Università di Napoli "Federico II"

Optics in Soft Matter Group

We perform research in optics and condensed matter physics mainly using the nonlinear optical interaction of intense laser light with matter as a spectroscopic tool. We are interested in complex materials both in the soft-matter field and in the field of highly correlated electronic materials.

Lab principal investigators:
- Lorenzo Marrucci, associate professor of physics
- Domenico Paparo, INFM scientist

People:

- Lorenzo Marrucci, associate professor
- Domenico Paparo, INFM scientist
- Ebrahim Karimi, graduate student (PhD)
- Romolo Savo, graduate student (MSc)
Alumni page (former group members)

THESIS SUBJECTS AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS:
"Laurea" (M.S.) and "Dottorato di Ricerca" (Ph.D.) internship positions available.

FOREIGN STUDENTS OR POST-DOC WELCOME!
If you are interested in joining our group, contact Lorenzo Marrucci, attaching a CV to your e-mail and indicating at least two references. At the moment however there are no internally funded open positions in the group. If you wish to do a PhD with us, you may apply to the Naples research doctorate in fundamental and applied physics, which supports some students with university fellowships.

Current research activities:

Current collaborations:
(outside Coherentia and the Optics in Soft Matter group)

Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, Germany (Prof. Jochen Mannhart)

Nonlinear Optics on Strongly Correlated Solid-State Systems, University of Bonn, Germany (Prof. Manfred Fiebig)

Quantum Optics Group, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy (Prof. Francesco De Martini).

Biosurface Spectroscopy Group, AMOLF Institute, Netherland (Prof. Mischa Bonn)

Peter Palffy-Muhoray's group, Kent State University (Ohio, USA)

Groupe de Physique des Materiaux, Université de Rouen & CNRS, France (Prof. Bernard Deconihout)

Selected recent publications from our lab:

• Optimal quantum cloning of orbital angular momentum photon qubits through Hong–Ou–Mandel coalescence, E. Nagali, L. Sansoni, F. Sciarrino, F. De Martini, L. Marrucci, B. Piccirillo, E. Karimi, E. Santamato, Nature Photonics 3, 720-723 (2009) [Link]

• Blue luminescence of SrTiO₃ under intense optical excitation, A. Rubano, D. Paparo, F. Miletto Granozio, U. Scotti di Uccio, L. Marrucci, J. Appl. Phys. 106, 103515 (2009) [Link]

• Polar catastrophe and electronic reconstructions at the LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ interface: evidence from optical second harmonic generation, A. Savoia, D. Paparo, P. Perna, Z. Ristic, M. Salluzzo, F. Miletto Granozio, U. Scotti di Uccio, C. Richter, S. Thiel, J. Mannhart, L. Marrucci, Phys. Rev. B 80, 075110 (2009) [Link]

• Quantum information transfer from spin to orbital angular momentum of photons, E. Nagali, F. Sciarrino, F. De Martini, L. Marrucci, B. Piccirillo, E. Karimi, E. Santamato, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103,  013601 (2009) [Link]

• Coherent Raman spectroscopy of YBa₂Cu₃O₇, A. Rubano, D. Paparo, F. Miletto Granozio, U. Scotti di Uccio, L. Marrucci, Opt. Express 16, 9054-9059 (2008). [Link]

• Time-resolved photoluminescence of n-doped SrTiO₃, A. Rubano, D. Paparo, M. Radović, A. Sambri, F. Miletto Granozio, U. Scotti di Uccio, L. Marrucci, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 021102 (2008). [Link]

• Recombination kinetics of a dense electron-hole plasma in strontium titanate, A. Rubano, D. Paparo, F. Miletto, U. Scotti di Uccio, L. Marrucci, Phys. Rev. B 76, 125115 (2007). [Link]

• Femtosecond field ion emission by surface optical rectification, A. Vella, B. Deconihout, L. Marrucci, E. Santamato, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046103 (2007). [Link]

• Optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in inhomogeneous anisotropic media, L. Marrucci, C. Manzo, D. Paparo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163905 (2006). [Link]