Paolo Villoresi

Paolo Villoresi

Principal Investigator, Professor (If.)

Born in Treviso, Italy, in 1962, he studied Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Padova. He is a Full Professor of Physics (Professore Ordinario) at the University of Padova, where he currently teaches Quantum Optics and related subjects.

  • Director and Founding member of the Padua Quantum Technologies Research Center.
  • Member of the Board of Stakeholders of the European Technological platform Photonics21
  • National delegate for Action COST Nanoscale Quantum Optics
  • Deputy National Delegate for COST Action Quantum Physics in Space
  • Member of the Executive Board of Department of Information Engineering, UniPD.
  • Member of the Advisory Committee of Scientific and Technological institutions.

Selected current research activities in Experimental Quantum Communications, as Group coordinator:

  • Principal investigator for the I-QKD Italian quantum communication in-orbit validation satellite (Italian Space Agency)
  • OpenQKD EU Testbed for Quantum Communications - Italian node coordinator.
  • Project coordinator for three development projects on Space Quantum Communication payload for the Italian Space Agency (2016-2022).
  • Development and patenting of Quantum Random Number Generators QRNG – 17 Gbps record rate generated so far. (2014-2019)
  • First demonstration of Quantum Communications from an orbiting transmitter on a LEO satellite using polarization and temporal degrees of freedom (2010-2016).
  • Fundamental experiments in wave-particle duality of photons in Space: Wheeler "Delayed Choice" experiment (2016-2017).
  • Q-Space Experiment: first demonstration of single-photon link between a satellite and the Earth (2003-2008).
  • Canary 143 km Inter-island link experiment: Experimental demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution with mitigation of turbulence effects (2010-2015)
  • Single photon exchange from a MEO satellite (2015).
  • Aberration cancellation in quantum interferometry (2006-2009)
  • Adaptive optics for entanglement generation and control (2008-2014)

Past research activities includes:

  • Experimental study of the interaction of matter with radiation, in the area of ultrashort and ultrafast laser pulses: strongly nonlinear optical effects as high-order laser harmonics generation and optical ionization;
  • Phenomena depending on the absolute phase of the radiation, asymmetry in the multiphoton ionization, researches in the generation and characterization of attosecond pulses, (1997-2013).
  • Adaptive optics application in ultrafast pulse generation (2008-2013)

Author of more than a hundred seventy publications on peer-refereed journals, including Nature and Science, on encyclopaedia and editor of 2 books. Coauthor of more than 200 congresses contribution in the areas of Quantum Communication, Quantum Optics, laser-matter interaction and Atomic and Plasma Physics.

He served as supervisor of 17 PhD project (3 in progress), 7 as co-supervisor (4 in progress) and supervisor of 88 Master students (3 in progress).

Invited speaker in all continents and Referee for research projects internationally.

He is an Associate Editor of Scientific Reports (Nature Pub.)

Served as coordinator in several national and international research projects, including the area of quantum communication, attosecond Physics, application of laser in Medicine and Industry.

Coauthor of 12 industrial patents and patent applications on topics ranging from technological and medical applications of lasers and optics to practical exploitation of quantum processes.

Awards and Prizes

  • Winner of the first prize, with team VIVA, of STARTCUP 2002 - L'idea diventa impresa, the first competition among Italian Universities on best proposal that exploits for business a research idea, July 4, 2002, now Premio Nazionale per l’Innovazione.
  • Selected for one of the 20 ideas of national relevance for the 2nd National Day for the Research, Rome, Oct. 1, 2003.
  • Winner of the first prize ex-aequo of the 4-th Premio Regionale per l’Innovazione on July 7, 2004.

Publications

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Journal Articles

95.

Modular Source for Near-Infrared Quantum Communication

Federico Berra; Costantino Agnesi; Andrea Stanco; Marco Avesani; Sebastiano Cocchi; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone

In: EPJ Quantum Technol., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 27, 2023, ISSN: 2662-4400, 2196-0763.

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Synchronization of Quantum Communications over an Optical Classical Communications Channel

Federico Berra; Costantino Agnesi; Andrea Stanco; Marco Avesani; Michal Kuklewski; Daniel Matter; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Appl. Opt., vol. 62, no. 30, pp. 7994, 2023, ISSN: 1559-128X, 2155-3165.

93.

Proposal for an Optical Interferometric Measurement of the Gravitational Redshift with Satellite Systems

Daniel R. Terno; Francesco Vedovato; Matteo Schiavon; Alexander R. H. Smith; Piergiovanni Magnani; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Phys. Rev. D, vol. 108, no. 8, pp. 084063, 2023, ISSN: 2470-0010, 2470-0029.

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Optimal Focusing Conditions for Bright Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Sources

Lorenzo Coccia; Alberto Santamato; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 063712, 2023, ISSN: 2469-9926, 2469-9934.

91.

Fully Integrated Silicon Photonic Erbium-Doped Nanodiode for Few Photon Emission at Telecom Wavelengths

Giulio Tavani; Chiara Barri; Erfan Mafakheri; Giorgia Franzò; Michele Celebrano; Michele Castriotta; Matteo Di Giancamillo; Giorgio Ferrari; Francesco Picciariello; Giulio Foletto; Costantino Agnesi; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Vito Sorianello; Davide Rotta; Marco Finazzi; Monica Bollani; Enrico Prati

In: Materials, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 2344, 2023, ISSN: 1996-1944.

90.

The Deep Space Quantum Link: Prospective Fundamental Physics Experiments Using Long-Baseline Quantum Optics

Makan Mohageg; Luca Mazzarella; Charis Anastopoulos; Jason Gallicchio; Bei-Lok Hu; Thomas Jennewein; Spencer Johnson; Shih-Yuin Lin; Alexander Ling; Christoph Marquardt; Matthias Meister; Raymond Newell; Albert Roura; Wolfgang P. Schleich; Christian Schubert; Dmitry V. Strekalov; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Lisa Wörner; Nan Yu; Aileen Zhai; Paul Kwiat

In: EPJ Quantum Technol., vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 25, 2022, ISSN: 2662-4400, 2196-0763.

89.

Cross-Encoded Quantum Key Distribution Exploiting Time-Bin and Polarization States with Qubit-Based Synchronization

Davide Scalcon; Costantino Agnesi; Marco Avesani; Luca Calderaro; Giulio Foletto; Andrea Stanco; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Adv Quantum Tech, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 2200051, 2022, ISSN: 2511-9044, 2511-9044.

88.

Unbounded Randomness from Uncharacterized Sources

Marco Avesani; Hamid Tebyanian; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone

In: Commun Phys, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 273, 2022, ISSN: 2399-3650.

87.

Optimal Design and Performance Evaluation of Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Systems

Alessia Scriminich; Giulio Foletto; Francesco Picciariello; Andrea Stanco; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Francesco Vedovato

In: Quantum Sci. Technol., vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 045029, 2022, ISSN: 2058-9565.

86.

Deployment-Ready Quantum Key Distribution Over a Classical Network Infrastructure in Padua

Marco Avesani; Giulio Foletto; Matteo Padovan; Luca Calderaro; Costantino Agnesi; Elisa Bazzani; Federico Berra; Tommaso Bertapelle; Francesco Picciariello; Francesco B. L. Santagiustina; Davide Scalcon; Alessia Scriminich; Andrea Stanco; Francesco Vedovato; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1658–1663, 2022, ISSN: 0733-8724, 1558-2213.

85.

Security Bounds for Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution with Arbitrary Photon-Number Statistics

Giulio Foletto; Francesco Picciariello; Costantino Agnesi; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 012603, 2022, ISSN: 2469-9926, 2469-9934.

84.

Versatile and Concurrent FPGA-Based Architecture for Practical Quantum Communication Systems

Andrea Stanco; Francesco B. L. Santagiustina; Luca Calderaro; Marco Avesani; Tommaso Bertapelle; Daniele Dequal; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: IEEE Trans. Quantum Eng., vol. 3, pp. 1–8, 2022, ISSN: 2689-1808.

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Advances in Space Quantum Communications

Jasminder S. Sidhu; Siddarth K. Joshi; Mustafa Gündoğan; Thomas Brougham; David Lowndes; Luca Mazzarella; Markus Krutzik; Sonali Mohapatra; Daniele Dequal; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Alexander Ling; Thomas Jennewein; Makan Mohageg; John G. Rarity; Ivette Fuentes; Stefano Pirandola; Daniel K. L. Oi

In: IET Quantum Communication, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 182–217, 2021, ISSN: 2632-8925, 2632-8925.

82.

Semi-Device-Independent Randomness from d -Outcome Continuous-Variable Detection

Hamid Tebyanian; Marco Avesani; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 104, no. 6, pp. 062424, 2021, ISSN: 2469-9926, 2469-9934.

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Semi-Device Independent Randomness Generation Based on Quantum State's Indistinguishability

Hamid Tebyanian; Mujtaba Zahidy; Marco Avesani; Andrea Stanco; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone

In: Quantum Sci. Technol., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 045026, 2021, ISSN: 2058-9565.

80.

Certification of the Efficient Random Number Generation Technique Based on Single-photon Detector Arrays and Time-to-digital Converters

Andrea Stanco; Davide G. Marangon; Giuseppe Vallone; Samuel Burri; Edoardo Charbon; Paolo Villoresi

In: IET Quantum Communication, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 74–79, 2021, ISSN: 2632-8925, 2632-8925.

79.

Experimental Test of Sequential Weak Measurements for Certified Quantum Randomness Extraction

Giulio Foletto; Matteo Padovan; Marco Avesani; Hamid Tebyanian; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 103, no. 6, pp. 062206, 2021, ISSN: 2469-9926, 2469-9934.

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Quantum Technologies in Space

Rainer Kaltenbaek; Antonio Acin; Laszlo Bacsardi; Paolo Bianco; Philippe Bouyer; Eleni Diamanti; Christoph Marquardt; Yasser Omar; Valerio Pruneri; Ernst Rasel; Bernhard Sang; Stephan Seidel; Hendrik Ulbricht; Rupert Ursin; Paolo Villoresi; Mathias Bossche; Wolf Klitzing; Hugo Zbinden; Mauro Paternostro; Angelo Bassi

In: Experimental Astronomy, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 1677–1694, 2021, ISSN: 1572-9508.

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Full Daylight Quantum-Key-Distribution at 1550 Nm Enabled by Integrated Silicon Photonics

Marco Avesani; Luca Calderaro; Matteo Schiavon; Andre Stanco; Costantino Agnesi; Alberto Santamato; Mujtaba Zahidy; Alessia Scriminich; Giulio Foletto; Giampiero Contestabile; Marco Chiesa; Davide Rotta; Massimo Artiglia; Antonio Montanaro; Marco Romagnoli; Vito Sorianello; Francesco Vedovato; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: npj Quantum Inf, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 93, 2021, ISSN: 2056-6387.

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Resource-Effective Quantum Key Distribution: A Field Trial in Padua City Center

Marco Avesani; Luca Calderaro; Giulio Foletto; Costantino Agnesi; Francesco Picciariello; Francesco B. L. Santagiustina; Alessia Scriminich; Andrea Stanco; Francesco Vedovato; Mujtaba Zahidy; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Opt. Lett., vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2848, 2021, ISSN: 0146-9592, 1539-4794.

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