- Overview on materials and technologies for Information and Communication Technology: glasses, ceramics, polymers.
- Glasses and their applications in photonics; glass characterization techniques: DSC, DTA, viscosimetry, dilatometry, spectroscopies UV-VIS-IR, EPR, Raman, NMR.
- Photosensitive glasses and their applications.
- Active glasses and their applications.
- Glasses sensible to electric field (poled glasses) and their applications.
- Optical waveguides and their fabrication techniques: CVD, PVD, ion-exchange. Measurement and characterization of optical waveguides.
- Optical fibers and their fabrication and characterization techniques.
- Glasses for nonlinear applications
- Magnetic-Optical glasses and glass fibres for sensing applications