Born in Rome, Italy in 1971, Italian citizen and resident in Rome, Italy.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Physics L'Aquila University (Italy), defending the experimental thesis "Nonlinear Optical Propagation in Ferroelectric and Near-Critical Paraelectric Photorefractive Crystals" (Prof. Bruno Crosignani, and Prof. Moti Segev - Princeton University, January 1999)

Laurea degree in Physics University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy) magna cum laude defending the experimental thesis "Quantum-State Engineering for Single Photon Experiments" (Prof. Francesco De Martini, March 1995)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aggregate Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy, 2006 - present

 

Ricercatore Universitario in Experimental Physics at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of L'Aquila, Italy, 2005 - present

 

Co-founder of TelCon srl, a Rome based Optical Telecommunications Research Consulting company, 2002.

 

Research Fellow of the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter, Physics Department, University of Rome "La Sapienza" , Italy, 2001 - 2004 

Senior Optical Engineer Qplus Networks Italia S.r.l., hi-tech optical communications start-up, subsidiary of Qplus Networks Inc., a Los Angeles based start-up (Rome, Italy)  2001

Research Scientist Fiber Optics Laboratories, Advanced Research Division, Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi S.p.a. (Milan, Italy)  2000 - 2001

Research Scientist Optical Communications Division, Nonlinear Device Group, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (Rome, Italy) 1998 - 2000

Temporary Technical Staff Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University  1996

 

Technical Officer, Italian Army (Rome, Italy) 1995 - 1997

RESEARCH PROJECTS participant & coauthor

 

Glassy Photonics

2006-2009 FIRB Internazionalizzazione project, funded by the Italian Ministry for Research, Italy-Israel collaboration

 

Solitons Embedded in Electro-holograms
2003-2004 SEH PAIS2002 project, funded by the Italian Institute for Condensed Matter Physics.

 

Space-time dynamics

2003-2006 MIUR FIRB2002 project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research.

 
Spatio-temporal nonlinear propagation effects
2002-2004 MIUR COFIN2001 project, funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University, and Research.

Soliton-based Electro-holography
2001-2003 SESBOM PAIS2000 project, funded by the Italian Institute for Condensed Matter Physics.

Quantum Communication
2000-2001 blue sky project. Pirelli Advanced Research Division.

Soliton propagation in Paraelectrics
1998-2000 joint project with Prof. Aharon J. Agranat of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Trellis Photonics Inc., Jerusalem.

Soliton propagation in photorefractives
1996-1998 joint PhD project with Prof. Mordechai Segev at Princeton University.

Quantum Information
1993-1995 joint degree project with Paul Tapster of Malvern Radar Establishment (UK) and Lev Vaidman of Tel Aviv University.

MEMBERSHIP

 
Italian Institute for Condensed Matter Physics (INFM, 1996-present), Optical Society of America (OSA, 1999-present)Italian National Quantum Electronics and Plasma Group (GNEQP, 1999-present), Associazione Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana (AEI, 2001-present).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2002-2003: "Practical Fiber Optics", 16 hour yearly course at Micron Technologies Italia (Avezzano, Italy)

September 2001 : "Solitons and Photorefractive Effects", 4 lecture course at the INFM Graduate School for Quantum and Nonlinear Optics (Turin, Italy)

1999-2000 : Principles of Lasers for the school of Medical Physics at the Physics Department of the Univeristy of Rome "La Sapienza" (15 lessons/yr) (Rome, Italy)

March 1998-present : Fourier Optics and Holography for the school of Optical and Optoelectronic Studies of the Military Academy (30 lessons/yr.) (Rome, Italy)

 

PhD STUDENTS

Angelo D'Ercole (2003-) Physics candidate at the University of Aquila

Angelo Pierangelo (2005-) Physics candidate at the University of Aquila

 

LAUREA STUDENTS

 

 

FORMER STUDENTS
Giovanni Egidi, Laurea degree (1998 Rome 1, Physics); Giorgio Tosi-Beleffi Laurea degree (1999 Rome 3, Electrical Engineering); Marco Presi (2001 Rome 1, Physics); Luigi Rosa (2002 L'Aquila, Electrical Engineering); Angelo D'Ercole (2002 L'Aquila, Physics), Armando Piccardi (2003 L'Aquila, Electrical Engineering); Cesare Dari-Salisburgo (2003 L'Aquila, Physics); Angelo Pierangelo (2004 L'Aquila, Physics).

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Bilingual Italian-English. Good proficiency in French.

PEER REVIEW
Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A and E, Optics Letters, and the Journal of the Optical Society of America B.

PUBLICATIONS

1. E. DelRe, M. Segev, D. Christodoulides, B. Crosignani, and G. Salamo

Photorefractive solitons

Chapter in "Photorefraction and its Applications" Spinger 2005, eds. P.Gunter and J.P.Huignard

 

2. E. DelRe and E. Palange

Memory and transient optical spatial solitons

Submitted to Physical Review Letters (Jan 2005).

 

 

4. E. DelRe, G. De Masi, A. Ciattoni, and E. Palange

Pairing space-charge field conditions with self-guiding for the attainment of circular-symmetry in photorefractive solitons

Appl.Phys.Lett. 85, 5499 (2004).

 

5. A. D'Ercole, E. Palange, E. DelRe, A. Ciattoni, B. Crosignani, and A.J. Agranat

Miniaturization and embedding of soliton-based electro-optically addressable photonic arrays

Appl.Phys.Lett. 85, 2679 (2004)

 

6. E.DelRe, E.Palange, and A.J.Agranat

Fiber-launched ultra-tight photorefractive solitons integrating fast soliton-based beam manipulation circuitry

J.Appl.Phys. 95, 3822 (2004)

 

7. C.Dari-Salisburgo, E.DelRe, and E.Palange

Molding and stretched evolution of optical solitons in cumulative nonlinearities

Phys.Rev.Lett. 91, 263903 (2003)

 

8. E.DelRe, A. D'Ercole, and A.J.Agranat

 

10. E.DelRe and A.Agranat
Dielectric nonlinearity in photorefractive screening solitons 
Physical Review A 65, 53814 (2002).

11. A. Ciattoni, C. Conti, E. DelRe, P. Di Porto, B. Crosignani, and A. Yariv
Polarization and energy dynamics in nonparaxial Kerr propagation

Optics Letters 27, 734 (2002).

 

12. E. DelRe, B. Crosignani, and P. Di Porto
Bell states, Bell operators, and total teleportation

Z. Naturforsch A 56, 128 (2001).

13. E. DelRe, A. Ciattoni, A.J. Agranat
Anisotropic charge displacement supporting isolated photorefractive optical needles
Optics Letters 26, 908 (2001).

14. G. M. Tosi-Beleffi, M. Presi, E. DelRe, D. Boschi, C. Palma, and A.J. Agranat
Stable oscillating nonlinear beams in square-wave-biased photorefractives
Optics Letters 25, 1538 (2000).

15. E. DelRe, M. Tamburrini, and A.J. Agranat Soliton electro-optic effects in paraelectrics
Optics Letters 25, 963 (2000).

 

16. E. DelRe, B. Crosignani, and P. Di Porto

Photorefractive Spatial Solitons
Chapter of the Springer book "Spatial Solitons", editors S. Trillo and W. Torruellas (2001).

17. A. Ciattoni, A. Degasperis, and E. DelRe
One-two dimensional nonlinear pulse interaction

Physical Review E 61, R4714 (2000).

18. E. DelRe, S. Trillo, and A.J. Agranat
Collisions and inhomogeneous forces between solitons of different dimensionality
Optics Letters 25, 560 (2000).

19. E.DelRe, B. Crosignani, and P. Di Porto
Scheme for total quantum teleportation
Physical Review Letters 84, 2989 (2000).

20. B. Crosignani, E. DelRe, and M. Tamburrini
Novel optical phenomena in near-critical photorefractive crystals: diffusion-driven diffraction and spontaneous self-trapping
"Unconventional Optical Elements fo Information Storage, Processing and Communications", 127-135 (Kluwer Academic, 2000) Marom eds.

21. E. DelRe, M. Tamburrini, R. Della Pergola, and A.J. Agranat
Spontaneous self-trapping of optical beams in metastable paraelectric crystals
Physical Review Letters 83, 1954 (1999).

22. E.DelRe
Solitons and Nonlinear Optical Propagation in Ferroelectric and Near-Critical Paraelectric Photorefractive Crystals Ph.D. Thesis, Universit dellAquila, December 1998.

23. B.Crosignani, A.Degasperis, E.DelRe, P.DiPorto and A.J. Agranat
Nonlinear optical diffraction effects and solitons due to anisotropic charge-diffusion based self-interaction

Physical Review Letters 82, 1664 (1999).

24. S.Lan, E.DelRe, Z.Chen, M.Shih, and M.Segev Directional coupler using soliton-induced waveguiding
Optics Letters 24, 475 (1999).

25. E.DelRe, A.Ciattoni, B.Crosignani, and P.DiPorto Nonlinear optical propagation in near-transition centrosymmetric photorefractive crystals
Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials 8, 1-20 (1999).

26. B.Crosignani, E.DelRe, P.DiPorto, and A.Degasperis
Self-focusing and self-trapping in unbiased centrosymmetric photorefractive media
Optics Letters 23, 912 (1998).

27. E.DelRe, M.Tamburrini, M.Segev, E.Refaeli, and A.Agranat
Two-dimensional photorefractive spatial solitons in centrosymmetric paraelectric potassium-lithium-tantalate-niobate
Applied Physics Letters 73, 16 (1998).

28. E.DelRe, A.Ciattoni, B.Crosignani, and M.Tamburrini
Approach to space-charge field description in photorefractive crystals
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 15, 1469 (1998).

29. E.DelRe, B.Crosignani, M.Tamburrini, M.Segev, M.Mitchell, E.Refaeli, and A.Agranat One-dimensional steady-state photorefractive spatial solitons in centrosymmetric paraelectric KLTN
Optics Letters 23, 421 (1998).

30. F.De Martini, E.Del Re, L.De Dominicis, and F.Truc
Adiabatic feedback method and the single photon quantum eraser
Contribution to the volume Quantum Interferometry (Scientific Press, 1994).

31. E.DelRe
Quantum-state engineering for single photon experiments
Laurea Thesis, Universit di Roma La Sapienza, March 1995.


CONFERENCES WITH PUBLICATION

1. E.DelRe, B.Crosignani, E.Palange, A.J.Agranat

Electro-optic beam manipulation through photorefractive needles

Oral presentation at CLEO03.

2. A.J.Agranat and E. DelRe

Waveguiding through ferroelectric clusters

Invited talk at NLWG02 (Stresa, Italy).

 

3. E.DelRe and A.Agranat
Dielectric nonlinearity in photorefractive screening solitons 
Poster presentation at NLGW02 (Stresa, Italy)

 

4. E. DelRe, A. Ciattoni, and A.J. Agranat Anisotropic charge displacement supporting isolated photorefractive optical needles
Oral presentation at NLGW'01 (Clearwater Florida, March 2001)

5. G.M. Tosi-Beleffi, M.Presi, E.DelRe, D. Boschi, C. Palma, and A.J. Agranat
Stable oscillating nonlinear beams in square-wave-biased photorefractives
Oral presentation at CLEO/QELS2001 (Baltimore, May 2001)

6. E. DelRe and Stefano Trillo
Propagazione e interazione fra guide donda scritte tramite solitoni spaziali ottici
Oral presentation at XIII RiNEm (Como, September 2000)

7. E. DelRe, S. Trillo, and A.J. Agranat
Collisions and inhomogeneous forces between solitons of different dimensionality
Oral presentation at CLEO/QELS2000 (San Francisco, May 2000).

8. E. DelRe
Reconfigurable bulk optical circuitry supported by photorefractive spatial solitons
Oral presentation at Amalfi99 (Amalfi-Italy, October 1999).

9. E. DelRe, A. Ciattoni, B. Crosignani, P. Di Porto Diffusion-driven anisotropic self-interaction in near-transition paraelectrics
Poster presentation at INFMeeting99 (Catania-Italy, June 1999).

10. E. DelRe, S. Trillo, and M. Segev
Observation of hybrid stripe-needle screening soliton interaction
Oral presentation at NLGW99 (Djion-France, September 1999).

11. S.Lan, E.DelRe, Z.Chen, M.Shih, and M.Segev Directional coupler using soliton-induced waveguiding
Oral presentation CLEO/QELS99 (Baltimore, May 1999).

12. E. DelRe, M. Tamburrini, M. Segev, and A.J. Agranat
Spontaneous optical solitons in metastable paraelectric crystals
Oral presentation CLEO/QELS99 (Baltimore, May 1999).

13. B. Crosignani, E. DelRe, M. Tamburrini
Novel optical phenomena in near-critical photorefractive crystals
Invited at the Workshop on unconventional optical elements for storage, processing and communications (Jerusalem-Israel, October 1998).

14. E.DelRe, M.Tamburrini, G.Egidi, and M.Segev Bright photorefractive spatial solitons in tilted BaTiO3
Oral presentation at LEOS 98 (Orlando, December 1998).

15. A.Ciattoni, B.Crosignani, E.DelRe, and M.Tamburrini
Approach to two-wave-mixing in photorefractive materials
Poster at INFMeeting 98 (Rimini-Italy, June 1998).

16. E.DelRe, B.Crosignani, M.Segev, and A.Agranat Optical soliton-like phenomena in near transition paraelectric KLTN
Poster at INFMeeting 98 (Rimini, Italy, June 1998).

17. B.Crosignani, E.DelRe, P.DiPorto, M.Tamburrini, A.Degasperis, A.Agranat, and M.Segev
Photorefractive diffusion-driven self-focusing and self-trapping in near-transition paraelectric crystals
Oral presentation at Nonlinear Optics 98 (Kauai, August 1998).

18. E.DelRe, B.Crosignani, M.Tamburrini, M.Segev, M.Mitchell, E.Refaeli, and A.Agranat
One-dimensional photorefractive spatial solitons in paraelectric KLTN
Oral presentation at CLEO 98 (San Francisco, May 1998)