NCEA Level 2 Assessment Specifications

PROGRAM
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Registration (at the head offices of FBK, via Santa Croce 77, Trento)………...17:00-19:00

Monday, January 16, 2012
Venue: FBK, Via Sommarive 18, Povo (Trento) – Conference Room “Luigi Stringa”

Registration……………………………………………………………..08:45-09:30


Opening & Welcome…………………………………………………...09:30-10:00
Chairs: Maurizio Ferrari and Giancarlo C. Righini


Welcome words by:
Massimo Egidi, FBK President
Michele Nulli, Director PAT UNIRicerca
Giuseppe Dalba, Director Physics Dept. UNITN
Marian Marciniak, MC Chair of COST Action MP0702


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MINAP2012 - Micro- and nano-photonics materials and devices COST MP0702 Final Conference SESSION 1
Conference Room……………………………………………………………………Monday 10:00 to10:30
Session Chair: Marian Marciniak

110:00 am: Optical buffer memories based on photonic crystals(Invited Paper)Andrea Blanco , Imanol
1 2 1Andonegui , Joseba Zubía , TECNALIA, TELECOM Unit, Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Bizkaia
2(Spain); UPV/EHU, ETSI de Bilbao, Bilbao (Spain)
Coffee Break…………………………………………………………….10:30-11:00

SESSION 2
Conference Room…………………………………………………………………....Monday 11:00 to13:00
Session Chair: Lorenzo Pavesi

1 2 111:00 am: Nanophotonic sensors(Invited Paper)Nigel P Johnson , Basudev Lahiri , Graham Sharp , Ali
1 1 1 4 1Khokhar , Ghazali A Rahman , Philippe Velha , Richard M De La Rue, Scott McMeekin , School of
Engineering, Optoelectronics Research Group, University of Glasgow,Glasgow (United Kingdom)
2; Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
3Gaithersburg(USA); Photonics Research Centre, Physics Department, Science Faculty, University of
4Malaya,Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia); School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian
University, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
11:30 am: Microstructured and standard optical fibers for the detection of relevant components in
biological fluids(Invited Paper)Stefano Selleri, Information Engineering Department, University of
Parma (Italy)
12:00 am: Femtosecond laser micromachining for the fabrication of optofluidic devices(Invited
Paper)Roberto Osellame, Rebeca Martinez Vazquez, Andrea Crespi, Giulio Cerullo, Roberta Ramponi,
Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico e IFN-CNR Milano (Italy)
12:30 am: Magnetic resonance force microscopy at millikelvin temperature, Andrea Vinante, Geert
Wijts, OleksandrUsenko and Tjerk H. Oosterkamp, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden
University,NielsBohrweg 2, 2333CA Leiden (The Netherlands)
12:45 am: Synthesis of plasmonicgold/carbon nanotubeshybridstructures for cellimaging and drug
1 1 2 2 1 1delivery, L. Minati , S. Torrengo , V. Antonini , M. Dalla Serra , G. Speranza , Fondazione Bruno
2Kessler, Trento(Italy); Istituto di Biofisica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Trento (Italy)
Lunch Break……………………………………………………….....13:00 to 14:00
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MINAP2012 - Micro- and nano-photonics materials and devices COST MP0702 Final Conference SESSION 3
Conference Room…………………………………………………………………....Monday 14:00 to15:30
Session Chair: Bjorn Maes

14:00 am: Silicon photonics: recent results on high speed optoelectronic devices (Invited Paper)
Laurent Vivien, Delphine Marris-Morini, Gilles Rasigade, Melissa Ziebell, Papichaya Chaisakul,
Mohamed-Saïd Rouifed, Eric Cassan, Jean-Marc Fédéli, Institutd’ElectroniqueFondamentale, CNRS &
Univ. Paris Sud (France)
a a a a14:30 am: Subwavelength silicon nanophotonics, P.Cheben , P. J. Bock , J.H. Schmid , J. Lapointe , S.
a a a a a a b bJanz , D.-X. Xu , R. Ma , A. Densmore , A. Delâge , B. Lamontagne , R. Halir , I. Molina-Fernández , A.
b b c c d eOrtega-Moñux , C. Alonso-Ramos , A. VillafrancaVelasco , M.L. Calvo , I. Glesk , J.-M. Fédélie , L.
f g g aVivien, M. Ibrahim , W.N. Ye , Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council,
b cOttawa (Canada); ETSITelecomunicación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga(Spain); Facultad de CC.
dFisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid(Spain); University of Strathclyde, Glasgow(United
e fKingdom); CEA, LETI, Minatec, Grenoble (France); Institutd'ElectroniqueFondamentale, University of
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Paris Sud, Orsay (France); Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada)
14:45 am: Optical coupling of double L7 photonic crystal microcavities on InP suspended slab with
embedded quantum wells,L. E. Munioz-Camuniez, I. Prieto, J. M. Llorens, P.A. Postigo, IMM-Instituto
de Microelectrónica de Madrid (CNM-CSIC), Madrid (Spain)
15:00 am: Realtime Mapping of Temporal Soliton formation and Pulse acceleration in III-V
1 1 1 3Semiconductor Photonic Crystal Waveguides, F. Raineri , Karle , P. Monnier , S. Combrié , A. De
3 1 1 3Rossi , and *R. Raj , Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Marcoussis (France); Thales
Research and Technology, Palaiseau (France)
15:15 am: Zero Bias GaAs Schottky Junctions for Terahertz Array Camera, R. Casini, A. Di
Gaspare, E. Giovine, A. Notargiacomo, M. Ortolani and V. Foglietti, Istituto di Fotonica e
Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma (Italy)
Coffee Break…………………………………………………………….15:30-16:00

SESSION 4
Conference Room…………………………………………………………………....Monday 16:00 to18:15
Session Chair: Maurizio Ferrari

16:00 am: Photopolymerizable glasses for holographic technologies: performances and challenges
(Invited Paper)Maria L. Calvo, Department of Optics, Faculty of Physics, Complutense University of
Madrid (UCM) (Spain)
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MINAP2012 - Micro- and nano-photonics materials and devices COST MP0702 Final Conference 16:30 am: Design of high-performance lasers and amplifiersexploiting rare
earthdopedglasses(InvitedPaper)Marco De Sario, Annalisa Di Tommaso, Pietro Bia, Luciano Mescia,
Francesco Prudenzano, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari, Bari (Italy)
17:00 am: Novel Cross-Relaxation Energy Transfer Calculation Applied on Thulium Highly-Doped
1 1 1 1 2 3,4Tellurite Glasses,M. Taher , H. Gebavi , M. Zannin , S. Taccheo , D. Milanese , and Rolindes Balda ,
1 2College of Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea (UK); PhotonLab - Dipartimento
3di Scienza dei Materiali ed Ingegneria Chimica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino (Italy); Departamento de
Fisica Aplicada I, EscuelaSuperior de Ingenieria, Universidad del Pais Vasco UPV/EHU, Bilbao
4(Spain); Materials Physics Center CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center, San
Sebastian (Spain)
17:15 am: Effect of oxygen content in gas mixtures on luminescence of ZrO2 doped up to 8 mol %
3+ 1 1 1 1with Eu ions, Witold Łojkowski , Anna Świderska- Środa , Agnieszka Opalińska , Krzysztof Gałązka ,
2 2 2 3 3Donats Millers , Larisa Grigorieva , Krisjanis.Smits , Aharon Gedanken , Irena Grigorianis , Cristina
4 1 2Leonelli , Institute of High Pressure Physics, PAS, Warsaw (Poland); Institute of Solid State Physics,
3Riga University, Riga (Latvia); Department of Chemistry, Bar-IlanUniversity, Ramat-Gan (Israel);
4Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Materiali e dell'Ambiente, Facolta' di Ingegneria, Universita' degli Studi
di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena (Italy)
1 117:30 am: Photoinduced Optical Manipulations with Azo-Polymers, D. Urbonas , L. Kucinskaite , R.
1* 2 2 2 3 1Petruskevicius , G. Navickaite , G. Seniutinas , R. Tomasiunas , V.Getautis , Center for Physical
2Sciences and Technology, Vilnius (Lithuania); Institute of Applied Research, Vilnius University, Vilnius
3(Lithuania); Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas (Lithuania)
17:45 am: Photonic Bandgap Confinement in an All-Solid Tellurite Glass Photonic Crystal Fibre,
1 1 2 1 1Gerardo Scarpignato , Joris Lousteau , George Athanasiou , Emanuele Mura , Nadia Boetti , Massimo
1 2 1 1 2Olivero , Trevor Benson , Daniel Milanese , Photonlab, DISMIC, Politecnico di Torino (Italy); George
Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
1,2 118:00 am: Fuse effect dynamics in optical fibers, Paulo André , Instituto de Telecomunicações,
2Campus de Santiago, Aveiro (Portugal); Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de
Santiago, Aveiro (Portugal)
Welcome reception (beer tasting at Antica Birreria Pedavena, Piazza Fiera, 13,
Trento)………………………………………………………………………....19:30




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MINAP2012 - Micro- and nano-photonics materials and devices COST MP0702 Final Conference Tuesday, January 17, 2012

SESSION 5
Conference Room……………………………………………………………………Tuesday 09:00 to10:30
Session Chair: Emilia Giorgetti

09:00 am: Engineering of Quasiperiodic Gratings for Multiple Surface Plasmons Polaritons
1 1 1 1 1Couplers, Ido Dolev , Michael Miller , Gil Porat and Ady Arie , Department of Physical Electronics,
Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv (Israel)
09:15 am: Hybridization of Plasmons in Coupled Nanowires, Nataliya Sakhnenko, Nadiia Stognii,
Alexander Nerukh, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv (Ukraine)
1,*09:30 am: Two-dimensionalplasmonic nano-structures for linear and nonlinearregimes,M. Grande ,
2 3 4 1 1 1,5 2M. A. Vincenti , T. Stomeo , G. Bianco , G. Morea , R.Mar