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Awards Digital & Microwave Photonics

  • 2015 Best paper award for the most significant advance in radar state of-the art at EuRAD 2015, Paris, for “Coherent Radar/Lidar Integrated Architecture”, D. Onori, F. Laghezza, F. Scotti, M. Scaffardi, A. Bogoni
  • 2015 European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant for the project “PETRA: Photonic Environment moniToring Risk Assessment
  • 2014 Publication on NATURE “A fully photonics-based coherent radar system”
  • 2014 Selection for paper review in “research news&viewssession of NATURE for the paper “A fully photonics-based coherent radar system”, by J.D. McKinney, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  • 2009-2013 European Research Council Starting Grant for the project: “PHODIR: PHOtonic-based full DIgital Radar
  • 2012 European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant for the project “PREPaRE: PRE-industrial Photonic-based Radar dEsign
  • 2014 Best student paper award in International Radar Symposium 2014 for “Field trial of the first Photonic-Based Radar for Maritime Border Security and Harbor Protection”
  • 2013 Best student paper award in IEEE Photonics in Switching 2013 Conference for “Laser Spectral-Purity Impact in Optical Processing of QPSK Signals in PPLN Waveguide”
  • 2012 Best paper award selection in International Conference on Radar System for “Photonic generation of microwave phase coded radar signal”
  • 2012 Keynote speech selection within OPTRO 2012 – 5th International Symposium on Optronics in Defense and Security for “Flexible Photonic Generation of Low-Phase-Noise Phase-Coded Radar Pulses
  • 2010 Best paper award in IEEE ICC 2010 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium for “Optical Bistability in a Nonlinear Resonator With Saturable Losses and Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index”