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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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Optical Sciences Group

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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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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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More Happy Researchers !

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Acknowledgements & Apologies

� Thanks to all those who provided information and

images

� Apologies to those whose work may have been omitted