Bryant B. Jerome, Ciril S. Prasad, Andrea Schirato, Oliver S. Dewey, Jacques Doumani, Andrey Baydin, Weilu Gao, Giuseppe Della Valle, Junichiro Kono, Matteo Pasquali, Gururaj V. Naik, Alessandro Alabastri
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 4121-4132, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00636

All‐Optical Modulation with Dielectric Nanoantennas: Multiresonant Control and Ultrafast Spatial Inhomogeneities

Author(s): Andrea Mazzanti, Eva Arianna Aurelia Pogna, Lavinia Ghirardini, Michele Celebrano, Andrea Schirato, Giuseppe Marino, Aristide Lemaítre, Marco Finazzi, Costantino De Angelis, Giuseppe Leo, Giulio Cerullo, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Small Science, Issue 1/7, 2021, Page(s) 2000079, ISSN 2688-4046
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/smsc.202000079

Nonlinear Dielectric Metasurfaces for Terahertz Applications

Author(s): Forouzan Habibighahfarokhi, Olga Sergaeva, Luca Carletti, Paolo Franceschini, Andrea Tognazzi, Andrea Locatelli, Unai Arregui Leon, Giuseppe Della Valle, Costantino De Angelis, Davide Rocco
Published in: Photonics, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 370, ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/photonics12040370

Investigation of dipole emission near a dielectric metasurface using a dual-tip scanning near-field optical microscope

Author(s): Najmeh Abbasirad, Angela Barreda, Dennis Arslan, Michael Steinert, Stefan Fasold, Carsten Rockstuhl, Isabelle Staude, Frank Setzpfandt and Thomas Pertsch
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 10(18), 2022, 2022, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0429

Nonlinear THz Generation through Optical Rectification Enhanced by Phonon–Polaritons in Lithium Niobate Thin Films

Author(s): Luca Carletti, Cormac McDonnell, Unai Arregui Leon, Davide Rocco, Marco Finazzi, Andrea Toma, Tal Ellenbogen, Giuseppe Della Valle, Michele Celebrano, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 3419-3425, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00924

Ultrafast all-optical second harmonic wavefront shaping

Author(s): Artem Sinelnik, Shiu Hei Lam, Filippo Coviello, Sebastian Klimmer, Giuseppe Della Valle, Duk-Yong Choi, Thomas Pertsch, Giancarlo Soavi, Isabelle Staude
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46642-9

Enhanced generation of nondegenerate photon pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces

Author(s): Matthew Parry, Andrea Mazzanti, Alexander N. Poddubny, Giuseppe Della Valle, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov
Published in: Advanced Photonics, Issue 3(5) 2021, 2021, Page(s) 055001, ISSN 2577-5421
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/1.ap.3.5.055001

All-optical polarization and amplitude modulation of second-harmonic generation in atomically thin semiconductors

Author(s): Sebastian Klimmer, Omid Ghaebi, Ziyang Gan, Antony George, Andrey Turchanin, Giulio Cerullo, Giancarlo Soavi
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 15/11, 2021, Page(s) 837-842, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-021-00859-y

Parametric Nonlinear Optics with Layered Materials and Related Heterostructures

Author(s): Oleg Dogadov, Chiara Trovatello, Baicheng Yao, Giancarlo Soavi, Giulio Cerullo
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, Issue 16(9), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2100726, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202100726

Synthesis of plasmonic gold nanoparticles on soft materials for biomedical applications

Author(s): Federica Granata, Noemi Pirillo, Alessandro Alabastri, Andrea Schirato, Luigi Bruno, Roberta Costa, Natalia Malara, Valentina Onesto, Maria Laura Coluccio, Mario Iodice, Giuseppe Coppola, Francesco Gentile
Published in: Micro and Nano Engineering, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) 100207, ISSN 2590-0072
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mne.2023.100207

Ultrafast All-Optical Metasurfaces: Challenges and New Frontiers

Author(s): Margherita Maiuri, Andrea Schirato, Giulio Cerullo, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 2888-2905, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00776

THz Generation via Optical Rectification in Nanomaterials: Universal Modeling Approach and Effective χ¯¯(2)$\bar{\bar{\chi }}^{(2)}$ Description

Author(s): Unai Arregui Leon, Luca Carletti, Davide Rocco, Costantino De Angelis, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202300669

Event detection via THz generation with flat nonlinear optics [Invited]

Author(s): Unai Arregui Leon, Paolo Franceschini, Olga Sergaeva, Andrea Tognazzi, Davide Rocco, Luca Carletti, Domenico de Ceglia, Giuseppe Della Valle, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 307, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.543944

Far‐Field Polarization Engineering from Nonlinear Nanoresonators

Author(s): Maximilian A. Weissflog; Marcus Cai; Matthew Parry; Mohsen Rahmani; Lei Xu; Dennis Arslan; Anna Fedotova; Giuseppe Marino; Mykhaylo Lysevych; Hark Hoe Tan; Chennupati Jagadish; Andrey Miroshnichenko; Giuseppe Leo; Andrey A. Sukhorukov; Frank Setzpfandt; Thomas Pertsch; Isabelle Staude; Dragomir N. Neshev
Published in: Wiley Online Library, Issue 16(12), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2200183, ISSN 1939-4225
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202200183

All-Optically Reconfigurable Plasmonic Metagrating for Ultrafast Diffraction Management

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Andrea Mazzanti, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Peter Nordlander, Alessandro Alabastri, Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 21/3, 2021, Page(s) 1345-1351, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04075

Enhancing second harmonic generation by Q-boosting lossless cavities beyond the time bandwidth limit

Author(s): Paolo Franceschini, Andrea Tognazzi, Anna M. Chernyak, Alexander I. Musorin, Alfonso C. Cino, Andrey A. Fedyanin, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0389

Steering and Encoding the Polarization of the Second Harmonic in the Visible with a Monolithic LiNbO 3 Metasurface

Author(s): Luca Carletti, Attilio Zilli, Fabio Moia, Andrea Toma, Marco Finazzi, Costantino De Angelis, Dragomir N. Neshev, Michele Celebrano
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 8/3, 2021, Page(s) 731-737, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00026

Tailoring Third-Harmonic Diffraction Efficiency by Hybrid Modes in High‑Q Metasurfaces

Author(s): Kirill I Okhlopkov, Attilio Zilli, Andrea Tognazzi, Davide Rocco, Luca Fagiani, Erfan Mafakheri, Monica Bollani, Marco Finazzi, Michele Celebrano, Maxim R Shcherbakov, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 21(24), 2021, 2021, Page(s) 10438–10445, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03790

Ultrafast hot electron dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures: experiments, modelling, design

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Margherita Maiuri, Giulio Cerullo and Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 12(1), 2023, 2023, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0592

Giant photoinduced reflectivity modulation of nonlocal resonances in silicon metasurfaces

Author(s): Andrea Tognazzi, Paolo Franceschini, Olga Sergaeva, Luca Carletti, Ivano Alessandri, Giovanni Finco, Osamu Takayama, Radu Malureanu, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Alfonso C. Cino, Domenico de Ceglia, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Advanced Photonics, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2577-5421
Publisher: SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
DOI: 10.1117/1.ap.5.6.066006

Single-Step Process for Titanium Surface Micro- and Nano-Structuring and In Situ Silver Nanoparticles Formation by Ultra-Short Laser Patterning

Author(s): Aceti, Dante Maria and Filipov, Emil and Angelova, Liliya and Sotelo, Lamborghini and Fontanot, Tommaso and Yousefi, Peyman and Christiansen, Silke and Leuchs, Gerd and Stanimirov, Stanislav and Trifonov, Anton and Buchvarov, Ivan and Daskalova, Albena
Published in: Materials, Issue 15(13), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 4670, ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
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Unfolding the Origin of the Ultrafast Optical Response of Titanium Nitride

Author(s): Silvia Rotta Loria, Beatrice Roberta Bricchi, Andrea Schirato, Luca Mascaretti, Cristina Mancarella, Alberto Naldoni, Andrea Li Bassi, Giuseppe Della Valle, Margherita Zavelani‐Rossi
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202300333

Optical metasurfaces: fundamentals and applications

Author(s): Thomas Pertsch, Shumin Xiao, Arka Majumdar, Guixin Li
Published in: Photonics Research, Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) OMFA1, ISSN 2327-9125
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/prj.487440

Near to short wave infrared light generation through AlGaAs-on-insulator nanoantennas

Author(s): Marco Gandolfi, Luca Carletti, Andrea Tognazzi, Alfonso C. Cino, Costantino De Angelis, Massimiliano Guasoni
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 31051, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.498592

Resonant dielectric metasurfaces in strong optical fields

Author(s): Varvara Zubyuk, Luca Carletti, Maxim Shcherbakov, Sergey Kruk
Published in: APL Materials, Issue 9/6, 2021, Page(s) 060701, ISSN 2166-532X
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0048937

High-aspect-ratio dielectric pillar with nanocavity backed by metal substrate in the infrared range

Author(s): Xiaoyuan Lu, Andrea Tognazzi, Alfonso C. Cino, Costantino De Angelis, Gang Xu, Tongyi Zhang, Dmitry Shishmarev
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 39213, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.506208

Lithium niobate meta-optics

Author(s): Anna Fedotova, Luca Carletti, Attilio Zilli, Frank Setzpfandt, Isabelle Staude, Andrea Toma, Marco Finazzi, Costantino De Angelis, Thomas Pertsch, Dragomir N. Neshev, and Michele Celebrano
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 9(12), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 3745–3763, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00835

Disentangling the Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Behavior of Plasmonic Resonances Near the Interband Transition

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Mychel G. Silva, Danielle C. Teles-Ferreira, Cristian Manzoni, Ana Maria de Paula, Giulio Cerullo, Giuseppe Della Valle, and Marcel Di Vece
Published in: Advanced Photonics Research, Issue 4(1), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2200081, ISSN 2699-9293
Publisher: Wiley Open Access
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202200081

Nanoporous Titanium Oxynitride Nanotube Metamaterials with Deep Subwavelength Heat Dissipation for Perfect Solar Absorption

Author(s): Morteza Afshar, Andrea Schirato, Luca Mascaretti, S. M. Hossein Hejazi, Mahdi Shahrezaei, Giuseppe Della Valle, Paolo Fornasiero, Štěpán Kment, Alessandro Alabastri, Alberto Naldoni
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 3291-3301, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00731

Nonlinear spin-orbit coupling in optical thin films

Author(s): Domenico de Ceglia, Laure Coudrat, Iännis Roland, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Michael Scalora, Rana Tanos, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard, Aloyse Degiron, Giuseppe Leo, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45607-2

Coherent Control of the Nonlinear Emission of Single Plasmonic Nanoantennas by Dual-Beam Pumping

Author(s): A. Di Francescantonio, A. Locatelli, X.F. Wu, A. Zilli, T. Feichtner, P. Biagioni, L. Duò, D. Rocco, C. De Angelis, M. Celebrano, B. Hecht, M. Finazzi
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 10(20), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2200757, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202200757

Achiral Nanostructures: Perturbative Harmonic Generation and Dichroism Under Vortex and Vector Beams Illumination

Author(s): Anastasia Nikitina, Kristina Frizyuk
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
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Biomimetic Hierarchical Structuring of PLA by Ultra-Short Laser Pulses for Processing of Tissue Engineered Matrices: Study of Cellular and Antibacterial Behavior

Author(s): Albena Daskalova,Liliya Angelova,Emil Filipov,Dante Aceti,Rosica Mincheva,Xavier Carrete,Halima Kerdjoudj,Marie Dubus,Julie Chevrier, Anton Trifonov and Ivan Buchvarov
Published in: Polymers, Issue 13(15), 2021, 2021, Page(s) 2577, ISSN 2073-4360
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13152577

Modified Carbon Nanotubes Favor Fibroblast Growth by Tuning the Cell Membrane Potential

Author(s): Giulia Suarato, Samuel Pressi, Enzo Menna, Massimo Ruben, Enrica Maria Petrini, Andrea Barberis, Dalila Miele, Giuseppina Sandri, Marco Salerno, Andrea Schirato, Alessandro Alabastri, Athanassia Athanassiou, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Evie L. Papadopoulou
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 3093-3105, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c14527

The key role of interband transitions in hot-electron-modulated TiN films

Author(s): S. Rotta Loria; A. Schirato; B. R. Bricchi; L. Mascaretti; A. Li Bassi; Margherita Zavelani-Rossi; G. Della Valle
Published in: Il Nuovo Cimento C, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 1826-9885
Publisher: SIF, Bologna
DOI: 10.1393/ncc/i2023-23113-y

Reconfigurable nonlinear response of dielectric and semiconductor metasurfaces

Author(s): Luca Carletti, Marco Gandolfi, Davide Rocco, Andrea Tognazzi, Domenico de Ceglia, Maria Antonietta Vincenti and Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 10(17), 2021, 2021, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0367

A tunable transition metal dichalcogenide entangled photon-pair source

Author(s): Maximilian A. Weissflog, Anna Fedotova, Yilin Tang, Elkin A. Santos, Benjamin Laudert, Saniya Shinde, Fatemeh Abtahi, Mina Afsharnia, Inmaculada Pérez Pérez, Sebastian Ritter, Hao Qin, Jiri Janousek, Sai Shradha, Isabelle Staude, Sina Saravi, Thomas Pertsch, Frank Setzpfandt, Yuerui Lu, Falk Eilenberger
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51843-3

Spatially engineered nonlinearity in resonant metasurfaces

Author(s): Anna Fedotova, Mohammadreza Younesi, Maximilian Weissflog, Dennis Arslan, Thomas Pertsch, Isabelle Staude, and Frank Setzpfandt
Published in: Photonics Research, Issue 11(2), 2023, 2023, Page(s) 252-259, ISSN 2327-9125
Publisher: Optica
DOI: 10.1364/prj.475616

Multi-millijoule class, high repetition rate, Yb:CALYO regenerative amplifier with sub-130 fs pulses

Author(s): Lyuben S. Petrov, Kaloyan Georgiev, Dimitar Velkov, Anton Trifonov, Xiaodong Xu, Tenio Popmintchev, Ivan Buchvarov
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 18765, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.487923

Watt-level, 1.6 ps χ⁽²⁾-lens mode-locking of an in-band pumped Nd:LuVO₄ laser

Author(s): Hristo Iliev, Veselin Aleksandrov, Valentin Petrov, Lyuben S. Petrov, Huaijin Zhang, Haohai Yu, Ivan Buchvarov
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 33, 2025, Page(s) 17773, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.554747

Temporal and spectral signatures of the interaction between ultrashort laser pulses and Bloch surface waves

Author(s): Isaac Doughan, Atsu L. Asilevi, Atri Halder, Tian-Long Guo, Erika Mogni, Michele Celebrano, Marco Finazzi, Giovanni Pellegrini, Paolo Biagioni, Emiliano Descrovi, Matthieu Roussey, Jari Turunen
Published in: APL Photonics, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0183704

Tunable second harmonic generation by an all-dielectric diffractive metasurface embedded in liquid crystals

Author(s): Davide Rocco, Attilio Zilli, Antonio Ferraro, Adrien Borne, Vincent Vinel, Giuseppe Leo, Aristide Lemaître, Carlo Zucchetti, Michele Celebrano, Roberto Caputo
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 24, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 45002, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac61d2

Pump-Selective Spectral Shaping of the Ultrafast Response in Plasmonic Nanostars

Author(s): Andrea Schirato, Luca Moretti, Elisa Lacroce, Laura Polito, Filippo Rossi, Giuseppe Della Valle, Margherita Maiuri
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Issue 128, 2024, Page(s) 2551-2560, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07267

Enhanced generation of angle correlated photon- pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces

Author(s): Andrea Mazzanti, Matthew Parry, Alexander N. Poddubny , Giuseppe Della Valle ,Dragomir N. Neshev, and Andrey A. Sukhorukov
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 24, 2022, 2022, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac599e

Discovering of the L ligand impact on luminescence enhancement of Eu(Dibenzoylmethane)3.Lx complexes employing transient absorption spectroscopy

Author(s): Stanislav S. Stanimirov, Anton A. Trifonov, Ivan C. Buchvarov
Published in: Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Issue 258, 2021, Page(s) 119832, ISSN 1386-1425
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.119832

Conference proceedings (3)

Anisotropic Metasurface for Ultrafast Polarization Control via All-Optical Modulation

Author(s): Giulia Crotti, Mert Akturk, Andrea Schirato, Vincent Vinel, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Margherita Maiuri, Anton Trifonov, Ivan Buchvarov, Dragomir Neshev, Giuseppe Leo, Giulio Cerullo, and Giuseppe Della Valle
Published in: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: NanoPlasMeta, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 107-113, ISSN 2184-4364
Publisher: SciTePress
DOI: 10.5220/0011926600003408

Quasi-BIC resonance in TiO2 metasurface for emission enhancement of two-dimensional material

Author(s): Athira Kuppadakkath, Angela Barreda, Muyi Yang, Ayesheh Bashiri, Seungheon Han, Tobias Bucher, Adriana Szeghalmi, Audrey Turchanin, Antony George, Thomas Pertsch, Duk-Yong Choi, Isabelle Staude, Falk Eilenberger
Published in: Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures XIV, 2024, Page(s) 59
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3003130

Electro-optic lithium niobate metasurfaces for tunable wavefront shaping

Author(s): L. Carletti; A. Zilli; M. A. Vincenti; M. Finazzi; C. De Angelis; D. N. Neshev; A. Toma; M. Celebrano
Published in: IEE Explorer, Issue 2022, 2022
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/metamaterials54993.2022.9920853

Book chapters (3)

Nonlinear metasurfaces for the generation of quantum photon-pair states

Author(s): Matthew Parry, Andrea Mazzanti, Alexander N. Poddubny, Giuseppe Della Valle, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov
Published in: Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear Nanophotonics, 2023, Page(s) 271-287
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90614-2.00013-4

Photon management in harmonic generation at the nanoscale

Author(s): Davide Rocco, Andrea Tognazzi, Marco Gandolfi, Carlo Gigli, Attilio Zilli, Luca Carletti, Andrea Locatelli, Giuseppe Leo, Giuseppe Della Valle, Marco Finazzi, Michele Celebrano, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear Nanophotonics, 2023, Page(s) 131-165
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90614-2.00002-x

Harmonic generation in all-dielectric metasurfaces

Author(s): Davide Rocco, Unai Arregui Leon, Olesiya Pashina, George Zograf, Sergey Makarov, Mihail Petrov, Giuseppe Della Valle, Attilio Zilli, Michele Celebrano, Marco Finazzi, Marco Gandolfi, Luca Carletti, Andrea Tognazzi, Costantino De Angelis
Published in: Advances in Nonlinear Photonics, 2023, Page(s) 287-318
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-32-398384-6.00017-6