• Grant Success: IPOS Researchers receive $4.9M in research funding

  

  IPOS researchers have a received a total of $4.9M in research funding in recent announcements. The Australian Research Council will fund 2 Discovery Projects, 3 DECRAs, 2 Future Fellows, 2 Linkage Projects and 2 LIEF grants, and the University of Sydney will fund 1 Major Equipment grant. This is a great success for the IPOS researchers involved in these project and for the University as a whole. The details of the grants are listed here.

• Alessandro Tuniz wins AIP NSW Postgraduate Award

  

  IPOS PhD student Alessandro Tuniz has won the 2011 Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Postgraduate Award. Alessandro’s entry to the award was based on his research into using fibre-drawing methods to fabricate metamaterials. Students participating in the award were asked to make a 20-minute presentation on their postgraduate research in physics, with the presentations judged on scientific quality, clarity and presentation skills. The talks were held on the 22nd of November at the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.

• First batch of Masters Students Graduate

  

  The first batch of students from the Masters in Photonics and Optical Science course graduated on the 4th of November 2011. The ceremony was held at the Great Hall, followed by a reception at the School of Physics. IPOS congratulates Patrick Blown, Tomonori Hu, Charithra Rajapakse and Matthew Stuart for their success and wishes them all the best for the future.

• Astrophotonics instrument success

  

  In a world first, IPOS researcher Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn, along with other colleagues from the University of Sydney's School of Physics and the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) have commissioned a new instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), making use of new and novel astrophotonic technology. More info here.

• Dr Boris Kuhlmey wins Tall Poppy award

  

  Four University of Sydney scientists have won Young Tall Poppy Science Awards from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, announced at an awards ceremony on 3 November 2011. The prestigious annual science awards recognise young scientists who are doing outstanding work in their field and actively engage and educate the community about their work.. Full history here.

• Professor Robert Minasian recognized for top-cited publication

  

  The top 1% most highly cited papers in each of 22 broad research fields for each of the years 2000-2008 were identified from the Scopus database. Prof. Robert Minasian paper: “Photonic signal processing of microwave signals” is showing 175 citations in Scopus to date.

• IPOS finalists all take home gold from the Eurekas

  

  The prestigious Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science went to Professor Ben Eggleton, Director of CUDOS, and Associate Professor David Moss from IPOS was named winner of the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. Full history here.

• Professor Ben Eggleton and Associate Professor David Moss shortlisted for Eureka honours.

  

  Associate Professor David Moss and Professor Ben Eggleton are in the running for the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science and Leadership in Science, respectively. The Eureka prizes are commonly referred to as the Oscars of Australian science. Best of luck! More information here.

• OECC 2011 Postdeadline publication

  

  Mark Pelusi presents CUDOS Postdeadline result at OECC, "Compensation of fiber nonlinearity by an end-span pre-distortion and phase conjugation module". The abstract can be found here.

• IPOS drawn metamaterials research in Nature Photonics Research Highlights

  

  Nature Photonics drew the attention of their readers to the breakthrough results of the first demonstration of drawn metamaterials with a negative permeability. The feature in the prestigious journal’s Research Highlights section reported on the Optical Materials Express paper from IPOS and the University of Wollongong on the fabrication and characterisation of magnetic metamaterials for the THz using a combination of polymer fibre-drawing methods and sputtering.

• Hubble Space Telescope Observation Time Awarded to IPOS Astronomer

  

  IPOS researcher Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn has been awarded individual observation time on the Hubble Space Telescope. Prof. Bland-Hawthorn is part of a team of comprising five astronomers from the USA and one Australian scientist who have been granted "20 orbits" to use the COS ultraviolet spectrograph. "We are studying the Magellanic Stream, which is a stream of gas discovered by Australian radio astronomers in the 1970s that wraps right around the Galaxy." Earlier work by Professor Bland-Hawthorn showed that what can be seen with radio telescopes is only a fraction of the gas. "Much of it is warm, or even hot, but you can only see this with optical and, especially, UV telescopes. We want to confirm this claim from my work and my modelling, and demonstrate that much of the gas falling into the Galaxy is in the form of a warm rain."

• IPOS breakthrough on the path to secure technology

  

  Groundbreaking research in quantum light sources led by IPOS researchers from the University of Sydney node of CUDOS will result in information speeds many times faster and data that is almost impossible to hack. The researchers, led by Dr. Chunlee Xiong, have generated individual pairs of photons in the smallest device ever by slowing light down using silicon photonic crystals. At 100 microns long (approximately the thickness of a human hair) CUDOS's quantum photon device is one hundred times smaller than the one-centimetre devices used by other groups. A post-deadline paper on this work was presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and the Quantum Electronics Laser Science Conference (QELS) on Thursday 5 May in Baltimore, USA, titled: "Correlated Photon-Pair Generation in an Ultra-Compact Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguide" by Christelle Monat, Alex Clark, Chunle Xiong, Christian Grillet, Graham Marshall, Michael J. Steel, Juntao Li, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas F. Krauss and Benjamin J. Eggleton. The group includes collaborators from the Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, France; Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, UK; CUDOS, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Macquarie University, Australia; and the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK

• First batch of Masters student complete their course

  

  The first of the Masters of Photonics and Optical Science students that began their studies in March 2010, have now completed their course with the submission of their project thesis on the 3rd of June 2011. Click here.to see a summary of their projects. IPOS congratulates their successful completion and wishes them the best of luck in their future endeavours. The graduation ceremony will be held in November, 2011.

• Prof. Ben Eggleton keynote presentation at Big Picture Science Dinner

  

  Professor Ben Eggleton was the keynote speaker at the first Big Picture Science Dinner on 28 April 2011. More details here.

• Research by CUDOS

  

  Research by CUDOS researchers and collaborators has been presented as postdeadline papers at the recent Frontiers in Optics Conference, which was held in Rochester, NY, USA.

• Best Presentation Award at PECS Conference

  

  Congratulation to Alessandro Tuniz on being runner up in the Best Presentation Award at PECS Conference in Granada.

• Postdeadline success at the Optical Society of America FIO meeting

  

  Congratulations to Irina Kabakova and Steve Dekker and the co-authors for the 2 Postdeadline successes to be presented at the FiO meeting to be held in Rochester.

• IPOS Director represents Australia at international science forum

  

  Professor Ben Eggleton, the Director of IPOS, represented Australia at the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, Japan.

• Dr. Alexander Argyros awarded two prizes

  

  At a recent Australian Optical Society (AOS) meeting in Sydney, it was announced that the AOS Geoff Opat Early Career Researchers Prize will be awarded to IPOS researcher Dr. Alexander Argyros.

• Invisible threads one step closer to reality

  

  IPOS student Alessandro Tuniz is working on a concept to make 1-micrometre invisible threads.

• The county can’t face the technological future through copper wire

  

  An article written by Professors Ben Eggleton and David Moss, from CUDOS University of Sydney, has featured in the Sydney Morning Herald.

• IPOS Researcher Nominated for Eureka Prize

  

  Associate Professor David Moss from IPOS, is a finalist for the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science.

• Funding for CUDOS ARC Centre of Excellence

  

  CUDOS an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence has secured $23.8 million funding over seven years.

• IPOS to supercharge broadband

  

  IPOS has broken new ground in photonics and optics. IPOS researchers have developed photonics processing that could push the broadband speeds to one terabit per second.

• Physicist Professor Ross McPhedran Honoured

  

  Professor Ross McPhedran, a senior researcher with IPOS, has been awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by The Universite Paul Cezanne.

• New laser to speed up information superhighway

  

  Associate Professor David Moss, a senior researcher at IPOS, leads an international team which has developed a new pulsed laser that allows light to be generated on a computer chip.

• Silk Photonics

  

  Dr Peter Domachuk has been awarded a Fresh Science prize for his work on silk photonics.

• Postgraduate Student's research may bring faster internet

  

  Research work, by IPOS Postgraduate student Trung Duc Vo, has achieved unprecedented bandwidth capacity and utilisation: up to 100 times faster than the current networks.

• 2010 Vice Chancellor's Awards

  

  Dr Maryanne Large, from IPOS, was highly commended for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision at the 2010 Vice Chancellor's Awards.

• IPOS at OFC

  

  IPOS had a good turnout and participation at OFC this year. As well as regular papers.

• Prof Ben Eggleton wins Scopus Young Researcher of the Year

  

  Professor Ben Eggleton, has won the 2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Award for Physical Sciences.

• The New Inventors on ABC Television featured IPOS members David Hsiao-chuan and Prof. Simon Fleming

  

  The Dental Laser Ultrasound invented by David Hsiao-chuan Wang and Prof. Simon Fleming, appeared on The New Inventors in ABC Television. The Dental Laser Ultrasound uses sound waves to detect faults in your teeth at an early stage eliminating the need for surgical intervention.

• ACOLS ACOFT 09 Conference Winners

  

  IPOS student, Alessandro Tuniz, has won the ACOFT Best Submitted Student Paper Prize in the ACOFT ACOLS 2009 conference. ACOFT ACOLS 2009 was an Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers, Spectroscopy and Optical Fibre Technology.

• IPOS Student Successes

  

  Congratulations to IPOS students Casey Handmer and Felix Lawrence for their outstanding success.

• Prof Ben Eggleton elected fellow of IEEE

  

  Congratulations to Prof. Ben Eggleton for his election to IEEE fellow. IEEE Board of Directors elevated Prof Ben Eggleton to IEEE Fellow for contributions to the development and applications of Bragg gratings and other periodic structures in optical fibers.

• IPOS student wins AIP Industry Prize

  

  IPOS student, Anna Wang has won the top student prize at the AIP Industry Day for her poster session.

• Prof Ben Eggleton elected ATSE fellow

  

  Prof Eggleton's election as a Fellow of ATSE places Professor Eggleton in an elite group of 28 leaders in technological science, engineering and innovation from Australia and overseas elected in 2009 as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). Fellows of the Academy are elected each year on the basis of their achievement in the application of science, technology and engineering to Australian life.

• 2010 ARC Grant Successes

  

  The Australian Research Council has announced funding of more than $1.9M.

• Nobel Prize

  

  The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three IEEE members. The prize went to Willard S. Boyle, Charles K.Kao, and George E. Smith, who were hailed by the Nobel jury as "the masters of light".

• Prof Ross McPhedran’s prominent work on invisibility

  

  Prof. McPhedran at IPOS, cloaking research focused on using different materials to control the direction of light passing through to render objects invisible.

• POF Conference

  

  The 18th International Plastic Optical Fiber Conference was a success and drew participants from 15 countries. The event was sponsorded by IPOS and showcased many researchers work and unveiled Kiriama Pty Ltd, the first IPOS spin-off company.

• Future Fellow

  

  Dr Boris Kuhlmey is a new Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr announced the awards.

• IPOS on the Catalyst

  

  Catalyst on ABC television features a story on IPOS research, the photonic chip, that increases the speed of the internet using light. The program is featured on Thursday 3 September at 8pm on ABC 1.

• Optics for Dental Health

  

  Our postgraduate student David Hsiao-Chuan Wang has developed an ultrasonic evaluation technique using laser-generated ultrasound to measure the elasticity of the surface of teeth.

• IPOS in Photonics Spectra

  

  IPOS recently featured in the July issue of Photonics Spectra. The article explained the research, teaching and project activities in the Institute.

• IPOS impact at international conferences - postdeadline and invited papers and student prize

  

  IPOS postdeadline papers have been presented at the OSA slow light meeting, OECC and ICMAT Conferences.

• Temperature Stabilization of Optofluidic Photonic Crystal Cavities

  

  Researchers within the Optofluidics group at IPOS have developed a novel scheme to make optical devices resistant against temperature changes in their environment.

• The Photonic Immunochip

  

  IPOS members Aslund and Canning at the Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL) at the School of Chemistry win ARC Linkage funding to develop "The Photonic Immunochip" with international genetics company Bioprocess p/l.

• Cracking the Colour Code

  

  Dr Maryanne Large presented in a documentary series "Cracking the Colour Code" which premiered on SBS on Wednesday June 10 2009 at 8:30pm.

• Two IPOS Students Win Faculty of Science Prizes

  

  Two IPOS students win Faculty of Science prizes for outstanding academic achievement. The awards ceremony was held in MacLaurin Hall.

• Media Release- The Ministers for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

  

  In joint release with Senator Anne McEwen, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts, Senator the Hon Kim Carr has announced in a media release the launch of IPOS on Thursday the 23 April 2009.

• IPOS Introduction Video on YouTube

  

  Meet members of IPOS and learn about our activities by watching the new IPOS video.

• Green Light from Silicon

  

  Researchers at CUDOS produce green light from silicon - a material opaque to visible light.

• Terabit Per Second Communications: One Step Closer

  

  IPOS have developed a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that can not only increase Internet networks speeds making them 60 times faster but can act as traffic monitors to keep the speed high and error-free.

• The Universe in Focus

  

  Successful recent trials of a state-of-the-art filter for cleaning up signals in astronomy, have raised interest in the potential commercial impact of this Astrophotonics work in IPOS.

News 2008