Ernesto Ciaramella has more than twenty-five years research experience in optical communications, focused on various issues (components, propagation impairments, systems and networks). He has been working with various companies and research centers in optical communication.
His main research interests include design and experiments on high capacity transmission systems, nonlinear propagation effects, advanced optical functionality, optical packet switching, high speed optical access systems and optical wireless systems. Among his most relevant research achievements, he proposed a new optical fiber regenerator, and a new scheme for coherent detection; with his team, he realized various world-record experiments in optical wireless communications.