Alessandro Zavatta

Alessandro Zavatta is currently a staff research physicist at the Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO)–CNR, in Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. He received a laurea degree in physics from the University of Bologna in 1999 and a Ph.D. from the University of Florence in 2003. His research activity has mainly focused on experimental quantum optics, in particular on the generation, manipulation, and characterization of quantum states of light.

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Shedding Light on a Quantum Black Box

March 25, 2013

Optical experiments let researchers fully characterize the quantum transformations corresponding to photon creation and annihilation operators. Read More »