Here you can find a selection of papers, ordered by topic, written together with our international collaborators.
A full publication list can be found in google scholar.
The danger of going online only H Collins, B Barnes, R Sapienza, Physics World 33 (7), 19 (2020).
How to organize an online conference Orad Reshef, Igor Aharonovich, Andrea M Armani, Sylvain Gigan, Rachel Grange, Mikhail A Kats, Riccardo Sapienza, Nature Review Materials 5, 253 (2020).
—Optical coherent perfect absorption and amplification in a time-varying medium, Emanuele Galiffi, Anthony C. Harwood, Stefano Vezzoli, Romain Tirole, Andrea Alù, Riccardo Sapienza, ArXiv:2410.16426 (2025).
—Space-time optical diffraction from synthetic motion, A. C. Harwood, S. Vezzoli, T. V. Raziman, C. Hooper, R. Tirole, F. Wu, S. A. Maier, J. B. Pendry, S. A. R. Horsley & R. Sapienza, Nature Communications 16, 5147 (2025)
—Second harmonic generation at a time-varying interface, Romain Tirole, Stefano Vezzoli, Dhruv Saxena, Shu Yang, T. V. Raziman, Emanuele Galiffi, Stefan A. Maier, John B. Pendry, Riccardo Sapienza, Nature Communications 15, 7752 (2024)
—Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies, Romain Tirole, Stefano Vezzoli, Emanuele Galiffi, Iain Robertson, Dries Maurice, Benjamin Tilmann, Stefan A. Maier, John B. Pendry & Riccardo Sapienza, Nature Physics 19, 999 (2023).
—Photonics of time-varying media, Emanuele Galiffi, Romain Tirole, Shixiong Yin Huanan Li, Stefano Vezzoli, Paloma A. Huidobro, Mário G. Silveirinha, Riccardo Sapienza, Andrea Alù, J.B. Pendry, Advanced Photonics 4, 014002 (2022).
—Negative refraction in time-varying, strongly-coupled plasmonic antenna-ENZ systems, V. Bruno, C. DeVault, S. Vezzoli, Z. Kudyshev, T. Huq, S. Mignuzzi, A. Jacassi, S. Saha, Y.D. Shah, S.A. Maier, D.R.S. Cumming, A. Boltasseva, M. Ferrera, M. Clerici, D. Faccio, R. Sapienza, V.M. Shalaev, Physical Review Letters 124, 043902 (2020).
Time-varying metamaterials
Neuromorphic computing with Network lasers
—Retinomorphic Feature Detection and Machine Vision in a Network Laser, Wai Kit Ng, Jakub Dranczewski, Anna Fischer, TV Raziman, Dhruv Saxena, Tobias Farchy, Kilian Stenning, Jonathan Peters, Heinz Schmid, Will R Branford, Mauricio Barahona, Kirsten Moselund, Riccardo Sapienza, Jack C Gartside, arXiv: 2407.15558 (2025).
—Designed semiconductor network random lasers, Dhruv Saxena, Anna Fischer, Jakub Dranczewski, Wai Kit Ng, Noelia Vico Trivino, Heinz Schmid, Thottungal Valapu Raziman, Alexis Arnaudon, Mauricio Barahona, Ortwin Hess, Kirsten Moselund, Riccardo Sapienza, Laser & Photonics Reviews 19, 2400623 (2025)
—Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers, Dhruv Saxena, Alexis Arnaudon, Oscar Cipolato, Michele Gaio, Alain Quentel, Sophia Yaliraki, Dario Pisignano, Andrea Camposeo, Mauricio Barahona, Riccardo Sapienza, Nature Communications 13, 6493 (2022).
—A nanophotonic laser on a graph, Michele Gaio, Dhruv Saxena, Jacopo Bertolotti, Dario Pisignano, Andrea Camposeo, Riccardo Sapienza, Nature Communications 10, 26 (2019).
Unconventional and random lasing
—Light in correlated disordered media, Kevin Vynck, Romain Pierrat, Rémi Carminati, Luis S Froufe-Pérez, Frank Scheffold, Riccardo Sapienza, Silvia Vignolini, Juan José Sáenz, Reviews of Modern Physics, 95 045003 (2023).
—Determining random lasing action, Riccardo Sapienza, Nature Review Physics 1, 690 (2019).
— Gain-Based Mechanism for pH Sensing Based on Random Lasing, Michele Gaio, Soraya Caixeiro, Benedetto Marelli, Fiorenzo Omenetto, Riccardo Sapienza, Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 034005 (2017).
— Microsphere Solid‐State Biolasers, VD Ta, S Caixeiro, FM Fernandes, R Sapienza, Advanced Optical Materials 5 (8), 1601022 (2017)
— Patent: Random laser detector, WO 2016001645 A1, Michele Gaio, Soraya Caixeiro, Riccardo Sapienza (2017).
— Silk-Based Biocompatible Random Lasing, Soraya Caixeiro, Michele Gaio, Benedetto Marelli, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto and Riccardo Sapienza, Advanced Optical Materials 10.1002/adom.201600185 (2016).
— Tuning random lasing in photonic glasses, Michele Gaio, Matilda Peruzzo and Riccardo Sapienza, Optics Letters 7, 1611 (2015).
— Resonance-driven random laser, S. Gottardo, Riccardo Sapienza, P.D. Garcia, J. Bertolotti, A. Blanco, D. Wiersma, C. Lopez, Nature Photonics 7, 102 (2008).
NANOOPTICS
& Light emission control
— Electrical control of single-photon emission in highly charged individual colloidal quantum dots, Sergii Morozov, Evangelina L Pensa, Ali Hossain Khan, Anatolii Polovitsyn, Emiliano Cortés, Stefan A Maier, Stefano Vezzoli, Iwan Moreels, Riccardo Sapienza, Science Advances 6 eabb1821 (2020).
— Nanoscale design of the local density of optical states, Sandro Mignuzzi, Stefano Vezzoli, Simon A. R. Horsley, William L. Barnes, Stefan A. Maier, Riccardo Sapienza, Nano Letters 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04515 (2019).
— Enhanced light-matter interaction in an atomically thin semiconductor coupled with dielectric nano-antennas, L. Sortino, P. G. Zotev, S. Mignuzzi, J. Cambiasso, D. Schmidt, A. Genco, M. Aßmann, M. Bayer, S. A. Maier, R. Sapienza & A. I. Tartakovskii, Nature Communications 10, 5119 (2019).
— Metal–Dielectric Parabolic Antenna for Directing Single Photons, Michele Gaio, Sergii Morozov , Michele Gaio, Stefan A. Maier, and Riccardo Sapienza, Nano Letters 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00557 (2018).
— Objective-free excitation of quantum emitters with a laser-written micro parabolic mirror, Michele Gaio, Sergii Morozov , Michele Gaio, Stefan A. Maier, and Riccardo Sapienza, APL Photonics 5 071302 (2020).
— Modal Coupling of Single Photon Emitters Within Nanofiber Waveguides, Michele Gaio, Maria Moffa, Marta Castro-Lopez, Dario Pisignano, Andrea Camposeo, and Riccardo Sapienza, ACS Nano 10.1021/acsnano.6b02057 (2016).—Energy-momentum cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of dielectric nanostructures, Sandro Mignuzzi, Monica Mota, Toon Coenen, Yi Li, Andrei Mihai, Peter K. Petrov, Rupert F Oulton, Stefan A. Maier, and Riccardo Sapienza ACS Photonics (2018).
—Percolating Plasmonic Networks for Light Emission Control, Michele Gaio, Marta Castro-Lopez, Jan Renger, Niek van Hulst, and Riccardo Sapienza, Faraday Discussions (2015).
— Deep-subwavelength imaging of the modal dispersion of light, Riccardo Sapienza, T. Coenen, J. Renger, M. Kuttge, N.F. van Hulst and A. Polman, Nature Materials 11, 781–787 (2012).
— Long-tail statistics of Purcell factor in disordered media driven by near-field interactions, Riccardo Sapienza, P. Bondareff, R. Pierrat, B. Habert, R. Carminati, and N. F. van Hulst, Physical Review Letters 106, 163902 (2011)
— Elastic Photonic Crystals: From Color Fingerprinting to Control Over Photoluminescence A. C. Arsenault, T. J. Clark, G. von Freymann, L. Cademartiri, R. Sapienza, J.Bertolotti, E. Vekris, S. Wong, V. Kitaev, I. Manners, R. Z. Wang, S. John, D. Wiersma, G. A. Ozin, Nature Materials 5, 179 (2006)
plasmonics
—Scattering of a plasmonic nanoantenna embedded in a silicon waveguide, Marta Castro-Lopez, Nuno de Sousa, Antonio Garcia-Martin, Frederic Y. Gardes, and Riccardo Sapienza, Arxiv (2015).
—Percolating Plasmonic Networks for Light Emission Control, Michele Gaio, Marta Castro-Lopez, Jan Renger, Niek van Hulst, and Riccardo Sapienza, Faraday Discussions (2015).
— Aluminum for Nonlinear Plasmonics: Resonance-Driven Polarized Luminescence of Al, Ag, and Au Nanoantennas, M. Castro-Lopez, D. Brinks, Riccardo Sapienza, and N. F. van Hulst, Nano Letters 10.1021/nl202255g (2011)
Ph.D. thesis
— Anna Fischers Ph.D. thesis (2024) entitled “Controlling complex III-V semiconductor micro lasers“.
— Wai Kit Ng Ph.D. thesis (2024) entitled "Functional Control of Nanophotonic Complex Lasers" .
— Tahiyat Huq Ph.D. thesis (2024) entitled "Materials and Methods for Nonlinear Nanophotonics”.
— Sergii Morozov Ph.D. thesis (2019) entitled "Photonic and electric control of single photon emission from individual quantum dots" .
— Soraya Caixeiro Ph.D. thesis (2018) entitled "Biocompatible random lasing" .
— Michele Gaio Ph.D. thesis (2016) entitled "Light emission in complex networks from single-photons to lasing".
— Riccardo Sapienza Ph.D. thesis (2005) entitled “Photonic nano materials: anisotropic transport and optical Bloch oscillations” can be downloaded from Archives-ouvertes