CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal data
Name: STEFANO
Surname: AZZINI
Date of birth: 29-05-1983
Place of birth: ASOLA (MANTOVA), ITALY
Nationality: ITALIAN
Mother tongue: ITALIAN
Residence: VIA C. ALBERTI 67, 46041, CASTELNUOVO DI ASOLA (MN), ITALY
Mobile phone number: +39 3280649510
E-mail address: [email protected]
Current Employment
Dates: from 1st November 2012 to 30th April 2013
Research fellow at the Physics Department (Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory) of the University of
Pavia, Italy. Responsible of the funding project: Professor Lucio Claudio Andreani (e-mail address:
[email protected]).
Major research interest: silicon-integrated quantum photonics.
Research group: Photonics and Nanostructures (website:
http://fisicavolta.unipv.it/nanophotonics/Index.htm)
Education
UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA
DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY “A. VOLTA” – PAVIA –
DOCTORAL DEGREE IN PHYSICS – RESEARCH GROUP: PHOTONICS AND
NANOSTRUCTURES
Date: 01-02-2013
Experimental thesis title: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM NONLINEAR EMISSION OF
LIGHT FROM PHOTONIC MICRO- AND NANO-CAVITIES
Supervisors: Dr Matteo Galli, Dr Daniele Bajoni
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POLITECNICO DI MILANO
II FACULTY OF ENGINEERING – MILAN – MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN
PHYSICS ENGINEERING – COURSE: NANO-OPTICS AND PHOTONICS
Date: 22-07-2008
Experimental thesis title: PARAMETRIC GENERATION OF MID-INFRARED TUNABLE PHASE-STABILIZED HIGH REPETITION-RATE PULSES
Advisor: Professor Marco Marangoni
Final Score: 104/110
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
II FACULTY OF ENGINEERING – MILAN – BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE
IN PHYSICS ENGINEERING – COURSE: OPTICS AND LASERS
Date: 28-09-2005
Experimental thesis title: LITHIUM NIOBATE OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES: LINEAR
CHARACTERIZATION AND QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING SECOND HARMONIC
GENERATION
Advisor: Professor Marco Marangoni
Final Score: 103/110
HIGH SCHOOL INSTITUTE “G. FALCONE” – ASOLA (MN)
DIPLOMA DI MATURITA’ SCIENTIFICA (P.N.I.)
Date: JULY, 2002
Final Score: 100/100
Professional Experiences
Dates: from October 2007 to June 2008
Research laboratory of the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano: LabPoint Photonic-Lab
at
Campus
Point
(research
laboratory
opened
in
October
2007;website:http://www.campuspoint.polimi.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti
cle&id=74&Itemid=87&lang=en)
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City: Lecco, Italy
Research area: femtosecond fiber laser and frequency comb based photonic technologies
Personal position: final-year undergraduate student (full-time Master-project)
Activity:
Experimental work addressing the problem of generating tunable mid infrared optical combs
in the fingerprint region (5 – 12 μm) as a new tool for precision spectroscopy, starting from
an innovative compact two-branches amplified Er-doped ultrafast fiber laser oscillator.
Relevant steps: characterization of the laser source (oscillator, amplifier and supercontinuum
stages); physical and numerical study of the difference-frequency-generation process used to
generate mid infrared pulses; experimental apparatus set-up.
Supervisor: Prof. Marco
[email protected])
Marangoni
(head
of
the
lab,
e-mail
Research
group:
Solid
state
laser
and
photonic
devices
http://www.fisi.polimi.it/en/research/research_structures/research_lines/50401)
address:
(website:
Heads of the research group: Professors Roberta Ramponi (e-mail address: [email protected]) and Paolo Laporta
Dates: from October 2008 to May 2009
Company: Opto Engineering srl – The Telecentric Company (web site: http://www.optoengineering.com/)
City: Mantova, Italy
Business sector: Manufacturer of lenses for machine vision and lasers
Personal position: Trainee, Design and R&D Office
Activity:
Fundamentals of design of optical systems. Development of machine vision solutions based
on telecentric lenses. Development of test methodologies for optical quality control of custom telecentric lenses. Relevant features: test reports in English for foreign customers; participation to the development of a new standard electronic product.
Company tutor: Claudio Sedazzari (e-mail address: [email protected])
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Politecnico di Milano tutor: Prof. Marco Marangoni
Dates: from 1st November 2009 to 31st October 2012
PhD student in Physics at the Physics Department (Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory) of the
University of Pavia, Italy (PhD fellowship).
Experimental curriculum: Photonics and Nanostructures
Research interests:
Experimental physical study of the efficient nonlinear emission of light by means of the enhancement offered by semiconductor-integrated optical resonators. Two main research lines
have been followed: 1) lasing of exciton-polaritons in III-V photonic crystal nano-cavities;
2) third-order non-linear optical processes in silicon-on-insulator photonic micro- and nanocavities for the generation of twin photons at telecom wavelengths in a silicon chip. The design of the integrated devices, from the FDTD numerical simulations to the GDSII layout for
nano-fabrication, represented a substantial part of the work.
Research group: Photonics and Nanostructures (website:
http://fisicavolta.unipv.it/nanophotonics/Index.htm)
Supervisors: Dr Matteo Galli (e-mail address: [email protected]), Dr Daniele Bajoni (email address: [email protected])
Dates: from January 2011 to December 2011
Visiting PhD student at the School of Engineering & James Watt Nanofabrication Centre
(JWNC) of the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Activity: design and characterization of silicon-on-insulator micro-rings and 1D coupled
photonic crystal nano-cavity devices in order to achieve room-temperature spontaneous
four-wave mixing at telecom wavelengths. The work has been carried out in strong collaboration with colleagues directly involved in the devices’ fabrication, which has been performed using state-of-the-art electron beam lithography techniques. Access to the JWNC
clean rooms has been part of the training.
Research group: Optoelectronics (website:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/electronicsandelectricalengineering/research/optoelectroni
cs/)
Adviser: Dr Marc Sorel (e-mail address: [email protected] )
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Personal skills
Foreign languages
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
English
LEVEL
Fluent
[Certified Computer-based TOEFL Test (Level
C1) Total Score: 237/300
Test date: 23-03-2005]
Basics
German, Spanish
Computer and software
SOFTWARE
Operating System: Microsoft Windows
Editor and data analysis: Microsoft Office,
OriginLab
L-Edit (microelectronics CAD software), FDTD
Solutions by Lumerical (commercial FDTD
numerical simulation software)
Matlab, LabView, C++
Graphics: Corel Draw, LateX
Other: Zemax (optical CAD), Matrox (imaging)
LEVEL
Good
Good
Good
Sufficient
Sufficient
Basics
Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory
Instrumentation: CW and pulsed lasers (gas lasers, diode lasers, fiber lasers,
supercontinuum sources), LED sources, optomechanical components (mechanical and piezoelectric motion stages, lenses, mirrors, prisms, polarizers, optical filters), optical fiber cables, microscope objectives, photodiodes, superconducting detectors, liquid nitrogen-cooled
spectrophotometers, liquid helium-cooled cold-finger cryostat chambers, vacuum pumps,
oscilloscopes, lock-in amplifiers.
Abilities: design, realization and testing of optical setups (built using the above reported
instrumentation), especially for optical transmission and spectroscopic measurements of integrated semiconductor devices.
Teaching
General Physics Course, Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Pavia: assistant at written
and oral exams with Prof. Mario Geddo, having received the title of “Cultore della materia”.
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Summer Schools & Extra-curriculum Courses (attended during PhD
studies)
* ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE –
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON QUANTUM ELECTRONICS – 47th COURSE Advances on
Nanophotonics: Plasmonics and Energy Efficiency – Erice, Sicily, 11-18 July 2010
(http://w3.uniroma1.it/nanophotonic/)
* SUSSP67 – SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES SUMMER SCHOOLS IN PHYSICS - 67th COURSE Quantum Information and Coherence – Glasgow, Scotland, 28 July – 10 August 2011
(http://sussp67.phys.strath.ac.uk/)
* ENTERPRENEURSHIP COURSE – Doctoral School of the University of Pavia – January/March
2012 – Pavia ( http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ricerca/dottorati-di-ricerca.html )
Conference proceedings and peer-reviewed publications
* 2008
A. Gambetta, S. Azzini, G. Galzerano, P. Laporta, R. Ramponi, M. Marangoni, Tunable high repetition-rate mid-infrared optical combs from a compact amplified Er-doped fiber oscillator, CLEO
2008 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics), San Josè (California, USA), 4-9 May 2008.
* 2009
S. Azzini, A. Varisco, Sistema automatizzato allo stato dell'arte per il controllo qualità ottico di obiettivi telecentrici, Solutions and Applications NIDays09, Tecnological forum about graphical
systems design, Milan (Italy), 25 February 2009.
*2011
Stefano Azzini, Dario Gerace, Matteo Galli, Isabelle Sagnes, Rémy Braive, Aristide Lemaître, Jacqueline Bloch, and Daniele Bajoni, Ultra-low threshold polariton lasing in photonic crystal
cavities, Applied Physics Letters 99, 111106, September 2011.
Stefano Azzini, Matteo Galli, Dario Gerace, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Jacqueline Bloch, Isabelle
Sagnes, Rémy Braive, Aristide Lemaître, and Daniele Bajoni, Polariton lasing in photonic crystal
cavities, Conference OECS12 (Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems), Paris (France), September
2011.
Dario Gerace, Matteo Galli, Stefano Azzini, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Rémy Braive, Isabelle
Sagnes, Aristide Lemaître, Jacqueline Bloch, and Daniele Bajoni, Photonic crystal polaritons for
the generation of entangled photon pairs, WESS (Workshop on Entanglement in Solid-state System), Lecce (Italy), 20-22 September 2011.
*2012
Stefano Azzini, Davide Grassani, Matteo Galli, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Marc Sorel, Michael J.
Strain, Luke G. Helt, John Sipe, Marco Liscidini, and Daniele Bajoni, From classical four-wave
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mixing to parametric fluorescence in silicon micro-ring resonators, Optics Letters 37(18):38073809, September 15, 2012.
Stefano Azzini, Davide Grassani, Marc Sorel, Michael J. Strain, Luke G. Helt, John Sipe, Marco
Liscidini, Matteo Galli and Daniele Bajoni, Ultra-low power generation of twin photons in a compact silicon ring resonator, Optics Express 20(21):23100-23107, October 8, 2012.
Stefano Azzini, Davide Grassani, Matteo Galli, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Marc Sorel, Michael J.
Strain, L.G. Helt, J.E. Sipe, Marco Liscidini and Daniele Bajoni, Classical and quantum nonlinear
optics in silicon integrated devices, NLO50 International Symposium for 50 Years of Nonlinear
Optics, Barcelona (Spain), 7-10 October 2012.
J.E. Sipe, Stefano Azzini, Davide Grassani, Matteo Galli, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Marc Sorel,
Michael J. Strain, L.G. Helt, Marco Liscidini, and Daniele Bajoni, Integrated nonlinear optics:
From classical to quantum phenomena, TaCoNa-Photonics 2012 (The Fifth International Workshop
on Theoretical and Computational Nano-Photonics), Bad Honnef (Germany), 24-26 October 2012.
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