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
In my research for more bibliographic information about Paul Soleillet I have found some additional information about the “drame familial” (family drama) mentioned by Jean Claude Pecker in his bibliography. This happened in December 1931 when P. Soleillet was 29 years old. Jean Claude-Pecker, told me he had the opportunity to meet Soleillet (“homme charmant…
During the last months I have been working with Razvigor Ossikovski in a method to complete an experimental Mueller matrix with a row or column missing into a full Mueller matrix in situations where is no depolarization. Thus this method converts a 12-element partial Mueller matrix into a 16-element Mueller matrix. We are talking about…
Here you can download my ICSE-8 tutorial on anisotropic materials. Presented in Barcelona May 26th 2019
Less than a couple of weeks to start a new edition of the International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry. This time in Barcelona (ICSE-8). Seems yesterday when in ICSE-7 (in Berlin 2016) it was announced that the next edition would be in Barcelona. Things are getting reading and the program is already available. If you are…
Last year I talked many times about the Fresnel triprism in this website. Recently our research work about this composite prism was published in Optics Express where we make an analogy with the famous Stern-Gerlach experiment. Almost at the same time, we have published a more divulgative report about the history of the Fresnel Triprism…
As I do not update this site very often, it is worth to make a very quick summary of recent reseach-related activities I have done: BIOAM Conference In October I attended the “2nd International Workshop on Biophotonics and Orbital Angular Momentum” (BIOAM-2018). My talk was titled “Separating photons by spin with the method of A.…
In this paper we study the optical response of two coupled oriented dipoles with the dimer axis perpendicular to the wave vector of light by analyzing how their scattering matrix can be decomposed. The scattering matrix can be written as a linear combination of three terms with a clear physical meaning: one for each particle and…
If Paul Soleillet has a special section in this website this is probably because I have spent more time reading an understanding his PhD thesis than any other scientific paper. And I have to confess that at the beginning (my first contact with his work was 2011) I understood very little of it. However, this…
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…