Mr Vittorio Aita

PhD Student

Research interests

Physics

Contact details

vittorio.aita@kcl.ac.uk

Biography

Vittorio Aita is a PhD student in the Department of Physics at King’s College London. He works in the Plasmonics and Nanotechnology group. His research focuses on experimental generation of complex laser beams and their applications in interacting with metasurfaces.

He holds a MSc in Physics from Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy), where his research focused on the fabrication of a liquid crystal-based optical device for light modulation. This project has been developed and applied both for realising a shearing interferometer and for generating Bessel beams.

During university years, Vittorio took active part in a scientific outreach association (PONYS - Physics & Optics Naples Young Students), which was born as an OSA chapter. He was the association's president during his final year of study (2019).

Research Interests

Photonics
Structured light
Plasmonics

PhD Supervisor

Principal supervisor: Professor Anatoly Zayats

Further details

See Vittorio's research profile

Research

iComm: New Frontiers in Nanophotonics: Integrating Complex Beams and Active Metasurface Devices

Transforming the areas of both complex optical beams and metasurfaces.

Project status: Ongoing

Photonics & Nanotechnology

The research in the group involves the development and applications of advanced photonic technologies and of novel nanomaterials to address modern challenges in photonic and quantum technologies, new nanostructured materials, sensing, imaging and clean energy.