We are happy to share that MOCCA’s first PhD defence happened in January at Sapienza University Rome! Huge congratulations to ESR2, Francesco Talenti, on the successful viva!
Academic Supervisor: Prof Stefan Wabnitz
Industrial supervisor: Dr Alfredo De Rossi
At the MOCCA Workshop at AMO, Nov 2022. MOCCA ESRs, Francesco Talenti and Loredana Massaro presented a poster:
“Systematic design of photonic crystal resonators with a tailored dispersion curve”, Francesco Talenti, S. Wabnitz, Inès Ghorbel, Sylvain Combrié, Luca Aimone-Giggio, Loredana Maria Massaro and Alfredo De Rossi
At the MOCCA Workshop at AMO, Nov 2022. MOCCA ESR, Loredana Massaro presented a poster:
“Toward Frequency Comb Generation: Extension of Effective Mass Concept to One Dimensional Photonic Crystals Bands”, Loredana Maria Massaro and Fabrice Raineri.
MOCCA beneficiaries, AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University, organised a workshop “Integration of novel materials into silicon photonics” on November 21-22, 2022 in Aachen, bringing together experts from academia and industry to discuss recent advances on the integration of novel materials into silicon photonic platforms. 3 MOCCA ESRs attended the event, 2 of them, Loredana Massaro and Francesco Talenti, presented posters there.
MOCCA ESR, Francesco Talenti, will give a talk at the “Minisymposium for Young Researchers 2022” (21 July 2022) in the field of nonlinear optics and photonics. The title of his talk will be “Inverse design of a flat dispersion Photonic Crystal cavity “. More details about the event available here.
MOCCA ESR Victor Vassiliev participated in an outreach event organized by Student Chapter for the Optics&Photonics societies at Aston University.
Final MOCCA Workshop took place in Paris on 21st June 2022. All ESRs gave their talks about the progress in their projects. Also, there were very inspiring talks by invited speakers. Everyone enjoyed the event. More details here.
MOCCA Research Brochure is available!
You can read there about ESR’s projects, the relevance and impact of their research, and a summary of the progress.
More details here.
During the Optical Frequency Combs Workshop at Aston University, the lab tour took place. For this, a poster was prepared by Prof. Misha Sumetsky’s research group, where ESR1, Victor Vassiliev is working. The poster title is “SNAP microresonators fabricated with a flame and a heated wire”. It’s available here.
On 11-12 April a big Optical Frequency Combs workshop took place at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University. MOCCA was co-organiser of the event.
Leading researchers in the field of optical frequency combs science and technology discussed its fundamentals, applications, and future opportunities. The topics covered include the recent development of innovative sources based on lasers, waveguides and microresonators, novel nonlinear dynamics effects in optical resonators, and diverse applications of optical frequency combs in astronomy, quantum technologies, and photonic computing.
More details here.
Open To All Workshop Current and future trends for optical communication systems took place on April 7-8, 2022 at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and online. MOCCA was co-organiser of the Workshop. There were 17 speakers and 225 participants at the event! More info here.
On 24-25 March all MOCCA ESRs attended the Transferable Skills Workshop III, where they had webinars about career planning, non-academic job market, CV writing, career paths, funding opportunities after PhD, interview skills. More details here.
During the AiPT Christmas Conference at Aston University, Prof. Misha Sumetsky in his talk mentioned the MOCCA project of his ESR1, Victor Vassiliev, and gave a short talk about Victor’s progress.
Open To All Workshop on Optical Frequency Combs took place in Lille University on 17-18 November 2021. Prof. Stefan Wabnitz, MOCCA supervisor in the Sapienza University Rome, gave his talk at this Workshop. It was a great event with 67 participants!
Third year MOCCA Workshop took place in Sapienza University Rome on 28 October 2021. All ESRs and their supervisors met together the first time after Covid! It was a great MOCCA Workshop, where all recent research results were discussed. More details here.
On 29 October 2021 in Sapienza University Rome MOCCA Mini Symposium on Field dynamics in Microresonators and active cavities took place. More details here.
A great conference #ECOC2021 took place in Bordeaux in person 13-16 September 2021. This is the largest conference on #opticalcommunications in Europe, and one of the most prestigious and long-standing events in this field worldwide.
We are proud that MOCCA Consortium members had accepted papers at the #ECOC2021 and Prof.Misha Sumetsky was on the technical programme committee!
Loredana Maria Massaro, presented the paper “Design of III-V/ Silicon Platform for Optical Frequency Comb Generation” at the conference Optique Dijon 2021
A new issue of MOCCA ESRs’ Newsletter has been published! Check it out at https://mocca.astonphotonics.uk/esrs-newsletter-2/ In the newsletter MOCCA ESR’s talk about their projects and their work.
MOCCA ESR Loredana Massaro’s work can be now followed on Instagram !!!
To celebrate the IDL2021 MOCCA ESRs explain how their research relates to the concept of ‘light’: Check out AiPT brochure here
MOCCA ESR, Francesco Talenti, has published the article “Frequency comb generation in silicon nitride ring resonators with amplitude modulated pump,” Proc. SPIE 11672, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XXIII, 1167206 (5 March 2021)
The Mini Symposium Parametric Interaction in Photonic Crystals will be held on April 27, 2021 remotely. The event is co-organized with EU-funded projects ECLAUsion and MULTIPLY.
On line lessons on photonics for high school students!
MOCCA ESRs Loredana Massaro and Francesco Talenti are organizing a series of lessons for Italian high school students. The first lesson (19 January 2021) was aimed at students of the high school “Liceo Visconti” in Rome. The objective of the lesson was to familiarize students with Photonics and in particular with frequency combs. Lessons are currently held remotely due to the Covid pandemic.
MOCCA Transferable skills workshop II will take place on March 22 -24, 2021, remotely
The Workshop will be focused on entrepreneurship skills, project management and science communication. It is organized by MOCCA and other sisters projects coordinated by AiPT: FONTE, REAL-NET and WON.
MOCCA Mini Symposium Semiconductor platforms for optical frequency comb generation will take place on December 2, 2020. The event is organized by MOCCA together with another H2020 ITN coordinated by Aston,POST- DIGITAL
The image is taken from: Chang, L., Xie, W., Shu, H. et al. Ultra-efficient frequency comb
generation in AlGaAs-on-insulator microresonators. Nat Commun 11, 1331, (2020)
The MOCCA Supervisory Board meeting took place remotely on November 25, 2020
The 2nd-year MOCCA Workshop took place (remotely) on November 25, 2020. During the event MOCCA ESRs present the progress of their research. The event was joined by Dr. Piotr Cegielski (AMO) who gave a paper on “Integrated nanophotonic fabrication at AMO with SU8 photoresist”
The Mini Symposium1 “Introduction to Machine Learning“ was held on September 7-8, (on Webex). The event is jointly organized by MOCCA and other ITNs coordinated by ITNs: FONTE, REAL-NET and WON.
MOCCA Mini Symposium1 “SNAP based optical frequency comb” was held on September 10 (on Webex)
ESR3, Francesco Talenti, gave the paper “Control of Kerr Cavity Soliton Combs by Chirped Pumping” at the OSA “Non-Linear Photonics” meeting at “Advanced Photonics Congress 2020”. This took place on July 13-14, 2020. Initially planned in Montreal, the conference was held remotely due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
ESR2, Loredana Maria Massaro, presented her project at ePIXfab, within the ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School. The summer school was held online, on 15-19 June 2020.
MOCCA ESR Avinash Kumar gave a talk on “Integration of Graphene with Mid-IR Optical Materials & Far-Field Excitation of Graphene Plasmons” at AMO (April 30, 2020)
MOCCA ESR Victor Vassiliev participated in an outreach event organized by the student branch of the Optics Organizations at Aston university
(March 2, 2020)
February 24, 2020: Outreach activity directed at ERASMUS Mundus students!
First-year MOCCA Workshop took place in Aston University on February 27, 2020
MOCCA Transferable skills workshop 1 took place in Aston, in February 27-28, 2020
Loredana Maria Massaro has joined MOCCA as ESR2 at CNRS (Paris)
MOCCA Workshop on Nonlinear Optical Frequency Combs: Dynamics and Applications
October 14-15 2019, Anacapri (Italy)
MOCCA Induction It took place in Anacapri (Italy), October 14-15, 2019