Optical Interconnects / Springer Series in Optical Sciences Bd.119 (PDF)

Lorenzo Pavesi is Professor of experimental physics at the university of Trento (Italy). Born the 21st of november 1961, he received his master degree in physics in 1985 at the university of trento and the phd in physics in 1990 at the ecole polytechnique federale of lausanne (switzerland). in 1990 he became assistant professor, an associate professor in 1999 and full professor in 2002 at the university of trento. He founded the research activity in semiconductor optoelectronics at the university of trento and started several laboratories of optical spectroscopy, growth and advanced treatment of materials. during the last years, he concentrated on Si-based optoelectronics where he has been working on porous silicon and on silicon nanostructures. Among his most important recent achievements the fabrication of Si led in a fully CMOS compatible environment, the first evidence of optical gain and stimulated emission in Si quantum dot nanocrystals, the observation of photonic Bloch oscillations, all of these results opened the way to a Si-based optoelectronics and to the future fabrication of a Si-based laser. He organized several international conferences, workshops and schools and is a frequent invited speaker. He manages several research projects, both national and european. He is an author or co-author of more than 200 papers, author of 1 book, several reviews, editor of 6 books and holds two patents.

From the reviews:

"Optical interconnect technology is, for several reasons, an increasingly attractive alternative and has become more and more essential for some industrial leaders of microelectronics who are very active in this field of research. … Not only physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers but also graduate students, who are interested in the fields of microelectronics and optoelectronics will be highly grateful to the eminent authors who have produced a very interesting and fascinating picture of the state-of-the-art set of lectures and chapters." (Current Engineering Practice, 2007)