Dr. Roberto Osellame

My group works in femtosecond laser micromachining of transparent materials. Our research activity exploits our capability to produce 3D optical and microfluidic components in glass, crystals and polymers for different applications. One activity is the development of integrated photonic circuits for quantum computing and quantum information processing. The possibility to combine optical waveguides and microfluidic channels on the same chip is exploited to develop innovative microfluidic and optofluidic components for lab-on-a-chip sensing and manipulation of single cells. Two-photon-polymerization is also employed to produce micro/nano-structures of arbitrary geometry, as 3D scaffolds that we use to study the evolution of cultured stem cells.