Toney Teddy Fernandez

Dr Toney Teddy Fernandez

EOS Research Fellow

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

With over 18 years of research experience, at various labs starting from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, then working as senior research associate at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), Spanish National Research Council (Madrid, Spain), University of Leeds (UK) and Macquarie Unversity (Sydney), he specialises in amorphous materials, ultrafast light matter interaction, integrated optics and electron/X-ray/optical spectroscopic techniques. He has authored over 60 research papers, 3 book chapters and owns 3 patents. He currently holds a position of EOS Senior Fellow in laser physics at UniSA.

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2025 Teddy Fernandez, T., Ross Adams, A., Bakovic, M., Thomas, J. U., Hochrein, O., Mahmodi, H., . . . Gross, S. (2025). High Fidelity Waveguides Through Vitreous Media Recomposition for Next Generation Photonic Devices. Advanced Optical Materials, 13(20, article no. 2403427), 1-11.
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2024 Grebnev, K., Perminov, B., Fernandez, T. T., Fuerbach, A., & Chernysheva, M. (2024). Fluoride and chalcogenide glass fiber components for mid-infrared lasers and amplifiers: breakthroughs, challenges, and future perspective. APL Photonics, 9(11, article no. 110901), 1-21.
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2024 Fernandez, T. T., Hwang, Y., Mahmodi, H., Otten, D. E., Plenecassagne, L., Cozic, S., . . . Lancaster, D. G. (2024). Ultrafast laser-fabricated fluoride glass waveguides with exceptionally high positive refractive index change for mid-infrared integrated optics. Optics Express, 32(24), 42938-42950.
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2024 Fernandez, T. T., Xu, L., Gross, S., Bharathan, G., Ams, M., Privat, K., . . . Fuerbach, A. (2024). Physical mechanisms of femtosecond laser induced refractive index change in direct-written mid-infrared fiber Bragg gratings. APL Photonics, 9(11, article no. 110802), 1-9.
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2023 Ososkov, Y., Lee, J., Fernandez, T. T., Fuerbach, A., & Jackson, S. D. (2023). High-efficiency fluoroindate glass fiber laser. Optics Letters, 48(10), 2664-2667.
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Year Citation
2025 Ross Adams, A., Arcadi, E., Douglass, G., Teddy Fernandez, T., Withford, M. J., & Gross, S. (2025). 3D waveguide optical interconnects for high bandwidth communication. In Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XXV (pp. 34). US: SPIE.
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2024 Fuerbach, A., Fernandez, T. T., & Xu, L. (2024). Thermal stability of fiber Bragg Gratings fabricated in fluoride glass optical fibers via femtosecond laser direct-inscription. In Advanced Photonics Congress 2024 (pp. BW3A.3). US: Optical Society of America.
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2024 Fuerbach, A., Ha, T. T., & Fernandez, T. T. (2024). All-fiber mid-infrared laser sources. In S. Taccheo, M. R. Cicconi, & M. L. Jäger (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 13003 (pp. 130030H-1-130030H-3). US: SPIE.
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2024 Fuerbach, A., Ha, T. T., Hussain, W., & Fernandez, T. T. (2024). Femtosecond laser waveguide inscription in linear and nonlinear mid-infrared transparent glasses. In F. Prudenzano, & M. Marciniak (Eds.), 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) (pp. 1-4). US: IEEE Computer Society.
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2024 Ross Adams, A., Teddy Fernandez, T., Arcadi, E., Douglass, G., Bakovic, M., Withford, M. J., & Gross, S. (2024). Low-loss ultrafast laser inscribed photonics for space-division-multiplexed optical networks. In Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XXIV (pp. 34). US: SPIE.
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2023 Privat, K., Chang, S., Fernandez, T., Li, J., Huang, J., & Hao, X. (2023). Application of spectral cathodoluminescence to multi-modal research at the nano-scale: case studies from the UNSW electron microscope unit. In Microscopy and microanalysis Vol. 29 (pp. 1946-1948). UK: Oxford University Press.
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  • Ultrashort-pulse direct laser writing of optical interconnects for 1.3 μm in silica glass: Phase 1, Innolume GmbH, 23/11/2023 - 02/02/2024

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