On December 12th-13th, 2017 the Kick-off meeting of PASSION project will take place in Milan, with the participation of 12 partners. The project is a European H2020 project (RIA ICT-30 call PHOTONICS KET) led by Politecnico di Milano and coordinated by DEIB professor Pierpaolo Boffi. The PASSION project will develop new photonic technologies for supporting…
Read moreThe Policom group published a work that has been selected as the front cover story of the special issue of Materials, dedicated to the Structural Health Monitoring for Aerospace Applications 2017. The research was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. Structural health monitoring often leverages on strain wave…
Read moreMeet us in Dusseldorf at CLEO Europe from 25 to 29 June in Munich, Germany and come to see all the contributions of the team: CH-7.3 28 JUN 14.30 [LECTURE] Coherent fibre optic sensor for ultra-acoustic Lamb wave monitoring in thin metal slab — Jacopo Morosi Ultra-acoustic Lamb waves detection for structural health monitoring is demonstrated by…
Read moreMeet us in Dusseldorf at ECOC 2016 from 18 to 22 September. We present: W.4.P1.SC1.5 Angular Momentum Dependence of the Twist-Induced Effect in Few-Mode Fibres Paolo Martelli, Annalaura Fasiello, Oriana Soccali, Pierpaolo Boffi and Mario Martinelli (Politecnico di Milano, IT) The twist-induced effect on fibre modes has been recognized as a phase shift depending on…
Read moreMeet us in Trento at ICTON 2016 from 11 to 14 July. We present: DACINT I (Monday, July 11, 11:30-12:50) Mo.B3.4 Optical mode demultiplexing for data communication networks (Invited) P. Martelli, P. Boffi, A. Fasiello, and M. Martinelli ICTON IV (Tuesday, July 12, 8:30-10:20) Tu.A1.5 Phase noise impact on directly detected optical OFDM transmission in…
Read moreOur group will be at Fotonica 2016 Conference in Rome on June 6-8, 2016 with the following talks and posters: Passive Optical Networks B3.2 RSOA-based FDM PON Capable of 128 Gb/s Flexible Upstream Capacity, A. Gatto, P. Parolari, M. Brunero, P. Martelli, R. Brenot, P. Boffi B3.4 20-Gb/s Polarization Division Multiplexed WDM PON Transmitter Based…
Read moreAlberto Gatto, researcher in PoliCom Lab, as a member of the Virgo/Ligo collaboration, won the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The Selection Committee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded this Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizing scientists and engineers contributing to the momentous detection of gravitational waves, announced on February 11,…
Read moreMeet us in Catania at SAS 2016 from April 20 to 22. Sensors for Industrial Applications and Processes Monitoring 1 21/04/2016 16:10 A Software-Defined Coherent Fiber Optic Sensor for Manufacturing Machine Diagnostic, Maddalena Ferrario, Marco Mattarei, Pierpaolo Boffi and Mario Martinelli. Official website: 2016.sensorapps.org Sensors Applications Symposium is a unique opportunity for researchers and developers working…
Read moreOptical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition 2016 W3C • Fixed Mobile Convergence II W3C.6 • LTE-A Mobile Fronthaul Exploiting Pulse-Width Modulation in a RSOAbased WDM PON, Alberto Gatto , Pierpaolo Boffi, Lorenzo Combi, Paola Parolari , Umberto Spagnolini, Romain Brenot, Mario Martinelli. Abstract: Pulse width modulation for optical C-RAN fronthauling of 100-MHz bandwidth LTE-A signals…
Read moreThe paper “Optimization of long-reach TDM/WDM passive optical networks” authored by Marilet De Andrade, Anna Buttaboni, Massimo Tornatore, Pierpaolo Boffi, Paolo Martelli and Achille Pattavina, received the 2015 Fabio Neri Best Paper Award assigned by the Elsevier journal “Optical Switching and Networking“. Optical Switching and Networking (OSN) is an archival journal aiming to provide complete…
Read moreAlberto Gatto, DEIB research assistant at the PoliCom – Optical Communications Laboratory, took part in the research that led to the important discovery of the existence of “gravitational waves” imagined by Einstein. Alberto, after graduation and Phd program at DEIB with Prof. Mario Martinelli, worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Virgo group of Paris…
Read moreOn December 15, 2015 Marco Brunero graduated with merit at the Politecnico di Milano with the PhD dissertation “Optical Transmitter Based on Self-Seeded Architectures for Passive WDM Networks”.
Read moreThe LAFOS laboratory was born in 2014 from a joint idea of 4 research groups belonging to 4 departments (DMEC, DAER, DEIB, DICA), each working on very different application with the same technology: optical fiber sensors. Joining the technical competences was thus a natural and positive consequence. This laboratory is revealing fundamental in accelerating and…
Read moreEuropean Conference on Optical Communication 2015 from Sep. 27 to Oct. 1, 2015 in Valencia, Spain. Up to 20-Gb/s multilevel WDM PON transmitter based on self-seeded RSOAs, P. Parolari, M. Brunero, R. Brenot and M. Martinelli. Abstract: We propose a novel colourless self-tuning WDM PON multilevel transmitter based on self-seeding in two RSOAs co-located at…
Read moreAlberto Gatto and Marco Brunero will present the following talks and posters at the International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks from July 5th to 9th, 2015: Access II Tu.A2.4 • WDM PON RSOA-based self-tuning transmitters: An insight from the EU FP7 ERMES project, M. Brunero, P. Parolari, L. Marazzi, M. Martinelli, R. Brenot, A. Maho, S….
Read moreAn article of Paolo Martelli and other DEIB researchers of PoliCom group, was highlighted on Electronics Letters, an IET Journal. Researchers at PoliCom have presented the first experimental proof of an interferometric orbital angular momentum mode multiplexer/demultiplexer, exploiting a very compact configuration based on cylindrical lenses. 20-Gbit/s error-free transmission demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed…
Read moreFirst look at what will become our new home (and labs) as part of PoliCom Lab, situated in via Ponzio 34, 20133 Milan. Some images taken during the moving from the old location in Via Colombo 81:
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