15th Annual Workshop Handbook

2016

01 - 04 February 2016Mercure Kooindah Waters

Wyong, NSW, Australia

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Directors’ Welcome Message 04

Program-at-a-glance 05

The Venue 06

List of Participants 08

Invited Speakers 11

Opening Session & Hot Topics 15

Functional Metamaterials & Metadevices 16

On-chip Nanoplasmonics 17

Terabit per second Photonics 18

Hybrid Integration 19

Mid-infrared Photonics 20

Nonlinear Quantum Photonics 21

Communication Strategy & Training 22

Education & Training and Outreach 23

CUDOS Technologies 26

Topical Conversations & Open Forum 27

Student Abstracts 28

Researcher Abstracts 81

CONTENTS

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DIRECTORS’ WELCOME MESSAGE

Ben EggletonDirector, CUDOS

Yuri KivsharDeputy Director,

CUDOS

Welcome to the 15th Annual CUDOS Workshop, to be held at the Kooindah Resort, Wyong, NSW. As we enter the final two years of the Centre, this Workshop will provide staff, students & our local and international guest’s opportunities to share ideas and experiences about their research, identify new potential or cement existing areas for collaboration, and network with each other.

It is encouraging to see again, that our Partner institutions are well represented at this Workshop and we also welcome a number of guests who will contribute to our highly popular Hot Topics session; Shanhui Fan from Stanford makes a very welcome return in addition to Arya Fallahi from the DESY-Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL). Thomas Krauss from York University will enlighten us on his new role as Research Champion in the area of Technologies for the Future and will challenge our current way of thinking of how to conduct research.

Flagship presentations chaired by the Science and Project Leaders, the popular “Open Forum” and the Student Meet & Greet will feature again this year, in addition to the Education & Training and Outreach session where we will review activities carried out across the Centre in 2015 and discuss activities planned for 2016. Of course the major outreach event for 2015 was the International Year of Light for which the Centre was a gold sponsor. I will be reviewing the Centre’s contribution and legacy to this amazing event.

The Poster Sessions for both staff and students will again prove popular and highly competitive. The Student Poster presentations will be judged by a selected panel with a prize pool of $1500. In response to feedback from the last Workshop, we will have two student poster sessions, allowing students to view each other’s posters and tripling the viewing time available for the judges to thoroughly assess all posters.

Two new initiatives will be introduced at this workshop: Communication Strategy and Training and the CUDOS Technology Showcase.

It is vital that in the next two years we increase our visibility in the public arena, that we tell the story of the centre’s achievements in the areas of research, wealth creation, education & training and community engagement. Jacqui Charlesworth, the Centre’s Communications Coordinator will outline the proposed Communications Strategy for 2016 and 2017 and that will be followed by three mini-communication workshops designed exclusively for CUDOS staff & students, dealing primarily with working with the media, and how to harness the power of social media to enhance research visibility.

The CUDOS Technology Showcase will provide an opportunity for all of CUDOS to see the Centre’s most innovative - and commercially promising - new technologies and meet their innovators. These technologies have already received funding and mentorship from CUDOS and support from a host of other sources. Some have been licenced or are available for licencing and others are the basis of early stage spin out companies. This morning session will provide an opportunity for you to understand and explore the significant progress we have made in this area, and the exciting opportunities that are being created. Dr Andrew Tindell, Director of Commercial Development and Industrial Partnerships at the University of Sydney will deliver a short opening address referring to the Australian Government’s Innovation Statement; in particular the government’s intention to include measurement of non-academic impact and industry and end-user engagement in university research performance.

Our social activities include an afternoon at the glorious Glenworth Valley where a number of outdoor adventure activities will be on offer, and the Workshop dinner at a venue on the lake at the Entrance. Please also feel free to enjoy the resort’s facilities; the outdoor and indoor pools, tennis courts and 24-hour Fitness Centre.

We want to thank the Admin team – Shelley, Vera, Jacqui and Silke - for their excellent efforts in organising this event.

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PROGRAM - AT - A - GLANCE

Monday, 1 February 2016

11:00 - 14:00 Arrival & Registration

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Director’s Opening Address

15:00 - 15:45 Hot Topics I: Shanhui Fan

15:45 - 16:15 Networking Break

15:45 - 16:15 Student Poster Project Group Briefings

16:15 - 17:05 Functional Metamaterials and Meta-devices

17:05 - 17:30 Student Poster Presentations: Group 1

17:30 Key Collection

17:45 - 19:00 Student Poster Display: Group 1

19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 Student Meet & Greet

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 - 09:20 On-chip Nanoplasmonics

09:20 - 09:35 Education & Training and Outreach

09:35 - 10:05 Student Poster Presentations: Group 2

10:05 - 10:30 Communication Strategy Overview

10:30 - 11:00 Networking Break

11:00 - 13:00

Communication TrainingStream 1: MediaStream 2: Social MediaStream 3: Career Management

13:00 - 14:00 Education & Training and Outreach Committee Working Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 EPPIC Group Working Lunch

14:15 Departure for Glenworth Valley

14:45 - 18:00 Social Afternoon at Glenworth Valley

18:30 - 19:45 Student Poster Display: Group 2

19:45 - 21:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 3 February 2016

07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

07:30 - 09:00 Women in CUDOS Breakfast Session

09:00 - 10:30 Terabit per Second Photonics

10:30 - 11:00 Networking Break

11:00 - 13:00 CUDOS Technologies

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:50 Hybrid Integration

14:50 - 15:30 Hot Topics II: Arya Fallahi

15:30 - 16:30 Networking Break incl. Staff Poster Display

16:30 - 17:20 Mid-infrared Photonics

17:30 - 18:00 Group Photos

18:00 Departure: Offsite Dinner

18:30 - 22:00 Gala Dinner incl. Commercialisation Prize Pitch & Outreach Awards

22:00 Departure for Mercure Kooindah Waters

Thursday, 4 February 2016

07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast & Checkout

09:00 - 10:10 Nonlinear Quantum Photonics

10:10 - 10:30 Nano Break

10:30 - 11:00 Topical Conversations: Thomas Krauss

11:00 - 11:45 Open Forum

11:45 - 13:00 Lunch

12:30 Delegate Departure: Newcastle Airport

13:00 Delegate Departure: Sydney

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THE VENUEMERCURE KOOINDAH WATERS

Welcome to Mercure Kooindah Waters Golf & Spa Resort.

Please read the following information which will assist you during your stay.

Reception & HousekeepingReception is open 24 hours daily.

Workshop LocationAll workshop sessions will be held in the Kooindah Function Rooms inside the main building. Student posters will be displayed in the Poolview Room near the outdoor swimming pool. (See adjacent map.)

IdentificationPlease wear your name tag at all times whilst in the resort during the workshop, particularly at all meal times. This will enable resort staff to identify you as part of the CUDOS group.

MealsBreakfast and Lunches will be served in Karinya’s Restaurant.Morning and afternoon tea will be served in the Breakout Area of Karinya’s Restaurant.Dinner locations vary and will be advised on the day.

Buffet-style dining caters for vegans, vegetarians and pescetarians. Special meals have been arranged for those who requested them when registering & will be made available individually. If you have any concerns regarding food service, please see Vera Brinkel.

Internet AccessWireless internet is available throughout the resort.

Resort FacilitiesFacilities include an 18-hole championship golf course, Endota Day Spa, a heated indoor 20-metre lap pool, an outdoor recreational pool, gym, sauna and spa, tennis courts and a walking and running track.

Additional ChargesPurchase of additional food, alcohol or services should be settled directly at the time of purchase with the resort; i.e. these items are not to be charged to your room. The resort will accept credit cards and cash (please note, there is no ATM at the resort).

CheckoutCheckout time is 9.00am. Your luggage will be stored in a location to be advised until departure.

ParkingParking is complimentary and available outside hotels rooms.

Local FacilitiesThe resort is located a 5-minute drive from the town centre of Wyong, which features small shops and a Coles supermarket, a chemist and doctor. In case of an emergency, Wyong Hospital is a 10-minute drive from the resort. Please ask reception staff for directions.

Enjoy your stay at Mercure Kooindah Waters!

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THE VENUEMERCURE KOOINDAH WATERS

RESORT MAP

FLOOR PLAN

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

ANU Laser Physics CentreChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates Students

Choi, Duk-Yong Kenchington Goldsmith, Harry-Dean

Gai, Xin Yu, Yi

Vu, Khu Tri

ANU Nonlinear Physics CentreChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates StudentsKivshar, Yuri Kruk, Sergey Athaudage Don, Peshitha

Neshev, Dragomir Liu, Wei Bontempi, Nicolò

Powell, David Chen, Haitao

Solntsev, Alexander Cole, Michael

Sukhorukov, Andrey Comacho Morales, Maria

Sun, Yue Guo, Rui

Hopkins, Ben

Komar, Andrei

Suchkov, Sergey

Titchener, James

Wang, Kai

Zarate, Yair

Zuo, Haijie

Macquarie UniversityChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates StudentsDawes, Judith Arriola, Alexander Antipov, Sergey

Steel, Michael Coutts, David Blay, Daniel

Withford, Michael Gross, Simon Chaboyer, Zachary

Helt, Luke Entwisle, Blake

Leger, James Jiang, Xiantao

Stokes, Alex Whitford, Michelle

Yan, Zhizhong Wieschendorf, Christoph

Monash UniversityChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates StudentsLowery, Arthur Corcoran, Bill

Zhuang, Leimeng

RMITChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates StudentsMitchell, Arnan Hwang, Yongsop Boes, Andreas

Khodasevych, Iryna Ren, Guanghui

Lin, Jiao Schoenhardt, Steffen

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

RMIT - continuedChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates Students

Moss, David Tambasco, Jean-Luc

Ngyuen, Thach

Schröder, Jochen

Yudistira, Didit

SwinburneChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates StudentsGu, Min (RMIT Affiliation) Cumming, Ben Al-Baiaty, Zahraa

Goi, Elena

Peng, Jingyang

Turella, Fabio

The University of SydneyChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates Studentsde Sterke, Martijn Atakaramians, Shaghik Andonegui, Imanol

Eggleton, Ben Bell, Bryn Aryanfar, Iman

Kuhlmey, Boris Blanco-Redondo, Andrea Brownless, Scott

McPhedran, Ross Casas-Bedoya, Alvaro Colom, Remi

Choudhary, Amol Fisher, Caitlin

Admin & Support Cvetojevic, Nick Haidar, El-Abed

Brinkel, Vera Giacoumidis, Elias He, Jiakun

Charlesworth, Jacqueline Hudson, Darren Jizan, Iman

Fleming, Simon Hu, Tomonori Liu, Yang

Martin, Shelley Leong, Phillip Mahendra, Andri

Walsh, Chris Li, Guangyuan (Clark) Marini, Loris

Weiss, Silke Mägi, Eric Merklein, Moritz

Marpaung, David Morrison, Blair

Palomba, Stefano Rustomji, Kaizad

Pelusi, Mark Singh, Neetesh

Shahnia, Shayan Sturmberg, Björn

Smith, Mike Zarifi, Atiyeh

Stiller, Birgit Zhang, Yanbing (Young)

Xiong, Chunle Zhang, Xiang (Bruce)

Xu, BinBin

UTSChief Investigators Research Staff and Affiliates StudentsPoulton, Christopher Dossou, Kokou Gorlach, Maxim

Lapine, Mikhail Mirnaziry, Sayyed

Wolff, Christian

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Partner InvestigatorsBaets, Roel Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium

Frisken, Steve Finisar Australia

Krauss, Thomas University of York, UK

Kuipers, L (Kobus) Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Amsterdam), The Netherlands

Namiki, Shu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) & Waseda University, Japan

Oxenløwe, Leif DTU, Denmark

Sipe, John University of Toronto, Canada

Representatives from Partner OrganisationsHess, Ortwin Imperial College London, UK

Kurosu, Takayuki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) & Waseda University, Japan

Marshall, Graham University of Bristol, UK

Invited GuestsFan, Shanhui Stanford University, USA

Fallahi, Arya Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL), DESY, Hamburg, Germany

McKinstrie, Colin Applied Communication Sciences, USA

Slavik, Radan Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Roel Baets is full professor at Ghent University (UGent) and is the Director of the Center for Nano and Biophotonics at UGent. He has management responsibilities within the Photonics Research Group; the international Erasmus Mundus MSc program in Photonics; and the joint UGent-IMEC research program on silicon photonics. Roel Baets received an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Ghent University in 1980 and a second MSc degree from Stanford University in 1981. He received a PhD degree from Ghent University in 1984. From 1984 till 1989 he held a postdoctoral position at IMEC. Since 1989 he has been a professor in the Engineering Faculty of UGent where he founded the Photonics Research Group. He has also been a part-time professor at Delft University of Technology and at Eindhoven University of Technology. Roel Baets has mainly worked in the field of integrated photonic components, making contributions to research on photonic integrated circuits, both in III-V semiconductors and in silicon. In 2006 he founded the Multi-Project-Wafer service for silicon photonics: ePIXfab. He was also co-founder of the interuniversity UGent-VUB MSc program in Photonics and of the European MSc program in Photonics.Roel Baets is a grant holder of the Flemish government’s Methusalem program and the European Research Council (ERC advanced grant). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.

Shanhui Fan is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was a research scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT prior to his appointment at Stanford. His research interests are in computational and theoretical studies of solid state and photonic structures and devices, especially photonic crystals, plasmonics, and meta-materials. He has published over 230 refereed journal articles that were cited near 14,400 times, has given over 180 invited talks, and was granted 39 US patents. Dr. Fan is a Fellow of IEEE, APS, OSA and SPIE. He received a National Science Foundation Career Award (2002), a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2003), the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research (2007), and the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America (2007).

Arya Fallahi is currently a senior scientist at the DESY-Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL). Born in February 1982, and raised in Tehran, he finished his high school studies with the Gold medal in the national physics Olympiad in 1999. He received two bachelor’s degrees in applied physics and electrical engineering both from Sharif university of Technology (2004), and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Tehran University (2006). He earned his PhD degree under supervision of Prof. Christian Hafner from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 2010 with the special award for most outstanding PhD thesis. This was followed by a two year post-doctoral appointment at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. He is currently working as a computational physicist in the ultrafast optics and X-ray sources of Prof. Franz Kärtner. His research interests focus on the general electromagnetics theory from low-frequency regime in RF accelerators and microwave metamaterials to ultrahigh frequency devices for optics, plasmonics, and X-ray science. He has been the inventor in three patents, authored and co-authored 27 journal publications and several conference papers.

Steve Frisken is a technology entrepreneur and inventor who has founded several successful start-ups in optical communications and medical imaging with over 20 granted US patents. He is most recognised for his invention of the Dynamic Wavelength Processor which has shaped the evolution of Flexible Grid optical WDM networks, whilst providing over $750M in export revenue to Australia. Along with business partner Dr Simon Poole, he received the 2013 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering’s Clunies Ross Award for innovation in science and engineering. Dr. Frisken holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of New South Wales.

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INVITED SPEAKERS INVITED SPEAKERS

Thomas Krauss is a full professor at the University of York, UK, where he leads the Photonics research group and the cleanroom facility in the York Nanocentre. He has published 280 refereed journal articles, with 12000 lifetime citations and an “h” factor of 59, as well as 5 patents. His expertise is in the design and fabrication of photonic crystals and photonic nanostructures where he has made pivotal contributions that turned photonic crystals from an academic curiosity into the ubiquitous concept in Photonics that they are today. Prof Krauss is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Optical Society. In 2015, he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. At York, he was recently appointed Strategy Champion “Technologies for the Future” with the remit to enhance technology research university-wide.

Kobus Kuipers is currently Head of the Center for Nanophotonics at the FOM Institute AMOLF and professor at the University of Twente and Utrecht University. He is an international partner investigator in CUDOS. He completed his PhD in surface science (1994) at the University of Amsterdam. After postdoctoral research on mass-selected nanoclusters he started his research in nano-optics in 1997 as an assistant professor at the University of Twente. He pioneered the visualization of light fields in nanophotonic structures, gaining access to the phase evolution, ultrafast dynamics and vector nature of light at the nanoscale. In 2000 he became a program director of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and in 2001 a part-time professor at the University of Amsterdam. In 2003 he moved to the FOM Institute AMOLF. Kuipers is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the recipient of an Advanced ERC grant on the (ultrafast) control of nanoscale vector fields and an editor of Optica, the flagship journal of OSA. His current research interests are slow light, structured light, ultrafast nanoscale optics and near-field microscopy.

Colin J. McKinstrie received a BSc degree from the University of Glasgow in 1981 (mathematics and physics) and a PhD degree from the University of Rochester in 1986 (plasma physics). From 1985 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was associated with the Applied Physics Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies. In 1988 Dr McKinstrie returned to the University of Rochester as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a Scientist in the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. While there, his main research interests were laser fusion and nonlinear fiber optics. From 2001 to 2014 Dr McKinstrie was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, where his research concerned the amplification and transmission of optical pulses in communication systems, and applications of parametric devices in quantum information science. In 2014 he joined Applied Communication Sciences as a Senior Scientist. Dr McKinstrie serves regularly on conference committees for IEEE, OSA and SPIE.

Philip Leong received the B.Sc., B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Sydney. In 1993 he was a consultant to ST Microelectronics, Italy. From 1997-2009 he was a faculty member at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently Professor in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney, Visiting Professor at Imperial College, Visiting Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, and Chief Technology Advisor to Cluster Technology.

Ortwin Hess holds the Leverhulme Chair in Metamaterials in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London and is Co-Director of the Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials. Ortwin studied physics at the University of Erlangen and the Technical University of Berlin. Following pre- and post-doctoral times in Edinburgh and at the University of Marburg Ortwin has been (from 1995 to 2003) Head of the Theoretical Quantum Electronics Group at the Institute of Technical Physics in Stuttgart, Germany. He has a Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart (1997) and became Adjunct Professor in 1998. Since 2001 he is Docent of Photonics at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Ortwin has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1997 - 1998) and the University of Munich (2000 - 2001). From 2003-2010 he held the Chair of Theoretical Condensed Matter and Optical Physics in the Department of Physics and the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK where he is now a Visiting Professor. Ortwin’s research interests and activities are focused on metamaterials, nano-plasmonics and quantum photonics.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Shu Namiki received M.S. degree in physics and Dr. Sci. degree in applied physics from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1988 and 1998, respectively, and currently is Director of Data Photonics Project Unit of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. He is also serving as Chair of Executive Committee of a national project called “Vertically Integrated Center for Technologies of Optical Routing toward Ideal Energy Savings (VICTORIES)” in collaboration with ten telecom-related companies. His current research interests include software defined dynamic optical path networking and their enabling devices such as nonlinear fiber-optics and silicon photonics. He has co-authored more than 300 conference presentations, papers, book chapters, articles, and patents. Dr. Namiki is a Fellow of OSA, and a member of IEICE, JSAP, and IEEE Photonics Society and Communications Society.

Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe is the group leader of the High-Speed Optical Communications group at DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and the Centre Leader of the Research Centre of Excellence SPOC (Silicon Photonics for Optical Communications) supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He is the recipient of a Top-Researcher grant from the Danish Research Council (DFF) for the project NANO-SPECs. He is also the recipient of a European Research Council grant (project SOCRATES) focusing on the use of ultra-high-speed serial data for Ethernet networks, and he is involved in several other national and international projects exploring nonlinear optics in fibres and devices for optical signal processing. He has authored or co-authored more than 280 peer reviewed publications, including 15 postdeadline papers at major conferences, 5 book chapters and he holds 7 patents. In 2009 he was awarded the Elektropris from Elektrofondet, and he has received 4 best paper awards. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics and astronomy from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1996. In 1998 he received the International Diploma of Imperial College, London, UK and the M.Sc. degree from the University of Copenhagen. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2002 from DTU and is since 2009 Professor of Photonic Communication Technologies.

John Sipe currently holds the position of Professor, Department of Physics at the University of Toronto and is a Partner Investigator in CUDOS. His expertise is in the areas of theoretical physics of quantum and nonlinear optics, optical and spin properties of semiconductors, and the optical properties of artificially structured materials. His current research focuses on coherent control and transport of carriers, spins, currents, and spin currents in bulk and nanostructure semiconductors: optical properties of ring resonators and other artificially structured materials, and their use in quantum and nonlinear optics; application of structures with optical resonances to problems in biosensing; foundational problems in quantum mechanics.

Radan Slavík is Principal Research Fellow in the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton (Southampton, UK), where he leads research group dealing with Coherent Optical Signals. His main interests focus on generation, processing, and characterization of optical signals encoded in its phase. This covers areas of optical frequency and time metrology, coherent optical communications, and photonics-assisted signal processing.

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COMMUNICATION SPECIALISTS

Ron Fuller has more than 30 years experience as a radio and television journalist, and joined Templeman Consulting after nearly two decades at the ABC.

Starting out as a radio journalist with Triple M in the 1980s, Ron established their first NSW State Parliamentary bureau. In 1988 he was appointed to New York, followed by two years as the London correspondent for the Triple M network.

Returning to Australia in the early 90s, Ron moved to the ABC, initially in radio programs, then into the newsroom. He set up the Western Sydney round for ABC radio, was industrial reporter, covered State politics as well as general reporting duties. He became Chief of Staff of ABC radio news before moving into the TV News Chief of Staff role.

He gives participants insight into the realities of interviews and access to real examples experienced during decades of reporting.

Maryanne Large has a BSc from Sydney University and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. She was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship in Saclay, France and worked as a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology, before returning to Australia in 2000.

On her return, she worked at the Optical Fibre Technology Centre and the School of Physics, on projects ranging from microstructured polymer optical fibres, photonic crystals in butterflies and drawn metamaterials. In 2010 she declined an ARC Future Fellowship to accept a role at the Canon research labs in North Ryde. She left Canon with a better understanding of the gap between industry and academic research and a stronger desire to bridge it.

She currently has a part time role as Associate Professor Innovation and Commercialisation in the Faculty of Science, and is working with two start-ups.

Melanie Bagg has a PhD in Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and more than 10 years of experience in science communication, marketing management and education outreach. Melanie helped create and was inaugural editor of e-Science magazine, a unique digital science publication with international reach. She also spent over five years working closely with journalists at the SA Advertiser on specialist science print publications and a weekly “Can you believe it?” column. Melanie is extremely passionate about science communication and outreach, in particular the way science is presented to the public via mainstream and social media.

Susan Templeman has been a media trainer for more than 20 years, after a decade as a commercial radio reporter in Australia, the US and Europe.

She worked as a political reporter in the mid-80s in the Canberra Press Gallery with 2UE news, before heading overseas as their New York correspondent. In 1989 Susan moved to the UK, joining Austereo as their Europe correspondent.

On return to Australia, following a stint as media manager at Telstra, she established Media Skills in 1991 and the Media Skills® network in 2004. Susan was integral in the development of the methodology that is now taught only by accredited Media Skills™ trainers.

Her media training clients have included listed corporates, investment banks, Government departments and agencies, local government, universities and non-profits.

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OPENING SESSION & HOT TOPICSMonday, 1 February & Wednesday, 3 February

Benjamin EggletonDirector, CUDOS

Director’s Opening Address

OPENING SESSION

HOT TOPICS 1 - MONDAY, 1 FEBRUARY

Shanhui FanProfessor of Electrical Engineering, Director, Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, USA

Nanophotonics theory: from topology in synthetic dimensions, to harvesting the darkness of the universe

HOT TOPICS 2 - WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY

Arya FallahiSenior Scientist, Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL), DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Frontiers of Attosecond X-ray Science: Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXSIS)

X-ray crystallography yields atomic-resolution 3D images of the whole spectrum of molecules ranging from small inorganic clusters to large protein complexes that constitute the macromolecular machinery of life. Many of the most important reactions in chemistry and biology are light induced and occur on ultrafast timescales. In the AXSIS project at CFEL-Hamburg, funded by the European Research Council, we develop the new method of attosecond serial X-ray crystallography and spectroscopy, to give a full description of ultrafast processes atomically resolved in real space and on the electronic energy landscape, from co-measurement of X-ray and optical spectra, and X-ray diffraction. This technique will revolutionize our understanding of structure and function at the atomic and molecular level and thereby unravel fundamental processes in chemistry and biology like energy conversion processes. For that purpose, we develop a compact fully coherent, THz driven, attosecond X-ray source based on coherent inverse Compton scattering to outrun radiation damage effects due to the necessary high X-ray irradiance required to acquire diffraction signals. Ultimately, the new capability, attosecond serial X-ray crystallography and spectroscopy, will be applied to one of the most important problems in structural biology, which is to elucidate the dynamics of light reactions, electron transfer and protein structure in photosynthesis. The presentation starts with the brief introduction of the AXSIS project and proceeds with the accomplished tasks towards the complete simulation and design of the coherent X-ray source.

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FUNCTIONAL METAMATERIALS AND METADEVICESMonday, 1 February

SESSION SCHEDULE

Science LeaderYuri KivsharDistinguished Professor, Head, Nonlinear Physics Centre, ANU

Overview of 2015 activities and overview of how the Project fits in the international scene and outlook

Project LeaderMikhail Lapine Senior Research Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, UTS

Project Overview

Representative of Partner InvestigatorOrtwin HessLeverhulme Chair in Metamaterials, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Imperial College London

Quantum Emitters in Nanoplasmonic Cavities and Metamaterials

ON-CHIP NANOPLASMONICSTuesday, 2 February

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ON-CHIP NANOPLASMONICSTuesday, 2 February

SESSION SCHEDULE

Science LeaderMin GuAssociate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship,Distinguished Professor, RMIT

Vision and Status

Project LeaderBen Cumming Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT

Project Overview

Partner InvestigatorKobus KuipersProfessor, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics(AMOLF)

Twisted Light – Fascination and Application

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TERABIT PER SECOND PHOTONICSWednesday, 3 February

SESSION SCHEDULE

Science LeaderArthur LoweryProfessor and Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University

Overview

Project LeaderBill CorcoranPostdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University

Project Overview

Partner InvestigatorLeif OxenløweProfessor and Group Leader DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineeringand Centre Leader of the Research Centre of Excellence SPOC (Silicon Photonics for Optical Communications)

Optical time lenses for broadband optical signal processing

Optical time lenses have proven to be very versatile for advanced optical signal processing. Based on a controlled interplay between dispersion and phase-modulation by e.g. four-wave mixing, the processing is phase-preserving, and hence useful for all types of data signal including advanced multi-level modulation formats used in coherent communications. This has enabled processing of phase-modulated spectrally efficient data signals, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal, as demonstrated by CUDOS and DTU together. In that case, a spectral telescope type of time lens system was used, using two time lenses with different focal lengths (chirp rates), yielding a spectral magnification of the OFDM signal. Utilising such telescopic arrangements, it has become possible to perform a number of interesting functionalities, which will be described in the presentation. This includes conversion from OFDM to Nyquist WDM type of channels, compression of WDM channels to a single Nyquist channel and WDM regeneration. These operations require a broad bandwidth nonlinear platform, and novel nonlinear platforms like AlGaAs will also be described in the context of a 1.28 Tbaud processing experiment.

Partner Investigator Shu NamikiTeam Leader of Optical Signal Processing Systems at the Network Photonics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)

Opportunities of photonics in the post-Moore computing and datacenter

Invited SpeakerRadan SlavíkPrincipal Research Fellow, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton

Fourier Synthesis of Optical Waveforms

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HYBRID INTEGRATIONWednesday, 3 February

SESSION SCHEDULE

Science LeaderArnan MitchellProfessor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT

Overview

Project LeaderKhu VuPostdoctoral Fellow, Laser Physics Centre, ANU

Deputy Project LeaderAlvaro Casas-BedoyaPostdoctoral Research Associate, School of Physics, The University of Sydney

Project Overview

Partner InvestigatorRoel BaetsProfessor, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University - IMEC

Brillouin and Raman Scattering in Silicon and Silicon nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

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MID-INFRARED PHOTONICSWednesday, 3 February

SESSION SCHEDULE

Project LeaderDarren HudsonARC DECRA Fellow, School of Physics, The University of Sydney

Review of the field of Mid-IR photonics and summary of CUDOS Mid-IR projects

Deputy Project LeaderNick CvetojevicResearch Associate, School of Physics, The University of Sydney & AAO

Project Overview

Partner InvestigatorThomas KraussProfessor, Department of Physics, University of York

Integrated silicon devices for mid-IR gas sensing

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NONLINEAR QUANTUM PHOTONICSThursday, 4 February

SESSION SCHEDULE

Science LeaderMike SteelAssociate Professor, Macquarie University

Vision and Status

Project LeaderChunle XiongPostdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Sydney

Highlights from the quantum flagship

Partner InvestigatorJohn SipeProfessor, University of Toronto

No free lunch: the tradeoff between heralding rate and efficiency in microresonator-based heralded single photon sources

Invited SpeakerPhillip LeongProfessor of Computing, The University of Sydney

FPGAs for Quantum Information

Invited SpeakerColin McKinstrieApplied Communication Sciences, USA

Effects of transmission on Gaussian optical states

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COMMUNICATION STRATEGY & TRAININGTuesday, 2 February

SESSION SCHEDULE

It is vital that in the next two years CUDOS increases its visibility in the public arena, that we tell the story of the Centre’s achievements in the areas of research, wealth creation, education & training and community engagement.

In this session the proposed Communications Strategy for 2016 and 2017 will be outlined and then followed by three mini workshops designed exclusively for CUDOS staff & students, dealing primarily with working with the media, how to harness the power of social media to enhance research visibility, and job seeking skills for graduates.

Jacqueline CharlesworthCommunications CoordinatorCUDOS, The University of Sydney

Overview of Centre Communications Strategy 2016 - 17

Susan TemplemanPrincipal, Templeman Consulting

Mastering the Media: interview techniques for researchers

Ron FullerTempleman Consulting

Melanie BaggManager, Business Development and Partnerships, Australian Science Media Centre

To tweet or not to tweet? social media for scientists

Maryanne LargeAssociate Professor, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney

Proactive Career Management

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EDUCATION & TRAINING AND OUTREACHTuesday, 2 February

SPEAKER

Judith DawesAssociate Professor, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University & Coordinator, CUDOS Outreach

Review of 2015 Outreach, Education & Training activities across the Centre and initiatives planned for 2016

Presentation of entries for the 2016 Outreach & Community Engagement Prize

2016 CUDOS Outreach & Community Engagement PrizeSee following pages for details of the Competition. Each entrant will give a 3-5 minute presentationexplaining the concepts behind their entry. Winners will be announced at the Workshop Dinner.

Zahraa AL-BaiatySwinburne

Make your own animated projector in the class room

Loris Marini, Iman Jizan Atiyhe Zarifi and Jiakun HeThe University of Sydney

Voice Over A Fibre

Zachary ChaboyerMacquarie University

Visualizing Temperature Changes with Light

Blake EntwisleMacquarie University(3 entries)

1. Fun with Fluorescence2. Laser Fountain3. Measuring a Human Hair

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EDUCATION & TRAINING AND OUTREACHTuesday, 2 February

CUDOS OUTREACH & COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT PRIZE – 2016 CUDOS’ outreach mission is to promote and present CUDOS, its researchers and its research activities to the general public, to school students and teachers, and to relevant government, professional and industry organisations. The CUDOS Outreach & Community Engagement Prize is awarded to a CUDOS member who has demonstrated a record of achievement or commitment to outreach activities in the proceeding year. Alternatively, the Prize is awarded as a result of a competition that challenges a member to develop resources that can be used to enhance public awareness of CUDOS and its research, and promote interest in STEM amongst high school students. 2016 Prize: High School Outreach Activity Create an activity that can be used in high school outreach visits that will engage students with opportunities for hands on discovery and inspiration. The activity will be • Appropriate to high school students • Practical to implement in schools, i.e. mobile and not requiring excessive resources • Convey an important concept or application in optics and photonics • Be engaging, fun and interesting It would also be desirable for the activity to • Complement the existing CUDOS Optics Discovery Kit (details can be found here:

http://www.cudos.org.au/outreach/classroom_resources.shtml) • Align with the NSW or Victorian (or National) Curriculum • Link to the themes supported by the International Year of Light Guidelines 1 Entries will be accepted from all CUDOS or CUDOS affiliated, postgraduate students

and CUDOS or CUDOS affiliated early career researchers (ie researchers who have started their research careers within five years of being awarded a PhD or equivalent).

2 The entry can be from an individual or a group. 3 A brief document must be submitted to Shelley Martin, Centre Manager

(shelley.martin@sydney.edu.au) containing no more than one page of text (images may be additional). Include all names if a group submission, a description of the activity and address the criteria described above.

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EDUCATION & TRAINING AND OUTREACHTuesday, 2 February

4 Entries will be demonstrated at the 2016 CUDOS Workshop in February 2016. 5 The judging panel will include representatives from CUDOS and educators. 6 There will be one winner but the Panel may elect to offer runner-up prizes. The total

prize pool available will be $1,500 with a minimum $1,000 awarded to the winning entry. The winner(s) announced at the Prize Giving Ceremony during the Workshop.

7 Closing date is COB Wednesday, 20 January 2016. Terms & Conditions Note that by submitting an application, you have assigned copyright of your written, graphic or audio-visual concepts to CUDOS. By entering you have also acknowledged that your entry may be made public on the CUDOS website, and may form part of the CUDOS online repository of good practice in outreach. Enquiries Any questions can be directed to Judith Dawes (judith.dawes@mq.edu.au) and Shelley Martin (shelley.martin@sydney.edu.au).

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CUDOS TECHNOLOGIESWednesday, 3 February

EXHIBITORS

ANFF - Optofab Mr Alex Stokes

EMUStack Mr Bjorn Sturmberg

GLINT Dr Nick Cvetojevic

Hotlight Systems Dr Khu Vu

IPKISS Prof Arnan Mitchell

LPCS Dr Ben Cumming

Luxava Technologies Mr Shayan Shania

Miriad Technologies Mr Tomonori Hu

Modular Photonics Dr Simon Gross

CUDOS TECHNOLOGIES: RESEARCHERS MAKING AN IMPACT

This event is designed to showcase CUDOS’ most innovative - and commercially promising - new technologies and their innovators. These technologies have applications in market sectors such as defence and security, medical imaging, telecommunications.

OPENING REMARKSSimon Fleming, Professor, School of Physics, The University of Sydney & Chair, CUDOS Commercialisation Committee

GUEST SPEAKERDr Andrew Tindell, Director of Commercial Development and Industrial Partnerships at the University of Sydney will deliver a short opening address referring to the Australian Government’s Innovation Statement; in particular the government’s intention to include measurement of non-academic impact and industry and end-user engagement in university research performance. Participants will then have the opportunity to view the exhibits where the CUDOS technology champions and entrepreneurs will demonstrate the capabilities of their products.

Technology

TOPICAL CONVERSATIONS & OPEN FORUMThursday, 4 February

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TOPICAL CONVERSATIONS & OPEN FORUMThursday, 4 February

TOPICAL CONVERSATIONS

Thomas KraussResearch Champion: Technologies for the FutureThe University of York, UK

A new perspective on research

Thomas Krauss leads the Photonics research group and the cleanroom facility in the York Nanocentre, University of York. He has published 280 refereed journal articles, with 12000 lifetime citations and an “h” factor of 59, as well as 5 patents. His expertise is in the design and fabrication of photonic crystals and photonic nanostructures where he has made pivotal contributions that turned photonic crystals from an academic curiosity into the ubiquitous concept in Photonics that they are today. Prof Krauss is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Optical Society. In 2015, he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. At York, he was recently appointed as one of seven Research Champions in the area of “Technologies for the Future” with the remit to enhance technology research university-wide. York is ranked in the top ten institutions in the UK for the impact of its research, while the proportion of its research classed as world-leading 4* status is among the highest of any UK university. It is anticipated that the seven Research Champions will give York’s major interdisciplinary research strengths focus, identity and presence, helping to encourage interdepartmental and international research activity and partnerships.

In this talk, Professor Krauss will explore this new model which challenges our current way of thinking of how to conduct research.

OPEN FORUM

The Open Forum Panel will comprise all of the CUDOS Partner Investigators and invited guests and is designed to provide an open exchange of views & constructive debate relevant to specific question called for from the floor.

Anyone is invited to ask any question of the panel. The call is entirely yours!

In recognition that some people may feel uncomfortable asking a question during the Forum we offer the opportunity to pre-submit questions or topics, either by completion of a form (made available during all sessions) or by email. Send any questions to cudosmail@gmail.com.