STAFF PROFILE
Professor Arnan Mitchell
Position:
Director, Micro Nano Research Facility
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Research & Innovation
Email:
arnan.mitchell@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Areas of research and consulting expertise
- Integrated optics and photonics
- Photonic signal processing
- Lab-on-a-Chip technologies and Microfluidics
- Microfabrication and Microsystems
Read more about Professor Arnan Mitchell's research.
Affiliations
- Professor (Photonics and Electromagnetics)
- Leader, Micro-nano materials research area
- RMIT Node Director, ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)
Conference organisation
- 2014 – Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee (Optical Active Devices and Modules) Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Melbourne, Australia
- 2014 – OSA Appointed Co-Chair (Optoelectronic Devices and Integration), International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meeting (POEM), Wuhan, China
- 2012 – Co-chair, Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD), Melbourne, Australia
- 2008 – Conference Chair, SPIE International Symposium on SPIE Smart Materials, Nano- and Micro-Smart Systems, Melbourne, Australia
- 2006 – Chair, Technical Program Committee, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), Melbourne, Australia
- 2000 – Ph.D., RMIT University, Melbourne
- 1993 – B.Tech. (Hons), Macquarie University, Sydney
Employment history
With the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
- 2010 Jan onwards – Professor (Photonics and Electromagnetics)
- 2007 Jan to 2009 Dec – Associate Professor (Photonics and Electromagnetics)
- 2004 Jul to 2006 Dec – Senior Lecturer
With the Microelectronics Materials and Technology Centre (MMTC), RMIT University
- 2002 Feb to 2004 Jun – Key Researcher, Australian Photonics CRC
- 2001 Nov to 2002 Feb – Research Engineer, Redfern Integrated Optics (on secondment)
- 2000 Mar to 2001 Oct – Research Fellow
- 1999 Feb to 2000 Feb – Research Associate
Professional memberships
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Chang, L.,Boes, A.,Shu, H.,Xie, W.,Huang, H.,Qin, J.,Shen, B.,Wang, X.,Mitchell, A.,Bowers, J. (2021). Second Order Nonlinear Photonic Integrated Platforms for Optical Signal Processing In: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, 27, 1 - 11
- Tan, M.,Xu, X.,Wu, J.,Morandotti, R.,Mitchell, A.,Moss, D. (2021). RF and microwave photonic temporal signal processing with Kerr micro-combs In: Advances in Physics: X, 6, 1 - 46
- Han, X.,Xiao, H.,Jiang, Y.,Ren, G.,Zhang, P.,Tan, J.,Yang, J.,Mitchell, A.,Tian, Y. (2021). Integrated non-blocking optical router harnessing wavelength- and mode-selective property for photonic networks-on-chip In: Optics Express, 29, 1251 - 1264
- Boes, A.,Chang, L.,Nguyen, T.,Ren, G.,Bowers, J.,Mitchell, A. (2021). Efficient second harmonic generation in lithium niobate on insulator waveguides and its pitfalls In: Journal of Physics: Photonics, 3, 1 - 10
- Torre, A.,Sinobad, M.,Armand, R.,Mitchell, A., et al.,, . (2021). Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a low-loss germanium-on-silicon waveguide In: APL Photonics, 6, 1 - 8
- Xu, X.,Tan, M.,Corcoran, B.,Wu, J.,Boes, A.,Nguyen, G.,Chu, S.,Little, B.,Hicks, D.,Morandotti, R.,Mitchell, A.,Moss, D. (2021). 11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks In: Nature, 589, 44 - 51
- Liu, Y.,Choudhary, A.,Ren, G.,Nguyen, G.,Mitchell, A.,Madden, S.,Marpaung, D.,Eggleton, B., et al, . (2021). Circulator-Free Brillouin Photonic Planar Circuit In: Laser and Photonics Reviews, 15, 1 - 7
- Corcoran, B.,Tan, M.,Xu, X.,et al, .,Nguyen, T.,Mitchell, A. (2020). Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source In: Nature Communications, 11, 1 - 7
- Tan, M.,Corcoran, B.,Xu, X.,Wu, J.,Boes, A.,Nguyen, T.,Mitchell, A. (2020). Ultra-high bandwidth optical data transmission with a microcomb In: 2020 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, MWP 2020 - Proceedings, Matsue, Japan, 24-26 November 2020
- Corcoran, B.,Prayoonyong, C.,Boes, A.,Xu, X.,Tan, M.,Chu, S.,Little, B.,Morandotti, R.,Mitchell, A.,Moss, D. (2020). Overcoming Low-Power Limitations on Optical Frequency Combs using a Micro-Ring Resonator In: Proceedings of the 2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2020), San Diego, California, United States, 8 -12 March 2020
- Photonic chip inertial movement sensors . Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2020 from (2021 to 2023)
- National Facility for Infrared Technologies (Administered by University of Western Australia). Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2021 to 2021)
- Digital Interferometry Gyroscope for autonomous navigation (CRC-P). Funded by: CRC Digital Interferometry Gyroscope for autonomous navigation from (2020 to 2023)
- Photonic Chip Integration Facility. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant from (2020 to 2021)
- Excellence, International, Intersectoral and Interdisciplinary doctoral training at Ecole Centrale Lyon in cotutelle with royal melbourne institute of technology AUStralia - E3I ECLAUSion (led by Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France). Funded by: Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Cofund from (2020 to 2025)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
13 PhD Current Supervisions35 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
Integrated optics, nonlinear optics and microwave photonics - with emphasis on simulation, design, microfabrication and systems; Lab-on-a-chip platforms supporting biomedical research: integrated micro-fluidics, micro-mechanics and photonics.