Francesco Simoni

Biographie:
Francesco Simoni is retired Full Professor of Physics at Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy. He has been visiting scientist at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and North Texas State University, Denton, USA; Visiting Professor at Université d’Artois, Lens, France and Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. His scientific activity spans from nonlinear optics of liquid crystals and photosensitive polymeric materials to holographic technologies, optical micromanipulation, organic microlasers, optofluidics. He is author of more 200 articles in international journals and books and 5 patents; he is single author of a book on the nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystalline materials and a textbook on matter physics. Presently he is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal “Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals” (Taylor and Francis) and Editor of the Book Series “Optical Materials and Applications” (World Scientific). He is Fellow of OPTICA.

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Titre de la communication:
Nonlinear Photonics with Heliconical Cholesteric Liquid Crystals