CURRICULUM VITAE
of Ernesto CIARAMELLA
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January 2nd, 1967
Rome, Italy
Italian
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - CNIT
Via g. Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa (Italy)
+39 050 5492156
[email protected]
CORE COMPETENCY
Ernesto Ciaramella has more than sixteen years research experience in optical communications, focused on
various issues (components, systems and networks). He is author/coauthor of around 130 papers and 10
international patents on optical communication systems. He took part in the Telecom Italia working group on
optical transmission systems, including field trials, and to various EU-funded research projects. Since Nov. 2002
he is Associate Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna University, where he is leading a research group on
optical systems and innovative devices and has served also in the internal evaluation board . His main research
interests include theoretical design of transmission systems, transmission experiments, nonlinear optical effects,
advanced optical functionality, optical transparency issues, optical packet switching. He currently serves as a
reviewer for IEEE and OSA leading-edge journals. He is currently serving as a member of the Technical
Program Committee (TPC) of the IEEE/OSA Optical Communication Conference (OFC), of the European
Optical Communication Conference (ECOC) and of the Asian Pacific Optical Communication conference
(APOC).
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Since Nov. 2002, he is Associate Professor in Telecommunication at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, in Pisa. His
current research areas are optical transmission impairments, high bit rate system modelling,
innovative devices for all-optical processing. He has been the scientific representative of Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna in the European Integrated Project (IP) NOBEL ("Next generation Optical
networks for Broadband European Leadership", https://www.ist-nobel.org ). He led the Italian MIUR
project TOSCA (Transmission of Optical Systems using Competitive Amplification). Since April
2005 he is also a member of the Internal Evaluation Committee of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. He is
serving as a member of the Technical program Committee of the Optical Fiber Comunication
Conference (OFC, since 2007), of the European Optical Communication Conference (ECOC, in 2007
and 2008) and of the Asian Pacific Optical Communication conference (APOC, since 2008).
2001-2002: Since Nov. 2001, he was research manager at CNIT (www.cnit.it) Photonic Networks National Lab
in Pisa. He worked on high capacity optical transmission systems, including theory, numerical
modelling and experiments. He has been also coordinating advanced research activities aimed to
demonstrate innovative applications of nonlinear fiber optics in OTDM (Optical Time Division
Multiplexing) systems.
He was visiting professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (www.sssup.it), in Pisa, teaching design of
optical communication systems.
2000-2001: Coordinator of the theoretical team at QPlus Networks Italia, in Rome. He has been involved in
optical system modelling for long haul optical communications, including system design and
propagation issues. Among his results, he has proposed an innovative scheme to achieve 40 Gbit/s
transmission with very high spectral efficiency.
1998-2000: Researcher at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (FUB, www.fub.it), in Rome. His main activity was on
modelling and experiments of high-capacity systems: this research was also performed in the frame of
the ATLAS IST project (WDM soliton transmission at 40 Gbit/s). He was also involved with
theoretical issues of optical networking. His interests were in nonlinear impairments, design of optical
crossconnects, dimensioning of WDM optical networks, optical packet switching and "IP over WDM"
issues. He proposed and demonstrated an innovative all-optical reshaping scheme, based on nonlinear
fiber optics, and a new architecture for Optical Cross Connects, exploiting wavelength bundling. At
that time, he started giving occasional lectures on optical systems at SSGRR (the IT school branch of
Telecom Italia, www.ssgrr.it).
1997-1998: Researcher at CSELT (presently, Telecom Italia Labs) in Turin, Optical System Department. He was
responsible for numerical and analytical modelling of high-capacity systems. He continued the
ongoing activity with Telecom Italia, including field trials of new WDM/TDM systems. He also took
part into two European research projects (OPEN, Optical Pan European Network, and PHOTOS,
Photosensitive Technologies for Optical Systems).
1994-1997: Researcher at CSELT (presently, Telecom Italia Labs, www.telecomitalialab.com ) in Turin, Fiber
Plants Department. His research work, both experimental and theoretical, was on signal impairments
due to propagation in optical fibres. At the same time, he was a consultant in the CSELT-Telecom
Italia working group for the deployment of the new optical transmission systems, namely WDM and
10 Gbit/s.
1992-1994: Junior Researcher at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, in Rome (www.fub.it), Optical Communication
Division. He experimentally worked on transverse effects, namely the pattern formation in the
transverse intensity profile of a laser beam due to nonlinear propagation effects. In this period he
was also lecturer at "La Sapienza" University, in Rome.
1992:
Junior Project Manager at Telesoft, in Rome. There he attended the telecommunication advanced
course.
1992 (Jan-June): Scholarship at Alcatel Telettra, on coherent optical system. He was involved in characterisation
of optoelectronic components and the realisation of a PSK (phase shift keying) transmitter-receiver
pair for optical fibre communications.
EDUCATION
1991:
Laurea degree in Physics, 110/110 cum laude. His experimental thesis was about "Color centres in
KCl:Tl and their laser emission at 1.55 µm", carried out at the ENEA Research Center in Frascati. He
first obtained KCl:Tl laser-active crystals, and then successfully used those crystals in a laser cavity.
1985:
High school degree in the Italian "Liceo Classico", marked 60/60.
PATENTS
1)
"Device and procedure for the measurement of the Kerr nonlinearity in an optical fiber", ("Dispositivo e
procedimento per la misura del coefficiente di nonlinearità Kerr in una fibra ottica monomodo"),
M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella, B. Sordo, P5619321, 1996.
2)
"Device and procedure for the modification of spectral characteristics of optical signals" ("Dispositivo e
procedimento per modificare le caratteristiche spettrali di segnali ottici"), M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella,
P5754334, 1996.
3)
"Procedure for the transmission of optical signals with chromatic dispersion compensation by means of
chirped fibre gratings and optical transmission system exploiting the procedure" ("Procedimento di
trasmissione di segnali ottici con compensazione della dispersione cromatica mediante reticoli in fibra
ottica a passo variabile e sistema di comunicazione utilizzante il procedimento"), E. Ciaramella, P6476950,
1999.
4)
"Procedimento per convertire il formato di modulazione di un segnale ottico" ("Technique for converting
modulation format of an optical signal"), E. Ciaramella, A. D'Errico , PCT/EP2005/051028
5)
"Metodo di pre-enfasi di canali ottici WDM basato sulla misura del tasso di errore (BER)" ("Channel PreEmphasis based on BER Monitoring in WDM Communication Systems"), E. Ciaramella, L. Giorgi, F.
Cavaliere, PCT/EP2005/053592
6)
“Adaptable signal processor for optical transmitters able to compensate for a wide range of fibre chromatic
dispersion”, F. Cavaliere, W.Forysiak, E. Ciaramella, E. forestieri, L. Giorgi , P64097 (2007)
7)
“Channels Spectrum Pre-Shaping In WDM Multi-Path Networks”, E. Ciaramella, S. Brugioni, E Matarazzo,
L. Giorgi, F Cavaliere, G. Gaimari, P64510
8)
“Technique and device for effective dynamic operation of PMD optical compensators”, (“Tecnica e
dispositivo per il funzionamento continuo di compensatori ottici di PMD”), E Matarazzo, E. Ciaramella,
P64121
9)
"Asynchronous all-optical circuit for simultaneous extraction and serial-to-parallel conversion of label bits
from DPSK packets based on time-to-wavelength conversion", N. Calabretta, M. Presi, G. Contestabile, E.
Ciaramella, P64100
10) “PON based on multi-wavelength passive DPSK demodulation in the WDM splitter
“,
N.
Calabretta, M. Presi , G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, F Cavaliere P Ghiggino
Proposed to Ericsson in
March 2007
11) “A novel code preserving regenerative NRZ-DPSK wavelength and format conversion”, N. Calabretta, M.
Presi , G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, March 2007
12) “OSSB WDM-PON with multi-wavelength recovery and distribution to reflective ONT”, F. Cavaliere, M.
Presi, R. Proietti, A. D'Errico, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella
13) “A novel DPSK remodulation scheme for bidirectional Wi-Fi Radio-Over-Fiber system”, E. Ciaramella M.
Presi,F. Cavaliere, May 2008, Patent Proposal
PUBLISHED PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
 "Zero phonon lines in the R2 absorption of F3 centers in KF", R.Coluzzi, A. Scacco, G. Baldacchini,
E. Ciaramella, R.M. Montereali, Solid State Comm. 79, 3, 204 (1991).
 "Zero phonon lines in e--irradiated KCl:Tl", G.Baldacchini, E. Ciaramella, M. Cremona, G. Messina, R.M.
Montereali, A. Scacco, Solid State Comm. 82, 7, 493 (1992).
 "Talbot assisted hexagonal beam patterning in a thin liquid crystal film with a single feedback mirror at
“negative distance” ", E. Ciaramella, M. Tamburrini, E. Santamato , Appl. Phys. Lett. 63, 1604 (1993).
 "A new nonlinear optical method to measure the elastic anisotropy of liquid crystals" , E. Santamato, E.
Ciaramella, M. Tamburrini, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 241, 205 (1994).
 "Observation of non-hexagonal laser-beam patterning in a thin liquid crystal cell with a single feedback
mirror", E. Ciaramella, M. Tamburrini, E. Santamato, Appl. Phys. Lett. , 64, 3080, (1994).
 "Talbot assisted pattern formation in a liquid crystal film with single feedback mirror", E. Santamato, E.
Ciaramella, M. Tamburrini, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals,, Proceedings of International Conference
on Optics of Liquid Crystals OLC'93, Budapest, 4-9 Oct. 1993.
 "Hexagonal beam filamentation in a liquid crystal film with single feedback mirror", M. Tamburrini, E.
Ciaramella, E. Santamato, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (1994), special issue on "Transverse effects in
nonlinear optics", Proceedings of the Esprit-Tonics Meeting, Como, 28-30 June 1993 .
 "Observation of dihedral transverse patterning of Gaussian beams in nonlinear optics", E. Ciaramella, M.
Tamburrini, E. Santamato, Phys. Rev. A, 50, R10(1994).
 "Observation of non-hexagonal transverse patterning of a Gaussian beam in a Kerr medium", E. Ciaramella,
M. Tamburrini, E. Santamato, W. J. Firth, (Invited),Proceedings of European Quantum Electronic
Conference EQEC'94, Amsterdam , 28 Aug.- 2 Sept 1994 , pp. 259-260.
10) "Transverse patterns in a nonlinear cell with single mirror feedback", E. Ciaramella, M. Tamburrini, E.
Santamato, Optics and Photonic News, Special Issue "Optics in 1994" pp. 31-32.
11) "Measurement of the optical Kerr coefficient in fibres by means of the Modulation Instability", M. Artiglia, E.
Ciaramella, B. Sordo, Proceedings of European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC'95, Bruxelles,
17-21 Sept. 1995, paper Tu.L.2.1 pp.321-324. .
12) "Using Modulation Instability to determine the Kerr coefficient in optical fibres", M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella,
B. Sordo, El. Lett. 31, 12, pp.1012-1014 (1995).
13) "Characterisation of Modulation Instability gain in Optical Fibres", M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella, Proceedings of
Optical Fibres Measurements Conference, OFMC'95, Liegi, 25-26 Sept. 1995, paper V.5.
14) "Very high efficiency spectral inverter for fiber dispersion compensation", M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella,
Proceedings of Optical Fibre Conference, OFC 96, San Jose, 25 Febbr. - 1 Mar. 1996, paper ThM4.
15) "Upgrading existing fibre plants to higher bit-rates", M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella, F. Cisternino, P. Di Vita, R.
Girardi, A. Pagano, B. Sordo, Proc. International Conference on Communication Technology ICCT'96,
Beijing, 5-7 maggio 1996.
16) "Demonstration of CW soliton trains at 10, 40 and 160 GHz by means of induced modulation Instability",
M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella, P. Gallina, Proceedings of OFC 97, Optical Fibre Conference, Dallas, 21-25 Febbr.
1997, paper ThM4.
17) "Demonstration of CW soliton trains at 10, 40 and 160 GHz by means of induced modulation Instability",
M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella, P. Gallina, Invited paper in Trend in Optics and Photonics Series (TOPS), Vol 12,
"System Technologies", 1998.
18) "Sviluppo delle tecnologie fotoniche nella rete di trasporto italiana", ("Photonics in the Italian transport
network") M. Artiglia, E. Ciaramella, L.Cudia, S. Lombardo, A. Mariconda, R. Rita, , Proceedings of
Fotonica 97, Roma, 20-23 maggio 1997, Invited paper (Paper 8.1).
19) "Effect of non uniform chromatic dispersion of fibre link in determining system limitations due to Four
Wave Mixing" , E. Ciaramella, El. Lett. 34, 2, 202-203 (1998).
20) "Toward Wide-Scale All-Optical TransparentNetworking: The ACTS Optical Pan-European Network
(OPEN) Project" M. Chbat, E. Grard, L. Berthelon, A. Jourdan, P. Perrier, A. Leclert, B. Landousies, A.
Ramdane, N. Parnis, E Jones, E. Limal, Henrik N. Poulsen, R. Pedersen, N. Flaarønning, D. Vercauteren, M.
Puleo, E. Ciaramella, G. Marone, R. Hess, H. Melchior, W. Van Parys, P.M. Demeester, P. J. Gødsvang, T.
Olsen, and D. R. Hjelme, IEEE J. Select. Areas Telecomm., 16, 7, 1226-1244 (1998).
21) "Statistics of Four Wave Mixing impairments in non uniform fiber links", E. Ciaramella, Proceedings of
Optical Fiber Communication Conference OFC98, San Jose, 23-27 Febbraio 1998, Paper FC4.
22) "Modelling of system impairments due to Four Wave Mixing in dispersion Shifted links having nonuniform zero-dispersion wavelength", E. Ciaramella in "Optical Networks design and modelling", Kluwer
Academic Publishing, Boston (1998). pp. 103-110.
23) "System penalties due to polarisation mode dispersion of chirped gratings", E. Ciaramella, E. Riccardi, M.
Schiano, Proc. European conference on Optical communication ECOC98, pp. 515-516 Vol.1.
24) "Increase of crosstalk penalty due to nonlinear propagation in optical networks" E. Ciaramella, F. Curti,
Proceedings ofOptical Fiber Communication Conference OFC99, San Diego, 21-26 Febbr. 1999, Paper
WM40.
25) "Impairments due to the interplay between node crosstalk and nonlinear propagation in all optical
transport networks" E. Ciaramella, F. Curti, IEEE Photon. Technol. Letters,5, 563-565 (1999).
26) "Experimental assessment of node crosstalk limitations enhanced by nonlinear effects in all optical
transport networks" E. Ciaramella, F. Curti, IEEE Photon. Technol. Letters,6, 751-753 (1999).
27) “Origin and system effects of Polarization Mode Dispersion in Chirped Fiber Gratings” R. Caponi, E.
Ciaramella, E. Riccardi, M. Schiano, T. Tambosso, G. Zaffiro, Fiber and Integrated Optics, 19, 295-309 (2000)
28) "Modulation instability in long amplified links with dispersion compensation", E. Ciaramella, M.
Tamburrini, Nonliner Guided Waves and their Applications, NLGW99 , Dijion 1-3 Sept. 1999, paper ThD16.
29) "Modulation Instability in long amplified links with strong dispersion compensation" E. Ciaramella, M.
Tamburrini, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 11, 1608-1610 (1999).
30) "A new scheme for all-optical signal re-shaping based on wavelength conversion in optical fibers",
E. Ciaramella, Proc. Optical Fiber Comm. Conf OFC2000, Baltimore, 6-10 March 2000, Paper WM37
31) "Introducing wavelength granularity to simplify optical crossconnects" E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photon. Technol.
Lett., 12, 6, 699-701 (2000).
32) "Fast tunable wavelength conversion for all-optical packet switching" E. Ciaramella, G. Contestabile, F.
Curti, A. D'Ottavi, Proc. European Conference on Optical Communications, ECOC2000, Munich, 3-7 Sept.
2000, Paper 9.2.6.
33) "Bundling wavelengths in optical transport networks" E. Ciaramella, Proc. European Conference on Optical
Communications, ECOC2000, 3-7 Sept. 2000, Paper P4.2.
34) "All-optical signal reshaping via Four-Wave Mixing in optical fibers", E. Ciaramella, S. Trillo, IEEE Photon.
Technol. Lett., 12, 7, 849-851 (2000).
35) "Fast tunable wavelength conversion for all-optical packet switching" E. Ciaramella, G. Contestabile, F.
Curti, A. D'Ottavi IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. , 12, 10, 1361-1363 (2000).
36) "All-optical signal reshaping by means of Four Wave Mixing in optical fibers", E. Ciaramella, F. Curti, S.
Trillo, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. , 13, 2, 142-144 (2001).
37) “Nonlinear impairments in extremely dense WDM systems” E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. , 14,
804-806 (2002).
38) “Determining and minimising PMD-induced impairments in WDM systems with polarisation interleaving”
E. Ciaramella, Proc. European Conference Optical Communications ECOC2002, Paper P3.10.
39) "PMD-induced impairments in polarization interleaved WDM systems" E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photon. Technol.
15, 2, 227-229 (2003).
40) " Multiwavelength 40 GHz pulse source based on parametric effects in a Raman pumped dispersion shifted
fiber" A. D'Errico, M. Presi , G. Contestabile and E. Ciaramella Proc. ECOC 2003, Paper We4.P.11.
41) "Widely tunable 40 GHz pulse source for 160 Gbit/s OTDM by simultaneous soliton generation and
compression" A. D'Errico, C. Loiacono, M. Presi , G. Contestabile and E. Ciaramella, Proc. ECOC 2003,
Paper We2.6.5.
42) "A widely tunable, 40 GHz pulse source for 160 Gbit/s OTDM based on nonlinear fiber effects" E.
Ciaramella, G. Contestabile , A. D'Errico, C. Loiacono, M. Presi , IEEE Photon. Technol. 16, , 753-755 (2004).
43) “High power multiwavelength 40 GHz pulse source for WDM-OTDM applications” M. Presi, A. D’Errico,
G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, Optics Communications 233, 359-362 (2004)
44) "6 x 10 Gbit/s WDM multicast by means of FWM in DS Fibers," M. Presi, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella,
Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2004, Paper CTuV, San Francisco
45) "Multiple Wavelength Conversion for WDM Multicasting by FWM in a SOA", E. Ciaramella, G.
Contestabile, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella, G. Contestabile, M. Presi, IEEE Photon. Technol. VOL. 16, 7, 17751777, July. (2004)
46) "Theoretical Evidence of Dynamical Limitations in Practical Single-Stage PMD Compensators" E.
Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol.: 16 , 8 , 1843 – 1845, Aug. 2004
47) "A simple scheme to detect optical DPSK signals" , E. Ciaramella, G. Contestabile, A. D’Errico, IEEE
Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 16 , 9 , pp.:2138 – 2140, Sept. 2004
48) "40 GHz All-Optical Clock Extraction using a Semiconductor-assisted Fabry-Peròt Filter ", G. Contestabile,
A. D’Errico, M. Presi and E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 16 , 11 , 2523 – 2525, Nov.
2004
49) "Bidirectional Unrepeatered Transmission of 16x10 Gbit/s POLSK Signals over 80 km using two common
SOA" A. D’Errico, E. Ciaramella, G. Contestabile, ECOC2004, Stockholm, Sept. 2004, Paper We4.P.095
50) "A novel Scheme to detect optical DPSK" E. Ciaramella, A. D’Errico, G. Contestabile,
Stockholm, Sept. 2004, Paper We4.P.113
ECOC2004,
51) "All-optical header processor for DPSK optical packets" N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile and E. Ciaramella
LEOS 2004 Annual Meeting
52) "A fibre-based 1:6 WDM multicast converter at 10 Gbit/s", G. Contestabile, M. Presi and E. Ciaramella,
Optics Communications, 241, 499-502 (2004).
53) "Multiple Wavelength Conversion for WDM Multicasting by Means of Non-linear Effects in SOAs" G.
Contestabile, E. Ciaramella M.Presi, OpNeTec Conference 2004 Paper A.5.5
54) "Dynamical Limitations of Single-Stage PMD Compensators", E.Ciaramella, OpNeTec Conference 2004,
Paper B5.3
55) "All-optical header processor for DPSK optical packets" N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile and E. Ciaramella,
LEOS 2004 Annual Meeting
56) "A fibre-based 1:6 WDM multicast converter at 10 Gbit/s", G. Contestabile, M. Presi and E. Ciaramella, to
be published on Optics Communications
57) "All-Optical Clock Recovery from a 40 Gbit/s NRZ Signal based on Clock line Enhancement and Sharp
Periodic Filtering" G. Contestabile, M. Presi, N. Calabretta, E. Ciaramella, Electronics Letters , 40 , 21 , 14 Oct.
2004
58) "All-optical label erasure/recognition of novel DPSK optical packets for optical packet switching" N.
Calabretta, G. Contestabile, A. D’Errico E. Ciaramella, OFC 2005 Paper OTuC
59) "All-optical header recogniser for pure DPSK optical packets" N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella,
Electronics Letters , 40 , 23 , 11 Nov. 2004
60) "Analytical approximation of nonlinear distortions", E. Ciaramella, E. Forestieri, IEEE Photonics Technology
Letters. 17, 1, pp. 91-93, Jan. 2005
61) "All-optical label processor/erasure for label swapping of 12.5 Gbit/s spectrally separated bit-serial DPSK
label and payload” N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, A. D’Errico, E. Ciaramella, Electronics Lett. Volume 41,
Issue 9, 28 April 2005 Page(s):541 - 542
62) "Single and Multi-Wavelength Conversion at 40 Gb/s by means of Fast Nonlinear-Polarization-Switching
in an SOA", G. Contestabile, N. Calabretta, M. Presi, and E. Ciaramella , IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.,. 17, 12,
Dec. 2005, pp. 2652-2652
63) "A Novel 40 Gb/s NRZ All-Optical Clock Recovery" Giampiero Contestabile, Nicola Calabretta, Ernesto
Ciaramella, Marco Presi, CLEO 2005
64) "Effective Suppression of transient-induced Impairments in Transparent Optical Networks.", E. Ciaramella,
M. Presi, L. Giorgi, A. D'Errico, S. Herbst, J.P. Elbers, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 17, Issue 11, Nov. 2005,
Page(s):2487 - 2489
65) “Reshaping Capability of Cross Gain Compression in Semiconductor Amplifiers”, G. Contestabile, R.
Proietti, N. Calabretta and E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.,. 17, 12, Dec. 2005, pp. 2523-2525.
66) "Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Conversion by Double Stage XGM in SOAs" Giampiero Contestabile,
Nicola Calabretta, Roberto Proietti and Ernesto Ciaramella, Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS
2005Annual Meeting of the IEEE, 23-27 Oct. 2005 Page(s):155 - 156
67) "All-optical label erasure/recognition of novel DPSK optical packets for optical packet switching", N.
Calabretta, G. Contestabile, A. D'Errico E. Ciaramella, Paper OTuC OFC 2005
68) "A Novel All-Optical Header Processing System based on Time-To-Wavelength Conversion", Nicola
Calabretta, Giampiero Contestabile, and Ernesto Ciaramella, Proceedings of 2005 7th International
Conference Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2005, Volume 2, 3-7 July 2005 Page(s):38 - 41
69) “Experimental Characterization of Impairments Induced by Link-Control-Channels in DWDM Systems”,
M. Presi, L. Giorgi, G. Contestabile, S. Herbst and E. Ciaramella, ICTON 2005
70) "Fast Nonlinear-Polarization-Switching in SOAs for 40 Gb/s Optical Processing", G. Contestabile, N.
Calabretta, E. Ciaramella, M. Presi, Optical Amplifiers and Applications OAA2005
71) "A Novel All-Optical Header Processing System for DPSK Packets based on Time-to-Wavelength
Conversion", N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, European Conference on Optical Communications
ECOC2005, 25-29 Sept. 2005 Glasgow, UK, Paper Th3.4.2
72) "All Optical Regeneration by Cross Gain Compression in Semiconductor Amplifiers" G. Contestabile, R.
Proietti, N. Calabretta and E. Ciaramella, European Conference on Optical Communications ECOC2005, 25-29
Sept. 2005 Glasgow, UK, Paper We2.4.7
73) "A simple scheme to suppress transient induced degradation in transparent optical networks", E.
Ciaramella, M. Presi , L. Giorgi , A. D'Errico , S. Herbst, J.-P. Elbers, European Conference on Optical
Communications ECOC2005, 25-29 Sept. 2005 Glasgow, UK, Paper Th3.5.5
74) "Highly Effective Technique for Setting the Power Pre-emphasis in WDM Optical Systems", E. Ciaramella,
L. Giorgi, A. D'Errico, F. Cavaliere, G. Gaimari, G. Prati, J. Lightwave Technol., 24, N. 1, Jan. 2006, pp.342356
75) "All-optical header processing system based on time-to-wavelength conversion for pure DPSK packets", N.
Calabretta, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, Electronics Letters, Vol.41, Issue 15, pp. 865-866, 21 July 2005
76) "Double-Stage Cross-Gain Modulation in SOAs: An Effective Technique for WDM Multicasting", G.
Contestabile, N. Calabretta, R. Proietti, and E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 18, 1, Jan.
1, 2006, pp. 181-183
77) "Exploiting Time-to-Wavelength Conversion for All-Optical Label Processing", N. Calabretta, G.
Contestabile, S. H. Kim, S. B. Lee, and E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 18, 2, Jan. 15, 2006,
pp. 436-438
78) "WDM-DPSK Detection by means of Frequency-Periodic Gaussian Filtering", A. D'Errico, R. Proietti, L.
Giorgi, G. Contestabile and E. Ciaramella, Electronics Letters, 19th January 2006 Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 112 - 113
79) "Unrepeatered SOA-based Transmission over 160 km Single-Mode Fiber", R. Proietti, A. D'Errico, N.
Calabretta, L. Giorgi, G. Contestabile, and E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics technology Letters, Volume 18,
Issue 15, 1 Aug 2006 Page(s):1675 – 1677
80) "All-Optical Label Processing Techniques for Pure DPSK Optical Packets ",N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile,
A. D’Errico, and E. Ciaramella, IEEE J. Selected Quantum Electronics, 12, 4, JULY/AUGUST 2006, pp. 686694.
81) "Bidirectional WDM-DPSK transmission by using SOAs ", , R. Proietti, N. Calabretta, A. D'Errico, G.
Contestabile, E Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 18, Issue 16, Aug. 2006 Page(s):1762
- 1764
82) “Compact Header Processing Circuit for Optical DPSK Packets”, N. Calabretta, M. Presi, G. Contestabile
and E. Ciaramella, Electronics Letters, Vol. 42 No. 15, pp. 51 – 52 (2006)
83) “System Performance Using Different Types of In-Line Optical Regenerators“, E. Ciaramella; L. Giorgi,
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 24, 10, pp 3727-3744 (2006)
84) “WDM-POLSK Transmission Systems by using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers", E. Ciaramella, A.
D'Errico, R. Proietti, G. Contestabile, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 24, 11, pp 4039-4047 (2006)
85) “All-Optical Clock Recovery for NRZ-DPSK Signals” G. Contestabile, M. Presi, N. Calabretta, E.
Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 18, Issue 23, Dec. 2006 Page(s) 2544-2546
86) “Wide Dynamic Range All-Optical Clock and Data Recovery From Preamble-Free NRZ-DPSK Packets”, M.
Presi, N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technol. Letters, 19, 6, 372-374 (2007).
87) “All-optical asynchronous serial-to-parallel converter circuit for DPSK optical packetsheader processing
system based on time-to-wavelength conversion “Nicola Calabretta, Marco Presi, Giampiero Contestabile,
and Ernesto Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technol. Letters, 19, 10, Page(s):783 - 785 (2007).
88) “Cross-Gain Compression in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers”Giampiero Contestabile; Roberto Proietti;
Nicola Calabretta; Ernesto Ciaramella; Journal of Lightwave Technology, 25, 3, March 2007 Page(s):915 921
89) “A bidirectional WDM/TDM-PON using DPSK downstream signals and a custom AWG “, Nicola
Calabretta, Marco Presi, Roberto Proietti, Giampiero Contestabile, Ernesto Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters, 19, 16, 1227-1229 (2007)
90) “Field-trial of a SOA based WDM-DPSK 8x10 Gbit/s system over 300 km with conventional amplification
span” A. D’Errico, V. Donzella, G. Contestabile, S. Betti, V. Carrozzo, F. Curti, M. Guglielmucci, E.
Ciaramella, Electronics Letters, 29 March 2007, Vol.43, 7, p. 404-405
91) “A simple and low-power optical limiter for multi-GHz pulse trains”, G. Contestabile, M. Presi, R. Proietti,
N. Calabretta and, E. Ciaramella, Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 15, (2007) pp. 9849-9858
92) “Stabilizing PMD Compensators by Means of Polarization Dithering”, E. Ciaramella, E. Matarazzo, IEEE
Photonics Technology Letters, 19, 23, Dec.1, 2007, p. 1892 – 1894
93) “Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers with Constant Envelope WDM signals”, E. Ciaramella, V.
Donzella, and A. D’Errico, IEEE J. Quantum Electronics, Vol. 44, n. 5, May 2008 403-409
94) “Operational Equivalence of Self-Switching in MZI and Nonlinear Polarization Switches based on SOAs”,
S. Gupta, N. Calabretta, M. Presi, G. Contestabile, A. Wonfor, R. Gangopadhyay and E. Ciaramella, IEEE J.
Select. Topics Quantum Electr., Volume 14, Issue 3, May-June 2008, pp. 779 - 788
95) “Simultaneous Demodulation and Clock-Recovery of 40 Gb/s NRZ-DPSK Signals using a Multiwavelength
Gaussian Filter”, G. Contestabile, M. Presi, R. Proietti, E. Ciaramella, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
20, 10, May 15, 2008, pp. 791-793.
96) "Optical Reshaping of 40 Gb/s NRZ and RZ Signals without Wavelength Conversion." G. Contestabile, M.
Presi, R. Proietti, E. Ciaramella,· IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 20, 13, July 1, 2008 pp. 1133-1135
97) “40 Gb/s All-Optical Packet Regeneration by means of Cross Gain Compression in an SOA”, G.
Contestabile, R. Proietti, S. Gupta, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella, Optics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 13, July 1, 2008, pp.
1470-1472
98) E. Ciaramella, “Effective Approach to Estimate Optical System Performance From Numerical Simulations”,
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 20, 20, Oct. 15, 2008, p. 1703-1705
99) G. Contestabile, M. Presi, R. Proietti, E. Ciaramella,·"Optical Reshaping of 40 Gb/s NRZ and RZ Signals
without Wavelength Conversion", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 20, 13, July 1, 2008 pp. 1133-1135
100) G. Contestabile, R. Proietti, S. Gupta, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella, “All-Optical 40 Gb/s Packet Regeneration by
means of Cross Gain Compression in an SOA”, Optics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 13, July 1, 2008, pp. 1470-1472
101) A. D'Errico; R. Proietti; G. Contestabile and E. Ciaramella “WDM-DPSK Systems based on SOAs in TOSCA
project”, Fiber and Integrated Optics, articolo invitato, 27:4, pp. 223 — 228 (2008).
102) M. Presi, R. Proietti K. Prince, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella “A 80 km reach fully passive WDM-PON
based on reflective ONUs”, Optics Express, 2008, Vol. 16, Issue 23, pp. 19043-19048
103) "Demonstrating Frequency-Periodic Gaussian Filtering for WDM-DPSK Detection", A. D'Errico, R. Proietti,
L. Giorgi, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC2006, Paper OFF6
104) "Evidence of Noise Compression by Cross Gain Compression in SOAs", G. Contestabile, R. Proietti, N.
Calabretta, L. Giorgi, E. Ciaramella, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC2006, Paper JThB29
105) "Unrepeatered 16x10 Gb/s DPSK transmission over 140 km single-mode fiber by means of two commercial
SOAs", N. Calabretta, A. D’Errico, R. Proietti, L. Giorgi, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, Proc. Conference on
Laser and ElectroOptics (CLEO/QELS 2006 ) Long Beach (CA), paper CThY3
106) "Bidirectional 16x10 Gb/s WDM-DPSK transmission over 120 km SMF by using two common SOAs", R.
Proietti, N. Calabretta, A. D'Errico, G. Contestabile, E Ciaramella, Proc. Optical Amplifiers and Applications
OAA 2006, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 25-28, 2006, Paper OTuD5
107) “Recovering an Optical Synchronization Signal from NRZ-DPSK” G. Contestabile, N. Calabretta, M. Presi
and E. Ciaramella. Postdeadline Paper PD2, Optical Amplifiers and Applications OAA 2006, Whistler,
British Columbia, Canada, June 25-28, 2006
108) “Compact All-Optical Header Processing for DPSK Packets”, N. Calabretta, M. Presi, G. Contestabile, E.
Ciaramella, Proc. European Conf. Optical Comminications ECOC2006, Cannes, France, Paper We1.4.5
109) “Semiconductor-Amplified WDM-POLSK Systems”, E. Ciaramella, A. D'Errico, R. Proietti, G. Contestabile,
Proc. European Conf. Optical Comminications ECOC2006, Cannes, France, Paper Th1.6.3
110) “Simultaneous Data Demodulation and All-Optical Clock Extractionfrom Pure DPSK Packets” N.
Calabretta, M. Presi, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, LEOS 2006 Annual Meeting, Paper ThP
111) “Versatile All Otical Clock Recorery Circuit for OOK and DPSK Modulated Data Traffic”, M. Presi, N.
Calabretta, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, Proc. Photonics in Switching, Paper O 1.4
112) “Experimental Characterization of SOA-based wavelength converter for DPSK Signal”, S. Gupta1, N.
Calabretta2, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella and R. Gangopadhyay, proc. Chinacom 2006, Beijing, China,
Oct. 25-27 (2006), paper OC05.2.
113) “10 Gbit/s all optical wavelength conversion by using double stage Cross Gain Modulation in SOAs”, G.
Contestabile, N. Calabretta, R. Proietti and, E. Ciaramella, proc. Chinacom 2006, Beijing, China, Oct. 25-27
(2006) , paper OC05.4 10.
114) “WDM Transmission Systems using SOAs”, E. Ciaramella, N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, A. D’Errico, R.
Proietti, Bilateral China-Italy Workshop on “Photonics for Communication and Sensing" (invited paper),
Xian, China, Oct. 23-24 (2006).
115) “In-Field WDM-DPSK 8x10 Gb/s Transmission over 300 km Using Four Common SOAs”, E. Ciaramella,
A. D'Errico1, V. Donzella, G. Contestabile, S. Betti, V. Carrozzo, F. Curti, M. Guglielmucci, Optical Fiber
Communication Conf. OFC 2007, 25-29 March 2007, Paper JThA75
116) “Asynchronous All-Optical Circuit for Serial-to-Parallel Conversion of Label Bits of DPSK Packets”, Nicola
Calabretta, Marco Presi, Giampiero Contestabile, Ernesto Ciaramella, Proc. Optical Fiber Communication
Conf. OFC 2007, 25-29 March 2007, Paper UtuB5
117) “Parameters affecting the performance of WDM-DPSK systems based on SOA amplifiers “, E. Ciaramella
V. Donzella, and A. D’Errico, Proc. Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics CLEO 2007, Paper CMH5
118) “A novel bidirectional WDM/TDM-PON using DPSK downstream signals and a custom AWG “, N.
Calabretta, M. Presi, R. Proietti, G. Contestabile, and E. Ciaramella, Proc. ECOC 2007, Berlin, Paper 5.4.4
119) “Suppressing dynamic instabilities in PMD compensators by dithering the polarization of the transmitted
signal”, E. Ciaramella and E. Matarazzo, Proc. ECOC 2007, Berlin, Paper 9.3.6
120) “DPSK Packet-Level Power Equalization by means of Nonlinear Polarization Rotation in an SOA”, M.
Presi, S. Gupta, N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, Proc. Photonics in Switching, 2007, 19-22
Aug. 2007 pp. 157 – 158
121) “Operational Equivalence of Self-Switching Effect in SOA-based Nonlinear Polarization and MZI
Switches”, S. Gupta, M. Presi, N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society, 2007. LEOS 2007 Annual Meeting, 21-25 Oct. 2007, p. 810 – 811
122) “All-Optical Techniques Enabling Packet Switching”, N. Calabretta, G. Contestabile, Y. Liu, M.T. Hill, E.
Tangdiongga, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella, H.J.S. Dorren, Proceedings International Conference on Transparent
Optical Networks ICTON07, invited paper, paper Sa1.2
123) “40 Gb/s Wavelength Preserving 2R Regeneration for Both RZ and NRZ Signals,” G. Contestabile, R.
Proietti, M. Presi, and E. Ciaramella, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2008, San Diego,
paper OWK1, 2008
124) “40 Gb/s WDM NRZ-DPSK All-Optical Clock Recovery and Data Demodulation Based on a Periodic
Bragg Filter,” G. Contestabile, R. Proietti, N. Calabretta, A. D'Errico, M. Presi, and E. Ciaramella, Optical
Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2008, San Diego, paper OMN2, 2008
125) “A Full-Duplex Symmetric WDM-PON Featuring OSSB Downlink Modulation with Optical DownConversion,” M. Presi, R. Proietti, A. D'Errico, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella, and F. Cavaliere, Optical
Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2008, San Diego, paper OThT4, 2008
126) “2R Optical Regeneration Combining XGC in a SOA and a Saturable Absorber,” A. D'Errico, G.
Contestabile, R. Proietti, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella, L. Bramerie, M. Gay, S. Lobo, M.l Joindot, J.C. Simon, D.
Massoubre, H.T. Nguyen, J.L. Oudar, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2008, San Diego,
paper OWK4, 2008
127) “Automated Performance Equalization in WDM Networks with Inline Optical Add Drop Multiplexers”, E.
Ciaramella, S. Brugioni, E. Matarazzo, F. Cavaliere, L. Giorgi, National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
(OFC/NFOEC2008) Paper NWE3, 2008.
128) “Novel Scheme for Code Preserving Regenerative NRZ-DPSK Wavelength and Format Conversion”, Marco
Presi, Nicola Calabretta, Giampiero Contestabile, Ernesto Ciaramella; accepted CLEO 2008, San Jose, USA,
Paper CThH
129) A. Chiuchiarelli, E. Matarazzo, A. D’Errico, G. Contestabile and E. Ciaramella “Analysis of PMD induced
crosstalk in 2x40 Gbit/s Polarization Multiplexed signals” Proceedings of European Conference on Optical
Communications (ECOC2008), Brussels, 21-25 Sett. 2008. Paper P. 4.18
130) A. D'Errico, E. Ciaramella “Double-Pass PMF-based Optical Circuit Enhancing 40 Gbit/s Chromatic
Dispersion Tolerance” Proceedings of European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC2008),
Brussels, 21-25 Sett. 2008, paper P.3.09
131) E. Ciaramella, G. Contestabile, A. D’Errico, R. Proietti “WDM Transmission systems based on SOAs and
alternative modulation formats”; Proc. Asian Pacific Optical Communications, APOC 2008, Invited Paper
132) Y. Arimoto, M. Presi, V. Guarino, A. D’Errico, G. Contestabile, M. Matsumoto, E. Ciaramella, “320 Gbit/s
(8x40 Gbit/s) double-pass terrestrial free-space optical link transparently connected to optical fibre lines”,
Proceedings of European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC2008), PostDeadline Paper
Th.3.F.2
133) K. Prince, A. Chiuchiarelli, M. Presi, I. Tafur Monroy and E. Ciaramella, “All-Optical Delay Technique for
Supporting Multiple Antennas in a Hybrid Optical - Wireless Transmission System”, LEOS 2008 Annual
Meeting, Paper MJ 3.