Maurizio Ferrari Editor

Giancarlo C. Righini is former director of the Enrico Fermi Center and of the National Department on Materials and Devices, National Research Council of Italy (CNR). He was also research director at the Nello Carrara Institute of Applied Physics, CNR, and vice-president of the International Commission for Optics. His research interests concern fiber and integrated optics, glass materials, and microresonators. He has published over 500 research papers. He is fellow of OSA, SPIE and Italian Physical Society (SIF), and also founding member and fellow of European Optical Society (EOS) and Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF). Maurizio Ferrari is the director of research with the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, CNR, Italy, where he is also head of the CSMFO - Caratterizzazione e Sviluppo di Materiali per la Fotonica e Optoelettronica Lab and the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN-CNR) Trento unit. He is co-author of more than 400 publications in international journals, of several book chapters, and he is involved in numerous national and international projects concerning glass photonics. He is a OSA and SPIE fellow.