Category: News, events, and awards

Nov 14 2024

Marco Bellini awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei

Marco Bellini was awarded the “Prof. Luigi Tartufari” international prize for Physics-Chemistry by the prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.

Oct 05 2023

A bit of us in the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics

We congratulate to the three winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics and we are extremely happy to have played a little role in the long path to this award. Indeed, one of the key experiments that led to today’s prize was performed in Florence, by Marco Bellini in collaboration with Ted Hänsch and …

Dec 22 2022

Quantum phase sensing at a distance

Performing remote phase measurements with a sensitivity proportional to the intensity of light that never interacted with distant, and possibly delicate, samples. On the front cover of Advanced Quantum Technologies, December 2022.

May 28 2021

Quantum dealing of poker cards

How to play poker on the phone if you do not trust your opponent or the card dealer? Find out how, by using discorrelated quantum states. On the cover of Advanced Quantum Technologies, May 2021.

Dec 15 2016

OSA “Best of 2016” in Optics & Photonics News

The Optical Society of America (OSA) selected our PRL paper on the generation of zero-area single-photon pulses among the 30 most relevant papers of the year worldwide in the field of optics (see Optics & Photonics News).

Dec 12 2016

Marco Bellini elected among 2017 OSA Fellows

Marco Bellini was elected among the Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellows of 2017. This distinction is awarded to OSA members for their significant contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics.

Jan 02 2016

Welcome to Nicola, our new PhD student

Nicola Biagi, a new student from the European LENS PhD Program has just joined our group.

Sep 29 2015

New website launched!

Welcome to the new website of our group! Please be patient if it does not work so well at the beginning. It is still under construction, so come back regularly for updates.

Sep 28 2015

Hybrid cats of light

Our hybrid entangled states of light have just appeared in an article by M. Bellini, L.S. Costanzo, and A. Zavatta on the September issue of the Italian edition of Scientific American (Le Scienze).

Jan 01 2014