Politecnico di Torino, Italy (PT)

For what concern the activities in the area of the proposed project, the research on semiconductor lasers and guided wave optics at Politecnico di Torino started more than fifteen years ago. This activity has been carried out in the framework of Italian national projects, supported by the National Research Council (CNR) and the Ministry for the University and Scientific Research, but also under Italian and international industrial research contracts and with the EC support (Science, Human Capital & Mobility, ACTS, RTM and IST programmes).

Of specific interest to this project are the design and simulation activities on Semiconductor Lasers, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and guided wave optic devices.

In particular in the last years the group has been involved in a Italian national project on the design of QD laser for EDFA pump and in the IST project BigBand where the group has been responsible for the QDash material, waveguide and device simulation workpackage. The experience gained in these projects can be fully utilized for the design of the QD material and lasers necessary in this proposal. Furthermore the group has always been active in the simulation of laser dynamics and its contribution has been mainly in the analysis of mode locked semiconductor lasers. The results of these activities have been published in the most important journals in the field of quantum electronics and optical communication.

The Politecnico di Torino activity in the recent years has been addressed in topics closely related to the activities proposed in this proposal: simulation of the electro optic characteristic of low dimensional material, waveguide design and optimization, laser dynamics in homogeneously broadened and in-homogenously broadened material, mode locking. Furthermore this group had in the recent past a close and good cooperation in the framework of the IST project BigBand with Thales and Wurtzburg University groups on the subject of low dimensional material laser design.