Luca Potia'

Luca Potì (M'98) was born in Parma, Italy in 1971. He received the M.S. Degree in electronics engineering from University of Parma, Parma, Italy in 1997. He is currently Head of Research with the Interuniversity National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) at the Photonic Networks Nat'l Lab and external collaborator for Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, at the Excellence Center for Communication and Information Engineering (CEIIC) both located in Pisa, Italy. In 1997 he was visiting researcher at the Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL), Quebéc, Canada working on recirculating loop experiment for ultra-long haul transmission. In 1998 he received a Marconi Communication grant on the topic: "WDM communication systems on optical fibre" at the Marconi Laboratory of Parma University working on Nonlinear effects due to fibers and EDFAs in WDM systems. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as a responsible for the optical communications laboratory at the University of Parma, Italy. Since 2001 he is senior researcher with CNIT at the Photonics Networks National Laboratory in Pisa. In 2002 he was visiting researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan, working on ultra-fast phase comparison for 160 GHz signals. In 2005 he started, together with two researchers, PhoTrix S.r.l. an Italian company producing pulsed fibre lasers and ultra-fast subsystems. He has published more than 100 international journal papers, conference papers, and patents. He was Scientific Coordinator for the EU Project 'Large Optical Bandwidth by amplifier Systems based on Tellurite fibres doped with Rare earths' (LOBSTER). He was involved in several projects supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). He is currently managing the FIRB project 'Photonic Enabling Devices for Regeneration and Optical Switching' (PEDROS) supported by the MIUR. His research interests were mainly focused on ultra-fast communication systems, in fact, in 2001 his group demonstrated first Italian transmission system working at 160 Gbit/s. For such purpose strong expertise has been developed in ultra-short optical pulse generation for telecommunication. Recently he is interested in all-optical processing subsystems for ultra-fast communications and Optical Packet Switching networks.