Centre Director

Dist Prof Arnan Mitchell

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

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