Best Junior Carassa Award 2016
Andrea Annoni, from the Photonic Devices Group, has won the “Best Junior Carassa Award 2016”. The Ph.D. student competition was held during the 2016 Meeting of the GTTI association (Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell’Informazione). The awarded research titled “MIMO Photonic Integrated Unscrambler for Mode Division Multiplexing” was realized thanks to…
Melloni invited talk at Photonics in Switching 2016
Prof. Andrea Melloni, Group Leader of the Photonic Devices Group, has been invited at the 2016 edition of the Photonics in Switching Conference (Niigata Convention Center, 3-7 July 2016) with a talk titled “Control, Configuration and Stabilization of Photonics Integrated Circuits” Don’t miss his presentation: Monday 4 July 2016 –…
Invited talk at OFC 2016
Francesco Morichetti, Laboratory Head of the Photonic Devices Group, has been invited at the 2016 edition of the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (Anaheim, 20-24 March 2016) to give a talk on our transparent detector (CLIPP) developed during the BBOI project. Don’t miss his presentation: “ContactLess Integrated Photonic Probe: Concept, Technology…
Our talk at 2016 PIC International Conference
Our group will be speaking at the 2016 PIC International Conference in Brussels on March 1-2, 2016 with a talk entitled: “Taking a close, damage-free look at the light in photonic integrated circuits”. PIC International provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of this industry, from basic research to materials, equipment,…
Our research highlighted among the 2015 best results in optics
The research activity carried out by Stefano Grillanda and Francesco Morichetti, which was published in Nature Communications, has been selected by the Optical Society of America among the 30 most exciting optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months. This work has explored the crucial impact of surface…
Workshop on Photonic Integration
The Photonic Devices Group is pleased to announce that we organized the workshop the workshop “Envisioning the horizons of photonic integration”. Integrated technologies enable to generate, manipulate and detect the light on small photonic chips, potentially hosting hundreds of different functions. Yet, it is not clear what is still missing…
New research published in “Nature Communications”
An important result by Stefano Grillanda and Francesco Morichetti has been published in Nature Communications, this achievement paving the way to the development of miniaturized optoelectronic devices, with great advantages in terms of speed and power consumption. Their research has unveiled that light propagation through a silicon photonic waveguide, conventionally…
Stefano Grillanda best PhD in Information Technology 2015
Stefano Grillanda is the recipient of the 2015 Best PhD in Information Technology Award for his PhD thesis entitled “Devices and technologies for large-scale integrated photonics control”. The prize will be awarded during the Colloquia Doctoralia, that will take place at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria on September…
POLIFAB OPENING!
PoliFab, the new micro and nanotechnology fabrication center of the Politecnico di Milano, will be inaugurated on 3 July 2015. The ceremony will take place in Aula De Donado at 10:30; the Dean of Politecnico di Milano and the head of the department of electronics, information and bioengineering will attend the…
TOP SCORED paper at OFC 2015 Conference
Our contribution entitled “Hitless Monitoring of Wavelength and Mode-Division Multiplexed Channels on a Silicon Photonic Chip” (paper W1A.3) is among the TOP SCORED papers at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (2015). Come to Los Angeles to hear our talk and to learn about the CLIPP! PRESENTATION DETAILS