Simone Frasca
Doctoral Assistant
simone.frasca@epfl.ch +41 21 695 43 73 https://it.linkedin.com/in/simone-frasca-6032453b
Citizenship: Italian
Birth date: 07.12.1992
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Fields of expertise
Cryogenic Systems
Cryogenic Electronics
Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics
Deep-space Imaging, Time of Flight Ranging (LiDAR, ToF-PET) and Optical Communication
Biography
Simone Frasca received his BEng in Aerospace Engineering from University of Naples "Federico II" in 2014 and his MEng in Space Engineering from University of Pisa in 2017. He undertook his Master's thesis research at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he studied MgB2 material systems Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors (SNSPDs). From 2017 to 2018 he was research affiliate at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked on ultrafast SNSPDs and their applications. Since September 2018 he has been pursuing a Ph.D. at EPFL in the Advanced Quantum Architectures Laboratory (AQUA) under the supervision of Prof. Edoardo Charbon, concentrating in fabrication of SNSPDs and focusing on possible applications like Space Imaging, LiDAR, Optical Communication and Time-Of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOFPET).Professional course
Affiliate Researcher
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Masters' Thesis Researcher
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Education
Master of Engineering
Space Engineering
University of Pisa
2014-2017
Bachelor of Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Univeristy of Naples "Federico II"
2011-2014
Publications
Selected publications
| Boris Korzh, Qing-Yuan Zhao, Jason P. Allmaras, Simone Frasca, Travis M. Autry, Eric A. Bersin, Andrew D. Beyer, Ryan M. Briggs, Bruce Bumble, Marco Colangelo, Garrison M. Crouch, Andrew E. Dane, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Francesco Marsili, Galan Moody, Cristián Peña, Edward Ramirez, Jake D. Rezac, Neil Sinclair, Martin J. Stevens, Angel E. Velasco, Varun B. Verma, Emma E. Wollman, Si Xie, Di Zhu, Paul D. Hale, Maria Spiropulu, Kevin L. Silverman, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Alexander G. Kozorezov, Matthew D. Shaw & Karl K. Berggren Nat. Photon. 14, 250–255 (2020) |
Demonstration of sub-3 ps temporal resolution with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector |
| S. Frasca and E. Charbon Nat. Electron. 2, 433–434 (2019) |
Hybrid superconductor–semiconductor electronics |
| S. Frasca, B. A. Korzh, M. Colangelo, D. Zhu, A. E. Lita, J. P. Allmaras, E. E. Wollman, V.B. Verma, A. E. Dane, E. Ramirez, A. D. Beyer, S. W. Nam, A. G. Kozorezov, M. D. Shawand K. K. Berggren Phys. Rev. B 100, 054520 (2019) |
Determining the depairing current in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors |
| Di Zhu, Marco Colangelo, Boris A. Korzh, Qing-Yuan Zhao, Simone Frasca, Andrew E. Dane, Angel E. Velasco, Andrew D. Beyer, Jason P. Allmaras, Edward Ramirez, William J. Strickland, Daniel F. Santavicca, Matthew D. Shaw, Karl K. Berggren Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 229901 (2019) |
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper |
| B. Korzh, Q.-Y. Zhao, S. Frasca, D. Zhu, E. Ramirez, E. Bersin, M. Colangelo, A. E. Dane, A. D. Beyer, J. Allmaras, E. E. Wollman, K. K. Berggren, and M. D. Shaw CLEO 2018 |
WSi superconducting nanowire single photon detector with a temporal resolution below 5 ps |
| Angel E. Velasco, Daniel P. Cunnane, Simone Frasca, Thomas Melbourne, Narendra Acharya, Ryan Briggs, Andrew D. Beyer, Matthew D. Shaw, Boris S. Karasik, Matthäus A. Wolak, Varun B. Verma, Adriana E. Lita, Hiroyuki Shibata, Masataka Ohkubo, Nobuyuki Zen, Masahiro Ukibe, Xiaoxing Xi, and Francesco Marsili CLEO 2017 |
High-Operating-Temperature Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon De-tectors based on Magnesium Diboride |