A. Carnicer's bio

Artur Carnicer is a Full Professor (Catedràtic d'Universitat) with the Applied Physics Department, Universitat de Barcelona. He has worked on a variety of research topics in physical optics, and imaging: optical pattern recognition, polarization and coherence of light, highly focused electromagnetic fields, optics for information security, and 3D integral imaging. So far, he has published more than 80 papers in peer reviewed journals and advised eight PhD students. Now, Prof. Carnicer conducts a small research group of six people and keeps collaborations with other national and international groups.

Some of his most relevant contributions are:

  1. A. Carnicer, M. Montes-Usategui, S. Arcos, and I. Juvells, "Vulnerability to chosen-ciphertext attacks of optical encryption schemes based on double random phase keys," Opt. Lett. 30, 1644-1646 (2005). This paper described the first cryptanalysis report on optical encryption systems.
  2. R. Martínez-Herrero, P. M. Mejías, S. Bosch, and A. Carnicer, "Vectorial structure of nonparaxial electromagnetic beams," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 1678-1680 (2001). In this publication, the authors introduced the concept of the * closest field to a given beam * that enabled a simple and elegant mathematical description of highly focused electromagnetic beams.
  3. A. Carnicer and B. Javidi, "Optical security and authentication using nanoscale and thin-film structures," Adv. Opt. Photon. 9, 218-256 (2017). In this paper, the authors used machine-learning classification algorithms to determine the authenticity of encoded data of unclonable-nanoparticles- or thin-film- ID tags.

Teaching plays an important role in his duties as university professor. He lectures undergraduate and master courses in optics, computational physics, and digital image processing. He also conducts undergraduate research with students working on their final degree project. From 2000 to 2010, Prof. Carnicer coordinated the development of the JOptics Course. In collaboration with colleagues and graduate students, they produced a set of Java applets that interactively demonstrated the behavior of a variety of problems in physical optics. Despite these materials were aimed for UB students, the simulations were made available to the public. The JOptics Course was awarded in 2003 by the Spanish Royal Physics Society (Best Computer Resource for Teaching Physics Award) and in 2010 by MERLOT (Exemplary Learning Materials Award).

Prof. Carnicer is a senior member of Optica and SPIE, and a member of the Catalan Physical Society and the Spanish Optical Society (SedOPTICA). He also collaborates with the ISO/IEC Spanish National Committee 62906-5-1 (Laser display devices - Measurement of optical performance for laser front projection).

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