Dr. Kalaga Madhav

Research interests :

1. Inverse design of photonics
2. Nanophotonics
3. Photonics for ground- and space- based astronomy

I head the Astrophotonics research group in innoFSPEC at AIP. My research group consists of 7 postdocs, 5 PhD students, 3 masters students, and student assistants. The team is currently developing :

1. AFBG OH-emission filters for ground-based telescopes
2. Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) based high R spectrographs for ground- and space -based astronomy
3. Micro-ring resonator based ultra-stable frequency combs for astronomy
4. Photonic lanterns (PL)
5. Adaptic Optics (AO)
6. Beam combiners (DBC) and pupil re-mappers
7. Technology transfer from astronomy : detecting skin cancer and micro-plastics through Raman spectroscopy using astronomical spectrographs.

Patents (Granted) :

1. US 9,267,854 B2,
2. US 9,976,991 B2,
3. US 10,620,128 B2
4. ES 2,822,223 A1

Patents (Filed) :

1. ES 2,822,223 A1
2. EP 20188489.7
3. EP 20202877.5

Latest non-ADS listed publications can be seen HERE