Alberto Gatto CV EN - PhD in Information Technology - Politecnico ...

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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name ALBERTO GATTO
Address VIA AJACCIO 7, 20133 MILANO
Telephone +39 3403214566
Fax
E-mail alb.gatto@gmail.com
Nationality Italian
Date of birth JULY 6 TH, 1982
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Dates (from – to) January 2011 - today
• Name and address of employer Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI) – via Ponzio 34/5 –
20133 Milano
• Type of business or sector University
• Occupation or position held Temporary research assistant
• Main activities and responsibilities • Theoretical evaluation of the capability of single-mode laser sources which naturally
oscillate on a higher-order transverse mode
• Theoretical, simulative and experimental analysis of transmission performances of optical
vortices in free-space optics and in multimode fiber transmission system
• Design of a modal demultiplexer for higher-order fiber modes
• Dates (from – to) January 2008 – December 2010
• Name and address of employer Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI) – via Ponzio 34/5 –
20133 Milano
• Type of business or sector University
• Occupation or position held Ph.D. student
• Main activities and responsibilities • Theoretical evaluation of the angular momentum properties of Laguerre-Gauss (LG) modes
• Experimental analysis of transmission performances of LG beams in free-space optics and
in single and multimode fiber transmission system
• LG modes multiplexing/demultiplexing design
• Theoretical and experimental evaluation of innovative 10 Gbit/s directly-modulated optical
sources (Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers – VCSEL)
• Analysis of optical injection locking between VCSELs
• Dates (from – to) April 2007 – December 2007
• Name and address of employer Fondazione Politecnico di Milano – Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano
Employed c/o CoreCom (Consorzio Ricerche Elaborazione e Commutazione Ottica Milano) – via
Colombo 81, 20133 Milano
• Type of business or sector Research laboratory – Optical communications
• Occupation or position held Research assistant in the DIALTO (Link di Trasporto Ottico per Apparati Digitali) project
(company involved: Alcatel Italia Spa e PGT Photonics)
• Main activities and responsibilities
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• Experimental evaluation of the performances of an innovative 4x10 Gbit/s optical link on a
CWDM system at 1310 nm

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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• Simulative and experimental evaluation of directly-modulated optical sources (DFB and
VCSEL), CW and dynamics characterization of VCSELs (linewidth and chirp measures),
dispersion power penalties
• Dates (from – to) January 2008 – December 2010
• Name and type of organisation Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI) – via Ponzio 34/5 –
providing education and training 20133 Milano
• Principal subjects/occupational Ph.D. courses:
skills covered • Nano and nanobiotechnology
• Photon diffusion in random media
• Game theory
• Electromagnetic numerical methods
• Satellite Radar interferometry
• Discrete optimization of wireless network
• Photovoltaic cells and modules
• Analysis of complex networks
• Title of qualification awarded Ph.D.
• Level in national classification
• Dates (from – to) October 2004 – April 2007
• Name and type of organisation Politecnico di Milano – Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Informazione – piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 –
providing education and training 20133 Milano
• Principal subjects/occupational • Optical communication systems, fiber propagation
skills covered • Integrated optics, optic devices
• Laser (principles and applications)
• Electromagnetism (antenna, free space and guided EM waves propagation)
• Remote sensing
• Numerical codes and information theory
• Markov chains
• Mathematic methods (n-dimension spaces, functional) and numerical methods
Thesis “Coniugazione di fase in un sistema WDM”
Abstract
The main concern of the thesis is the evaluation of third-order nonlinearities (as self-phase
modulation SPM and cross-phase modulation XPM) and their interaction with chromatic
dispersion in optical phase conjugation and their impact on system performances.
Overview
Optical phase conjugation is a promising technique that could be used in advanced optical
communication systems to perfectly compensate chromatic dispersion on a wide bandwidth
placing an optical phase conjugator in the middle of the optical link. In this work we evaluate the
performance of a new technique (Mid Nonlinearity Temporal Inversion – MNTI) in the mitigation
of nonlinearities and chromatic dispersion using an optical phase conjugator (OPC) in a
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system. The analysis is due principally using a
commercial simulator (OptSim) in systems limited by SPM (as WDM systems with a channel
spacing of few nanometers) or by XPM (as Dense WDM systems with channel spacing of 25, 50
and 100 GHz) in an optical link of standard single mode fiber (SSMF) or of non-zero dispersion
shifted fiber (NZDS-). The results of the simulation show that the OPC can mitigate the SPM on
a wide bandwidth, in particular it can compensate perfectly SPM in a NZDS- link. The effects of
SPM, XPM and chromatic dispersion in DWDM systems are less mitigated by the OPC, in
particular XPM drastically reduce the bandwidth of compensation.
The simulation results are then experimentally evaluated on a real system composed by a single
channel at 1535 nm and an OPC realized by a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with RZ
data at 10 Gb/s over 600 km of NZDS- fiber.
• Title of qualification awarded Laurea degree in Telecommunication Engineering (Master degree)
• Level in national classification Graduation: 110 e lode/110
• Dates (from – to) September 2001 – October 2004

• Name and type of organisation Politecnico di Milano – Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Informazione – piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 –
providing education and training 20133 Milano
• Principal subjects/occupational • Optical communications
skills covered • Communication systems
• Internet security
• SDH, SONET, PDH networks and GSM/UMTS systems
• Electromagnetism principles
Thesis “Analisi spettrale nel dominio elettrico di segnali per comunicazioni ottiche: simulazione
e sperimentazione”
The main concern of the thesis is the development of a LabView interface between pc and an
electrical spectrum analyzer (ESA). We also studied classical optical modulation formats as
OOK, DPSK and DQPSK in terms of spectral properties and eye diagrams.
• Title of qualification awarded Laurea degree in Telecommunication Engineering (Bachelor degree)
• Level in national classification Graduation: 110 e lode/110
• Dates (from – to) September 1996 – July 2001
• Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Istituto Maria Immacolata – liceo scientifico – via Amadeo 11 – 20133 Milano
• Principal subjects/occupational • Mathematics, physics
skills covered • Philosophy, history, Italian, English
• Title of qualification awarded Secondary school certificate
• Level in national classification Graduation: 100/100
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Paper • A. Gatto, M. Tacca, P. Martelli, P. Boffi and M. Martinelli, "Free-space orbital angular
momentum division multiplexing with Bessel beams", accepted by Journal of Optics, Special
Issue on Orbital Angular Momentum, in press (May 2011)
• Paolo Martelli, Matteo Tacca, Alberto Gatto, Giorgio Moneta and Mario Martinelli, “Gouy
phase shift in nondiffratting Bessel beams”, Optics Express, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 7108-7120,
Mar. 2010
• Alberto Gatto, Anna Boletti, Pierpaolo Boffi, and Mario Martinelli, “Adjustable-chirp VCSEL-to-
VCSEL injection locking for 10-Gb/s transmission at 1.55 µm”, Optics Express Vol. 17, Iss.
24, pp. 21748–21753 (2009)
• A.Gatto, A.Boletti, P.Boffi, E.Ronneberg, C.Neumeyr, M.Ortsiefer and M.Martinelli “1.3 µm
VCSEL Transmission Performance up to 12.5 Gbit/s for Metro Access Networks”, IEEE
Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 12, june 15, 2009.
• M.Ortsiefer, W.Hofmann, E.Ronneberg, A.Boletti, A.Gatto, P.Boffi, J.Rosskopf, R.Shau,
C.Neumeyr, G.Bohm, M.Martinelli and M.-C.Amann“, High speed 1.3 µm VCSELs for 12.5
Proceedings (international
conferences)
Proceedings (national
conferences)
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Gbit/s optical interconnects”, Electronics letters, Vol. 44, No. 16, July 2008.
• A. Gatto, M. Tacca, P. Martelli, P. Boffi and M. Martinelli, "Free-space orbital angular
momentum division multiplexing", International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum
(ICOAM), York, UK, 2010.
• A. Gatto, A. Boletti, P. Boffi, C. Neumeyr, M. Ortsiefer, E. Ronneberg and M. Martinelli, “1.3
µm VCSEL Transmission Performance over 20 km at 12.5 Gb/s”, CLEO Europe, Munich,
2009.
• P.Boffi, A.Boletti, A.Gatto and M.Martinelli, “VCSEL to VCSEL injection locking for
uncompensated 40-km transmission at 10 Gb/s”, Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), San
Diego, 2009.
• L. Marazzi, P. Parolari, P. Martelli, A. Gatto, M. Martinelli, P. Minzioni, I. Cristiani, V.
Degiorgio, “Impact of OPC insertion in a WDM link”, CLEO Europe 2007.
• P. Martelli, A. Gatto, M. Tacca, G. Moneta and M. Martinelli, “Misura della fase di Gouy per
fasci di Bessel”, Fotonica, Pisa, 2010.
• Alberto Gatto, Anna Boletti, Pierpaolo Boffi, Mario Martinelli, “VCSEL-VCSEL injection locking
a 10 Gb/s per trasmissione su 40 km senza compensazione di dispersione”, Fotonica, Pisa,
2009.
• Alberto Gatto, Anna Boletti, Pierpaolo Boffi, Mario Martinelli, Enno Roenneberg, Christian
Neumeyr, Markus Ortsiefer, “Trasmissione a 12,5 Gb/s su 20 km con sorgente VCSEL a
1330 nm”, Fotonica, Pisa, 2009.
• L. Marazzi, P. Parolari, P. Martelli, A. Gatto, M. Martinelli, P. Minzioni, I. Cristiani, V.
Degiorgio, “Impatto della coniugazione di fase in un collegamento a divisione di lunghezza

PERSONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
MOTHER TONGUE ITALIAN
OTHER LANGUAGES
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d’onda”, Fotonica, Mantova, 2007.
ENGLISH
• Reading skills EXCELLENT
• Writing skills GOOD
• Verbal skills GOOD
TECHNICAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
ARTISTIC SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
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WINDOWS/MAC OS: EXCELLENT
MATLAB SOFTWARE: GOOD
DRIVING LICENCE(S) Driver licence
OPTSIM SIMULATION SOFTWARE: GOOD
BEAMPROP SIMULATION SOFTWARE: GOOD
LABVIEW SOFTWARE: GOOD
BER TESTER/DIGITAL SAMPLING OSCILLOSCOPE: VERY GOOD
LASER SOURCES/PHOTODIODE: GOOD
FREE-SPACE OPTICS: VERY GOOD
DRAWING, PAINTING, MUSIC, READING, SPORT (TENNIS, INLINE SKATING, BIKE)