Dr. Kalaga Madhav
Research interests :
- Inverse design of photonics
- Nanophotonics
- Photonics for ground- and space- based astronomy
I head the Astrophotonics Research Group in innoFSPEC at AIP. Areas of research :
- AFBG OH-emission filters for ground-based telescopes
- Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) based high R spectrographs for ground- and space -based astronomy
- Micro-ring resonator based ultra-stable frequency combs for astronomy
- Photonic lanterns (PL)
- Adaptic Optics (AO)
- Beam combiners (DBC) and pupil re-mappers
- Technology transfer from astronomy : detecting skin cancer and micro-plastics through Raman spectroscopy using astronomical spectrographs.
Patents (Granted) :
Patents (Filed) :
- US 2022/0397754 A1
- EP 2,220,4912.4
- EP 4 053 614 A1
- EP 3,945,351 A1
NASA/ADS
Office:
LH/0-02
Phone: +49 331 7499 390
kmadhav @aip.de
Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 7499 390
kmadhav @aip.de
Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam