Institute of Photonics and Optical Science

The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) draws together research and teaching expertise across the Schools of Physics, Electrical and Information Engineering, Mathematics, Chemistry and the Electron Microscope Unit.

Our research spans all areas of optics and photonics, both fundamental and applied, including the activities of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) in the School of Physics, those of the Fibre Optics and Photonics Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, and astronomical instrumentation (Astrophotonics) programs of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy in the School of Physics.

Latest news

• Optics innovation an industry success

  

  An optics innovation by an IPOS researcher has been a financial and technology transfer success story creating a wave of sales for Finisar, the Australian company that has used the new technology. Full story can be found here.

• Funding boost for information technology

  

  A University of Sydney research program focussed on photonic signal processing to improve defence capability is among a handful of projects to receive federal government funding announced today by Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren Snowdon. More details can be found here.

• Grant Success: CUDOS Researchers receive ARC grants

  

  CUDOS and IPOS researchers have a received a total of $2.0M in research funding in recent announcements. The Australian Research Council will fund 3 Discovery Projects and 2 DECRAs This is a great success for the CUDOS/IPOS researchers involved in these project and for the University as a whole. Congratullations! The details of the grants are listed here.

• CUDOS at Sydney University reports breakthrough in quantum processing at ECOC Postdeadline session in Amsterdam

  

  Congratulations to Alex S. Clark, Chad Husko, Matthew J. Collins, Alfredo De Rossi, Sylvain Combrié, Chunle Xiong and Benjamin Eggleton for the Postdeadline success at ECOC 2012. More details here

Event Highlights

• Registration Open for IPOS Student Conference

  
  Fortnightly lunchtime seminars are given by some of Australia's leading entrepreneurs in optics and photonics.
  The IPOS Student Conference committee invites you to its first student conference - "Discoveries for the next generation". This event allows students to present their ideas and innovations for the future, and where they see their research field going. Please register here to attend.

• CUDOS entrepreneurship seminar series

  
  Fortnightly lunchtime seminars are given by some of Australia's leading entrepreneurs in optics and photonics.

Postgraduate Studies

• IPOS offers postgraduate research

  

  IPOS offers research programs in photonics and optical science to both local and international students. More details here.

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