research
The Enrico Fermi Research Center - CREF promotes original and high-impact lines of research, based on physical methods, but with a strong interdisciplinary character and in relation to the main problems of the modern knowledge society.
Complexity
Applied Physics
Fundamental Physics
Museum and History of Physics
People
third mission
The CREF was born with a dual soul: a research centre and a historical museum. Its aim is to preserve and disseminate the memory of Enrico Fermi and to promote the dissemination and communication of scientific culture.
news
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infrastructures
Photonics Laboratory
The Photonics Laboratory is dedicated to the experimental research line in Photonic Technologies and Artificial Intelligence and is equipped with the necessary infrastructure for the development of prototypes of photonic computing machines and the implementation of the associated optical experiments.
The laboratory has three stabilized optical tables, two continuous-wave laser sources in the visible spectral range, and one pulsed source (100 femtoseconds) in the near infrared, two spatial modulators for visible and infrared light based on liquid crystals, video cameras and optical detectors, as well as additional optical and optomechanical components.
There are workstations based on conventional computers dedicated to theoretical investigation, numerical simulations, and data analysis.
For the engineering of complex photonic materials characterized by disorder and nonlinearity, which serve as physical computing platforms, the laboratory relies on collaborations with prestigious international research institutes such as ETH Zurich.