Soliton photonics and laser wave interactions in nonlinear optical materials (wave mixing, stimulated scattering, optical phase conjugation) (Collab. Univ."La Sapienza" of Rome)

Nonlinear nanophotonics for information technologies at molecular level: NLO in quantum dots, in "nano-patterning" and "nano-imaging" (AFM, SNOM) (Partner in EU-Network of Excellence "PHOREMOST" - Nanophotonics for Molecular Scale Technologies)

Properties of quantum systems in micro- and nano-cavities. Information in quantum systems ( collab. with ICTP Trieste and TASK Group)

Optical nonlinearities in metamaterials with sub-wavelength periodic and random structures - characterization and applications of enhanced and ultra-fast (fs) nonlinearities (Partner in EU-COST Action MP0702 "Towards Functional Sub-wavelength Photonic Devices")