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  • 2014 - OSA Fellows Andrea Melloni Politecnico di Milano, Italy For significant contributions to the development of high-index-contrast, waveguide-based, integrated-optical circuits with application in advanced optical communications.

Overview

Andrea Melloni is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their research contributions primarily focus on integrated photonics and optical communication technologies, with a significant emphasis on the development and control of photonic integrated circuits.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Programmable photonic circuits, 2020, Nature
  • Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in photonic neural networks, 2023, Science
  • Determining the optimal communication channels of arbitrary optical systems using integrated photonic processors, 2023, Nature Photonics
  • Separating arbitrary free-space beams with an integrated photonic processor, 2022, Light Science & Applications
  • Control and Calibration Recipes for Photonic Integrated Circuits, 2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Melloni frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Francesco Morichetti
  • Francesco Zanetto
  • Giorgio Ferrari
  • Maziyar Milanizadeh
  • Marco Sampietro

Common venues for Melloni's publications include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Letters
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Light Science & Applications

The primary fields of study covered by Melloni's research are Engineering and Computer Science. More specifically, the research subfields include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Main topics explored by Melloni are:

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators

Andrea Melloni was recognized in 2014 as an OSA Fellow for contributions to the development of high-index-contrast, waveguide-based, integrated-optical circuits applied to advanced optical communications.

Best Publications

  • Programmable photonic circuits.

    Wim Bogaerts;Daniel Pérez;José Capmany;David A. B. Miller

  • What is — and what is not — an optical isolator

    Dirk Jalas;Alexander Petrov;Manfred Eich;Wolfgang Freude

  • An introduction to InP-based generic integration technology

    Meint Smit;Xaveer Leijtens;Huub Ambrosius;Erwin Bente

  • Synthesis of direct-coupled-resonators bandpass filters for WDM systems

    A. Melloni;M. Martinelli

  • Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in photonic neural networks

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  • Dispersion engineered slow light in photonic crystals: A comparison

    S.A. Schulz;Liam O'Faolain;Daryl M. Beggs;Thomas White

  • Linear and nonlinear pulse propagation in coupled resonator slow-wave optical structures

    Andrea Melloni;Francesco Morichetti;Mario Martinelli

  • Tunable Delay Lines in Silicon Photonics: Coupled Resonators and Photonic Crystals, a Comparison

    A. Melloni;A. Canciamilla;C. Ferrari;F. Morichetti

  • Loss engineered slow light waveguides

    Liam O'Faolain;Sebastian Andreas Schulz;Daryl Matthew Beggs;Tom P White

  • Unscrambling light—automatically undoing strong mixing between modes

    Andrea Annoni;Emanuele Guglielmi;Marco Carminati;Giorgio Ferrari

  • Roughness induced backscattering in optical silicon waveguides.

    Francesco Morichetti;Antonio Canciamilla;Carlo Ferrari;Matteo Torregiani

  • The first decade of coupled resonator optical waveguides: bringing slow light to applications

    Francesco Morichetti;Carlo Ferrari;Antonio Canciamilla;Andrea Ivano Melloni

  • Non-Invasive On-Chip Light Observation by Contactless Waveguide Conductivity Monitoring

    Francesco Morichetti;Stefano Grillanda;Marco Carminati;Giorgio Ferrari

  • Synthesis of a parallel-coupled ring-resonator filter

    Andrea Melloni

  • Bandpass resonant filters in photonic-crystal waveguides

    R. Costa;A. Melloni;M. Martinelli

  • All-optical switching in phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating

    A. Melloni;M. Chinello;M. Martinelli

  • Travelling-wave resonant four-wave mixing breaks the limits of cavity-enhanced all-optical wavelength conversion

    Francesco Morichetti;Antonio Canciamilla;Carlo Ferrari;Antonio Samarelli

  • Non-invasive monitoring and control in silicon photonics using CMOS integrated electronics

    Stefano Grillanda;Marco Carminati;Francesco Morichetti;Pietro Ciccarella

  • Ring-resonator filters in silicon oxynitride technology for dense wavelength-division multiplexing systems.

    Andrea Melloni;Raffaella Costa;Paolo Monguzzi;Mario Martinelli

  • Comment on “Nonreciprocal Light Propagation in a Silicon Photonic Circuit”

    Shanhui Fan;Roel Baets;Alexander Petrov;Zongfu Yu

  • Continuously tunable 1 byte delay in coupled-resonator optical waveguides.

    Andrea Melloni;Francesco Morichetti;Carlo Ferrari;Mario Martinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Morichetti
Francesco Morichetti Polytechnic University of Milan
Marc Sorel
Marc Sorel University of Glasgow
Marco Sampietro
Marco Sampietro Polytechnic University of Milan
Michael J. Strain
Michael J. Strain University of Strathclyde
Kathleen Richardson
Kathleen Richardson University of Central Florida
Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Roel Baets
Roel Baets Ghent University

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