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This week, the PoliCom group participated in the Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP 2026) in L’Aquila, with the contributions: Invited TalkAlessandro Gagliano: “Coexistence of Quantum Key Distribution and Fiber Optic Sensing Systems for Highly-Secure Optical Networks” Oral PresentationsMarco Fasano: “30-story skyscraper monitoring through the FTTH fiber cable by an interferometric approach”Stefano Gaiani: “High-Capacity…

PoliCom kicked off the summer with Livia Giacomin’s attendance at the Authentication for Quantum Networks workshop on 1-2 June, held at King’s College London, presenting the poster “Adaptive Practical Threshold Estimation for Quantum Authentication“.

Our group attended the Optical Fiber and Communication (OFC) Conference in Los Angeles with the following contributions: Stefano Gaiani: Mode Loss Impact on Transmission Over a 15-Mode Multi-Mode Fiber Point-to-Point Link Alessandro Gagliano: Experimental Demonstration of a Highly-Secure Optical Network With Joint Quantum Key Distribution and Fiber Optic Sensing Moreover, Prof Paola Parolari had the…

Our group took a trip to Copenhagen for the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2025. Professor Paola Parolari organized two workshops: WS4 “Reconfigurable, Adaptable and Intelligent Access Networks – Do we have real use cases?” and WS12 “Is the access network ready to host quantum technologies?”. Alessandro Gagliano and Stefano Gaiani presented two papers…

Our group attended the Advanced Photonics Congress 2025 in Marseille, 13-17 July 2025, represented by Marco Fasano and Alessandro Gagliano. They both gave outstanding presentations, respectively “Signal Fading Management in Interferometric Sensors for PON Monitoring” and “Joint Sensing and Quantum Key Distribution for Invulnerable Access Networks“, for which Alessandro won the Student Paper Award 2025….

PoliCom will be at IEEE Summer topicals meeting 2023 SUM TOP 2023 Follow us On 17th of July 2023 at 16:30 CET Paola Parolari is presenting the invited paper Partial Parallelisation of MIMO Processing in Multi-Mode Fiber Transmission. on 18th of July 2023 at 14:00 CET Pierpaolo Boffi is presenting the paper Deployed telecom cables with sensing…

PoliCom will be at PoliCom at International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2023 Follow us on 4th of July 2023 At 16:10 CET Alessandro Gagliano is presenting the invited paper Integration of the QKD layer in fibre networks using multicore fibres. At 13:50 CET Marco Fasano is presenting the invited paper Fiber interferometric sensors…

PoliCom will be at Optical Networking and Communication Conference and Exposition OFC 2023 Follow us on 6th of March 2023 At 11:15 PST Alberto Gatto is presenting the paper Partial MIMO-Based Mode Division Multiplexing Transmission Over the First Field-Deployed 15- Mode Fiber in Metro Scenario. At 14:00 PST Pierpaolo Boffi is invited to speak at…

PoliCom will be at ECOC 2022 Follow us on 19th of September 2022 At 16:45 Pierpaolo Boffi will present the invited paper Sensing Applications in Deployed Telecommunication Fiber Infrastructures. On 21st of September 2022 At 13:30 Paola Parolari is the chair of symposium We3G • Quantum Communications – How Will Quantum Technology Revolutionalize the Internet?

PoliCom will be at Advanced Photonics Congress APC 2022 Follow us on 28th of July 2022 at 11:00 Paola is presenting the paper Coexistence of OTN and VCSEL-based DMT Channels for Multi-Tb/s Transmission in Metropolitan Area Networks.