Projects Overview for CUDOS @ Macquarie
Following is an overview of our current and past projects.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
Integrated Optics and Photonic Devices
1. Femtosecond laser direct writing of waveguides in doped glasses. [Martin Ams - PhD commenced in 2002].
2. Development of a scanning near field probe for mapping photonic crystal circuits. [Doug Little - PhD commenced in 2005].
3. Laser written waveguides for use in all-optical data networks [Graham Marshall and the Laser Writing team]
4. Generation and application of high-energy femtosecond laser pulses with MHz repetition rates. [Christopher Miese - PhD commenced in 2008].
Laser Development
1. Development of fibre laser based pump source's for a femtosecond laser system. [Nemanja Jovanovic - PhD commenced in 2006].
2. High-energy femtosecond oscillator. [Alex Fuerbach - commenced in 2005].
Nanophotonics
1. Propagation and amplification of surface plasmons in nanowires. [Jacek Gosciniak - PhD commenced in 2008].
Photonic Materials
1. Novel techniques for fabricating periodically poled lithium niobate. [Ben Johnston - PhD commenced in 2004].
2. Functionalising Self-Assembled Photonic Crystals. [Luke Stewart - PhD commenced in 2005].
3. Artificial Opals for Photonic Crystal Devices. [Sara Ek - MPhil commenced in 2007].
Development of Photonics for Astronomical Instrumentation
1. Development of fibre tapers to be used as adiabatic mode transformers in astronomical instrumentation. [Dionne Haynes - MSc commenced 2006].
2. Temporal astronomy using Fibre Bragg gratings. [Nick Cvetojevic - Hons commenced 2008].
PAST PROJECTS:
Integrated Optics and Photonic Devices
1. Development of a scanning near field probe for mapping photonic crystal circuits. [Doug Little - Hons completed in 2004].
2. Fabrication of 2-D photonic crystal slab waveguide structures using novel laser microfabrication techniques. [Andrew Lee - PhD completed in 2006].
Photonic Materials
1. Self assembly of photonic crystals using luminescent microspheres. [Luke Stewart - Hons completed in 2004].
2. Fabrication of 2-D photonic crystal slab waveguides structures using novel laser microfabrication techniques. [Andrew Lee - PhD completed in 2006].
Radiation Dynamics
1. Radiation dynamics in photonic crystal fibres [Sam Myers - MSc completed in 2006].