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

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Projects

9 Active
16 Finished

MQ Photonics Research Centre - MQRC 2019

Dawes, J., Jackson, S., Mildren, R., Spence, D., Coutts, D. W., 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, O. & 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

Directed energy concept based on fibre laser pumped diamond

Mildren, R., Williams, R. & Spence, D.

13/04/17 → …

Project: Research

Precision frequency spectrum diagnostic for pulsed lasers

Mildren, R., Pask, H., Spence, D., Lee, A., Jackson, S., Williams, R., Fuerbach, A., Kitzler, O. & Piracha, A.

1/01/17 → …

Project: Research

Atomic sensing at the nanoscale - an atomic-force microscope with optical access

Volz, T., Brown, L., Parker, T., Inglis, D., Bradac, C., Vidal Asensio, X., Denkova, D., Piper, J., Dawes, J. & Mildren, R.

1/01/17 → …

Project: Research

Research Outputs

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

3 Citations (Scopus)

Continuously tunable diamond Raman laser for resonance laser ionization

Chrysalidis, K., Fedosseev, V. N., Marsh, B. A., Mildren, R. P., Spence, D. J., Wendt, K. D. A., Wilkins, S. G. & Granados, E., 15 Aug 2019, In : Optics Letters. 44, 16, p. 3924-3927 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2 Citations (Scopus)

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

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

6 Downloads (Pure)

High-power single-frequency 620 nm laser based on diamond Raman and intracavity frequency doubling

Yang, X., Kitzler, O., Spence, D. J., Williams, R. J., Bai, Z., Sarang, S., Zhang, L., Feng, Y. & Mildren, R. P., Jun 2019, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

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

Open Access

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