Pruneri, Valerio

Engineering Sciences

Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO)

Phone 935534052

Email valerio.pruneri@icfo.es

Department Optoelectronics

Address Mediterranean Technology Park, Avda. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 3

Keywords

Photonics
Optoelectronics
Optical materials
Optical engineering
Fibre Optics
Optical communication
Optical sensing
Quantum cryptography

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Short biography

Valerio Pruneri is Corning Inc. Chair leading the Optoelectronics group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). Previously he worked for Avanex, Corning, Pirelli, and the University of Southampton. He is inventor in more than 65 patent families and has given more than 110 invited talks. With his group he has developed technologies for the photonics, quantum, sensing and display industries. These include multifunctional optical surfaces for antireflection and antimicrobial applications, low voltage integrated modulators and tunable lasers for DWDM, quantum random number generators, quantum phase imagers, quantum key distribution systems for cryptography, His work has led to numerous industrial collaborations (e.g. Corning Inc. and Carl Zeiss) and the creation of three spin offs, Quside, Sixsenso and Luxquanta.