Abstract: 

Photonics is an enabling technology, present in our daily lives. Biophotonics and Nanophotonics are well established multidisciplinary fields of research which exploit photonics for biomedical sciences and applications, in the former, and photonics in the nanoworld, in the later. When combined, the so-called nanobiophotonics, encompasses all these research areas. In this talk, I will describe how biophotonics technique can be used for optical imaging, particularly exploiting optical coherence tomography (OCT) applied to dentistry and dermatology.  Also, I will show how dielectric or metal nanoparticles can be used to enhance optical imaging in OCT, or as nanothermometers. Finally, I shall give an example of how silver nanoparticles can be used to mitigate the spread of Aedes aegypti by killing the larvae in early stages, before they develop into mosquitos. 

Bio：

Anderson S. L. Gomes received his PhD degree in Laser Physics from University of London (1982); He is a professor of Physics Department of UFPE since 1990. His scientific activities are in the area Laser applications in nano and biophotonics, nonlinear optics communications in which he is a co-author of over 220 scientific papers and has suoervised more than 35 Master and PhD students. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, where he has been the Chair of the International Council (2011-2012). He is also the member of Brazilian Physical Society, IEEE and SPIE. He acted in many higher education Brazilian scientific policy communities, and coordinated the area of Physics and Astronomy at CAPES (Brazilian Education Agency, 2008-2010). He is a former member of Physics Council at CNPq (Brazilian Science Agency). He has served as referee for many international journals in his area of knowledge, and was Associate Editor of Advance in Optics and Photonics (OSA). He has been the Chair of several national and international conference in Brazil. In 2010, he was awarded in admitted in the National Order of the Scientific Merit, Classe Comendador in the area of Physical science (Decree of 27th December 2010). He presently holds research fellowship IA at CNPq. In 2010, he acted as Pernambuco State Secretary of a Science, Technology and Environment (April to December, 2010), and was the state Secretary of Education of Pernambuco, from January 2011 to December 2012. He is an academician of Brazilian Academy of Science.