DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING
CURRICULUM VITAE Antonio Mecozzi was born in Rome, on March 19, 1959. He obtained the “laurea” degree cum laude in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rome on November 28, 1983, with a thesis entitled “Stochastic models of chemical reactive systems: fluctuations and stability of thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium,” advisor Prof. Ferdinando de Pasquale of the Physics Department of the University. After serving the Italian Army, he earned a one-year fellowship at the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni from November 1985. On December 1986 he joined the Optical Communication Division of the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni as a research scientist. From February 1991 through June 1992 he was a visiting scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics and with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He worked in the group of Prof. Hermann Haus on soliton transmission control and noise theory of passively mode-locked lasers. The financial support was from February 1991 through December 1991 a NATO fellowship, and a visiting research fellowship from MIT, January 1992 through June 1992. On June 1992 he returned to the Optical Communication Division of the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. He became on August 1993 a Senior Research Scientist of the same Division. From the summer of 1994, he visited the Department of Electrical Engineering of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, performing research on quantum optics and nonlinear optics. From 1999 to 2001, he was a consultant with the Advanced Lightwave Systems group of the AT&T Laboratory Research, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. From February 2000, he is consultant with Celion Networks, Tinton Falls, New Jersey, USA On October 22, 1998 he has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Structure of Matter by the Italian Ministry for University and Research, and a Professor on September 2001. He is now a Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of L’Aquila, Italy. From 1995 to 1998, he was the Chairman of Working Group 3, “Optical Nonlinearity of Photonic Devices,” of the European collaboration COST 240. From 1999 to 2001, he collaborated with the Advanced Lightwave Systems group of the AT&T Laboratory Research, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. From February 2000, he collaborates with Celion Networks, Tinton Falls, New Jersey, USA. From March 1996 to March 2002, he has been a Topical Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America Optics Letters (topic: Nonlinear Optics). From March 2002, he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal Photonics Technology Letters. He was a guest Editor (together with Sthephen G. Evangelides Jr., Tyco Submarine Systems, Ltd., Curtis R. Menyuk, University of Maryland, and Ping-kong (Alex) Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) of the Special issue on Modeling of High Data Rate Optical Fiber Communication Systems of the March/April 2000 isseue of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. On February 4, 1999, he has been elected to the grade of Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). The motivation reads “for his significant contributions in the theory of long-haul soliton transmission control and wavelength conversion using semiconductor optical amplifiers.” From 1997 he is a Member, and from 2000 a Senior Member of the IEEE. Program committee of: OSA topical meeting Nonlinear Guided Waves and their applications, Subcommittee I, Nonlinear Fiber effects and temporal solitons, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 30-April 3, 1998 OSA topical meeting Optical Amplifiers and their Applications ‘98, Subcommittee Semiconductor Devices and Functional Circuits, Vail, Colorado, July 27-29 1998. OSA topical meeting Optical Amplifiers and their Applications ‘99, Subcommittee Semiconductor Devices and Functional Circuits, Nara, Japan, June 9-11, 1999. OSA Conference Optical Fiber Communications Conference OFC 2000, Baltimore, Maryland. Subcommittee: Transmission systems (attendance: 16,000) OSA Conference Optical Fiber Communications Conference OFC 2002, Anaheim, CA. Subcommittee 6: Subsystems, Network Elements, and Analog Systems. Chair of the Subcommittee “Semiconductor device and functional circuits” of the OSA Topical meeting Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications 2000, July 9-12, 2000 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (attendance: about 500). Program co-Chair, together with Makoto Shimizu, NTT Photonic Laboratory, Japan, and John Zykind, Sycamore Networks, USA, of the OSA Topical meeting Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications 2001, July 1-4, 2001, Stresa, Italy. General co-Chair, together with Makoto Shimizu and John Zykind, of the OSA Topical meeting Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications 2002, Hotel Fairmont Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada, July 14-17, 2002. He is was in the International Advisory board of the 4th International Conference on Quantum Communications Measurement and Computing, Evanston, Illinois, USA, August 22-27 1999, and of the 5th International Conference on Quantum Communications Measurement and Computing, Capri, July 2000.
MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 1) Stochastic theory of the transient of chemical reactions. 2) Quantum Optics, and in particular, theory of the interference between macroscopic quantum states and the theory of squeezed states. 3) Phase noise in semiconductor lasers. 4) Stochastic theory of the transient in mono- and multi-mode semiconductor lasers. 5) Erbium doped fiber amplifiers. 6) Nonlinear Optics in fibers. 7) Injection locking of semiconductor lasers. 8) Four wave mixing in semiconductor lasers. 9) Noise theory of passively mode-locked lasers.. 10) Theory of soliton propagation in fiber and soliton transmission control. 11) Noise theory of non-return-to-zero long-haul optical transmission. 12) Theory of squeezing of optical solitons. 13) Theory of optical nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifiers. 14) Theory of polarization-mode dispersion in fiber transmission systems 15) Theory of highly dispersed short pulse transmission. 16) Theory of capacity of optical transmission systems 17) Theory of polarization dependent loss.
Books E. Iannone, F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, and M. Settembre, “Nonlinear Optical Communication Systems,” Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering, Kai Chang, Series Editor, New York, 1998. Refereed International Journals 1. F. De Pasquale and A. Mecozzi, “Theory of chemical fluctuations in thermal explosions,” Phys. Rev. A, April 1985, Vol 31, No 4, pp.2454-2459. 2. A. Mecozzi and P. Tombesi, “Distinguishable Quantum States Generated via Nonlinear Birefringence,” Phys. Rev. Lett., March 16, 1987, Vol. 58, No. 11, pp. 1055-1058. Reprintred in “Nonclassical Effects in Quantum Optics: a collection of key papers,” edited by D F Walls and P Meystre, the American Institute of Physics publisher (1992). 3. A. Mecozzi and P. Tombesi, “Squeezed vacuum in the detection of macroscopically distinguishable quantum states,” Physics Letters A, April 13, 1987, Vol. 121, No. 3, pp.101-104. 4. A. Mecozzi, S. Trillo, S. Wabnitz, and B. Daino “All-optical switching and intensity discrimination by polarization instability in periodically twisted fiber filters,” Optics Letters, April 1987, Vol. 12, No 4, pp.275-277. 5. A. Mecozzi, S. Trillo, S. Wabnitz, B. Crosignani, and P. Di Porto “An All-Optical Mechanism of Sub-Poissonian Light Generation,” Journal of Modern Optics, Sept. 1987, Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 1129-1134. 6. P. Tombesi and A. Mecozzi, “Generation of macroscopically distinguishable quantum states and detection by the squeezed vacuum technique,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, special issue on Squeezed States of Electromagnetic Field, Vol 4, No 10, October 1987, pp 1700-1709. 7. A. Mecozzi, S. Piazzolla, A. Sapia, and P. Spano “Statistics of Phase noise in single-mode semiconductor lasers: free running,weak external feedback and injection-locking configurations,” Electronics Letters, October 22, 1987, Vol. 23, No 22, pp.1183-1184. 8. A. Mecozzi, F. De Pasquale, and L. Peliti,“Unified Approach to Stochastic Representation in Reaction Kinetics,” Il Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 100 B, No. 6, pp. 733-743, December 1987. 9. A. Mecozzi, S. Trillo, and S. Wabnitz, “Spatial Instability, All-Optical Limiting and Thresholding in Nonlinear Distributed Feedback Devices,” Optics Letters, Vol. 12, No.122, pp. 1008-1010, December 1987. 10. P. Tombesi and A. Mecozzi, “Four-Photon squeezed states: An Exactly Solvable Model,” Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 37, No. 12, pp. 4778-4784, June 15, 1988. 11. P. Spano, A. D'Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, and B. Daino, “Experimental Observation of Time Jitter in Semiconductor Laser Turn On,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 52, No. 26, pp. 2203-2204, June 27, 1988. 12. A. Mecozzi, S. Piazzolla, A. D'Ottavi, and P. Spano, “Passage time statistics in semiconductor laser turn on,” Phys. Rev. A, Rapid Communications, Vol. 38, pp. 3136-3139, September 15, 1988. 13. A. Mecozzi, S. Piazzolla, A. Sapia, and P. Spano, “Non Gaussian Statistics of Frequency Fluctuations in Line-Narrowed Semiconductor Lasers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., Vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 1985-1988, October 1988. 14. A. Mecozzi,”Parametric Amplification and Squeezed Light Generation in a Nonlinear Directional Coupler,” Optics Letters, Vol. 13, No. 10, pp. 925-927, October 1988. 15. A. D'Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, and S. Piazzolla, “Time jitter in multimode semiconductor laser,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 53, No. 24, pp. 2362-2364, December 12, 1988. 16. P. Spano, A. D'Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, B. Daino, and S. Piazzolla, “Experimental measurements and theory of first passage time in pulse modulated semiconductor laser,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., Vol. 25, No. 7, pp. 1440-1449, June 1989 (Special issue on Semiconductor Lasers). Reprinted in a book on Optical Chaos edited by F T Arecchi and R G Harrison, SPIE publisher. 17. A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, A. D'Ottavi, and S. Piazzolla, “Analysis of Transients in Pulse Modulated Semiconductor Lasers Biased Near Threshold,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 769-771, August 21, 1989. 18. A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, and A. Sapia, “Quasi-deterministic theory of semiconductor laser gain switching,” Optics Letters, Vol. 15, No. 19, pp. 1067-1069, October 1989. 19. A. Sapia, P. Spano, and A. Mecozzi, “Connection Between Linewidth Saturation and Power Increase of Transverse Magnetic Mode in Ridge Distributed Feedback Lasers,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 55, No. 25, pp. 2581-2584, 18 Dec. 1989. 20. G. J. Milburn, A. Mecozzi, and P. Tombesi, “Squeezed state superpositions in a damped nonlinear oscillator,” Journal of Modern Optics, Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 1607-1614, December 1989. 21. A. Mecozzi and P. Tombesi, Parametric Amlification and Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Optical Transmission Lines,” Optics Communications, Vol 75, No. 3,4, pp. 256-262, 1 March 1990. 22. P. Spano, A. Mecozzi, and A. Sapia, “Statistical Distribution of Trajectories in the Time Intensity Plane During Semiconductor Laser Gain Switching,” Phys. Rev. Lett, Vol. 64, pp. 3003-3006, June 18, 1990. 23. R. Hui, A. Mecozzi, A. D'Ottavi, and P. Spano, “A Novel Measurement Technique of a Factor in DFB Lasers by Injection Locking,” Electron. Lett., Vol 26, No. 14, pp. 997-998, July 5, 1990. 24. M. Montecchi, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, M. Tamburrini, and L. Di Gaspare, “Gain and noise in rare earth doped optical fibers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol 8, No 1, January 1991, pp 134-141. 25. G. Aureli, S. Betti, G. De Marchis, E. Iannone, and A. Mecozzi, “Theoretical analysis of optical pulse position modulation communication systems using semiconductor lasers,” Opt. and Quantum Electron. vol. 23, 1077 (1991). 26. A. Mecozzi, A. Sapia, P. Spano, and G. Agrawal, “Transient multimode dynamics in nearly single mode lasers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 332-343, March 1991. 27. R. Hui, A. D'Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, and P. Spano, “Injection Locking in Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Lasers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 1688-1695, June 1991. 28. A. Mecozzi, J. D. Moores, H. A. Haus, and Y. Lai, “Soliton Transmission Control,” Optics Letters, vol. 16, No. 23, pp. 1841-1843, December 1, 1991. 29. R. Hui and A. Mecozzi, “Phase noise of four wave mixing of semiconductor lasers,” Appl. Phys. Lett, vol. 60, No. 20, 2454-2456, May 18, 1992. 30. A. Mecozzi and H. A. Haus, “Effect of filters on soliton interaction in WDM systems,” Optics Letters, vol. 17, No. 14, pp. 988-990, July 15, 1992. 31. A. Mecozzi, J. D. Moores, H. A. Haus, and Y. Lai, “Modulation and Filtering Control of Soliton Transmission,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol 9, No 8, August 1992, pp. 1350-1357. 32. H. A. Haus and A. Mecozzi, “Long term storage of a bit stream of solitons,” Optics Letters, vol. 17, No. 21, pp. 1500-1502, November 1, 1992. 33. H. A. Haus and A. Mecozzi, “Noise of mode locked lasers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 983-996, March 1993. 34. A. Mecozzi, A. D'Ottavi, and R. Hui, “Nearly degenerate four wave mixing in semiconductor lasers operating above threshold,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 1477-1487, June 1993. 35. A. Valle, A. Mecozzi, L. Pesquera, M. A. Rodrìguez, and P. Spano, “Transient statistics for two mode gas ring lasers,” Phys. Rev. A, September 1993, Vol 48, No 3, pp.2426-2432. 36. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, and M. Romagnoli, “Side-band instability induced by periodic power variation in long distance fiber links,” Optics Letters, vol. 18, No. 18, pp. 1499-1501, September 15, 1993. 37. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Romagnoli, and M. Settembre, “Evolution of signals in long-haul fiber links,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 6, No. 12, September 20, 1993. 38. A. Mecozzi, “Error probability of amplified IMDD systems at zero dispersion,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 29, No. 24, pp. 2136-2137, November 25, 1993. 39. A. Mecozzi, “Long distance soliton transmission with filtering,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 10, No. 12, pp. 2321-2330, December 1993. 40. C.R. Mirasso, L. Pesquera, and A. Mecozzi, “Pulse-to-pulse frequency jitter in diode lasers and soliton transmission,” IEEE Photonics and Technology Letters, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 1455-1458, December 1993. 41. A. Mecozzi, A. Sapia, P. Spano, H. Burkhard, S. Hansmann, H. Hillmer, “Nonlinearities in high index coupled l/4 shifted DFB semiconductor lasers,” IEE Proceedings J, Vol. 141, No. 1, pp. 8-12, February 1994. 42. A. Mecozzi, “Long distance transmission at zero dispersion: The combined effect of Kerr nonlinearity and noise of the in-line amplifiers,” Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 462-470, March 1994. 43. A. Mecozzi, “Cavity standing wave and gain compression coefficient in semiconductor lasers,” Optics Letters, vol. 19, No. 9, pp. 640-642, May 1, 1994. 44. A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, J. Landreau, A. Ougazzaden, and J. C. Bouley, “Investigation of carrier heating and spectral-hole burning in semiconductor amplifiers by highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 64, No. 19, pp. 2492-2494 May 9, 1994. 45. A. Mecozzi, “Analytical theory of four-wave mixing in semiconductor amplifiers,” Optics Letters, vol. 19, No. 12, pp. 892-894, June 15, 1994. 46. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Romagnoli, and M. Settembre, “Signal propagation in the presence of side-band instability in long fiber links,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. 537-539, August 20 1994. 47. A. Mecozzi, W. L. Kath, P. Kumar, and C. G. Goedde, “Long-term storage of a soliton bit stream,” Optics Letters, Vol. 19, No. 24, pp. 2050-2052, October 1, 1994. 48. J. Mørk and A. Mecozzi, “Response function for gain and refractive index dynamics in active semiconductor waveguides,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 65, No. 14, pp. 1736-1738, October 3, 1994. 49. A. Mecozzi, “Limits to long-haul coherent transmission set by the Kerr nonlinearity and noise of the in-line amplifiers,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 12, No. 11, pp. 1993-2000, November 1994. 50. A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, G. Guekos, and J. Eckner, “4.3 TeraHertz four-wave mixing spectroscopy in InGaAsP semiconductor amplifiers,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 65, No. 21, 2633-2635, November 21, 1994. 51. A. Mecozzi, A. D’Ottavi, F. Cara Romeo, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, G. Guekos, and J. Eckner, “High saturation behavior of the four-wave mixing signal in semiconductor amplifiers,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 66, No. 10, 6 March 1995, pp. 1184-1186. 52. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, “Light depolarization in long fibre links,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 473-475, March 16, 1995. 53. S. Scotti, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, A. D’Ottavi, and P. Spano, “Efficiency of frequency translators based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Pure and Applied Optics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp.357-359, April 1995. 54. A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, and P. Spano, “Four-wave mixing in traveling wave semiconductor amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 689-699 April 1995. 55. A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, G. Guekos, and J. Eckner, “Efficiency and noise performance of wavelength converters based on FWM in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE Photonics and Technology Letters, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 357-359, April 15, 1995. 56. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, “Light depolarization owing to amplified spontaneous emission and Kerr nonlinearity in long-haul fiber links close to zero dispersion,” Optics Letters, Vol. 20, No. 13, pp. 1465-1467, July 1, 1995. 57. A. Mecozzi, “Soliton transmission control with semiconductor amplifiers,” Optics Letters, vol. 20, pp. 1616-1618, August 1, 1995. 58. A. Mecozzi, “Soliton transmission control by using Butterworth filters,” Optics Letters, Vol. 20, No. 18, pp. 1859-1861, September 15, 1995. 59. A. D’Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, F. Cara Romeo, F. Martelli, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, and G. Guekos, “Four-wave mixing efficiency in traveling wave semiconductor optical amplifiers at high saturation,” Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 67, No. 19, pp. 2753-2755, November 6, 1995. 60. E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, F. Matera, and M. Settembre, “Single-channel transmission over very long optical links with zero average chromatic dispersion adopting NRZ intensity and polarization modulation,” Optics Communications Vol. 123, pp. 89-93, January 15, 1996. 61. J. Mørk, A. Mecozzi, and C. Hultgren, “Spectral effects in short pulse pump-probe experiments,” Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 449-451, January 22, 1996. 62. E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, F. Matera, and M. Settembre, “Performance evaluation of very long span direct detection intensity and polarization modulated systems,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 261-272, March 1996. 63. A. Mecozzi, M. Midrio, and M. Romagnoli, “Timing jitter in soliton transmission with sliding filters,” Optics Letters, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 402-404, March 15, 1996. 64. A. D’Ottavi, F. Martelli, P. Spano, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, R. Dall’Ara, J. Eckner, G. Gueckos, “Very high efficiency four-wave mixing in a single semiconductor traveling wave amplifier,” Appl. Phys. Lett, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 2186-2188, April 15, 1996. 65. M. Hofmann, S. Brorson, J. Mørk, and A. Mecozzi, “New time resolved four-wave mixing technique to measure the ultrafast coherent dynamics in semiconductor optical amplifiers”, Appl. Phys. Lett. Vol. 68, 3236-3238, June 1996. 66. A. Mecozzi, J. Mørk, and M. Hofmann, “Transient four-wave mixing with collinear pump and probe,” Optics Letters, Vol. 21, No. 14, pp. 1017-1019, July 15, 1996. 67. J. Mørk and A. Mecozzi, “Theory of the ultrafast optical response of active semiconductor waveguides,” J. Optical Society of Am. B, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 1803-1816, August 1, 1996. 68. A. Mecozzi, “Small-signal theory of wavelength converters based on cross-gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 8, No. 11, November 1996, pp. 1471-1473. 69. A. Mecozzi and J. Mørk, “Theory of heterodyne pump-probe experiments with femtosecond pulses,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp. 2437-2452, November 1, 1996. 70. F. Martelli, A. Mecozzi, A. D’Ottavi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, J. Eckner, and G. Guekos, “Noise in wavelength conversion using four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,”Appl. Phys. Lett. Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 306-308, January 20, 1997. 71. A. D’Ottavi, F. Girardin, L. Graziani, F. Martelli, P. Spano, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, R. Dall’Ara, J. Eckner, and G. Guekos, “Four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers: a practical tool for wavelength conversion,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 3, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 522-528. 72. A. Mecozzi and J. Mørk, “Saturation induced by picosecond pulses in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 14, No. 4, April 1997, pp. 761-770 73. J. Mørk and A. Mecozzi, “Theory of non-degenerate four-wave mixing between pulses in a semiconductor waveguide,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electonics, Vol. 33, No. 4, April 1997. 74. D. Marcenac and A. Mecozzi, “Switches and frequency converters based on cross-gain modulation in the co-propagating and counter-propagating configurations,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 749-751, June 1997. 75. F. Martelli, A. D’Ottavi, L. Graziani, A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, G. Guekos, J. Eckner, R. Dall’Ara, “Pump-wavelength dependence of FWM performance in Semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 743-745, June 1997. 76. F. Girardin, J. Eckner, G. Guekos, R. Dall’Ara, A. Mecozzi, A. D’Ottavi, F. Martelli, and P. Spano, “Low-noise and very high efficiency Four-wave mixing in 1.5 mm long semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 746-748, June 1997. 77. M. Hofmann, S. Brorson, J. Mørk, P. Skovgaard, J. MacInerney, A. Mecozzi, “Subpicosecond heterodyne Four-wave mixing experiments on InGaAsP semiconductor laser amplifiers,” Optics Communications vol. 139, pp. 117-124, June 15, 1997. 78. A. Mecozzi and P. Kumar, “Linearized quantum-fluctuation theory of spectrally-filtered optical solitons” Optics Letters, Vol. 22, No. 16, pp. 1232-1234, August 15, 1997. 79. A. Mecozzi and J. Mørk, “Saturation effects in non-degenerate four-wave mixing between short optical pulses in semiconductor laser amplifiers,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 3, No 5, pp. 1190-1207, October 1997, invited paper. 80. Simona Scotti, Laura Graziani, Alessandro D'Ottavi, Faustino Martelli, Antonio Mecozzi, Paolo Spano, R. Dall'Ara, F. Girardin, and G. Guekos, “Effects of Ultrafast Processes on Frequency Converters Based on Four-WaveMixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 3, No 5, pp. 1156-1161, October 1997. 81. A. Mecozzi and P. Kumar, “Subpoissonian light by spatial soliton filtering,” Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, (Journal of the European Optical Society part B) vol. 10, pp. L21-L26 (1998). 82. A. Mecozzi, “Timing jitter in wavelength division multiplexed filtered soliton transmission,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 152-161, January 1, 1998. 83. A. Mecozzi, “Amplified spontaneous emission in soliton transmission systems employing sliding filters,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 37-42, January 1, 1998. 84. A. Mecozzi and J. Mørk, “Transient and time-resolved four-wave mixing with collinear pump and probe pulses using the heterodyne technique,” Pure and Applied Optics (Journal of the European Optical Society Part A) Vol. 7, No 2, pp. 335-344, March 1998. 85. A. Mecozzi, G. Contestabile, F. Martelli, L. Graziani, A. D’Ottavi, P. Spano, R. Dalla’Ara, and J. Eckner, F. Girardin, and G. Guekos, “Optical spectral inversion without frequency shift by four-wave mixing using two pumps with orthogonal polarizations,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 335-337 March 1998. 86. A. Mecozzi and D. Marcenac, “Theory of optical amplifier chains,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 754-756, May 1998. 87. A. Mecozzi, G. Contestabile, L. Graziani, F. Martelli, A. D’Ottavi, P. Spano, R. Dalla’Ara, and J. Eckner, “Polarization-insensitive four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 72, No 21, 2651-2653, May 25, 1998. 88. A. Mecozzi, “On the optimization of the gain distribution in amplified lines with unequal amplifier spacing,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 10 Number 7, July 1998, 1033-1035. 89. G. Contestabile, F. Martelli, A. Mecozzi, L. Graziani, A. D’Ottavi, P. Spano, G. Guekos, R. Dall’Ara, and J. Eckner, “Efficiency flattening and equalization of frequency up- and down-conversion using four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 10 Number 10, October 1998, 1398-1400. 90. A. Corchia, C. Antonini, A. D’Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, F. Martelli, P. Spano, G. Guekos, and R. Dall’Ara, “Mid-span spectral inversion without frequency shift for fiber dispersion compensation: a system demonstration,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 11 Number 2, February 1999, pp. 275-277. 91. J. Mørk, A. Mecozzi, and G. Eisenstein, “The modulation response of a semiconductor laser amplifier,” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Volume 5 Number 3, May/June 1999. 92. P. Borri, S. Scaffetti, J. Mørk, W. Langbein, J.M. Hvam, A. Mecozzi, F. Martelli, “Measurement and calculation of the critical pulsewidth for gain saturation in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Optics Communications, 164, pp. 51-55, 1 June 1999. 93. C. M. Greco, F. Martelli, A. D'Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, and R. Dall'Ara “Frequency-Conversion Efficiency Independent of Signal-Polarization and Conversion-Interval Using Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Volume 11 Number 6, pp. 956-958, June 1999. 94. S. Diez, A. Mecozzi, and J. Mørk, “Bit rate and pulse width dependence of four-wave mixing between short optical pulses in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Optics Letters, Vol. 24, No. 23, pp. 1675-1677, December 1, 1999. 95. G. Contestabile, A. D’Ottavi, F. Martelli, A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, and A. Tersigni, “Polarization-independent four-wave mixing in a bi-directional traveling-wave semiconductor optical amplifier,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 75, No. 25, pp. 3914-3916, December 20, 1999. 96. M. Shtaif, A. Mecozzi, and J. A. Nagel “Mean square magnitude of all orders of polarization mode dispersion and the relation with the bandwidth of the principal states,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 53-55, January 1, 2000. 97. A. Mecozzi, “Quantum and semiclassical theory of noise in optical transmission lines employing in-line Erbium amplifiers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 607-617, April 1, 2000. 98. M. Shtaif, A. Mecozzi, M. Tur, and J. A. Nagel, “A compensator for the precession of the principal states of polarization,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 434-436, April 1, 2000. 99. A. Mecozzi, C. B. Clausen, and M. Shtaif, “Analysis of intra-channel nonlinear effects in highly dispersed pulse transmission in optical fibers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vo. 12, No. 4, pp. 392-394, April 1, 2000. 100. M. Shtaif and A. Mecozzi, “Study of the frequency autocorrelation of the differential group delay in fibers with polarization mode dispersion,” Optics Letters, Vol. 25, No. 10, pp. 707-709, May 15, 2000. 101. G. Contestabile, A. D’Ottavi, F. Martelli, A. Mecozzi, and P. Spano, “Polarization and inteval-independent wavelength conversion at 2.5 Gb/s by means of bi-directional four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 12, No.7, pp. 852-854, July 2000. 102. D. Cassioli, S. Scotti, and A. Mecozzi, “A time-domain computer simulator of the nonlinear response of semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE J. of Quantum Electron., vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 1072-1080, September 1, 2000. 103. A. Mecozzi, C. B. Clausen, M. Shtaif, “System Impact of Intra-Channel Nonlinear Effects in Highly Dispersed Optical Pulse Transmission,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1633-1635, December 1, 2000. 104. A. Mecozzi and Jay M. Wiesenfeld, “Role of semiconductor optical amplifiers in optical networks,” Optics and Photonics News, March 2001, pp. 36-42. 105. A. Mecozzi, C. B. Clausen, M. Shtaif, Sang-Gyu Park, and A. H. Gnauck,“Cancellation of timing and amplitude jitter in symmetric links using highly dispersed pulses,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 445-447, May 1, 2001. 106. A. Mecozzi and M. Shtaif, “On the Capacity of Intensity Modulated Systems Using Optical Amplifiers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, No. 9, pp. 1029-1031, September 1, 2001. 107. A. Mecozzi and M. Shtaif “The statistics of polarization dependent loss in optical communication systems,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., submitted August 2001, to appear on March 2002 issue Conferences 1. F. De Pasquale and A. Mecozzi, “Statistical mechanics of the Lotka-Volterra model,” in “Physics in Environmental and Biomedical Research,” pp.493-502, Edited by S. Onori and E. Tabet, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1986. 2. A. Mecozzi and P. Tombesi, “Reduction of dissipation on quantum coherence due to a squeezed environment,” Proceeding of the Meeting on Non Linear Dynamics, Rome October 27-29 1986, in Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Processes II, G. Paladin and A. Vulpiani Editors, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore 1987, pp. 213-224. 3. A. Mecozzi, S. Trillo, S. Wabnitz, and B. Daino, “Polarization instability and all optical switching in periodically twisted fiber filters,” XV International Conference on Quantum Electronics, Baltimore, 26 April-1 May 1987, Digest of Technical Papers, pp.120-122. 4. A. Sapia, P. Spano, S. Piazzolla, and A. Mecozzi, “Statistics of instantaneous frequency in compound cavity laser diodes,” 13th European Conference on Optical Communication, Helsinky, Sept. 13-17, 1987, Technical Digest, Vol. 1, pp. 117-120. 5. A. Mecozzi, S. Trillo, S. Wabnitz, and G. I. Stegeman, “All-Optical Limiting, Thresholding, and Switching in a Nonlinear DFB Waveguide,” ibid., pp. 391-394. 6. A. Mecozzi and P. Tombesi, “ Squeezing in Fourth-Order Parametric Down-conversion,” NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Squeezed and Nonclassical Light,” Jan. 25-29 1988, Cortina, Italy. P. Tombesi and R. Pike eds., Nato ASI Series, Series B Vol. 190, pp. 321-329, Plenum, New York (1989). 7. M. Montecchi, A. Mecozzi, and M. Tamburrini,” Gain and Noise in Rare-Earth Doped Optical Fibers with Different Pumping Configurations,” ECOOSA 88, Birmingham 22-25 March 1988. Programme and Abstract of the Conference, The Institute of Physics publisher, pag. 198. 8. P. Spano, A. D'Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, S. Piazzolla, and B. Daino “Experimental Measurement and Theoretical Explanation of Time Jitter in Pulse Modulated Semiconductor Lasers,” 11th IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conference, August 29, September 1, 1988, Boston, Massachusetts, Paper K-2, pp. 136-137. 9. A. D'Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, S. Piazzolla, P. Spano, and B.Daino “Teoria e misure sperimentali del tempo di primo passaggio in laser a semiconduttore impulsati,” 5° Congresso Nazionale di Elettronica Quantistica e Plasmi, Firenze, 16-19 November 1988. Società Italiana di Fisica, atti di conferenze, Vol. 21, a cura di G.C. Righini. 10. M. Tamburrini, M. Montecchi, L.Di Gaspare, and A. Mecozzi,”Amplificatori ottici basati su fibre ottiche drogate con terre rare: teoria e misure preliminari,” ibid., pp. 391-394. 11. A. Mecozzi, A. Sapia, P. Spano, and S. Piazzolla, “Statistics of Frequency Fluctuations in External Cavity Laser Diodes,” OCTIMA, Optical and Coherent Transmission in Multipoint Applications: Systems and Devices, Rome, 24-26 January 1989. 12. A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, A. D'Ottavi, and S. Piazzolla, “Jitter temporale nei laser,” Atti del I Convegno Nazionale sulle Tecnicha Fotoniche per l'Informazione, Santa Margherita Ligure 14-16 Marzo 1989, pp. 107-114, invited paper. 13. M. Settembre, L. Di Gaspare, A. Mecozzi, and M. Tamburrini, “Gain Compression in Fiber Amplifiers in the Presence of ESA,” poster paper, 15th European Conference on Optical Communication, September 10-14, Gothenburg, Sweden, paper TuP15, Proceedings Volume 1, pp.502-505. 14. P. Spano, A. Mecozzi, A. D'Ottavi, and S. Piazzolla, “Time Jitter in Semiconductor Lasers,” invited paper, 15th European Conference on Optical Communication, September 10-14, Gothenburg, Sweden, paper WeB14-1, Proceedings Volume 2, pp.102-109. 15. A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, A. Sapia, G. P. Agrawal, “Spectral Dynamics of Nearly Single Mode Semiconductor Lasers,” CLEO 1990, Anaheim, California. 16. A. Mecozzi, A. Sapia, P. Spano, “Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics of Semiconductor Laser Gain Switching,” Topical Meeting of Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems, Afton Oklahoma, June 4-8, 1990. 17. H. Hui, A. Mecozzi, A. D'Ottavi, and P. Spano, “Injection Locking in Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Lasers,” 12th IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conference, Sept. 9-14, 1990, Davos, Switzerland, Conference Digest, pp. 112-113. 18. A. Mecozzi, A. Sapia, and P. Spano, “Macroscopic Effects of Quantum Fluctuations: Statistical Excitation of a Side Mode in Laser Switching,” 15-th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics in Complex Systems, August 5-10, 1990, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany, paper 2P1.02, in Optics in Complex Systems, F. Lanzl, H.-J. Preuss, G. Weigelt, Editors, Proc. SPIE 1319, page 31. 19. P. Spano, A. Mecozzi, A. Sapia, and A. D'Ottavi, “Noise and Transient Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers,” Blanes, Spain. Proceeding Springer Verlag, invited paper. 20. A. Mecozzi, H. Haus, and Y. Lai, “Noise in Modelocked Lasers,” Optical Society of America annual meeting, November 3-8 1991, San Jose, CA, Paper MS5, in OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest, 1991 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1991), Vol. 17, pag. 19. 21. A. Mecozzi, J. D. Moores, H. A. Haus, and Y. Lai, “Modulation and Filtering Control of Soliton Transmission,” OFC, San Jose, CA, 1992. Paper TuB5. In Digest on Conference on Optical Fiber Communications, 1992 OSA Technical Digest series, Vol. 5 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1992) p. 8. 22. C.S. Hon, K. Bergmann, A. Mecozzi, and H. A. Haus, “Noise spectra of mode locked laser pulses,” in Conference in Laser and Electro-Optics, 1992, Vol. 12, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC 1992), pp. 148-149. 23. H. A. Haus, A. Mecozzi, and J.D. Moores, “Filtering control of soliton transmission,” Optical Society of America annual meeting, 1992, invited paper. 24. A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, A. D'Ottavi and R. Hui "Nearly degenerate four wave mixing in DFB lasers" Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Semiconductor Lasers Conference, Takamatsu (Japan), 21-25 Sept. 1992. 25. A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, and S. Scotti, “Theory of four wave mixing in traveling wave bulk semiconductor amplifiers,” CLEO ‘93, paper CWJ103, Baltimore, 2-7 May 1993, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1993, Vol. 11, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington D.C., 1993), pp. 368-369. 26. A. D'Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, T. Pietropaoli, J. Landreau, A. Ougazzaden and J. C. Bouley "Four wave mixing in a strained multiple quantum well amplifier" Proceedings of QELS 93, Baltimore, 2-7 May 1993. 27. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, e M. Romagnoli, “Propagazione di segnali in fibra ottica su lunga distanza con amplificazione periodica,” Atti del 3° Congresso Nazionamle Sulle Tecniche Fotoniche Per L'Informazione, Arezzo, 28-30 Aprile 1993 28. A. D'Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, T. Pietropaoli “Four wave mixing in amplificatori ottici a semiconduttore” Atti del 3° Congresso Nazionamle Sulle Tecniche Fotoniche Per L'Informazione, Arezzo, 28-30 Aprile 1993. 29. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, and M. Romagnoli, OSA topical meeting on optical transmission Santa Barbara, 93. 30. A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, J. Landreau, A. Ougazzaden, and J. C. Bouley, “FWM investigation of carroer heating and spectral-hole burning in semiconductor amplifiers,” IQEC ‘94, Anaheim, CA. 31. A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, G. Guekos, and J. Eckner, “Frequency conversion by four-wave mixing on a frequency range of 8.6 THz,” 20th European Conference on Optical Communications, September 25-29, 1994, Firenze. 32. A. D’Ottavi, E. Iannone, A. Mecozzi, S. Scotti, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, G. Guekos, and J. Eckner, “Ultrafast gain and refractive index dynamics of semiconductor amplifiers measured by four-wave mixing,” 14th IEEE International Semiconductor Leser Conference, September 19-23, 1994, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Page(s): 63 -64. 33. A. Mecozzi, A. D’Ottavi, F. Cara Romeo, F. Martelli, S. Scotti, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, J. Eckner, and G. Guekos, “Pump-power dependence of the four-wave mixing signal in semiconductor amplifiers,” CLEO’95 proceedings, Baltimore May 22-26, 1995, pp. 279-280. 34. M. Hofmann, S. Brorson, J. Mørk, and A. Mecozzi, “Time resolved four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers”, QELS’96 proceedings, Anaheim June 2-7, 1996, pp. 156-157. 35. A. Mecozzi, “Frequency converters based on Four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Optical Amplifiers and their applications OSA Topical Meeting, Monterey, CA, July 11-13, 1996, invited paper. 36. A. Mecozzi, “Frequency converters based on Four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” OSA TOPS on Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications, 1996, Vol. 5, 1996 OAA Program Committee (eds.), (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1996), pp. 221-229. 37. A. Mecozzi, “Soliton dynamics with fixed and sliding filters,” Nonlinear Guided Wave OSA Topical meeting, Cambridge, UK, August 30 - September 1, 1996, SaB1. Appeared in Nonlinear Guided Waves and their Applications, Vol. 15, 1996 OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1996) pp. 132-134, invited paper. 38. A. Mecozzi, “Four wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers for spectroscopy and device applications,” European Optical Society topical meeting “Material for Nonlinear Optics,” Capri, July 8, 12, 1997, invited paper. 39. A. Mecozzi, “Frequency converters spectral inverters and switches based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE-Laser and Electro Optics Society annual meeting, November 1997, San Francisco, Ca. Volume: 1 , Page(s): 116 -117 vol.1, invited paper. 40. P. Borri, J. Mørk,J.M. Hvam, and A. Mecozzi, “Measurement and Calculation of the Critical Pulsewidth for Gain Saturation in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 1998, 14-18 September 1998 CLEO/Europe., Page: 100 41. F. Giradin, G. Guekos, A. Mecozzi, “Nearly Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 1998. 14-18 September 1998 CLEO/Europe. Page: 279. 42. Martelli, F.; Mecozzi, A.; D'Ottavi, A.; Spano, S.S.P.; Dall'Ara, R.; Eckner, J.; Guekos, G., “Increase of signal to noise ratio in wavelength conversion using four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Semiconductor Laser Conference, 1996., 15th IEEE International , Page(s): 31 -32. 43. A. Mecozzi, “Applications of Four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” 24th European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 98, September 20-24, Madrid, Spain, Conference Digests, 647-648, invited paper. 44. J. Mørk, A. Mecozzi, and G. Eisenstein, “Resonance-like response of modulated semiconductor-optical amplifiers,” Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications OSA Topical Meeting, Vail, Colorado, 1998. 45. Matera, F.; Mecozzi, A.; Settembre, M.; Gabitov, I.; Turitsyn, S.; Haunstein, H. , “Theoretical Evaluation of the Noise Growth and of the System Performance for a Link Constituted by a Chain of N Optical Amplifiers with In-Line Filters, ” Optical Fiber Commuunication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest , Page(s): 202 -204. 46. Mecozzi, A.; Contestable, G.; Martelli, F.; Graziani, L.; D'Ottavi, A.; Spano, P.; Guekos, G.; Dall'Ara, R.; Eckner, J., “Efficiency Equalization of Up- and Down-Conversion Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Using Two Pumps with Orthogonal Polarization,” Optical Fiber Commuunication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest , Page(s): 107 -108. 47. Mecozzi, A.; Kumar, P., “Theory of Sub-poissonian Optical Solitons” Summaries of Papers Presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1997. QELS '97, Page(s): 93 -94. 48. M. Settembre, F. Matera, M. Tamburrini, A. Mecozzi, J.J.E. Reid, P.I. Kuidersma, and H. Haunstein, “Gain saturation effects in a cascade of semiconductor optical amplifiers,” 24th European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 98, September 20-24, Madrid, Spain, Conference Digests, pp. 349-350. 49. A. Corchia, C. Antonini, A. D’Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, F. Martelli, P. Spano, G. Guekos, and R. Dall’Ara, “Dispersion compensation using mid-span spectral inversion without frequency shift,” 24th European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 98, September 20-24, Madrid, Spain, Conference Digests, pp. 511-512. 50. G. Contestabile, M. Greco, F. Martelli, A. Mecozzi, A. D’Ottavi, P. Spano, R. Dall’Ara, and G. Guekos, “Frequency up- and down-conversion with constant efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio using four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” 1998 IEEE 16th International Semiconductor Laser Conference, 4-8 October 1998, Nara, Japan, Conference Digests pp. 31-32. 51. A. Mecozzi and J. Mørk, “Pump power dependence of intraband scattering times in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” 1998 IEEE 16th International Semiconductor Laser Conference, 4-8 October 1998, Nara, Japan, Conference Digests pp. 39-40. 52. A. Mecozzi, “Four-wave mixing in semiconductor amplifiers,” Semiconductor Laser Workshop, February 16-18, 1998, Dept. of Physics, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany., invited paper. 53. C.M. Greco, F. Martelli, A. D’Ottavi, A. Mecozzi, P. Spano, and R. Dall’Ara, “A wide-band, polarization-independent frequency converter based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” 25th European Conference on Optical Communication, September 26-30, 1999, Nice, France, Conference proceedings, Volume II, pp. 162-163. 54. J. Mørk and A. Mecozzi, “Dispersion-induced nonlinearities in semiconductors,” 1999 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, vol. 1, pp. 127-128 (paper MO5), San Francisco, November 1999. 55. F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, M. Tamburrini, M. Joindot, M. Midrio, Reduction of the cross-phase modulation impairment in wavelength division multiplexed systems with dispersion management, Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Post conference Edition. CLEO '99. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (IEEE Cat. No.99CH37013). Opt. Soc. America, Washington, DC, USA; 1999; 578 pp. p.306-7 56. J. Mørk and A. Mecozzi, “All-optical signal processing using semiconductor optical amplifiers: How fast can they go?” 1999 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, invited paper, San Francisco, November 1999 57. S. Scotti, D. Cassioli, and A. Mecozzi, “An efficient approach for computer simulation of semiconductor optical amplifiers,” paper CThG, May 7-12, 2000, San Francisco, California. 58. A. Mecozzi, M. Shtaif, M. Tur, and J. A. Nagel, “A simple compensator for high order polarization mode dispersion effects,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference OFC 2000, paper WL2, Baltimore, Maryland, March 5-10, 2000. 59. G. Contestabile, A. D’Ottavi, F. Martelli, A. Mecozzi, S. Sbardella, and P. Spano, “Bi-directional, polarization-independent four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference OFC 2000, paper ThW5, Baltimore, Maryland, March 5-10, 2000. 60. A. Mecozzi, M. Shtaif, and J. A. Nagel, “Frequency Autocorrelation of the Differential Group Delay in Optical Fibers,” ECOC 2000, September 3-7, 2000, Munich, Germany. 61. C. B. Clausen, A. Mecozzi, and M. Shtaif, “Nonlinear Intra-Channel Effects: System Impairments and Their Remedy,” ECOC 2000, September 3-7, 2000, Munich, Germany. 62. M. Shtaif and A. Mecozzi, “Limits on the Spectral Efficiency of Intensity Modulated Direct Detection Systems with Optical Amplifiers,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference OFC 2001, Anaheim, CA, March 17-22 2001. 63. M. Shtaif and A. Mecozzi, invited IOOC (Australia) on polarization mode dispersion, June 2001. 64. M. Shtaif and A. Mecozzi, invited IEEE-LEOS annual meeting (San Diego) on optical nonlinearities and interchannel effects in high speed communication systems, San Francisco, November 2001. 65. M. Shtaif, A. Mecozzi and R Tkach, “Noise Enhancement Caused by Polarization Dependent Loss and the Effect of Dynamic Gain Equalizers,” OFC 2002, Anaheim, CA, March 17-22, 2002. 66. A. Mecozzi and M. Shtaif, invited at Integrated Photonics Research, Vancouver, CA, “Polarization dependent loss in amplified optical systems.”
Antonio Mecozzi taught the course “Structure of Matter” at the University of Camerino, Italy, during years 1992 and 1993. Presently, he teaches graduate level solid state physics and undergraduate level physics at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of L’Aquila. |
