Mr Kristopher Rowland

Biography/ Background

Kristopher Rowland completed his BSc (Physics and Theoretical Physics) with first class honours at the University of Adelaide at the end of 2005. His Honours year was spent under the supervision of Prof Tanya Monro and Dr. Shahraam Afshar, continuing on to begin a PhD under Prof. Monro and Dr. Afshar. Kris is one of the first people to be involved with the Centre of Expertise in Photonics, which has now expanded to form part of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS). His research interests centre around low-index guiding waveguides, principally soft-glass photonic bandgap fibres, but also include low-DOS-guiding fibres (e.g. square-lattice), ARROW fibres, chirped cladding hollow-core fibres, Von Neuman-Wigner guidance (e.g. Kagome-lattice), and more.

Kris uses Twitter , Yammer and regularly maintains his bLog .

Awards & Achievements

• OSA Incubic / Milton Chang Travel Award (2009)
  
• Award for Best Student Poster ("Peoples' Choice"), University of Adelaide Annual Physics Poster Competition (2007)
• Award for Best Student Poster, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) (2006)

Publications

My Preferred publications formatting:

Journal papers

• K.J. Rowland, S. Afshar V., T. M. Monro, ‘Bandgaps and antiresonances in integrated-ARROWS and Bragg fibers; a simple model’, Optics Express (2008).
• K.J.Rowland, S.Afshar V., T.M.Monro, ‘Novel low-loss bandgaps in all-silica Bragg fibers’, Invited paper for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue - OFC2007 (2008).

Conference papers

• K.J. Rowland, S. Afshar V., T. M. Monro, ‘A novel approach to Bragg fibre bandgap analysis: Stratified planar anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguides’, ACOFT, Sydney Australia, 2008.
• K. Rowland, S. Afshar, T.M. Monro, ‘Reducing confinement loss in all-silica Bragg bandgap fibres’, postdeadline paper at OFC’2007, Anaheim (2007).
• K.J.Rowland, S.Afshar V., T.M.Monro, ‘Nonlinear Material Diagnostics Using Filled Nanostructured Fibres’, ACOFT (2006)
• K.J.Rowland, S.Afshaar V., T.M.Monro, ‘Nonlinearity enhancement in liquid-filled microstructured fibres in the nanowire regime’, OFC Anaheim, Paper OTuH3, (2006)

 

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Professional Associations

• Student representative for the Australian Institute of Physics - South Australian Branch.
• Committe member of the Adelaide University Astronomy and Physics Society.
  

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2009