Technical team

Pietro Ferraro (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Graduate degree (cum laude) in physics from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1987. He founded the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems of CNR, Pozzuoli, Italy, and from 2014 to 2019, was the Director. He is currently the Research Director with ISASI. He has authored or coauthored more than 320 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 200 conference papers. His research interests include digital holography, microscopy, laser interferometry, lithography, ferroelectric crystals for photonic applications, and lab-on-a-chip for biomedical applications. He was Elected Fellow of SPIE in 2008 and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2010. In 2020, he was the recipient of the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award.(Based on document published on 18 February 2021).

He has worked on a number of areas in optics research ranging from laser interferometry, holography for optical characterization of materials, components and devices, including MEMS, MOEMS, waveguides, etc. ), optical fiber sensors, holographic lithography, micro- and nano- structuring of ferroelectric optical crystals (LiNbO3) for application in photonics. He is now pursuing his interests in micro- nano- structuring advanced ferroelectric photonic crystals and materials, poling, photorefractivity, quantitative phase-contrast microscopy by digital holography for in-vivo cells investigation, 3D imaging and display either with visible and IR laser light.

In addition he is leading his group in optical microdevices and instrumentations development based on LiNbO3 such as phase-array, point-diffraction-interferometer, microfluidic structures. He has been in 2004 Visiting Research Scholar at University of Connecticut, Storrs CT USA. He was (2006 -2007) Professor of Image Processing (EID-SICSI) at University of Napoli “Federico II”. He has given seminar at College for Optical Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Zygo, CT, USA; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA; Insitute of Optics University of Rochester, NY, USA; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA; Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Université de France-Comté, Besançon, France.

• Associate Professor, School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University.
• Member of the Key Laboratory of Precision Optoelectromechanical Technology, Ministry of Education.
• Member of the Sino-UK (NLAA-RAL)Space Science &Technology Joint Laboratory.

Main Research areas

• Microscopes, using digital holographic microscopes to monitor phase shift values and dynamic changes in cellular response to vibration and shear stress.

• Microscopic tomography: an experimental method of optical diffraction tomography is proposed for quantitative 3D mapping of refractive index in living cells, in which various illumination angles of multiple holograms relative to specimens are recorded, and 3D structural images are reconstructed by computational tomography.

• Interferometer, in this study, proposes a full-field epi-interferometry technique based on the Doppler velocity measurement principle and a high-speed high-capacity recording system that combines a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor with a digital video recorder (DVR) for the simultaneous measurement of multi-point velocity distributions on the surface of a vibrating object.