The Italy Research Ministry has published yesterday the result of the selection process for the PRIN2022 national research funds (link to the MIUR web page): we are very happy that our project proposal titled “SURENET” (Surveillance of the URban Environment exploiting deployed optical NETworks) was approved! Prof. Roberto Gaudino will be the project Coordinator.

We are eager to start working on it together with our colleagues at Politecnico di Milano!

A new paper of ours was published today in IEEE Photonic Journal: it proposes a novel method for fast alarm generation in case of anomalous events (like large rockfalls or debris flows) in the alpine environment, using polarization-based fiber sensing.

Title:  Algorithm Optimization for Rockfalls Alarm System Based on Fiber Polarization Sensing

Authors: Saverio Pellegrini; Giuseppe Rizzelli; Marco Barla; Roberto Gaudino

A new paper of ours was published today in IEEE/OPTICA Journal of Lightwave Technology: it proposes a computationally very efficient semi-analytical model to predict the performance of ultra-high speed #fiber #coherent transmission systems when polarization dependent loss and bandwidth limitations are particularly relevant.

Title:  An Analytical Model for Coherent Transmission Performance Estimation after Generic Jones Matrices

Authors: Giuseppe Rizzelli, Pablo Torres-Ferrera, and Roberto Gaudino,