Anna Boletti Curriculum Vitae Name: Anna Boletti Date of Birth: March 23rd ,1980 Address: Kirchweg 15, 5420 Ehrendingen, Aargau Switzerland Nationality: Italian Telephone: 0041791737842 E-mail: aboletti@hotmail.com Education 1999: High School Diploma in Computer Science at Istituto Tecnico P. Hensemberger, Monza; 2003: one –year visiting student at Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) for European Exchange Project (Erasmus); 2005: M.Sc. (5 year) Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Laurea Thesis title: “Integrated optical receiver for the DQPSK system”, Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Melloni; 2010: PhD student position at Politecnico di Milano. PhD Theme: “Innovative solutions for high-bit rate backplane-based datacom interconnections”. Supervisor: Prof. Mario Martinelli; 2013: visiting PhD student at IBM Research-Zurich, Photonics group. Manager: Dr. Bert Jan Offrein Professional experience 2006-2007: Service Engineer at Telecommunication Company Fastweb, Milano. With the Network Engineering team, to plan and design Voice over IP and Time Division Multiplexing network architectures; 2007-2010: Research Assistant at Policom, Politecnico di Milano. Experimental and simulative evaluation of the performances of an innovative 4x10 Gbit/s optical link on a CWDM system at 1310 nm with different high bit rate and directly modulated optical sources (DFB and VCSEL); Professional Accomplishments and Interests • • • • • • • • • • • High-bit rate transmission optical systems (injection locking and center-launching techniques, direct and coherent detection schemes, performance evaluation of an optical link) Optical interconnections Optical fibers Optical sources as Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) Reflective semiconductors amplifiers Electrical and optical backplanes Power consumption of electrical drivers, receivers and optical modules Silicon photonics-based links Multi-level modulation formats Voice over IP and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) network architectures Telephony protocols over IP and TDM, Voice routing over IP (VoIP) end TDM, Number Portability, Carrier Selection & Pre-selection Languages Italian: Mother Tongue English: very good, certified by TOEFL (2009) “Preliminary English Test (PET)”, Cambridge University ESOL (2006) Spanish: very good, certified by “Diplomas de Espanol como Lengua Extranjera, D.E.L.E.” (Nivel Superior), Istituto Cervantes, Milano (2003) IT skills • • • • • • Operative systems: DOS e WINDOWS Vista, XP, 2000, 98, MAC OS X Applications: WINDOWS OFFICE and MAC OS X Programming languages: ASSEMBLER, MATLAB, C/C++, LATEX Simulator Software: OptSim, HyperLynx CAD software for circuits: SIGRAPH, FidoCad, Spice Drawing Programs: CANVAS, Photoshop CS3 Scientific Products Papers and patents: • L. Marazzi, A. Boletti, P.Parolari, A. Gatto, R. Brenot and M. Martinelli, “Relative Intensity Noise Suppression in Reflective SOAs”, Optics Communications, Vol. 318, pp. 186-188 (2014) • A. Boletti, D. Giacomuzzi, G. Parladori, P. Boffi, M. Ferrario and M. Martinelli, “Performance Comparison between electrical copper-based and optical fiber-based backplanes” Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 16, pp. 19202-19208 (2013) • A. Boletti, P. Boffi, A. Gatto, P. Martelli, E. Centeno Nieves and M. Martinelli “Robustness to mechanical perturbations of center-launching technique for transparent board-to-board and data server interconnects”, Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 12410-12418 (2013) • P. Boffi, A. Gatto, A. Boletti, P. Martelli and M. Martinelli, “12.5 Gbit/s VCSEL-based transmission over legacy MMFs by centre-launching technique”, Electronics Letters, Vol. 48, Issue 20, p.1289–1290 (2012) • A. Gatto, A. Boletti, P. Boffi, and M. Martinelli, “Adjustable-chirp VCSEL-to-VCSEL injection locking for 10-Gb/s transmission at 1.55 mm”, Optics Express Vol. 17, Iss. 24, pp. 21748–21753 (2009) • A. Gatto, A. Boletti, P. Boffi, E. Ronneberg, C. Neumeyr, M. Ortsiefer and M. Martinelli “1.3 mm VCSEL Transmission Performance up to 12.5 Gbit/s for Metro Access Networks”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 12, June 15, 2009. • M. Ortsiefer, W. Hofmann, E. Ronneberg, A. Boletti, A. Gatto, P. Boffi, J. Rosskopf, R. Shau, C. Neumeyr, G. Bohm, M. Martinelli and M.-C. Amann, “High speed 1.3 mm VCSELs for 12.5 Gbit/s optical interconnects”, Electronics letters, Vol. 44, No. 16, July 2008. • A.Boletti, M.Ferrario and M. Martinelli “Schema d’interconnessione per apparati di telecomunicazioni ed informatici” patent submitted to revision, December 2013 Proceedings: • A. Boletti, A. Gatto, P. Boffi, P. Martelli, E. Centeno Nieves and M. Martinelli “Mechanical Robustness of MMF Datacom Interconnections using Center-Launching Technique”, CLEO/Europe-EQEC, International Congress on Photonics in Europe, Munich, 2013 • A. Boletti, D. Giacomuzzi, G. Parladori, P. Boffi, M. Ferrario and M. Martinelli “Performance Comparison between Electrical and Optical Backplanes” CLEO/EuropeEQEC International Congress on Photonics in Europe, Munich, 2013 • A. Boletti, D. Giacomuzzi, G. Parladori, P. Boffi and M. Martinelli, “Performance Comparison between Electrical and Optical Backplanes” Fotonica-Convegno Nazionale sulle Tecniche Fotoniche nelle telecomunicazioni, Milano, 2013 • A. Boletti, A. Gatto, P. Boffi, P. Martelli, E. Centeno Nieves and M. Martinelli “Mechanical Robustness of Datacom Interconnections by Center-Launching in multi-mode fiber” Fotonica-Convegno Nazionale sulle Tecniche Fotoniche nelle telecomunicazioni, Milano, 2013 • A. Boletti, P. Boffi, A. Gatto, P. Martelli, E. Centeno Nieves and M. Martinelli “Robustness to mechanical perturbations of centre-launching technique in multi-mode fibres for transparent optical interconnects” ICTON-International Conference on Transparent Optical Network, Cartagena, 2013 • A. Gatto, A. Boletti, P. Boffi, M. Martinelli, “VCSEL-VCSEL injection locking a 10 Gb/s per trasmissione su 40 km senza compensazione di dispersione”, Fotonica- Convegno Nazionale sulle Tecniche Fotoniche nelle telecomunicazioni, Pisa, 2009 • A. Gatto, A. Boletti, P. Boffi, M. Martinelli, E. Roenneberg, C. Neumeyr, M. Ortsiefer, “Trasmissione a 12,5 Gb/s su 20 km con sorgente VCSEL a 1330 nm”, Fotonica- Convegno Nazionale sulle Tecniche Fotoniche nelle telecomunicazioni, Pisa, 2009 • A. Gatto, A. Boletti, P. Boffi, C. Neumeyr, M. Ortsiefer, E. Ronneberg and M. Martinelli, “1.3 µm VCSEL Transmission Performance over 20 km at 12.5 Gb/s”, CLEO EuropeInternational Congress on Photonics in Europe, Munich, 2009 • P. Boffi, A. Boletti, A. Gatto and M. Martinelli “VCSEL to VCSEL injection locking for uncompensated 40-km transmission at 10 Gb/s”, Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), JThA32, San Diego, 2009. • F. Morichetti, R. Siano, A. Boletti and A. Melloni “Optical Integrated receiver for DQPSK Systems”, International Conference on Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), Th.B1.2, Barcelona, 2005