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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Miscellaneous

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Intermodal quantum key distribution over an 18 km free-space channel with adaptive optics and room-temperature detectors

Edoardo Rossi; Ilektra Karakosta-Amarantidou; Matteo Padovan; Marco Nardi; Marco Avesani; Francesco Bruno Leonardo Santagiustina; Marco Taffarello; Antonio Vanzo; Stefano Bonora; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Francesco Vedovato

2026.

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GHz-rate polarization-based QKD system for fiber and satellite applications

Matías Rubén Bolaños; Edoardo Rossi; Federico Berra; Alberto De Toni; Ilektra Karakosta-Amarantidou; Daniel Christian Lawo; Costantino Agnesi; Marco Avesani; Andrea Stanco; Francesco Vedovato; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone

2026.

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NovaMoon: A Strategic Lunar Reference Station for Positioning, Timing, and Largely Enhanced Science in the Earth-Moon System

Serena Molli; Agnès Fienga; Pascale Defraigne; Krzysztof Sośnica; Luigi Cacciapuoti; Luca Porcelli; Lotfi Massarweh; Sara Bruni; Riccardo Pozzobon; Albert Roura; Francesco Vespe; Diego Blas; Ozgur Karatekin; Yoann Audet; Floor Melman; Richard Swinden; Javier Ventura-Traveset; Olivier Alibart; Marie-Christine Angonin; Daniel Arnold; Ruth Bamford; Emmanuele Battista; Marco Belloni; J. C. Berton; Orfeu Bertolami; Mathis Bloßfeld; Adrien Bourgoin; Giada Bargiacchi; Salvatore Buoninfante; Nicolò Burzillà; Roberto Campagnola; Paolo Cappuccio; Salvatore Capozziello; Giuseppe Cimò; Clément Courde; Rolf Dach; Mario Siciliani Cumis; Simone Dell'Agnello; Fabrizio De Marchi; Valentina Galluzzi; Francesco Gini; Philipp Glaeser; Klaus Gwinner; Alex Guinard; Rüdiger Haas; Aurélien Hees; Hauke Hussmann; Luciano Iess; Alexander C. Jenkins; Siddarth K. Joshi; Maria Karbon; Sergei Klioner; Kaisa Laiho; Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte; Marco Lucente; David Lucchesi; Riccardo March; Lucia McCallum; Jürgen Müller; Weijie Nie; Jillian Oduber; Roberto Peron; Francesco Picciariello; Théo Pichavant; Michael Plumaris; Eleonora Polini; Ana-Catalina Plesa; Dimitrios Psychas; Bernardino Quaranta; Nicolas Rambaux; Marc Rovira-Navarro; Francesco Santoli; Matthias Schartner; Florian Seitz; Ilaria Sesia; Yan Seyffert; Stefano Speretta; Tim Springer; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Sebastien Vincent-Bonnieu; Ben Wadsworth; Pierre Waller; Radosław Zajdel; Erik Schoenemann

2026.

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Versatile Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Quantum Key Distribution Network Operating Simultaneously in the O and C Bands

Davide Scalcon; Matteo Padovan; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone; Marco Avesani

2025.

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General model and modulation strategies for Sagnac-based encoders

Federico Berra; Matías Rubén Bolaños; Alberto De Toni; Kannan Vijayadharan; Costantino Agnesi; Marco Avesani; Andrea Stanco; Paolo Villoresi; Giuseppe Vallone

2025.

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Long-term analysis of efficient-BB84 4-node network with optical switches in metropolitan environment

Alberto De Toni; Edoardo Bortolozzo; Alessandro Emanuele; Marco Venturini; Luca Calderaro; Marco Avesani; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

2025.

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Countermeasures for Trojan-Horse Attacks on self-compensating all-fiber polarization modulator

Alberto De Toni; Aynur Cemre Aka; Costantino Agnesi; Davide Giacomo Marangon; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

2025.

1.

Quantum satellites and tests of relativity

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

2019.

Proceedings Articles

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Biphoton Generation with an Optimized Wavefront for Free-Space Propagation by Means of Adaptive Optics

Mattia Minozzi; Stefano Bonora; Alexander V. Sergienko; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement Meeting, pp. W6.03, OSA, Rochester, New York, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-55752-978-7.

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Long Range Beam Propagation for Quantum Communications

Ivan Capraro; Andrea Tomaello; Alberto Dall'Arche; Francesca Gerlin; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: SPIE LASE, pp. 82460H, San Francisco, California, USA, 2012.

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Experimental Study of Free-space Beam Propagation for Single-photon Quantum Communications

Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Ivan Capraro; Alberto Dall'Arche; Andrea Tomaello; Francesca Gerlin

In: Research in Optical Sciences, pp. JT2A.3, OSA, Berlin, Germany, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-55752-939-8.

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Experimental Studies toward the Quantum Communications with Orbiting Terminals

Andrea Tomaello; Alberto Dall'Arche; Francesca Gerlin; Ivan Capraro; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Research in Optical Sciences, pp. QT4A.3, OSA, Berlin, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-55752-939-8.

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A Prototype of a Free-Space QKD Scheme Based on the B92 Protocol

M. Canale; D. Bacco; S. Calimani; F. Renna; N. Laurenti; G. Vallone; P. Villoresi

In: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, pp. 1–5, ACM, Barcelona Spain, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0913-4.

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Engineering a Long Distance Free-Space Quantum Channel

Roberto Corvaja; Ivan Capraro; Alberto Dall'Arche; Nicola Dalla Pozza; Francesca Gerlin; Andrea Tomaello; Mattia Zorzi; Antonio Assalini; Augusto Ferrante; Gianfranco Pierobon; Francesco Ticozzi; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi

In: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, pp. 1–5, ACM, Barcelona Spain, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0913-4.

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Phase Control of a Path-Entangled Photon State by a Deformable Membrane Mirror

Cristian Bonato; Stefano Bonora; Andrea Chiuri; Paolo Mataloni; Giorgio Milani; Giuseppe Vallone; Paolo Villoresi; Timothy Ralph; Ping Koy Lam

In: QUANTUM COMMUNICATION, MEASUREMENT AND COMPUTING (QCMC): The Tenth International Conference, pp. 17–20, Brisbane, (Australia), 2011.

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