Dr. Fabio Biancalana
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Biography
Fabio Biancalana obtained his 'Laurea' degree in Theoretical Particle Physics in 2001 at the University of Roma III, Italy. His PhD project at the University of Bath (UK) was about the theoretical and numerical understanding of supercontinuum generation and various nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibres. Fabio is the recipient of the 15th and last Deryck Chesterman Medal (Univ. of Bath, 2005), for outstanding research in physics. Fabio spent 2 years at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork (Ireland), working on the solitonic sector of the coherent semiconductor Bloch equations, and on the dynamical propagation of pulses in spatiotemporal photonic crystals. At the Tyndall Institute he was awarded an IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006). After that he moved to Cardiff University (UK) where he holds an EPSRC Fellowship in Theoretical Physics (2007), working on the project Nonlinear Resonant Optical Phenomena And Solitons In Polaritonic Photonic Crystals.
Dr. Biancalana is now leading the Max Planck Research Group on "Nonlinear Photonic Nanostructures" at the newly established Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany.
Selected publications
[1] W. H. Reeves, D. V. Skryabin, F. Biancalana, J. C. Knight, P. St. J. Russell, F. G. Omenetto, A. Efimov, and A. J. Taylor, "Transformation and control of ultra-short pulses in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal fibres," Nature 424, 511-515 (2003). [more]
[2] W. J. Wadsworth, N. Y. Joly, J. C. Knight, T. A. Birks, F. Biancalana, and P. St. J. Russell, "Supercontinuum and four-wave mixing with Q-switched pulses in endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fibres," Optics Express 12, 299-309 (2004). [more]
[3] F. Biancalana, D. V. Skryabin, and A. V. Yulin, "Theory of the soliton self-frequency shift compensation by the resonant radiation in photonic crystal fibers," Physical Review E 70, 016615 (2004). [more]
[4] A. Efimov, A. J. Taylor, F. G. Omenetto, A. V. Yulin, N. Y. Joly, F. Biancalana, D. V. Skryabin, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell, "Time-spectrally-resolved ultrafast nonlinear dynamics in small-core photonic crystal fibers: Experiment and modelling," Optics Express 12, 6498-6507 (2004). [more]
[5] D. V. Skryabin, F. Biancalana, D. M. Bird, and F. Benabid, "Effective Kerr nonlinearity and two-color solitons in photonic band-gap fibers filled with a Raman active gas," Physical Review Letters 93, 143907 (2004). [more]
[6] F. Biancalana, D. V. Skryabin, and P. St. J. Russell, "Four-wave mixing instabilities in photonic-crystal and tapered fibers," Physical Review E 68, 046603 (2003). [more]
[7] F. Benabid, F. Biancalana, P. S. Light, F. Couny, A. Luiten, P. J. Roberts, J. Peng, and A. V. Sokolov, "Fourth-order dispersion mediated solitonic radiations in HC-PCF cladding," Optics Letters 33, 2680-2682 (2008). [more]
[8] F. Biancalana, "All-optical diode action with quasiperiodic photonic crystals," Journal of Applied Physics 104, 093113 (2008). [more]