Marco ROMAGNOLI
Marco ROMAGNOLI
(Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
Head of Advanced Technologies for Photonic Integration at CNIT in Pisa, contract professor at Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa, and former Director in R&D dept. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of research, especially in the area of photonic technologies for TLC. After a Laurea Degree in Physics at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), in 1983 he started his activity at IBM Research Center in San Jose. In 1984 he joined Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in the Optical Communications Department working on optical components and transmission systems. In 1998 he joined Pirelli. In Pirelli R&D Photonics served as director of Design and Characterization and Chief Scientist. In 2001 he pioneered the activity on Si Photonics within the framework of a 5 year long sponsored contract with MIT Microphotonics Center and started internally in Pirelli the development platform for optical components, specifically silica based PLC’s and Si based nanophotonics. In this period he contributed to the development of several products based on Ge:SiO2 (DWDM filters for ROADM, AWG, Tunable Dispersion compensator) in SiON (DWDM wavelength interleaver), SiN (4 chs OADM), Si (4 chs polarization independent tunable ROADM, tunable mirror for external cavity laser). All platforms (Ge:SiO2, SiON, SiN, SOI) were developed in Pirelli and completely characterized, the design kits of the basic building blocks were tested and qualified.
In Oct 2010 he joined PhotonIC Corp, a Si-Photonics company, as Director of Boston Operations and program manager at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the development of an optically interconnected multiprocessor Si chip. In this period he demonstrated for the first time electrically injected Ge laser. In this period SOI based based fabrications were processed at the advanced CMOS 65 nm line at CNSE (Albany) on 300mm SOI wafer size.
Marco Romagnoli is author of more than 170 journal papers and conference contributions, he is also inventor in more than 45 patents. He is in the technical committee of the major conferences in photonics (CLEO/QELS, CLEO Europe, ECOC, MNE, Group IV Photonics), he served as expert evaluator for EC in the 6th Framework Programme and since 2001 till 2006 coordinated a framework programme between Pirelli and MIT in which he pioneered the development of Silicon Photonics. Marco Romagnoli was awarded of the ‘Phillips Morris’ prize for the optical innovation in 1994 and in Pirelli he also got the title of Chief Scientist.
