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CUDOS director wins Walter Boas Medal
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Professor Ben Eggleton has won the 2011 Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics. Professor Eggleton will receive his medal at an awards ceremony in March 2012 in Melbourne. The Medal was established in 1984 to promote excellence in physics research and is awarded for physics research carried out in the five years prior to the date of the award, as demonstrated by both published papers and unpublished papers prepared for publication. Congratulations! More info here. |
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CUDOS researchers have just published an invited paper in Laser & Photonics Review, reviewing recent developments in photonic chip based optical processing devices with ultrahigh bandwidth. The paper can be found here. |
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CUDOS researchers grab the spotlight in Highlight Issue of OPN magazine 6 Dec 2011  |
team of CUDOS researchers have demonstrated the generation of over 1 octave of bandwidth with a world record low threshold power. The work, which was published earlier this year in Optics Letters, has been recognized as one of the Highlights in Optics for 2011 by the Optics and Photonics News magazine. More info here. |
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Alessandro Tuniz was the winner of the AIP Postgraduate Presentation for 2011, for his talk "Drawing the Invisible: Fibres for Hyperlenses and the Emperor's Clothes". Alessandro received the 2011 Crystal Postgraduate figurine, and a $500 cheque from the AIP. Congratulations! More info here. |
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CUDOS Chief Investigator Grant Success 20 Nov 2011  |
CUDOS Chief investigator Boris Kuhlmey and Dr. Alex Argyros were awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant of $494,587 over the next three years on the topic of "Drawn Metamaterials: Scalable nanofabrication for optical components of the future". Funding up to two research positions, this will boost the School of Physics' research into using fibre drawing techniques to mass- produce novel metamaterials enabling sub-wavelength waveguides, super-resolving lenses and even invisibility, from Terahertz to visible wavelengths. |
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CUDOS secures funding for single-photon detectors 18 Nov 2011 |
CUDOS Secures Major Equipment grant for Superconducting single-photon detectors, establishing a unique capability within the School of Physics for the measurement of single photons in the near infrared. More info here. |
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16 Nov 2011 |
CUDOS was the recipient of two ARC Linkage Grants to develop optical wavelength and mode switching devices and novel deep-ultraviolet light sources. Congratulations also to our successful ARC Fellowship and Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) applicants, Mark Pelusi (Future Fellow), Chad Husko (DECRA), Chunle Xiong (DECRA) and Jochen Schroeder (DECRA). More details here, here, and here. |
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CUDOS Chief Investigator wins Tall Poppy award 4 Nov 2011
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CUDOS chief investigator Boris Kuhlmey wins the NSW Tall Poppy Award, which recognizes and celebrates Australian intellectual and scientific excellence. Well done Boris! More news here and here. |
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CUDOS entrepeneurship seminar series 19 Oct 2011 |
Fortnightly lunchtime seminars are given by some of Australia's leading entrepreneurs in optics and photonics. For a full programme, click here |
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Dave Moss and Ben Eggleton win Eureka 7 Sep 2011
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Associate Professor David Moss and Professor Ben Eggleton, have been awarded the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science and Leadership in Science, respectively. More details of their nominations here. The winners and finalists for each of the awards are here. |
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Prof. Eggleton on ABC's "Meet a Scientist" 2 Aug 2011 |
Professor Ben Eggleton makes an appearance on "Meet a Scientist", giving us a behind-the-scenes look at his achievements past and present. Read the article here. |
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OECC 2011 Postdeadline publication 4 Jul 2011 |
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. |
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Prof. Ben Eggleton keynote presentation at Big Picture Science Dinner 10 May 11 |
Professor Ben Eggleton was the keynote speaker at the first Big Picture Science Dinner on 28 April 2011. More info here. |
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CUDOS presents postdeadline paper at CLEO 2011 05 May 11
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A CUDOS Postdeadline submission was accepted at the CLEO-QELS conference, to be held in Baltimore in May 2011. "Correlated Photon-Pair Generation in an Ultra-Compact Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguide" will be presented by Christelle Monat, and is a collaboration between CUDOS, The University of Bristol, The University of St Andrews and the Ecole Centrale Lyon. |
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CUDOS is launched
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Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research launched the new CUDOS ARC Centre of Excellence at the University of Sydney. View the media release, the new CUDOS video, and photos from the day. |
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Prof. McPhedran elected to Australian Academy of Science
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Professor Ross McPhedran has been honoured by election to the Australian Academy of Science, in recognition of his distinguished research in microstructured optical fibres, diffraction gratings and photonic crystals. More info here. |
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2 Mar 11 |
The launch of the new CUDOS centre will take place on Wednesday 6 April 2011, 3pm - 6:30pm, MacLaurin Hall, The University of Sydney. View the invitation or go directly to RSVP. More info here. |
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Review article on Chalcogenide Photonics 28 Feb 11  |
The current issue of Nature Photonics contains a review article on chalcogenide photonics. By B.J. Eggleton, B. Luther-Davies and K. Richardson. |
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22 Feb 11
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The new CUDOS logo was unveiled to wide acclaim at our 2011 workshop. |
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Optics Express Special Issue on Chalcogenide Photonics 6 Dec 10
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Professor Ben Eggleton was editor of the recent special issue of Optics Express on chalcogenide photonics. CUDOS is leading research in chalcogenide glass as a platform for next generation integrated all-optical signal processing chip architectures. |
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Cudos recipient of ARC Lief Grant 1 Dec 10
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CUDOS was the recipient of a $400,000 ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment, and Facilities Grant to expand to leading-edge 1.28Tb/s optical testing facilities for next generation optical fiber networks. More news here. |
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Congratulations to Irina Kabakova and Stephen Dekker: their work was presented at the postdeadline session in the Frontiers in Optics meeting held in Rocherster. Well done! More info here. |
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Professor Eggleton presents in Kyoto 14 Oct 10
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Professor Benjamin Eggleton was one of 10 young scientists from around the world chosen by the New York Academy of Sciences to present at the three-day forum in Kyoto in October 2010. More info here. |
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Alessandro Tuniz runner up at PECS '10
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Congratulations to Alessandro Tuniz for second place on his oral presentation "Drawn Terahertz Metamaterials" at the International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS) in Granada. |
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Moss and Eggleton discuss the NBN |
Ben Eggleton and Dave Moss discuss the need for Australia to invest communications infrastructure - our connection to the information superhighway. They state that if the investment add ~1% to Australia's GDP, returning the cost of investment for fibre in the National Broadband Network (NBN) almost immediatly. Their call echos the that of Prof. Rod Tucker of the University of Melbourne, who states that "The idea that we could use very fast broadband based on mobile technologies and existing fibre defies the laws of physics". You can view Ben and Dave's article here. |
| CUDOS renewed in new ARC Centres of Excellence round | The recent CUDOS application for renewal has been sucessful in the new ARC Centres of Excellence funding round, extending the centre until 2017. |
| Prof. McPhedran receives honourary doctorate 07 Jun 10
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Professor Ross McPhedran, a senior researcher with IPOS, has been awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by The Universite Paul Cezanne. His award was presented during a ceremony in Aix en Provence, France, on June 7. Professor McPhedran has been actively collaborating with researchers from this Universite, and its sister institution, the Universite de Provence, since 1973. |
| CUDOS-DTU postdeadline Terabaud breakthrough at OFC 29 Mar 10  |
Work in collaboration between CUDOS and the Danish Technical University (DTU) by Trung Vo has been recently presented as a postdeadline paper at OFC in San Diego. This research uses a chalcogenide glass photonic chip to both optimise and de-multiplex an ultrahigh-bandwidth 1.28Tbaud signal, highlighting the advantages of using a photonic chip for ultrahigh speed optical communications. Well done Trung! |
| Prof. Eggleton awarded Scopus "Young researcher of the year" 08 Mar 09  |
Prof. Eggleton is recognised for his research "remarkable in its productivity and impact, both academically and industrially." through the Scopus young researcher of the year in the physical sciences. The prize was presented at a ceremony at Parliament House and is awarded by Scopus, the key body providing academic performance data to the ARC. Congratulations Ben! |
| Alessandro Tuniz awarded "Best Student Submission" to ACOFT '09 04 Dec 09  |
Congratulations to Alex for his work on "Design of an optical hyperlens with metallic nanocylinders", winning the best student submission to the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) 2009. Alex's work was judged against submissions from fellow student members of the Austraialn Optical Society (AOS). |
| Felix Lawrence wins AIP postgraduate award 27 Nov 09  |
Felix and his talk on impedance in photonic crystals take out the AIP NSW branch postgraduate award. Felix competed against a selected student from each university in NSW and the ACT, each contestant giving a talk on their work in front of a jury and judged on both the importance and quality of their work, as well as the quality of the presentation. Well done Felix! |
| Professor Eggleton elected fellow of the ATSE and IEEE 24 Nov 09  |
Congratulations to Prof. Ben Eggleton for his recent election as fellow to: The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) recognizing his contribution to photonics in both an industrial and university setting. & The Insitiute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), for contributions to the development and applications of Bragg gratings and other periodic structures in optical fibers. |
| ARC grant sucess for CUDOS USyd 27 Oct 09  |
Congratulations to Ravi Pant & Ben Eggleton, Peter Domachuk, and Martijn de Sterke for their recent successfull applications for ARC grants. Ravi & Ben were awarded a grant for investigations in to stimulated Brillouin scattering and slow light, Peter for investigating silk for bio-optical devices and Martijn for an investigations into slow light. More details here. |
| CUDOS research highlighted in ABCs Catalyst 7 Sep 09  |
The ABCs science show, Catalyst, features CUDOS research in "The Photonic Chip". Ben Eggleton, Barry Luther-Davies and Dave Moss talk about the importance of all-optical signal processing for future communication systems. See the segment online. |
| CUDOS presents 3 postdeadline results at OECC '09 17 Jul 09  |
Results on repetition and wavelength tunable lasers, efficient wavelength conversion of high-speed signals and high-resolution optical sampling have been preseted in the OECC '09 postdeadline session. The tunable laser concept is the work of new CUDOS postdoc Jochen Schroeder based on the Finisar waveshaper, funded through an ARC linkage grant. Both the wavelength conversion and optical sampling are achieved with chalcogenide planar waveguides from the ANU node. |
| Bragg gratings discretise transmission of light 28 Mar 09  |
CUDOS researchers have discovered that bragg gratings can break optical pulses into several pulses of light, through a phonomenon labeled "soliton mediated optical quatization". These results were reported in as a postdeadling paper at the recent PECS meeting in Sydney |
| Unprecedented visible light emission from silicon 23 Mar 09  |
Researchers at CUDOS produce green light from silicon - a material opaque to visible light. This is achieved in a photonic crystal waveguide, designed to provide slow-light enhanced nonlinear effects, through third harmonic generation. The new research opens up a new window of light generation within silicon, and has recently been published in Nature Photonics. Media release here. |
| Breakthrough photonic RF spectrum analyser demonstrated 16 Feb 09 |
CUDOS publishes a breakthrough new concept - a photonic RF spectrum analyser - in Nature Photonics. The device uses chalcogenide waveguide all-optical signal processing to provide an on-chip solution to monitoring signal quality at ultrahigh bit rates. Media release here. |
| Green communications coming to a computer near you 23 Nov 08 |
The university gets excited about the work of Dave Moss at CUDOS on "Low-power continuous-wave nonlinear optics in doped silica glass integrated waveguide structures" recently published in Nature Photonics. |
| New Mid-IR source LIEF funding for CUDOS 18 Nov 08 |
CUDOS U.Syd. has had success with our LEIF grant application to establish a new $500k tunable Mir-IR pulsed laser facility and a new Optofluidics facitilty at RMIT with joint funding from the ARC, U.Syd, ANU and RMIT . The Mid IR facility will provide a powerful tool for non-telecom based photonics while the Optofluidics facility |
| CUDOS post-deadline paper at ECOC '08 29 Sep 08  |
Recent CUDOS work on "Slow light enhanced third-harmonic generation in silicon photonic crystal waveguides" has been accepted at this years European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Brussels. The research follows the discovery of emission of Third-harmonic green light from silicon, a material opaque to visible wavelengths. |
| Prof. Eggleton named NSW physicist-of-the-year 12 Sep 08 |
The state Office for Science and Medical Research has awarded Prof. Eggleton the scientist of the year award for physics and astronomy for the pioneering work of CUDOS under his directorship, as well as acknowledging work done while at Bell Labs. Well done Ben. |
| CUDOS on Channel 9's Sunday Program 27 Jul 08 |
Following the media attention surrounding the recent 640Gb/s demultiplexing postdeadline paper at this years ACOFT, Ch9's Sunday program runs a feature on "The Glass Switch", highlighting CUDOS work in developing faster telecom networks. |
| Breakthrough 640Gb/s demultiplexing result 10 Jul 08  |
CUDOS, with danish and chinese collaborators at DTU and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, have shown four-wave-mixing-based demultiplexing in a chalcogenide waveguide from 640Gb/s to 10Gb/s. This has inspired interest in the popular press, from Fairfax to ABC radio as well as interest sites like fibresystems.org |
| CUDOS students are winners at OECC/ACOFT 10 Jul 08 |
Congratulations to Hong Nguyen for winning the Optium prize for best student submission and Felix Lawrence for winning equal second prize for best student presentation at OECC/ACOFT |
| CUDOS students win two postgraduate awards 16 May 08  |
Congratulations to Cameron Smith and Paul Steinvurzel for winning two postgraduate research prize. Cameron was awarded the Australia-wide CSIRO "best student publication" prize and Paul awarded the U.Syd. School of physics prize for the best PhD thesis. |
| CUDOS contributes 14 papers at CLEO/QELS 21 Mar 08 |
Members of the CUDOS group at the University of Sydney have had 14 papers accepted for presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/Quantum Electronics and Spectroscopy in San Jose in May. Further details can be found at the CLEO 2008 website. |
| New CUODS position open 12 Mar 08 |
CUDOS seeks postdoc/research fellow for nonlinear optics in photonic nanowires. |
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U.Syd. photonics outreach to HSC |
SUPER at U.Syd. in collaboration with CUDOS have released two video tutorials on optical fibre for HSC students. "Introduction to optical fibres": Ben Eggleton descirbes optical fibres, fabrication and non-linearity. "Optical fibres: guiding light": Ben describes waveguideing through total internal reflection |
| CUDOS researchers investigate harnessing optical rogue waves 5 Mar 08  |
CUDOS UoS in colaboration with researchers in Finland and France investigate the phonomenon of optical rogue waves, extreme redshifted solitons sometimes found through supercontiuum generation. Harnessing such powerful solitons would provide widely-tuneable soliton generation for non-linear optics and photonics. |
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Prof. Eggleton in Sydney's 100 most influential people |
 Ben Eggleton has been named in the SMH "Sydney" magazine as one of Sydney's 100 most influential people |
| CUDOS / Stanford GaAs PC post-tuneing breakthrough 03 Feb 08  |
CUDOS researchers in collaboration with Stanford University demonstrate local tuning of GaAs-based photonic crystal cavities using chalcogenide glass – an important advance towards quantum dot based single photon sources |
| CUDOS hosts Prof Asger Mortensen 30 Jan 08  |
CUDOS hosts Prof Asger Mortensen from DTU, Denmark. Prof Mortensen is well known for his contributions to Photonic Crystal Fiber research and more recently slow-light and optofluidics. |
| CUDOS article in OPN 04 Jan 08 |
CUDOS contributes an article to Optics and Photonics News: |
| CUDOS contributes News and Views article to Nature 13 Dec 07 |
Dong-Il Yeom and Ben Eggleton contribute "News and Views" article to Nature |
| CUDOS slow light research highlighted in OPN 02 Dec 07 |
CUDOS research on "Dispersionless and Tunable Slow Light" has been included in the OSA bulletin Optics and Photonics News, as a highlight representing some of the most exciting research to emerge in the preceding 12 months. |
| Prof Eggleton visits Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China 10 Nov 07 |
Prof Eggleton spends one week with Prof Limin Tong at one of China's top university, presenting seminars, meeting students and site seeing. |
| Breakthrough microfluidic photonic crystal cavity result 08 Oct 07 |
CUDOS has demonstrated a postprocessed and reconfigurable photonic crystal double-heterostructure cavity via selective fluid infiltration. Initial results yield a cavity with measured quality factor Q=4300. Our defect-writing technique does not require nanometer-scale alterations in lattice geometry and may be undertaken at any time after photonic crystal waveguide fabrication. |
| Dr David Moss elected OSA fellow 24 Oct 07 |
Dave Moss has been recognized by the OSA for significant contributions to the theory of semiconductor optical nonlinearities and quantum-well optoelectronics and to experimental demonstrations of integrated optical signal processing, as well as for developing commercial devices for optical communications. |
| Breakthough result in all-optical switching Sept 07 |
The CUDOS team has developed a low loss chalcogenide planar waveguide of only 50-mm length with ultra-high optical Kerr nonlinearity. This compact chip enabled the first demonstration of high-performance time-division demultiplexing of a 160-Gb/s signal into its tributary 10-Gb/s channels via four-wave mixing (FWM) with copropagating pump pulses. For more details contact Prof. Ben Eggleton. |
| CUDOS recieves new ARC research funds 03 Oct 07 |
Dr. Christian Grillet, Dr. Boris Kuhlmey and Prof. Ben Eggelton are successful in grants totaling $650k for research into senising using photonic bandgap fibre and investigations into the optical biomimetics of diatoms. |
| Prof. Eggleton named in Top 10 Australian scientists 28 Sep 07 |
Prof. Ben Eggletion has been named in COSMOS magazine's annual "Bright Sparks" awards as on of Australia's top 10 scientists under 40. |
| Photonics Spectra Chalcogenide Review 24 Sep 07 |
CUDOS contributes Chalcogenide review article to Photonics Spectra Magazine. This article serves as a good introduction to chalcogenide device technology for all-optical signal processing |
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Prof. Eggleton and |
Professor Ben Eggleton will serve as general chair of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) in July 2008. Dr. Chris Walsh will also serve as general chair of the co-located International Congress on Optics (ICO). |
| New labs opened 31 May 07 |
CUDOS@USyd celebrated the opening of a new series of labs. |
| Upgrade of high capacity optical test bed 20 Apr 07 |
CUDOS will be conducting an upgrade of its existing 160 Gbit/s optical test bed – a key component of the high speed transmission lab. The upgrade will provide the needed infrastructure to test components, devices and transmission in real-world environment. |
| Congratulations to CUDOS Director Benjamin Eggleton, who was awarded the prestigious Pawsey Medal for 2007. | |
| AIP postgraduate winner 22 Nov 06 |
Vahid Ta'eed, PhD student at Sydney University was announced as the winner of the AIP postgraduate prize |
| CUDOS Flagship postgrad projects 15 Nov 06 |
Postgrad opportunities in a number of exciting Flagship projects at the forefront of modern photonics. Top-up scholarships available. |
| CUDOS/Anglo Australian Observatory collaborative postgrad projects 25 Oct 06 |
Postgrad opportunities in mid infrared (MIR) astrophotonics for development of novel, compact MIR spectrographs suitable for mass replication and incorporation into large telescopes. Top-up scholarships available.
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Postgrad opportunities in new nonlinear optical signal processing devices for next generation optical communications systems through new CUDOS/NICTA (National ICT Australia) collaborative. Top-up scholarships available.
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| NEWSFLASH: Slow gap solitons 24 Oct 06 |
CUDOS reports slowlight breakthrough in Nature Physics: Joe T. Mok, C. Martijn de Sterke, Ian C. M. Littler and Benjamin J. Eggleton, "Dispersionless slow light using gap solitons," Nature Physics, Published online: 22 October 2006; | doi:10.1038/nphys438
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| Music of the spheres 14 Aug 06 |
Light controlling light is all part of day's work for the researchers at CUDOS research centre in Sydney. Sometimes they even make it dance.
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| New Lecturer position advertised 27 July 06 |
The School of Physics invites applications for the newly created position of Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the field of Photonics or Optical Physics to take up appointment as soon as possible. |
| Slow light workshop 27 June 06 |
Recently held on Friday 16th June 2006 at the Coogee Bay Hotel. View program and access presentation files... |
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CUDOS Workshop 2006 |
The next CUDOS workshop will take place in Hervey Bay on 9th – 11th August 2006. |
| New Postdoc position advertised 20 Apr 06 |
We are seeking a candidate with a good understanding of the systems aspects of optical networks and the ability to develop and characterise systems-level approaches to dispersion compensation. This position will access new CUDOS facilites, including a 40Gb/s Bit Error Rate system and high-speed optical transmission equipment.
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Microfluidics is a rapidly emerging field with researchers around the globe working on lab-on-a-chip systems for diverse and widespread applications.
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| New Research Position Open 23 Dec 05 |
Applications are invited for two positions. Each of these can be filled either at Post Doctoral Fellow level (Level A) or at the level of Research Fellow (Level B). We require an experimentalist to investigate, characterise, and optimise supercontinuum generation in optical fibres with longitudinally varying parameters and a theorist to investigate, model, and optimise supercontinuum generation in these fibres. |
| CUDOS@USyd Research Programs 21 Nov 05 |
The Vision of CUDOS is to develop the experimental and theoretical expertise to design and build linear and nonlinear all-optical signal processing devices, and to miniaturize these, leading to a "photonic chip".
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| CUDOS@USyd success in ARC Grants 10 Nov 05 |
CUDOS@USyd researchers have been awarded a total of more than $3M for a variety of innovative new research projects commencing in 2006.
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| Newsflash: CUDOS announces breakthroughs 7 Nov 05 |
Researchers at CUDOS, the Sydney-based Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, announced their breakthrough today at an international optics conference - LEOS - in Sydney. They also announced a suite of other developments towards their ultimate goal – light-powered switching transistors and light-powered computers. Read the article in the Australian newspaper or see the original media press release. |
| Upcoming speakers 27 Oct 05 |
An impressive list of speakers for CUDOS seminars and School Colloquia over the next few weeks...
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| ACOFT/BGPP Conference Success 14 Jul 05  |
This joint meeting of conferences reflected the maturity, breadth, depth and longevity of photonics research in Australia...
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| New Position Available 14 Jul 05 |
We require an experimentalist to investigate nonlinear pulse propagation in optical fibres with a focus on demonstrating optical signal conditioning applications in high-speed optical communication systems...
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| Light Up Australia's Future 13 Apr 05 |
Bandwidth is like computer memory; you live with what you’ve got, but more is always better. Read the rest of the article... |
| LEOS 2005 16-Mar-05  |
LEOS 2005, to be held this 23 - 27 October in Sydney, Australia, is the 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS).
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| Optics in Australia 1-Mar-05 |
"Optics in Australia", a joint article by B. Eggleton and K. Baldwin on the outstanding contributions of the optical research community of Australia. Available online in the March edition of "OPN, Optics and Photonics News", the magazine of the Optical Society of America. |
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CUDOS Microfluidics Position |
Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in microfluidic photonic systems.
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| Call for Papers 17-Feb-05  |
We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation or a poster. Deadline is 29 April 05 with further details available from the workshop website.
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| New CUDOS Position 21-Dec-05 |
Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in High-speed nonlinear photonics
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| http://cms.ucc.usyd.edu.au/htdocs/physics/cudos/news/mfludicsgrant.shtml 22-Nov-04 |
Prof Eggleton receives funding from the Australia Research Council to explore fundamentals and applications of micofluidic photonics.
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| http://cms.ucc.usyd.edu.au/htdocs/physics/cudos/news/biterror.shtml 22-Nov-04 |
CUDOS@USYD was awarded a University of Sydney Equipment grant to develop an ultrahigh speed photonics system.
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| 3rd CUDOS Workshop: Integrating Research 27-sept-04  |
Held at the Hawthorn Campus of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, the third CUDOS workshop was a resounding success.
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Eggleton awarded Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year |
On Tuesday evening, Professor Ben Eggleton was recognized with a major award at the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science in Canberra.
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| Dr Nelson visits CUDOS@USyd 16-Aug-04  |
Dr Brendan Nelson, Federal Minister for Science, Education and Training visits CUDOS laboratory in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.
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| CUDOS Topical Workshop: The Light Line and Beyond! 22-Jul-04  |
CUDOS researchers from all five nodes convene for a topical workshop: The Light Line and Beyond! The topical workshop was held off-campus at the Sydney Fish Market.
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Bragg grating, Photosensitivity and Poling (BGPP)- OSA Topical Meeting |
The Bragg grating, Photosensitivity and Poling (BGPP) - OSA Topical Meeting will be held in Sydney in Jul 2005, co-located with the ACOFT...
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| CUDOS Students Win AOS/ACOFT Student Prizes 21-Jul-04 |
Tom White was the co-winner of the Wanda Henry student prize at the ACOFT meeting, while Paul Steinvurzel was the winner of the AOS student prize for outstanding paper...
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| http://cms.ucc.usyd.edu.au/htdocs/physics/cudos/news/cleanroom.shtml 18-Jul-04  |
Located on the first floor of the School of Physics the Class 350 Clean Room allows CUDOS researchers to study nanophotonic devices. The follow article appeared in "The University of Sydney News" on 2 July 2004...
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| Photonic Crystals Conference, 2005 20-May-04 |
We are pleased to announce that CUDOS is organizing a workshop entitled "Photonic Crystals: Fundamentals to Devices" for July 2005. Details to follow shortly on this site...
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| AOS Medal for Prof McPhedran 14-May-04  |
We have great pleasure in advising that Prof. Ross McPhedran has been awarded the Australian Optical Society Medal. Prof. McPhedran is the fifth person to be awarded the medal since the first award in 1995...
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| Post-deadline paper: Nonlinear GUided Waves and Their Applications 5-May-04 |
"Towards long lengths of silica fiber with permanent second order nonlinearities" Kenneth Lee, Peifang Hu, Justin L. Blows. Over 200m of low loss optical fiber was manufactured with an internal wire electrode. A 0.9 m section of the fiber was thermally poled, inducing a permanent second order nonlinearity of 0.0125 pm/V.
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| Optics Express Special Issue: Photonic crystals and Holey fibers... 4-May-04 |
Prof Eggleton and Dr Yuri Vlasov, from IBM Labs are guest editors for a special issue in Optics Express in the topic of Photonic crystals and Holey fibres... |
| POPLUS Facilities updated... 4-May-04 |
The Photonic and Optical Physics Laboratory at the University of Sydney (POPLUS) section of the CUDOS@USyd section of this site has been updated to provide a more detailed view of the laboratores, facilities and key tools that are available for our researchers...
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| CUDOS MOF Utilities 29-Apr-04 |
The CUDOS MOF Utilities are a software package for simulating microstructured optical fibres (or MOFs, also known as photonic crystal fibres or holey fibres) using the multipole method. The software has been designed to be easy to use and can be downloaded without charge from this webpage...
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CUDOS Video |
The CUDOS video gives an overview of the driving concepts and major research activities at the five nodes of CUDOS. The video is in the Windows Media Audio/Video format: 10MB / 3.1MB. You can also right click and save the file to your hard disk for later viewing. You will need a player to view this video...
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| Photonics Microfabrication Network Report 13-Feb-04  |
To enhance and advance photonics research in Australia by providing support for communication, collaboration and optimum use of resources. View this ARC Network report online...
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| Canadians join CUDOS@USYD 29-Jan-04 |
Dr. David Moss, Dr. Peter Krug and Yannick Lize have joined CUDOS@USYD. Dr Moss will play a key role in CUDOS's planar technology efforts, while Dr Krug has been hired to work on an ARC Network proposal. Yannick Lize is a visiting student who will be working on fibre tapers...
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Advancing Research Workshop |
Held at the Australian National University in Canberra, the second CUDOS workshop was a resounding success with over 70 academics and students participating...
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POPLUS Open day |
An open day was held to allow students, school staff and academics to visit the Photonic and Optical Physics Laboratory at the University of Sydney (POPLUS). Following a 10 minute movie on the research conducted at CUDOS@USYD, visitors were taken for an escorted tour of the laboratories. Researchers presented their work and demonstrated their results...
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Slusher visits CUDOS |
Dr Richart Slusher, employed at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, is visiting CUDOS for 4 weeks, with the majority of the visit at the University of Sydney node of CUDOS. The visit has allowed a number of students to collaborate with Dr Slusher, gaining from his broad range of optics expertise...
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CUDOS presents postdeadline paper at LEOS |
This paper represented a strong collaboration between the CUDOS group at the University of Sydney, the CUDOS group at Swinburne University of Technology and OFS Laboratories and benefited from the good links with RSoft Design Group, Inc. The paper entitled: "Lateral thinking with photonic crystal fibres" describes an entirely novel use of optical fibres. Rather than using the optical fibre as a light-pipe to transmit information, this paper describes a Tall-Microchip architecture in which the fibre is probed transversely. In the experiment a photonic crystal optical fibre comprising equally space air-holes was probed and modeled using finite-time difference technique. Highlights of this paper include: measurement of a fundamental bandgap in a photonic crystal fibre using FTIR, and the first demonstration of a microfluidic tunable photonic bandgap device. Researchers at CUDOS expect this demonstration will open possibilities for new microphotonic devices... |
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ARC success |
CUDOS@USYD successful ARC LIEF grant to develop a Raman Photonic Device Facility. This represents a new opportunity for Australia to become a leader in the rapidly advancing field of Raman interactions in photonic devices covering both real world applications and fundamental physical research. This facility was funded as part of a collaboration between CUDOS research at the University of Sydney, Macquaire University and the Australian National University and a group of researchers at the Optical Fibre Technology Centre at the University of Sydney...
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Dr Misha Sumetsky, optical physicist currently working at OFS Laboratories in Murray Hill NJ spent two weeks working with the CUDOS team at the University of Sydney. The CUDOS/OFS research collaboration centers around new ideas in photonic crystal materials and microcavities. CUDOS has established good links with international collaborators...
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| Photonic chip Jun-03  |
The vision of CUDOS is to develop the experimental and theoretical expertise to design and build linear and nonlinear all-optical signal processing devices, and to miniaturize these, leading to a "photonic chip"...
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The first workshop in a series of many workshops was held recently on the 22-23 of May. The workshop was an exciting and stimulating event, allowing researchers to interact and focus on the centre's research goals. The workshop was a useful opportunity for many to begin partnerships and collaborations and for others to continue to build on long standing relationships...
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Nature, 13 March 2003 - "A tuneable filter has been introduced into an optical fibre by filling hollow channels in the fibre with moveable plugs of liquid. The filter acts as a barrier to infrared radiation within a narrow wavelength band as it passes down the fibre..."
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| LEOS topical meeting 14-Apl-03  |
Topical meeting on "Holey fibers and Photonic crystals" This symposium deals with micro-structured optical fiber and photonic bandgap materials and considers their potential for enabling photonic device applications and integration...
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| Photonic crystals course 14-Apr-03 |
Professor Ben Eggleton presents 4 hour short course at CLEO in Baltimore on Photonic crystals: Fibres and Devices, register NOW!...
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New Book |
NEW BOOK: Nonlinear Photonic Crystals, by R. E. Slusher (Editor), B. J. Eggleton (Editor), Qing-Guo J. Wang - "Nonlinear optical studies of periodic dielectric structures have blossomed in the past two decades. New fabrication techniques are producing fiber grating and multidimensional photonic crystals in materials where the refractive index can be varied by light pulses and beams. Gap solitons that can propagate at any velocity from zero to the speed of light and spatial solitons that prevent the diffractive spread of light in waveguide arrays are two examples of the new phenomena described in this book..."
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| CUDOS launch 9-Apr-03  |
Its official! CUDOS, the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, was launched. Over 80 attendees from all the CUDOS partner nodes, collaborating institutions and Australian photonic groups came to hear speakers Dr. Mike Sargent AM, Professor and Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University Gavin Brown, Dr Simon Poole and CUDOS Director, Prof. Ben Eggleton... |
| New lab space 7-Apr-03  |
CUDOS@USyd has now almost completed the task of renovating its new laboratory space, the Photonic and Optical Physics Laboratory at the University of Sydney (POPLUS). The students and researchers within CUDOS have already begun their experiments in the light and spacious rooms, which are located on the ground floor of the historical Physics building, on the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney... |
| Prospective students Apr-03 |
This brochure is meant for prospective postgraduate and honours students. It provides a brief overview of the Centre’s work and introduces the key research staff...
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