Nicola Calabretta
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Nicola Calabretta is an Assistant Professor in Electro-Optical Communication Systems and Senior Research Fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His expertise is in telecommunications engineering, electrical engineering and optical engineering. Nicola’s research focuses on optical signal processing for highly spectral efficient multi-level modulation formats, high-speed electronics for processing of novel labeling techniques, FPGA implementation of scheduling algorithms for low latency control of large port optical switches, optical interconnects, photonic integrated wavelength selector with flexible bandwidth, photonic integrated optical switches and c optical nodes for metro networks. Applications of the group’s work on fast optical switches include performance enhancement for optical metro/access networks and data center networks.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Nicola Calabretta received his PhD from TU/e in 2004 for his work in all-optical signal processing and optical packet switching. Prior to this, he studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. Before joining the TU/e, he conducted research at DTU Fotonik, the Department of Photonics Engineering at the technical University of Denmark, where he worked on Radio-over-Fiber. He completed a postdoc at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna) in Pisa, Italy, focusing on wavelength division multiplexing, passive optical network and optical transmission systems employing advanced modulation formats.
Recent Publications
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Parallel Photonic Convolutional Processing On-chip with Cross-connect Architecture and Cyclic AWGs
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2023) -
System Performance Assessment of an Optical Wireless Data Center Network based on Photonic Integrated Multicast Switch
48th European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 2022 (2022) -
O, S, C and L-band SOA-based OADM nodes in Metro Networks
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Photonically Interconnected Federated Edge-Computing Networks Using Fast Reconfigurable SOA-based OADMs
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Polarization-insensitive 40-channel 100-GHz spacing fold-back planar echelle grating Mux/Demux for photonic integrated wavelength-selective switches
Optics Letters (2022)
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