IPOS Seminars and Research Seminars

2010 Upcoming IPOS Seminars

Title: In vivo functional spectroscopic imaging of the microcirculation using Side stream Dark Field microscopy
Presenter: Annemarie Nadort
Organisation: Academic Medical Centre
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics University of Amsterdam
Date: Wednesday 17th of March
Time: 2pm-3pm
Location: School of Physics Tearoom

2010 Upcoming Research Seminar

Title: "The Future of Silicon Photonics"
Presenter: Thomas L. Koch
Organisation: Center for Optical Technologies, Lehigh University
205 Sinclair, 7 Asa Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Email: tlkoch@lehigh.edu

Date: Friday March 12
Time: 3pm - 4pm
Location: School of Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Building A28, The University of Sydney

Past 2010 IPOS Seminars

Date	Title and Speaker	Location	Podcast
Wednesday March 3 2pm-3pm	Advances in tunable solid state organic lasers F. J. Duarte Interferometric Optics, Rochester, New York, USA ECE, University of New Mexico, USA	School of Physics Tearoom, Building A28, The University of Sydney
Wednesday 24 February 4pm- 5pm	Manipulating light on-chip Michal Lipson Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Cornell University, USA	Lecture Theatre 1, School of Physics

Past 2010 Research Seminars

Date	Title & Speaker	Location
Friday 29 January 2010 9am-10am	Air-hole infilling of Quantum Dot incorporated InGaAsP Photonic Crystal Nanocavities Presenter: Dr. R.W. van der Heijden Department of Applied Physics, Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics, Room NLd 1.06 Eindhoven University of Technology	School of Physics Tea Room, Building A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 22 January 2010 9am-10am	Experiments on stabilizing Erbium doped mode-locked fiber lasers and mode-locking mechanism of fiber lasers making more robust Presenter: Darren Hudson University of Otago, New Zealand Applications and Development of Ultrafast Fiber Laser	School of Physics Tea Room, Building A28
Friday 15 January2010 9am-10am	Stimulated Brillouin scattering: an efficient and versatile tool for all-optical signal processing Presenter: Prof. Luc Thévenaz EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Group for Fibre Optics - Institute of Electrical Engineering Lausanne, Switzerland	School of Physics Tea Room, Building A28

2009 IPOS Seminars


Date	Title & Speaker	Location	Podcast
Thursday 10 December 2009 3pm-4pm	PIMMS #1 â€“ the movie: a revolution in spectroscopy Presenter: Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn IPOS, The University of Sydney	Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Tuesday 6 October 2009 4-5pm	Not all light that wanders is lost: Performance and promise of micro-ring resonators in nonlinear quantum optics Presenter: Prof. John E.Sipe Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto	Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney	Watch
Friday 7 August 2009 9am-10am	Slow-Light Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Speaker: Rumen Iliew Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University	Cudos Tea Room 319, School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Tuesday 21 July 2009 1-2pm	Poling Silica and Silica Fibre Speaker: Prof. Simon Fleming Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, The University of Sydney	Lecture Theatre 1, School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 6 March 2009 9-10am	Metal-Clad Optical Fibres Speaker: Prof. John Love Australian National University	Tea room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Thursday 19 February 19 2009 3-4pm	Femtosecond Optics: More Than Just Really Fast Speaker: Prof. Erich Ippen Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge	Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 20 February 2009 9-10am	Overview of recent researches on plasmonics Speaker: Prof. Byoungho Lee Seoul National University, Korea	Tea Room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney

2009 Research Seminars

Date	Title & Speaker	Location
Wednesday 9 December 2009 10am-11am	Intra-cavity pulse dynamics in mode-locked fiber lasers Presenter: Brandon Bale Aston University	Tea Room School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 4 December 2009 9am-10am	THE POWER OF LIGHT ? THE FIBER LASER REVOLUTION Presenter: Prof. David Richardson Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton Southampton United Kingdom	Tea Room School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 27 November 2009 9am-10am	Biopolymer Photonics Presenter: Peter Domachuk School of Physics, University of Sydney	Tea Room School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Thursday 5 November 2009 9:30-10am	Demonstration of dispersion engineered slow light in photonic crystal waveguides Presenter: Jason Ting IPOS, The University of Sydney	Tea room School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 30 October 9-10 am	Coupled Photonic Crystal Waveguides in Hexagonal Lattices- 3rd year Special project (15 min) Presenter: John Scott Brownless Slow light dispersion engineering in chalcogenide photonic crystals- 3rd year Special project (15 min) Presenter: Hannah McFarlane Stimulated Brillouin scattering based optical monitoring- Hons presentation Presenter: Amy Fu	Tea room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 23 October 2009 9-10am	Micro- and nanostructured polymer devices via imprint lithography Presenter: Dr Cameron Smith Technical University of Denmark (DTU)	Tea room School of Physics, The University of Sydney
Friday 28 August 2009 9am-10am	High throughput, high resolution:imaging: optical and plasmonic structures for microfluidic detection Presenter: Paul Steinvurzel Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Cambridge	Cudos Tea Room 319, School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 14 August 2009 9am-10am	A fibre-optic seismic sensor array for geophysical measurement Presenter: Ian Littler Australian National University	Cudos Tea Room 319, School of Physics Building A28, The University of Sydney
Tuesday 28 July 2009 1-2pm	Optical Device Fabrication and Characterization Speaker: Mr Benjamin W. McMillen Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Pittsburgh	Lecture Theatre 1, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 3 July 2009 9-10am	Raman scattering and four-wave mixing. From fundamentals to fibre lasers Speaker: Dr Jochen Schroeder IPOS, The University of Sydney	Tea room School of Physics, The University of Sydney
Friday 19 June 2009 9-10am	Laser Ultrasonic Surface Wave Dispersion Technique for Non-destructive Evaluation of Human Dental Enamel Speaker: David Hsiao-chuan Wang PhD Research Student, IPOS, The University of Sydney	Lecture Theatre 1, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 12 June 2009 9-10am	Reconfigurable Optical Pulse Generator for Next Generation Hybrid WDM/OTDM Networks Speaker: Dr Aisling Clarke IPOS, The University of Sydney Time-lens oscilloscope of optical signal packets by nonlinear optics Speaker: Eva Ryckeboer IPOS, The University of Sydney	Tea room School of Physics, The University of Sydney
Friday 15 May 2009 9-10am	Modelization and Characterization of solid-core photonic bandgap fibers Speaker: Dr Vincent Pureur IPOS, The University of Sydney	Tea room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Wednesday 13 May 2009 9-10am	High-resolution optical sampling of 640Gb/s signals using four-wave mixing in dispersion-engineered highly nonlinear chalcogenide waveguides Speaker: Dr Jürgen Van Erps Vrije University Brussel	Tea room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 1 May 2009 9-9:30am	Soliton Mediated Optical Quantization Speaker: Falk Eilenberger IPOS, The University of Sydney	Tea room School of Physics, The University of Sydney
Friday 17 April 2009 9-10am	Waveguiding in metal-, semiconductor- and soft glass-modified photonic crystal fibers Speakers: Marcus Schmidt Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany Terahertz photonic molecules with coupled whispering gallery resonators Speaker: Harald Schwefel Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany	Tea room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 3 April 2009 9-10am	Local nanofluidic light sources in silicon photonic crystal microcavities Speaker: Silvia Vignolini Tunable (InGa)(AsP) Heterostructure and Air Membrane Photonic Crystal cavities Speaker: R.W Van Der Heijden Research activities at Institut Fresnel : from the photon to the bit Speaker: Hugues Giovannini	Tea room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney
Friday 6 March 2009 9-10am	Interfacing micro-components for optical interconnect applications Speaker: Dr Jürgen Van Erps Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Tea room School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney

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