Welcome to the website of Oriol Arteaga. Here you will mostly hear about my research activities which mainly focus in polarimetry, ellipsometry or, more in general, in light-matter interactions. You can contact me at oarteaga(AT)ub.edu and at www.ub.edu/plat
Recently I have become interested in the Fresnel triprism (sometimes also simply known as Fresnel prism). It is a prism made of quartz cemented in between two other half prisms also made of quartz, but with opposite handedness than the central prism. See below a drawing of this prism from the book “Concepts of Classical…
Every year I am getting more interested in the history of optics, particularly during the XIXth century and first half of XXth century. The blog Skulls in the Stars by Gregory J. Gbur contains really interesting posts about the history of optics during this period, with very rich and enriching explanations than are not found…
I am part of the Organization Comittee of the Eight international conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (ICSE8). It will be held in Barcelona in May 26th – 31st, 2019. You can save those dates in 2019. The abstract submission will start later this year. Click on the image to access the Website of the ICSE8 Conference Clicking…
During the last months international news have reported vastly about the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, which crashed against the fierce negative of the Spain government to hold an official referendum about the subject, as it was done in Scotland not long ago. These months the controversy has escalated to a new level and, sadly, now…
Young’s double slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in Physics. It played a major role in the discussion of the wave-particle duality of light and it is also usually used to explain several basic concepts of Quantum Mechanics. When the experiment is made with polarized light, the well-known result is that the…
Sorry I have not been very active updating this website lately, but research has continued and I have authored several publications since I last updated. You can see them in my Google Scholar profile and others are now under submission. Anyway, in this post I want to highlight one of my recent publications which is titled Historical revision…
I am concerned by the way the leading journal Nature deals with the subject of chirality and its relation with optics. I would say that this journal is becoming notorious for publishing papers containing confusing (and sometimes wrong) statements about chirality. Unfortunately this is not new. In 2013/2014 I sent to Nature Photonics a short…
I participate in the organization of this BIOAM Workshop that will be held in the Ecole Polytechnique (close to Paris) on 14-15 November 2016. The main subject of the workshop is Biophotonics and Optical Angular Momentum, but it will also cover many aspects about polarimetric theory, imaging. This is the complete list of topics: Fundamentals Higher…
Currently, the Ramon y Cajal program is almost the only “official” way to get into a sort of tenured-track position in Spain. The “Ramon y Cajal” 5-year contracts are funded by the Spanish Government and are addressed to professional researchers in possession of a PhD degree who have presented a line of research. Applicants must have obtained their PhD…
Last week I was in the 7th International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry celebrated this time in Berlin. This is a very nice series of conferences celebrated every 3 years (in earlier days it was every 4 years). My first participation was in Stockholm 2007 as fresh new PhD student and, later, I also participated in all the…