Acknowledgements Thanks to Dr Cesare Furlanello and to Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone for giving me the possibility to develop this project and for what they have taught me. Thanks to the entire group MPBA of ITC-irst, and particularly to Dr Giuseppe Jurman, Dr Stefano Merler and Dr Silvano Paoli for helping with many technical issues. Thanks also to Roberto Flor and Alessandro Soraruf for discussing a...

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