SENSORS & IMAGING - Research Macro Area - INO - Italian National Institute of Optics

Sensors & Imaging

"Using light to probe and image the outside world."

Research activities:

  1) Diamond based particle detectors
  2) Electrical and optical chemical gas sensing
  3) Electron microscopy and EBL
  4) Evanescent-wave sensing and spectroscopy
  5) INtegration of cost-effective Solutions for Imaging, Detection, and Digitisation of hidden Elements in paintings (INSIDDE)
  6) Photoacoustic sensors for trace gas detection
  7) Physical sensing with optical-fiber ring, grating-based and coupled resonators
  8) Preparation of oxide quasi 1D structures
  9) Surface-plasmon resonance sensing with cavity-enhanced methods
  10) Tomography and Magnetometry with ultra-cold Rb atoms
  11) Ultraintense Laser amplification and diagnostic techniques (ILIL-PW)
  12) Whispering gallery mode optical resonators

Imaging & Image Processing

  1) INtegration of cost-effective Solutions for Imaging, Detection, and Digitisation of hidden Elements in paintings (INSIDDE)
  2) Integrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure ON Cultural Heritage (IPERION CH)
  3) Mid IR Digital Holography: vision through smoke and flames
  4) Scanning Multispectral VIS-NIR Reflectography
  5) The study of surface optical properties for characterizing the cleaning process of artworks
  6) Ultrasonic Force Microscopy (UFM): Nanomechanics and Subsurface Detection

Imaging & Sensing For Cultural Heritage

  1) INtegration of cost-effective Solutions for Imaging, Detection, and Digitisation of hidden Elements in paintings (INSIDDE)
  2) Integrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure ON Cultural Heritage (IPERION CH)
  3) Scanning Multispectral VIS-NIR Reflectography
  4) The study of surface optical properties for characterizing the cleaning process of artworks

Imaging and Spectroscopy with Ultrashort X-Ray Sources

1) Experimental laser-driven proton acceleration and related beam diagnostics at ILIL
2) Intense laser interaction with structured targets and high field plasmonics

Interferometry, Holography & Microscopy

  1) Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry for NDT evaluation of composite materials
  2) Interferometry for the characterization and diagnostics of targets and plasma in laser-plasma experiments
  3) Mid IR Digital Holography: vision through smoke and flames
  4) The study of surface optical properties for characterizing the cleaning process of artworks
  5) Ultraintense Laser amplification and diagnostic techniques (ILIL-PW)

Nanostructures for Chemical Sensors

  1) Advanced applications of quasi 1d oxides
  2) Artificial Olfactive Systems
  3) Electrical and optical chemical gas sensing
  4) Electron microscopy and EBL
  5) Laser micro/nano fabrication
  6) Preparation of oxide quasi 1D structures
  7) Surface-plasmon resonance sensing with cavity-enhanced methods
  8) Thin Film Properties on the Nanoscale: from Polymers to Ferroelectrics
  9) Whispering gallery mode optical resonators