Centre Director

Dist Prof Arnan Mitchell

Email: arnan.mitchell@rmit.edu.au

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Office location: 14.12.11

Biography: Arnan Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering at RMIT University and Director of RMIT’s Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF). He received his Ph.D. degree from RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. He has authored or co-authored over 400 research articles. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America (OSA). As leader of the InPAC centre, his research interest spans design, fabrication and packaging of integrated optics technologies, with applications in lab-on-a-chip and biosensing, microwave photonics and metrology and data communications.

Journal Publications

2020

  • Nguyen, T.G., Boes, A., Mitchell, A., “Lateral Leakage in Silicon Photonics: Theory, Applications, and Future Directions”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 26 (2), art. no. 8805388, (2020). DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2935315
  • Sinobad, M., Torre, A.D., Armand, R., Luther-Davies, B., Ma, P., Madden, S., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., Hartmann, J.-M., Fedeli, J.-M., Monat, C., Grillet, C., “High Coherence at f and 2f of Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation in Silicon Germanium Waveguides”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 26 (2), art. no. 8847400, (2020). DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2943358

2019

  • Tan, M., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., Xu, X., Corcoran, B., Wu, J., Boes, A., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., “Microwave and RF Photonic Fractional Hilbert Transformer Based on a 50 GHz Kerr Micro-Comb”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37 (24), art. no. 8864019, pp. 6097-6104, (2019). DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2946606
  • Xu, X., Tan, M., Wu, J., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Microcomb-Based Photonic RF Signal Processing”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 31 (23), art. no. 8832184, pp. 1854-1857, (2019). DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2019.2940497
  • Yao, Q., Ren, G., Xu, K., Zhu, L., Khan, H., Mohiuddin, M., Khan, M.W., Zhang, B.Y., Jannat, A., Haque, F., Reza, S.Z., Wang, Y., Wen, X., Mitchell, A., Ou, J.Z., “2D Plasmonic Tungsten Oxide Enabled Ultrasensitive Fiber Optics Gas Sensor”, Advanced Optical Materials, 7 (24), art. no. 1901383, (2019). DOI: 10.1002/adom.201901383
  • Ren, G., Han, X., Nguyen, T.G., Khodasevych, I., Hamm, J.M., Hess, O., Tian, Y., Mitchell, A., “Asymmetric transmission of light in hybrid waveguide-integrated plasmonic crystals on a silicon-on-insulator platform”, Optics Letters, 44 (21), pp. 5378-5381, (2019). DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.005378
  • Nguyen, T.G., Ren, G., Schoenhardt, S., Knoerzer, M., Boes, A., Mitchell, A., “Ridge Resonance in Silicon Photonics Harnessing Bound States in the Continuum”, Laser and Photonics Reviews, 13 (10), art. no. 1900035, (2019). DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201900035
  • Liu, Y., Choudhary, A., Ren, G., Vu, K., Morrison, B., Casas-Bedoya, A., Nguyen, T.G., Choi, D.-Y., Ma, P., Mitchell, A., Madden, S.J., Marpaung, D., Eggleton, B.J., “Integration of Brillouin and passive circuits for enhanced radio-frequency photonic filtering”, APL Photonics, 4 (10), art. no. 106103, (2019). DOI: 10.1063/1.5113569
  • Huertas, C.S., Calvo-Lozano, O., Mitchell, A., Lechuga, L.M., "Advanced Evanescent-Wave Optical Biosensors for the Detection of Nucleic Acids: An Analytic Perspective", Frontiers in Chemistry, 7:724, (2019). DOI:10.3389/fchem.2019.00724
  • Chen, G., Ma, M., Wei, A., Liu, Z., Zhang, F., Mitchell, A., Li, Y., “The dielectric, thermal properties and crystallization mechanism of Li–Al – B–Si – O glass – Ceramic systems as a new ULTCC material”, Ceramics International, 45 (16), pp. 19689-19694, (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.06.220
  • Szydzik, C., Brazilek, R.J., Akbaridoust, F., De Silva, C., Moon, M., Marusic, I., Ooi, A.S.H., Nandurkar, H.H., Hamilton, J.R., Mitchell, A., Nesbitt, W.S., “Active micropump-mixer for rapid antiplatelet drug screening in whole blood”, Analytical Chemistry, 91 (16), pp. 10830-10839, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02486
  • Boes, A., Chang, L., Knoerzer, M., Nguyen, T.G., Peters, J.D., Bowers, J.E., Mitchell, A., “Improved second harmonic performance in periodically poled LNOI waveguides through engineering of lateral leakage”, Optics Express, 27 (17), pp. 23919-23928, (2019). DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.023919
  • Knoerzer, M., Szydzik, C., Ren, G., Huertas, C.S., Palmer, S., Tang, P., Nguyen, T.G., Bui, L., Boes, A., Mitchell, A., “Optical frequency comb based system for photonic refractive index sensor interrogation”, Optics Express, 27 (15), pp. 21532-21545, (2019). DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.021532
  • Chen, G., Ma, M., Liu, Z., Wei, A., Zavabeti, A., Hu, X., Zhang, F., Wang, B., Mitchell, A., Li, Y., “Anodic bondable Li-Na-Al-B-Si-O glass-ceramics for Si - ULTCC heterogeneous integration”, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 39 (7), pp. 2419-2426, (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2019.02.028
  • Ren, G., Zhang, B.Y., Yao, Q., Zavabeti, A., Huertas, C.S., Brkljača, R., Khan, M.W., Nili, H., Datta, R.S., Khan, H., Jannat, A., Walia, S., Haque, F., O'Dell, L.A., Wang, Y., Zhu, L., Mitchell, A., Ou, J.Z., “An Ultrasensitive Silicon Photonic Ion Sensor Enabled by 2D Plasmonic Molybdenum Oxide”, Small, 15 (9), art. no. 1805251, (2019). DOI: 10.1002/smll.201805251
  • Xu, X., Tan, M., Wu, J., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Advanced Adaptive Photonic RF Filters with 80 Taps Based on an Integrated Optical Micro-Comb Source”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37 (4), art. no. 8606970, pp. 1288-1295, (2019). DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2892158
  • Uharek, S., Baratchi, S., Zhu, J.Y., Alshehri, M.A., Mitchell, A., Rebner, K., Karnutsch, C., Khoshmanesh, K., “Water jacket systems for temperature control of petri dish cell culture chambers”, Applied Sciences, 9 (4), art. no. 621, (2019). DOI: 10.3390/app9040621
  • Xu, X., Tan, M., Wu, J., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “High performance RF filters via bandwidth scaling with Kerr micro-combs”, APL Photonics, 4 (2), art. no. 026102, (2019). DOI: 10.1063/1.5080246
  • Sinobad, M., Torre, A.D., Luther-Davis, B., Ma, P., Madden, S., Debbarma, S., Vu, K., Moss, D.J., Mitchell, A., Hartmann, J.-M., Fedeli, J.-M., Monat, C., Grillet, C., “Dispersion trimming for mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a hybrid chalcogenide/silicon-germanium waveguide”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 36 (2), pp. A98-A104, (2019). DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.000A98
  • Zarifi, A., Stiller, B., Merklein, M., Liu, Y., Morrison, B., Casas-Bedoya, A., Ren, G., Nguyen, T.G., Vu, K., Choi, D.-Y., Mitchell, A., Madden, S.J., Eggleton, B.J., “On-chip correlation-based Brillouin sensing: Design, experiment, and simulation”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 36 (1), pp. 146-152, (2019). DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.000146

2018

  • Boes, A., Corcoran, B., Chang, L., Bowers, J., Mitchell, A., “Status and Potential of Lithium Niobate on Insulator (LNOI) for Photonic Integrated Circuits”, Laser and Photonics Reviews, 12 (4), art. no. 1700256, (2018). DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201700256
  • Thurgood, P., Baratchi, S., Szydzik, C., Zhu, J.Y., Nahavandi, S., Mitchell, A., Khoshmanesh, K., “A self-sufficient micro-droplet generation system using highly porous elastomeric sponges: A versatile tool for conducting cellular assays”, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 274, pp. 645-653, (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2018.07.168
  • Xu, X., Wu, J., Jia, L., Tan, M., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Continuously tunable orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generator based on micro-ring resonators”, Journal of Optics, 20 (11), art. no. 115701, (2018). DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/aae3fe
  • Xu, X., Wu, J., Tan, M., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Orthogonally Polarized RF Optical Single Sideband Generation and Dual-Channel Equalization Based on an Integrated Microring Resonator”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 36 (20), art. no. 8425980, pp. 4808-4818, (2018). DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2018.2863704
  • Xu, X., Wu, J., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Broadband RF channelizer based on an integrated optical frequency kerr comb source”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 36 (19), art. no. 8325287, pp. 4519-4526, (2018). DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2018.2819172
  • Xiao, H., Liu, Z., Han, X., Yang, J., Ren, G., Mitchell, A., Tian, Y., “On-chip reconfigurable and scalable optical mode multiplexer/demultiplexer based on three-waveguide-coupling structure”, Optics Express, 26 (17), pp. 22366-22377, (2018). DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.022366
  • Zarifi, A., Stiller, B., Merklein, M., Yang, L.I.U., Morrison, B., Casas-Bedoya, A., Guanghui, R., Nguyen, T.G., Khu, V.U., Choi, D.-Y., Mitchell, A., Madden, S.J., Eggleton, B.J., “Brillouin spectroscopy of a hybrid silicon-chalcogenide waveguide with geometrical variations”, Optics Letters, 43 (15), pp. 3493-3496, (2018). DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.003493
  • Wu, J., Xu, X., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “RF Photonics: An Optical Microcombs' Perspective”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 24 (4), art. no. 6101020, (2018). DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2805814
  • Li, X., Soler, M., Szydzik, C., Khoshmanesh, K., Schmidt, J., Coukos, G., Mitchell, A., Altug, H., “Label-Free Optofluidic Nanobiosensor Enables Real-Time Analysis of Single-Cell Cytokine Secretion”, Small, 14 (26), art. no. 1800698, (2018). DOI: 10.1002/smll.201800698
  • Xu, X., Wu, J., Nguyen, T.G., Moein, T., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Photonic microwave true time delays for phased array antennas using a 49 GhZ FSR integrated optical micro-comb source”, Photonics Research, 6 (5), pp. B30-B36, (2018). DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.6.000B30
  • Sinobad, M., Monat, C., Luther-Davies, B., Ma, P., Madden, S., Moss, D.J., Mitchell, A., Allioux, D., Orobtchouk, R., Boutami, S., Hartmann, J.-M., Fedeli, J.-M., Grillet, C. “Mid-infrared octave spanning supercontinuum generation to 8.5 μm in silicon-germanium waveguides”, Optica, 5 (4), pp. 360-366, (2018). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000360
  • Xu, X., Wu, J., Nguyen, T.G., Shoeiby, M., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Advanced RF and microwave functions based on an integrated optical frequency comb source”,Optics Express, 26 (3), pp. 2569-2583, (2018). DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.002569
  • Lenzini, F., Poddubny, A.N., Titchener, J., Fisher, P., Boes, A., Kasture, S., Haylock, B., Villa, M., Mitchell, A., Solntsev, A.S., Sukhorukov, A.A., Lobino, M., “Direct characterization of a nonlinear photonic circuit's wave function with laser light”, Light: Science and Applications, 7 (1), art. no. 17143, (2018). DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2017.143
  • Szydzik, C., Brazilek, R.J., Khoshmanesh, K., Akbaridoust, F., Knoerzer, M., Thurgood, P., Muir, I., Marusic, I., Nandurkar, H., Mitchell, A., Nesbitt, W.S., “Elastomeric microvalve geometry affects haemocompatibility”, Lab on a Chip, 18 (12), pp. 1778-1792, (2018). DOI: 10.1039/c7lc01320e

2017

  • Khoshmanesh, K., Tang, S.-Y., Zhu, J.Y., Schaefer, S., Mitchell, A., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Dickey, M.D., “Liquid metal enabled microfluidics”, Lab on a Chip, 17 (6), pp. 974-993, (2017). DOI: 10.1039/c7lc00046d
  • Solntsev, A.S., Liu, T., Boes, A., Nguyen, T.G., Wu, C.W., Setzpfandt, F., Mitchell, A., Neshev, D.N., Sukhorukov, A.A., “Towards on-chip photon-pair bell tests: Spatial pump filtering in a LiNbO 3 adiabatic coupler”, Applied Physics Letters, 111 (26), art. no. 261108, (2017). DOI: 10.1063/1.5008445
  • Baratchi, S., Knoerzer, M., Khoshmanesh, K., Mitchell, A., McIntyre, P., “Shear Stress Regulates TRPV4 Channel Clustering and Translocation from Adherens Junctions to the Basal Membrane”, Scientific Reports, 7 (1), art. no. 15942, (2017). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16276-7
  • Kurdzinski, M.E., Gol, B., Hee, A.C., Thurgood, P., Zhu, J.Y., Petersen, P., Mitchell, A., Khoshmanesh, K., “Dynamics of high viscosity contrast confluent microfluidic flows”, Scientific Reports, 7 (1), art. no. 5945, (2017). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06260-6
  • Hwang, Y., Hopkins, B., Wang, D., Mitchell, A., Davis, T.J., Lin, J., Yuan, X.-C., “Optical Chirality from Dark-Field Illumination of Planar Plasmonic Nanostructures”, Laser and Photonics Reviews, 11 (6), art. no. 1700216, (2017). DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201700216
  • Xu, X., Wu, J., Shoeiby, M., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Reconfigurable broadband microwave photonic intensity differentiator based on an integrated optical frequency comb source”, APL Photonics, 2 (9), art. no. 096104, (2017). DOI: 10.1063/1.4989871
  • Morrison, B., Bedoya, A.C., Ren, G., Vu, K., Liu, Y., Zarifi, A., Nguyen, T.G., Choi, D.-Y., Marpaung, D., Madden, S.J., Mitchell, A., Eggleton, B.J., “Compact Brillouin devices through hybrid integration on silicon”, Optica, 4 (8), pp. 847-854, (2017). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.000847
  • Prokop, C., Irmler, N., Laegel, B., Wolff, S., Mitchell, A., Karnutsch, C., “Optofluidic refractive index sensor based on air-suspended SU‐8 grating couplers”, Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical, 263, pp. 439-444, (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2017.07.014
  • Ren, G., Yudistira, D., Nguyen, T.G., Khodasevych, I., Schoenhardt, S., Berean, K.J., Hamm, J.M., Hess, O., Mitchell, A., “Experimental demonstration of two-dimensional hybrid waveguide-integrated plasmonic crystals on silicon-on-insulator platform”, APL Photonics, 2 (7), art. no. 071302, (2017). DOI: 10.1063/1.4995996
  • Prokop, C., Schmalz, T., Kleessen, P., Laegel, B., Wolff, S., Mitchell, A., Karnutsch, C., “Tunable air-suspended polymer grating couplers”, Optical Engineering, 56 (6), art. no. 067112, (2017). DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.56.6.067112
  • Wu, J., Moein, T., Xu, X., Ren, G., Mitchell, A., Moss, D.J., “Micro-ring resonator quality factor enhancement via an integrated Fabry-Perot cavity”, APL Photonics, 2 (5), (2017). DOI: 10.1063/1.4981392
  • Thurgood, P., Baratchi, S., Szydzik, C., Mitchell, A., Khoshmanesh, K., “Porous PDMS structures for the storage and release of aqueous solutions into fluidic environments”, Lab on a Chip, 17 (14), pp. 2517-2527, (2017). DOI: 10.1039/c7lc00350a
  • Soffe, R., Baratchi, S., Nasabi, M., Tang, S.-Y., Boes, A., McIntyre, P., Mitchell, A., Khoshmanesh, K., “Lateral trapezoid microfluidic platform for investigating mechanotransduction of cells to spatial shear stress gradients”, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 251, pp. 963-975, (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2017.05.145
  • Szydzik, C., Gavela, A.F., Herranz, S., Roccisano, J., Knoerzer, M., Thurgood, P., Khoshmanesh, K., Mitchell, A., Lechuga, L.M., “An automated optofluidic biosensor platform combining interferometric sensors and injection moulded microfluidics”, Lab on a Chip, 17 (16), pp. 2793-2804, (2017). DOI: 10.1039/c7lc00524e
  • Brazilek, R.J., Tovar-Lopez, F.J., Wong, A.K.T., Tran, H., Davis, A.S., McFadyen, J.D., Kaplan, Z., Chunilal, S., Jackson, S.P., Nandurkar, H., Mitchell, A., Nesbitt, W.S., “Application of a strain rate gradient microfluidic device to von Willebrand's disease screening”, Lab on a Chip, 17 (15), pp. 2595-2608, (2017). DOI: 10.1039/c7lc00498b