Self-Mixing Interferometry: a Universal Yardstick to Measure Almost Everything

Silvano Donati (M’75, SM’98, F’03, LF’09) and has been Chair Professor of University of Pavia from 1980 to 2014, before becoming Emeritus Professor in 2015. He has authored or co-authored 350+ papers and holds a dozen patents. He has introduced self-mixing interferometry and chaos-shift-keying cryptography, the topics covered in his Distinguished Lecture talk given in 21 LEOS (now IPS) Chapters in two terms, 2007/09. He has authored two books, ‘Photodetectors’ (Prentice Hall, 1999) and ‘Electro-Optical Instrumentation’ (Prentice Hall, 2004). He has received several awards from the AEIT and IEEE, in particular the Marconi medal of AEIT, the Aaron Kressel Award and the Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Photonics Society. He was the founder (1996) and first Chairman (1997-01) of the Italian LEOS Chapter, LEOS VP Region 8 Membership (2002-04) and BoG (2004-06), and the Chairman of the IEEE Italy Section (2008-09). He has been Visiting Professor at several Universities of Taiwan: NTU, Taipei, 2005, Sun Yat Sen, Kaohsiung (2007, 2008, 2010), NCKU, Tainan 2012, NCHU, Taichung, 2013-14, and NTUT, Taipei 2015-6, and is advisor at COBRA (The Netherland), Oulu University (Finland), Xi'An, Nanjing and Wuhan Universities (P.R.C.) and evaluator of National Taiwan University. Prof. Donati is Life Member of SPIE, Life Fellow of the IEEE, and OSA Emeritus Fellow. See more at http://www-3.unpv.it/donati