Alexander Arriola
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Professor in Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University.
Research Interest
Astrophotonics is a relatively new field of research that lies between two disciplines: astronomy and photonics. Photonic-based components are becoming increasingly interesting solutions in the field of astronomical instrumentation, where their precision, stability and scalability makes them attractive for routing and analyzing the light from a telescope. Photonic components such as Integrated Photonic Lanterns (IPL), Integrated Photonic Spectrographs (IPS), Bragg gratings and integrated photonic pupil-remapping interferometers (Dragonfly) are some exaples that are already allowing for the improvement of the State-of-the-Art technologies. My research interest is on the design, fabrication and characterization of mid-IR devices using femtosecond laser direct-writing technique for astrophotonics. More specifically Earth-like planet hunting.
Publications
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Arriola A, Rodriguez A, Perez N, Tavera T, Withford MJ, Fuerbach A, Olaizola SM. Fabrication of high quality sub-micron Au gratings over large areas with pulsed laser interference lithography for SPR sensors. Optical Materials Express. 2012 Nov 1;2(11):1571-9.
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Meany T, Gross S, Jovanovic N, Arriola A, Steel MJ, Withford MJ. Towards low-loss lightwave circuits for non-classical optics at 800 and 1,550 nm. Applied Physics A. 2014 Jan 1;114(1):113-8.
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Arriola A, Gross S, Jovanovic N, Charles N, Tuthill PG, Olaizola SM, Fuerbach A, Withford MJ. Low bend loss waveguides enable compact, efficient 3D photonic chips. Optics express. 2013 Feb 11;21(3):2978-86.
