Events

Congratulation Nicola!

Today, Nicola Bergamasco has succesfully defended his Ph.D thesis. Nicola is a precious member of our group, and we all wish him all the best for his career. Thanks for your hard work. Congraduation!

Jun 9, 2021

Results

Boosting the signal!

In collbaoration with the experimental group @UniPV, we show the selective generation of identical photon pairs in silicon chip. This result will appear in the Phyiscal Review Letter. 

Apr 30, 2021

Results

Let's squeeze!

In collaboration with Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., we demonstrated the largest amount of squeezing yet reported from a nanophotonic source. This result is now avalable in Nature Communication.

Feb 16, 2021

Openings

Join our team!

We have an opening for a postdoc position in nonlinear photonics starting May 1st, 2021. For more information, please visit our webpage.

Dec 21, 2020

Openings

PhD applications

The call fot PhD positions at the Department of Physics of the University of Pavia is now open. For more information and to apply online, click here

Deadline: June 24, 2021 at 17:00 pm CET

Jun 1, 2021

Guests

Xanadu@UniPV

Dr. Zachary Vernon from Xanadu will give the colloquium of the of Physics Department on April 29th at 4 PM. The event will be online. Please, register here to attend.

Apr 27, 2021

Events

CLEO 2021

Our contributions are now avaialble to all regitered attendees through the  CLEO website. See you online! 

Feb 16, 2021

Events

BQIT 2021

I will be giving a talk at the Virtual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, which will take place from 26 to 28 April 2021. Download the program here.

Dec 18, 2020

Results

Patent granted

Our patent on systems and methods for nonlinear optical light generation using linearly uncoupled resonators in integrated photonic devices has been granted (US Patent 11,003,046)

May 24, 2021

Results

Topological photonics

We show that it is possible to generate photons that are hyper-entangled in energy and path in a system exhbiting photonic topological protection. This result is now available in Optics Letters.

Apr 11, 2021

Results

The magic of silk

In collaboration with Fiorenzo Omenetto, we studied silk programmable photonics to generate optomechanical actuators. These results have been published in Nature Communication

Jan 29, 2021

Results

Long-range BSWs

Propagation losses as low as 5 dB/km can be obtained in TE-like BSWs by a proper photonic band gap engineering for both light polarizations. This work is now published in Optics Letters

Nov 30, 2020