Rich Mildren

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Biography

Rich Mildren (Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2010-2014) is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research is in the development of novel and versatile photonic sources, instrumentation and applications. His PhD and early postdoctoral research was in the plasma kinetics of high power metal vapour lasers. He has studied ultrafast lasers at the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy. For 3 years (2005-2008) he led R&D for a University spin-off company in wavelength-switchable medical lasers, during which time he brought several medical laser products through to the stage of medical device regulatory approval. His most recent focus, conducted in the MQ Photonics Research Centre, is in the nonlinear optical phenomena in advanced optical materials including in synthetic diamond. Latest research results and news can be found on the Diamond Laser Group website.

He was recipient of the 2017 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia.

Research interests

Diamond optics, lasers and quantum phenomena
High power lasers and applications
Laser-induced phenomena on diamond surfaces

Biography

Diamond Laser Group

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Projects 2007 2021

12 Active
13 Finished

A general use, portable, full-range vacuum pumping station with leak detector

Schwab, C., Downes, J., Ellis, S., Mildren, R., Kane, D., Carman, R., Twamley, J., Volz, T., Coutts, D. & McDermid, R.

1/01/19 → 31/12/19

Project: Other

SOLSTIS – a versatile laser for creating new colours and exploring novel nanoparticles

Volz, T., Spence, D., Mildren, R., Brown, L., Inglis, D., Rogers, L., Steel, M., Pask, H. & Coutts, D.

1/01/19 → 31/12/19

Project: Other

MQ Safety Net: Unleashing anomalously-fast heat dissipation in diamond

Mildren, R.

1/01/19 → 31/12/19

Project: Research

MQ Photonics Research Centre - MQRC 2019

Dawes, J., Jackson, S., Mildren, R., Spence, D., Coutts, D., Withford, M., Bagnall, D., Pask, H., Steel, M., Kane, D., Town, G., Fuerbach, A., Zvyagin, A., Volz, T., Downes, J., Hudson, D., Inglis, D., Carman, R., Lu, Y., Lee, A., Schwab, C., Gross, S., Ploschner, M., Woodward, R., Arriola, A., Rogers, L., Munoz Matutano, G., Ams, M., Nadort, A., Payne, D., Collins, M., Pillai, S., Liang, L. & Teddy Fernandez, T.

1/01/19 → 31/12/21

Project: Other

Preliminary experiments for beam time application at the Stanford Linear Accelerator

Mildren, R.

1/07/18 → …

Project: Research

Research Outputs 1994 2019

1.2 kW quasi-steady-state diamond Raman laser pumped by an M² = 15 beam

Antipov, S., Sabella, A., Williams, R. J., Kitzler, O., Spence, D. J. & Mildren, R. P., 15 May 2019, In : Optics Letters. 44, 10, p. 2506-2509 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

quasi-steady states

Raman lasers

thermal lensing

diamonds

pumps

Generalised theory of polarisation modes for resonators containing birefringence and anisotropic gain

Kitzler, O., Spence, D. J. & Mildren, R. P., 10 Jun 2019, In : Optics Express. 27, 12, p. 17209-17220 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

birefringence

resonators

Raman lasers

polarization

laser cavities

Photochemical etching of carbonyl groups from a carbon matrix: The (001) diamond surface

Weston, L., Downes, J. E., Baldwin, C. G., Granados, E., Abdulkader Tawfik, S., Cui, X. Y., Stampfl, C. & Mildren, R. P., 8 Jan 2019, In : Physical Review Letters. 122, 1, p. 016802-1-16802-5 5 p., 016802.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

diamonds

etching

carbon

matrices

desorption