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“Whirlwind Tour of Who’s Who in
Australian Photonics R&D”
Michael Austin
RMIT University
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Outline
� A brief overview of current major research activities in
the Australian photonics research community
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Optical Fibre Technology Centre
�OFTC (University of Sydney)
• Prof. Simon Fleming
� Specialty silica fibre
• rare earth doped fibre for lasers and amplifiers, highly non-linear fibre, photosensitive fibre, high birefringence fibre, non-circular and exotic geometry fibre for special devices
� Photonic crystal fibre in silica
• air clad for high power lasers, rare-earth doped and photosensitive PCF for devices, Fresnel fibres
�Microstructured polymer optical fibre
• hollow core fibre, multi-core fibres, doped mPOF for active devices
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Optical Fibre Technology Centre (2)
� Photosensitivity and Fibre Bragg Gratings
� Fibre lasers
• high power fibre lasers, fibre DFB lasers, Raman lasers,
short pulse lasers
�Optical fibre sensors
• current and voltage sensors for industrial applications,
fibre and grating arrays for structural health monitoring
� Fibres for biomedical applications
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CUDOS
ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth
Devices for Optical Systems
• Prof. Ben Eggleton
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CUDOS (2)
� Various technologies needed to create “photonic chips”
• Chalcogenide glass waveguides, photonic bandgap technology,
nonlinear photonics, microstructured optical fibres,
microphotonic and optofluidic devices
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The CUDOS research program brings together powerful expertise in theory and experiment across six Universities to create the scientific foundation for a photonic chip.
2D Photonic crystal
Polymer photonic
crystal “super-prism”
Chalcogenide waveguide
Simulation tools
CUDOS Program Linkages
Compact waveguide amplifier
Focussed Ion Beam LithographyElectron Beam Lithography
Holography
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Laser Physics Centre
� Laser Physics Centre
• Prof. Barry Luther-Davies
�Chalcogenide and inorganic polymer glasses
• Chalcogenide glass waveguides and 2D photonic crystals,
high index glasses, devices for all-optical signal processing
�New ARC project in tellurites starting in 2007
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Nonlinear Physics Group
�Nonlinear Physics Group
• Prof. Yuri Kivshar
�Nonlinear photonic crystals
• generation, propagation and stability of nonlinear localised
modes in periodic photonic structures and waveguide circuits
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Optical Sciences Group
�Optical Sciences Group
• Prof. John Love
� Theoretical work in guided-wave linear and non-linear
photonics
� Linear Group
• bend-loss minimisation in fibres, propagation in holey fibres,
two-mode optical amplifiers, fibre tapers and waveguides for
architectural illumination
�Nonlinear Group
• finite-dimensional models for soliton solutions of the cubic-
quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation
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Slide 12Semiconductor Optoelectronics &
Nanotechnology Group
� Semiconductor Optoelectronics & Nanotechnology Group
• Prof. C. Jagadish
�Quantum dot devices
• InGaAs quantum dots on GaAs and InP, quantum dot lasers,
quantum dot infrared photodetectors, integrated optoelectronic
devices
�Nanowires for nanophotonic applications
• VLS growth of InAs, GaAs, GaSb nanowires
� Semiconductor photonic crystals
• band-edge lasers, micro-cavity lasers,
VCSELs
substrate
InGaAs QW1InGaAs QW2InGaAs QW3
GaAs NW
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Fibre-Optics & Photonics Lab.
� Fibre-Optics & Photonics Laboratory
• Prof. Robert Minasian
� Photonic signal processing & microwave photonics
• fibre-based photonic microwave filters (high-Q & tunable),
optically-controlled phased array antennas
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NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory
Victoria Laboratory (University of Melbourne)
• Prof. Rob Evans
� Broadband to the user - PON broadband access
• cheaper PON, wavelength division multiplexed PON, optical virtual private networking, wireless access, protection and restoration of WDM PON
�Optical network performance monitoring
• OPMs for next generation optical networks, impairment mitigation, automated fault management ℡
CATV TV
• Optics• MAC
PSTN
Internet
PABX
EE-Router(or RIPEN)
Foxtel
PON
OLTONU
MuxI/F
BS
Hot Spots
Business
Homes
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CUBIN
ARC Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks
• Prof. Rod Tucker
� Passive optical networks
• WDM PON, “active” PON, long distance (rural) PON,
LAN & optical virtual private networks over PON
� Automatically switched optical networks
• pre-emptive network management, optical path selection,
optical signal monitoring, protection and restoration
Transport PlaneNE
NE
NENE
User User
CECE
CECE
Network Management
ASON
Control Plane
Path
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CUBIN (2)
� All-Optical buffers and routers
� All-Optical switching
�Microwave photonics
• photonic systems for antenna
remoting applications
PacketSynchronization
HeaderReplacement
Buffering &Routing
Controller
DEMUX MUXPacketSynchronization
HeaderReplacement
Buffering &Routing
Controller
DEMUX MUX
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Slide 18Microelectronics and Materials
Technology Centre
MMTC
• Prof. Mike Austin
� Integrated optical devices
• LiNbO3 optical modulators (broadband, resonantly enhanced, modulator arrays), polymer optical waveguides, soft imprinted waveguides, grating assisted couplers, acousto-optic tunable filters, optofluidic devices
�Microwave photonic systems
• high dynamic range photonic links, photonic antenna remoting, photonic RF phase shifter and time delay systems, photonically implemented reconfigurable RF transversal filters, integration of photonics with printed antennas and RF devices
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Other Victorian Groups
� Swinburne University – Centre for Micro-Photonics
• nanophotonics, 3D photonic crystals, biophotonics,
optical data storage, microfluidic devices
�Monash University
• photonic design automation, photonic device and system
modelling, optical OFDM, Tbit/s systems
� Latrobe University
• optical fibre system modelling and design, fibre sensors,
SNOM probes
� Victoria University
• fibre sensors, fibre lasers, optical amplifiers
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Centre of Expertise in Photonics
�CoEP
• Prof. Tanya Monro
� Soft glass microstructured optical fibres
• new transmission fibres (eg mid-infrared),
sensing fibres (chemical & biological), active fibres for lasers,
extreme nonlinearity fibres
• Current emphasis is on tellurite and fluoride glasses
DSTO
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DSTO
�DSTO (Adelaide)
� Photonics for defence applications
• RF photonics for EW systems, high dynamic range photonic
links, photonically controlled phased array antennas, photonic
signal processing, high power and mid-IR lasers, infrared
countermeasures, optoelectronics, optical fibre hydrophones
DSTO
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Western Australia
�UWA – WA Centre for Semiconductor Optoelectronics &
Microsystems
• HgCdTe material and IR detector technology, GaN-based
electronic devices, MEMS
�UWA – Optical and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
• optical coherence tomography, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy,
two photon microscopy, biomedical interferometric imaging
� Edith Cowan University – WA Centre of Excellence for
MicroPhotonic Systems
• opto-ULSI processors, integrated RF signal processors,
photoreceiver arrays, smart antenna beamformers
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Acknowledgements & Apologies
� Thanks to all those who provided information and
images
� Apologies to those whose work may have been omitted