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Gaetano Assanto

Gaetano Assanto

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D-Index
68
Citations
19843
World Ranking
1196
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - OSA Fellows For contributions to nonlinear integrated optics and optical spatial solitons.

Overview

Gaetano Assanto is affiliated with Roma Tre University in Italy and has a research focus primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans 48 publications within this main discipline, with concentrated expertise in subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (25 publications), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (23 publications), as well as contributions in Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The research topics covered by Gaetano Assanto include nonlinear photonic systems, advanced fiber laser technologies, and nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation. Other specialized areas within their work comprise nonlinear waves and solitons, orbital angular momentum in optics, photorefractive and nonlinear optics, and solid state laser technologies.

Frequent publication venues include Wave Motion, where they have contributed four articles, Physical Review A with three papers, Photonics and Applied Sciences each with three publications, and Optics Express appearing twice as a venue for their research.

Assanto has collaborated with various coauthors repeatedly. Notable frequent coauthors include Noel F. Smyth, A. Balbuena Ortega, F. E. Torres-González, V. L. Gayou, and R. Delgado-Macuil, each involved in multiple joint publications.

Representative recent research papers by Gaetano Assanto include:

  • Spin-optical solitons in liquid crystals, 2020, Physical Review A
  • Multihump thermo-reorientational solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals: Modulation theory solutions, 2021, Physical Review A

Other recent papers related to the topic include:

  • Vortex nematicons in planar cells, 2020, Optics Express
  • Optothermal vortex-solitons in liquid crystals, 2020, Optics Letters
  • Scalar and vector supermode solitons owing to competing nonlocal nonlinearities, 2021, Optics Express

In 2004, Assanto was recognized as an OSA Fellow for contributions to nonlinear integrated optics and optical spatial solitons.

Best Publications

  • Discrete Solitons in Optics

    Falk Lederer;George I. Stegeman;Demetri N. Christodoulides;Gaetano Assanto

  • Route to Nonlocality and Observation of Accessible Solitons

    Claudio Conti;Marco Peccianti;Gaetano Assanto

  • Observation of optical spatial solitons in a highly nonlocal medium.

    Claudio Conti;Marco Peccianti;Gaetano Assanto

  • Nonlocal spatial soliton interactions in nematic liquid crystals.

    Marco Peccianti;Katarzyna A. Brzdkiewicz;Gaetano Assanto

  • All-optical diode in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

    Katia Gallo;Gaetano Assanto;Krishnan R. Parameswaran;Martin M. Fejer

  • Routing of anisotropic spatial solitons and modulational instability in liquid crystals

    Marco Peccianti;Claudio Conti;Gaetano Assanto;Antonio De Luca

  • Electrically assisted self-confinement and waveguiding in planar nematic liquid crystal cells

    M. Peccianti;A. De Rossi;Gaetano Assanto;A. De Luca

  • Large nonlinear phase shifts in second-order nonlinear-optical processes.

    George I. Stegeman;Mansoor Sheik-Bahae;Eric W. van Stryland;Gaetano Assanto

  • Efficient high-speed near-infrared Ge photodetectors integrated on Si substrates

    Lorenzo Colace;G Masini;Gaetano Assanto;Hc Luan

  • Metal–semiconductor–metal near-infrared light detector based on epitaxial Ge/Si

    L. Colace;G. Masini;F. Galluzzi;G. Assanto

  • All-optical switching and logic gating with spatial solitons in liquid crystals

    Marco Peccianti;Claudio Conti;Gaetano Assanto;Antonio De Luca

  • Tunable refraction and reflection of self-confined light beams

    Marco Peccianti;Andriy Dyadyusha;Malgosia Kaczmarek;Gaetano Assanto

  • High performance germanium-on-silicon detectors for optical communications

    Silvia Famà;Lorenzo Colace;Gianlorenzo Masini;Gaetano Assanto

  • Experimental observation of polarization instability in a birefringent optical fiber

    S. Trillo;S. Wabnitz;R. H. Stolen;Gaetano Assanto

  • Spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

    G. Assanto;M. Peccianti

  • Nematicons: Optical Spatial Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Gaetano Assanto;Marco Peccianti;Claudio Conti

  • High-performance p-i-n Ge on Si photodetectors for the near infrared: from model to demonstration

    C. Masini;L. Calace;G. Assanto;Hsin-Chiao Luan

  • all optical switching devices based on large nonlinear phase shifts from second harmonic generation

    Gaetano Assanto;George Stegeman;Mansoor Sheik‐Bahae;Eric Van Stryland

  • Ge-on-Si approaches to the detection of near-infrared light

    L. Colace;G. Masini;G. Assanto

  • Interplay between nonlocality and nonlinearity in nematic liquid crystals.

    Marco Peccianti;Claudio Conti;Gaetano Assanto

  • Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Near Infrared Light Detector Based on Epitaxial Ge on Si

    L. Colace;G. Masini;F. Galluzzi;G. Assanto

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Peccianti
Marco Peccianti Loughborough University
Claudio Conti
Claudio Conti Sapienza University of Rome
George I. Stegeman
George I. Stegeman University of Central Florida
Stefano Trillo
Stefano Trillo University of Ferrara
Martti Kauranen
Martti Kauranen Tampere University
Roberto Morandotti
Roberto Morandotti Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Yuri S. Kivshar
Yuri S. Kivshar Australian National University
Iam-Choon Khoo
Iam-Choon Khoo Pennsylvania State University
Wieslaw Krolikowski
Wieslaw Krolikowski Australian National University

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