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Department of Physics and Engineering

Dr Rich Mildren

Innovation Research Fellow

Rich Mildren is a Vice Chancellor's Innovation Fellow at the MQ Photonics Research Centre. The Fellowship is primarily aimed to create and nurture collaborative jointly-funded projects with outside partners. Some of the major areas of research targeted are listed below. Rich brings substantial expertise 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 worked at the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy studying ultrafast lasers. 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 has been in the area of crystalline Raman lasers, particularly in the area of diamond lasers (see also Raman Laser Group) and wavelength-switchable lasers.

Research Areas

Light Source Fundamentals, Kinetics and Dynamics
  • Crystalline Raman lasers
  • Diamond-based photonic sources
  • Kinetics of plasma-based laser and light sources
Wavelength Versatile Laser Sources
  • Multi-wavelength and Wavelength-switchable Raman lasers
  • Anti-Stokes Raman lasers
Light Source Applications
  • Laser and light sources in biomedicine

Publication List

                                        

Recent Achievements

Dec 2009: Efficient Diamond laser results featured in Optics and Photonics News (OSA).

Nov 2009: Invited paper "The outlook for diamond in Raman lasers" presented at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (Boston 30 Nov- 4 Dec)

Oct 2009: The Optical Society of America has featured our recent diamond laser research in this press release.

Sep 2009: Awarded ARC Future Fellowship to support diamond laser research.

Aug 2009: High efficiency diamond Raman laser paper accepted for publication in Optics Letters.

May 2009: Winner Invention Disclosure Category in the 2009 University Innovation Awards. A description of the night's highlights appears in the June 2009 Issue of Quest Magazine

Feb 2009: Invited paper Diamond Raman Lasers presented at the Hasselt Diamond Workshop

Nov 2008: First CVD-diamond Raman laser reported in Optics Express.