Just out our joint paper with UniBS and @ethz.ch on GHz speed modulation of linear and nonlinear light with a lithium niobate metasurface! Thanks @agostino.bsky.social @attilio-zilli.bsky.social @rachelgrange.bsky.social & the ETH team for this awesome collaboration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The recent activity of our #Nano-optics Lab at #PoliMi (@vynisle.bsky.social, @paolobiagioni.bsky.social, and Marco Finazzi) is being showcased today at #PLASMONICA2025. Yaping Hou shows lithium niobate #metasurfaces for electro-optics. The enhancement of SHG by a qBIC was measured just few day ago!

Best PhD thesis (and cover) so far!!!

Rehearsal! Agostino tomorrow will defend his PhD on modulation and routing of nonlinear optical signals with metasurfaces!!!

20 years later, the same 2 guys graduating together are back together in a graduation committee! Time flies, but some things never change!

#Nanoplasmeta2025 comes to a close. 3 intense days in the amazing Porto! Great talks. Inspiring city. In random orders: edge detection, qBIC lecture, vortexes, Fourier gratings, optical analog commuting, on the origin of photoluminescence in gold, and much more!!! @paolobiagioni.bsky.social

Finally a hint of diversity in the group! A lot to celebrate: - Chinese new year - 3 new members - 1 future member? - 1 Nano-toddler coming soon - 1 Keynote - 1 new grant (stay tuned!) Very excited!! A lot of potential...I can only mess up now. 🤪 @attilio-zilli.bsky.social

📣📣📣 Only 4 days left to submit your latest research to #CLEO_EU! If you are working on #plasmonics and/or #metamaterials consider submitting at the EH Topical Session. www.cleoeurope.org/committees/

Final paper of the year submitted... now! 🫠 Happy New Year to everyone!!!

My camera was in M. Celebrano et al. mode...😅

Christmas lunch for the sNOm Lab...new people are joining and will join soon! Merry Christmas!!! Take your time off and relax!

Dealing with interference. The game started! Blue team against Red (Christmas) team. @attilio-zilli.bsky.social Alfonso and Agostino.

Let's go!

Looking forward to serve as best as I can the Italian photonic community! @plasmonica.bsky.social

📢Freshly packed by Agostino di Francescantonio. I hope this is a convincing step towards usable devices based on MS. This idea could have never been realized without the terrific expertise in the @ongeth.bsky.social group of @rachelgrange.bsky.social @ethzurich.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2412.03422

It's officially Christmas time at the Physics Department at Politecnico di Milano, which, by the way, do not have yet and handle on #bluesky!!!

Anyway, I think we can all agree that we should put 'accepting to enter an editorial board on the 1st of December' in the top 10 worst decisions in science.

Tomorrow, I officially start my new adventure as Associate Editor at Opt. Express! @optica.bsky.social I am looking forward to receiving your solid research on nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and Metamaterials! opg.optica.org/content/jour...

New stand-up desk... first day test was great! It is probably the novelty but I like the idea of moving around while thinking and writing.

I introduce you to the Origami laser we have been using for almost 10 years. Probably more than 30 papers, 2 Nat. Nano. NKT won't fix it. Luckily, we have a master of the cavities here at the Physics Department. Kudos to Nicola Coluccelli. Mode-locked and better mode than before!

🔦 Have you ever wondered how we can measure the physical properties of objects without even touching them? Well, get ready to discover the magic of optical metrology! @spie.org @optica.bsky.social 😀 👉 ulrikeboehm.org/discover-the...

Well, I guess I am back and here to stay. Food & wine lover. Light-matter interaction (especially nonlinear) is my passion... still not giving up on volley.

Being out for a while... Merry Christmas. It appears that I have now 5 more codes! @mickeykats.bsky.social @oradr.bsky.social if you need them I can send, but I have heard the recruitment is hard recently...

I was really tempted to play this flipper, but the currency did not allow it...😅 Well, since we are in Italy, I decided to cope with the disappointment with a pizza!

Hey @bsky.app community, it just popped up in my head. How we should call a post here? Is Tweet banned here? Suggestions?

Total blackout here... but the beauty of the stars in the sky compensate! I did not see anything like this since Australia. There are many more but the phone camera is not a single photon detector like our eyes! 😉 Photonics post of the evening...

Let's also welcome to the photonics community on @bsky.app Marco @marcoornigotti.bsky.social. I'm proud of my first well-spended code! He has just published on @optica.bsky.social an intriguing paper on accelerating waves!!! www.tuni.fi/en/news/acce...

Welcome @acalalesina.bsky.social with a very nice new paper, too! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... One thing I would like to do on Bluesky is to start advertising mostly other works and not only myself! 😅

Any help from more relevant people than myself?

By the way, with Luigi we wrote a Perspective on Harmonic Generation at the Nanoscale. pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/arti...

Today two great talks. Luigi Bonacina on in depth and fast Nonlinear imaging with nanoparticles. Then, a huge talk by Andrea Cavalleri on triggering superconductivity in YBCO with light!!! Awesome day.

Let's freezer this moment... even on X I never reached 1:1 ratio!!!😅

Sorry, @paolobiagioni.bsky.social made me realize that the list is absolutely wrong. Things I am into: *Wine *Food *Music (mostly listening) *Photonics *Physics *Sport (volley first) *Motorbike ...and then all the rest.

Better move here quickly... but unfortunately now we have worse problems. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-co...

Today we lost Carla Blay... here some great music on Bluesky youtube.com/watch?v=ZeM2...

The #Photonics community in BLUESKY is growing!!! Welcome @crockstuhl.bsky.social!

Do you have a synchronized semi-degenerate dual beam pump? Check. Do you want to make THz pulses? Check. Paper for inspiration: check! Great work from Okamoto team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There cannot be any #photonics feeds on Bluesky without Nat. Photonics... Welcome @rachelpcwon.bsky.social!

That's what I would like to do all day but lately find difficult due to the administrative burden. By the way, yet another fake picture. Why do journalists do not accept that if I am aligning a mirror I must not look at the mirror itself but somewhere else where the beam is???

A.A.A. codes needed to get photonics people on board!!!

Lately formatting a paper for certain journal has become a full- time job. The more you pay the more you have to type-edit...💆🏻‍♂️

Apparently there is an issue in re-scaling pictures when you post it on @bsky.app. They keep the same aspect ratio. Am I missing something?

I don't know how, but @gevero.bsky.social ended up in Bluesky... Welcome!

Get to know your mutuals...list 10 things you are into: *Physics *Engineering *Music (mostly listening) *Volleyball (not for longer) *Sports in general *Motorbike *Travel *Tech *Cinema *I should definitely get another hobby

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin tonight

Thank @oradr.bsky.social for the kind invitation. Let's make this "Cielo Azzurro" platform work!

Here I am people! I hope this works because I am literally fed up with X!