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 Dr.
Adrian Keating (B.E., Ph.D.,
Member IEEE)
Biography
Dr. Keating has more than 50
publications in
international and domestic journals/conferences and 8 patents spanning
work in
3 different countries. He has detailed
experience with lasers, optics and instrumentation.
He has designed and built (analog) RF filters and RF
mixers for
detection of in-phase/quadrature components for a coherent optical
detector. While in Japan
he designed an opto-electronic selector
capable of selecting a single 100Mb/s channel from an interleaved data
stream
at 40 Gb/s based on four-wave mixing in an optical fiber and
electro-absorption
modulators (EAMs). In the US at UCSB he
worked with a team on optically interleaved data-streams working up to
160 Gb/s
using EAMs and LiNbO3 MZI modulators as well as semiconductor optical
amplifier
based switches and high speed vertical cavity semiconductor lasers
(VCSELs). At UCSB
he also constructed an optical free space transmission
system working at 8 Gb/s, and built a system to generate tunable
TeraHertz
signals using optical mixing from fixed and tunable laser sources and a
high
speed detector with a bandwidth of more than 500 GHz.
At Calient networks he
was responsible
for the development of the large port
count optical switch, a precision instrument which provided 256x256
non-blocking input and output ports, with no more than 3.5 dB optical
loss from
any input-output port. Once this
advanced instrumentation was successfully developed and handed off to
the
manufacturing team, he was subsequently responsible for the development of the precision instrumentation required to
test the core optical switch at all stages of the production process. The tools he helped to develop eventually
led to a high yield, high reliability product which could be assembled
in the
minimum time. He was subsequently given
the responsibility of developing precision optical and electronic
line-cards
which interfaced between the electronic backplane and core optical
switch.
Employment
History
Jan 2007 - current: Senoir Lecturer,
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Australia
Raine Fellow, Director of the Sensors and Advanced Instrumentation
Laboratory, Researching microfluidic devices, in-situ monitoring
systems for porous silicon growth, and microspectrometers
May Aug 2006: Senior Optical
Engineer, Calient
Networks (Santa Barbara, USA)
Seconded on contract to
Calient Networks (Santa Barbara, US) as project manager, leading a team
of
opto-mechanical engineers developing advanced MEMS based low cost field
replaceable optical modules. Responsible for design, simulation,
prototype
development, outsourcing and external contractors as well as new hire
interviews.
Jan 2004 Jan 2007: Principal Research Fellow,
School of Electrical,
Electronic and Computer Engineering (EECE), University of Western Australia
Lead the opto-mechanical effort within MRG, providing opto-mechnanical
characterization, simulation, instrumentation design/construction and
system
integration expertise for a MEMS infrared imaging system under contract
for the
US defense department. Optical laboratory manager, responsible
for
operational and safety issues, co-coordinating all students and staff
in this
area.
Oct 1999 Jan 2003: Fiber
Optics Technology Manager, Calient
Networks
(Santa Barbara, USA)
Project and Group management directing a team of
opto-mechanical, electrical and software engineers designing and
constructing
next generation MEMS based optical switches for Telcos.
Developed process instrumentation for
manufacturing processes. Drove technology
improvements on cost reduction effort. Provided
sales and marketing support.
Jan
1998 Oct 1999: Research
Engineer, University of California
(ECE)
Santa Barbara (USA)
High speed optics laboratory manager, co-coordinating
operational and safety issues. Developed
high speed RF and opto-electronic advanced
testbeds for
characterization of 120 Gb/s fiber
optic based switching systems, 1.5 mm
optically pumped VCSELs, generation of tunable TeraHertz-radiation and
10Gb/s
free space transmission systems.
May
1996 Dec.1997: Research
Engineer,
Optical Network Systems Laboratories Nippon Telephony
and Telegraph (NTT) (Japan)
Research program leader, developing demultiplexing
techniques for 1-Tb/s broadcast and select networks based on O-TDM and
WDM
selectors. Designed and constructed a
50 Gb/s O-TDM system incorporating gain-switched lasers and fiber
four-wave-mixing based demultiplexers. Demonstrated
a 600 channel WDM/O-TDM
opto-electronic demultiplexer
(Japanese provisional patent number 9-57811/9-50116/9-57831).
Feb. 1995 Feb. 1996: Research
Fellow, Photonics
Research
Laboratory, The University of
Melbourne.
Developed and characterized
tunable dual pass-band optical filters based on a thermally chirped
fiber Bragg
grating. Developed wide bandwidth RF
feed-forward noise reduction circuits for increasing transmission
capacity of
spectrum sliced WDM transmission systems (patent number PN2193/95).
Feb. 1990 - Feb. 1991: Research
Engineer, Telstra
Research
Laboratories Australia
Developed
detailed statistical models to evaluate the
effect of terrain on RF antenna diversity (Radio
and Satellite Section) and models for next generation lasers for
optical
networks (Optical Networks Section)
Education
Feb. 1991 1995: Ph.D.
(Photonics), Photonics Research Laboratory, University Of Melbourne, Thesis
titled Wavelength Stabilization of Tunable Lasers in Multi-Wavelength
Optical
Packet Networks. (Supervisor Dr. Arthur Lowery)
Feb. 1986 - Nov. 1989: Undergraduate: Bachelor of
Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne - Majored
in
communications theory. Thesis, titled Superconductivity - theory
and
experiments
Awards/Grants
· Lynsey Ann Welsh Award for Innovation in NIR
Science,
Australian Near Infrared Spectroscopy Group s Conference Fremantle
(2004)
· Dr. A. Keating: UWA Research Grant Scheme
2005,
Laser Assisted Micromachining of Polyimide Thin Films for
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) , Amount: AUD$13.5K Over 1
year
· ARC Discovery Project D-P 0559744 (2005) J.M Dell,
L.
Faraone, H. Huang, A.J. Keating, Micro Electro Mechancial Systems
(MEMS) and
Nano Electromechanical Systems (NEMS) Technologies for Temperature
Sensitive
Semiconductors and Smart Materials , Amount: AUD$867K Over 4 years.
· ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and
Facilities
(LIEF) LE0775499, A. Keating, J.M. Dell, L.Faraone,
G.
Parish, Y. Liu, X. Hu, K. Alameh, C. Jagadish, A. Tarr High
Performance Optical Profilometer for mapping
micro/meso/macroscopic topography , Amount:
AUD$240K
· Raine Medical Research Foundation Priming Grant
(2007) A.J
Keating, C. Musca, P. Hartmann, Rapid analysis of small volumes of
human
breast milk using microfluidic platforms , Amount: AUD$144K
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