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Guided Wave Optics & Photonics Research

Publications

Over 120 refereed journal and conference papers attracting over 400 Scopus citations (as at 04/2007).

Book Chapters

  1. M. Braun, G. Town, M. Hudson and L. Holley, "Multi-university postgraduate course run over UNINET in Sydney," pp.73-80, in Distance Education Futures, ed. T. Nunan. University of South Australia, 1993. ISBN 0868030724.
  2. G.E. Town, "Lasers, Optical Fiber," in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 3rd edition, ed. R.A. Myers, Academic Press, Sept 2001.
  3. G.E. Town, N. Akhmediev, and J. Soto-Crespo, "Optical Fiber Soliton Lasers," pp.265-298, in Optical Solitons and Applications, ed. K Porsezian and V.C. Kuriakose, Springer, New York, 2003.
  4. G.E. Town and N.N. Akhmediev, Optical Fiber Lasers, vol. 2, pp. 475-484, in Encyclopedia of Modern Optics, ed. B.D. Guenther, Elsevier Science, Oxford UK, 2004.

Refereed Journal Publications (Scopus citations at 04/2007)

1.    G. Town, N. Ching, M. Braun and D. Rosenfeld,

“Design and construction of “SUMRIS” – the Sydney University magnetic resonance imaging system,”

Australasian Phys. Eng. Sc. Med., vol. 10, pp. 58–63, 1987.

        (0 citations, Impact factor unknown)

2.     G. Town and D. Rosenfeld,

        “The duality of amplitude modulation and frequency modulation in NMR excitation,”

        J. Magn. Reson. vol. 82, pp. 406-412, 1989.

        (3 citations, Impact factor = 2.418)

3.      G. Town and D. Rosenfeld,

        “The application of spinors to solving the Bloch equations,”

        Phys. Rev. A, vol. 40, pp. 3429-3430, 1989.

(5 citations, Impact factor = 2.997)

4.     G. Town and D. Rosenfeld,

“Analytic solutions to adiabatic pulse modulation functions optimized for inhomogeneous B1 fields,” 

J. Magn. Reson. vol. 89, pp. 170-175, 1990.

(11 citations, Impact factor = 2.418) 

5.     N. N. Akhmediev, G. Town and S. Wabnitz,

“Soliton coding based on shape invariant interacting soliton packets: The three soliton case,”

Opt. Comm., vol. 104, pp. 385–390, 1994.

(4 citations, Impact factor = 1.456)

6.      G. Town,

        “Adiabatic coupled mode filters with linear phase,”

        Opt. Lett., vol. 19, pp. 1317–1318, 1994.

        (0 citations, Impact factor = 3.599)

7.       P. Roberts and G. Town,

        “Design of microwave filters by inverse scattering,”

        IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 739–743, 1995.

        (25 citations, Impact factor = 2.275)

8.       M. Romagnoli, S. Wabnitz, P. Franco, M. Midrio, F. Fontana, and G. Town,

        “Tunable erbium-ytterbium fiber sliding frequency soliton laser,”

        J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 72–76, 1995. 

        (26 citations , Impact factor = 2.119) 

9.       G. E. Town, K. Sugden, J. Williams, I. Bennion, and S. Poole,

        “Wideband Fabry-Perot-like filters in optical fiber,”

        IEEE Photon. Techn. Lett., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 78–80, 1995.

        (48 citations, Impact factor = 2.266)

10.   Y. Zhao, G. Town, and M. Sceats,

        “ X(3)  effects on the nonlinear phase shifts from SHG in optical fibre,”

        Opt. Commun., vol. 115, pp. 129–132, 1995. 

        (3 citations, Impact factor = 1.456)

11.   G. Town, J. Chow, and M. Romagnoli,

        “Sliding-frequency figure-eight optical fibre laser”

        Electron. Lett., vol. 31, no. 17, pp. 1452–1453, 1995.

        (5 citations, Impact factor = 1.016) 

12.   G. E. Town, J. Chow, K. Sugden, I. Bennion, and M. Romagnoli,

        “Applications of chirped grating filters in broadband optical fibre systems”

        J. Electric. & Electron. Eng. Aust., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 267–276, 1995.

        (1 citation, Impact factor unknown)

13.   J. Chow, G. E. Town, B. Eggleton, M. Ibsen, K. Sugden, and I. Bennion,

        “Multiwavelength generation in an erbium-doped fiber laser using in-fiber comb filters,”

        IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 60–62, 1996.

        (152 citations, Impact factor = 2.266)

14.   J. M. Soto-Crespo, V. V. Afanasjev, N. N. Akhmediev, and G. E. Town,

        “Dual frequency pulses in fiber lasers,”

        Opt. Commun., vol. 130, p. 245–248, 1996.

        (7 citations, Impact factor = 1.456)  

15.   M. Baldo, G. E. Town, and M. Romagnoli,

        “Generation of highly chirped pulses in a diode-pumped optical fiber laser,”

        Opt. Commun., vol. 140, no. 1, p.19–22, 1997.

        (1 citation, Impact factor = 1.456)

16.   G. W. Yoffe, J. W. Arkwright, G. E. Town, and B. G. Smith

        “Tunable optical delay line based on a fibre Bragg grating,”

        Electron. Lett., vol. 34, no. 17, pp. 1688–90, 1998.

        (4 citations, Impact factor = 1.016)

17.   G. E. Town, K. Chan, and G. Yoffe,

“Design and performance of high-speed optical pulse-code generators using optical fiber Bragg gratings,”

IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Quant. Electron., vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 1325–1331, 1999. 

(12 citations, Impact factor = 2.404) 

18.   A. De Francesco and G. E. Town,

“Modelling of photoinduced charge separation in germanosilicate optical fibers during UV-excited poling,”

IEEE J. Quant. Electron., vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 59–69, 2000.

        (3 citations, Impact factor = 2.452)

19.   P. Blazkiewicz, W. Xu, D. Wong, J. Canning, M. Asland, and G. Town,

        “Carbon dioxide laser-assisted poling of silicate-based optical fibers,”

        Opt. Lett., vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 1–3, 2000.

        (4 citations, Impact factor = 3.599)

20.   G.E. Town, L. Chen, and P.W.E. Smith,

        “Dual wavelength modelocked fiber laser,”

        IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1459–1461, 2000.

        (26 citations, Impact factor = 2.266)

21.   L.R. Chen, G.E. Town, P.-Y Cortes, S. LaRochelle, and P.W.E. Smith,

    “Dual-wavelength, actively mode-locked fibre laser with 0.7nm wavelength spacing,”

     Electron. Lett., vol. 36, no. 23, pp. 1921–1923, 2000.

    (17 citations, Impact factor = 1.016)

22.   N. Akhmediev, A.S. Rodrigues, and G.E. Town,

    “Interaction of dual-frequency pulses in passively mode-locked lasers,”

    Opt. Commun., vol. 187, no. 4-6, pp. 419-426, 2001.

    (12 citations, Impact factor = 1.456) 

23.   P. Blazkiewicz and G.E. Town, “Effects of ultraviolet and thermal pretreatment on the formation of self-written c2 gratings and optical damage threshold,”

    J. Appl. Physics, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 3121-3124, 2001.

(0 citations, Impact factor = 2.498)

24.   N. Akhmediev, J.M. Soto-Crespo, and G.E. Town

    “Pulsating solitons, chaotic solitons, periodic doubling, and pulse coexistence in mode-locked lasers: CGLE approach,”

    Phys. Rev. E, vol. 6305, no. 5 (Part 2), p. 6602-, 2001.

    (47 citations, Impact factor = 2.418)

25.   G. E. Town and J.T. Lizier,   

    “Tapered holey fibers for spot size and numerical aperture conversion,”

    Opt. Lett., vol. 26, no. 14, pp. 1042-1044, 2001.

    (37 citations, Impact factor = 3.599)

26.   J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town,

    "Splice losses in holey optical fibers,"

    IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. vol. 13, no.8, pp. 794-796, 2001.

(27 citations, Impact factor = 2.266)

27.   A. De Francesco and G. E. Town,

    "Modeling the electrooptic evolution in thermally poled germanosilicate fibers,"

    IEEE J. Quant. Electron., vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 1312-1320, 2001.

(1 citation, Impact factor = 2.452) 

28.   J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev, and G. Town,

    “Interrelation between various branches of stable solitons in dissipative systems - conjecture for stability criterion,”

Opt. Commun., vol. 299, pp. 283–293, 2001.

(9 citations, Impact factor = 1.456)

29.    A. De Francesco and G. E. Town,   

    “Numerical modelling of equilibrium charge separation in poled devices,"

    Int. J. Numerical Modelling, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 479-492, 2001.

(0 citations, Impact factor = 0.32)

30.    J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev, and G. Town,

    “Continuous-wave versus pulse regime in a passively mode-locked laser with a fast saturable absorber,”

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 234-242, 2002.

(6 citations, Impact factor = 2.119)

31.   R.H. Chu and G.E. Town,

    “Birefringent filter synthesis using a digital filter design algorithm,”

    Appl. Opt. IP, vol. 41. no. 17, pp. 3412-3418, 2002.

(5 citations, Impact factor = 1.637)

32.   R.H. Chu and G.E. Town, 

    “Synthesis of birefringent equalizing filters for WDM dispersion compensation,”

    Opt. Commun., vol. 214, no. 1-6, pp. 147-154, 2002.

(3 citations, Impact factor = 1.456) 

33.   G.E. Town, T. Funaba, T. Ryan, and K. Lyytikainen,   

    “Optical supercontinuum generation from nanosecond pump pulses in an irregularly microstructured air-silica optical fiber,”

    Appl. Phys. B, vol. 77, no. 2-3, pp. 235-238, 2003.

(4 citations, Impact factor = 2.056)

34.   S.  Pradhan, G.E. Town and K.J. Grant,

    “Dual wavelength DBR fiber laser,”

    IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 18, no. 16, pp. 1741-, 2006.

(0 citations, Impact factor = 2.266)

35.   S. Pradhan, G.E. Town and K. J. Grant,

    “Multiwavelength distributed Bragg reflector fibre laser,”

    Electron. Lett., vol. 42, no. 17, pp. 963-, 2006.

(0 citations, Impact factor = 1.016) 

36.   S. Pradhan, G. E. Town, D. Wilson, and K. J. Grant,

    "Intensity noise reduction in a multiwavelength DBR fibre laser",

    Opt. Lett., vol. 31, no. 20, pp. 2963-, 2006.

(0 citations, Impact factor = 3.599)

37.   A. E. Vasdekis, G. E. Town, G. A. Turnbull, and I. D. W. Samuel,

    “Fluidic dye lasers in microstructured optical fibers,”

    Optics Express, vol. 15 , no. 7, pp. 3962-3967, 2007.

(0 citations, Impact factor = 3.764)

Refereed Conference Publications

  1. M. Braun, G. Town and D. Rosenfeld, "Design and construction of "SUMRIS" - the Sydney University magnetic resonance imaging system," Proceedings, Conference on Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine (EPSM86), Sydney, Australia, August 1986.
  2. G. Town, N. Ching, M. Braun and D. Rosenfeld, "Design and construction of "SUMRIS" - the Sydney University magnetic resonance imaging system," SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging, February 1987, Newport Beach, CA, USA, Proc. SPIE, vol. 767, pp. 55-60, 1987.
  3. G. Town and D. Rosenfeld, "The application of spinors to solving the Bloch equations," Proceedings, 7th Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM88), vol. 2, p. 1022, San Francisco, August, 1988.
  4. G. Town and D. Rosenfeld, "On the duality of amplitude modulation and frequency modulation in NMR excitation," Proceedings, 7th Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM88), vol. 2, p. 658, San Francisco, August, 1988.
  5. G. Town and D. Rosenfeld, "Spinor forms of the Bloch equations for various methods of selective excitation," Proceedings, 8th Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM89), vol. 2, p. 620, Amsterdam, August, 1989.
  6. G. Town and D. Rosenfeld, "Approximate analytic solutions to the Bloch equations during AM and/or FM excitation," Proceedings, 8th Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM89), vol. 2, p. 860, Amsterdam, August, 1989.
  7. G. Town and D. Rosenfeld, "Analytic optimization of modulation functions for adiabatic excitation in nonuniform fields," Proceedings, 9th Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM90), vol. 1, p. 411, New York, August, 1990.
  8. G. Town, "Dual methods in NMR imaging and spectroscopy," Proceedings, Conference on Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine (EPSM91), p. 4, Sydney, July, 1991.
  9. G. Town, "Dual theorems for magnetic resonance excitation," Proceedings, Conference on Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine (EPSM91), p. 32, Sydney, July, 1991.
  10. G. Town, "New analytic solutions of the Bloch equations," Proceedings, 10th Annual Meeting Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM91), vol. 2, p. 497, San Francisco, August, 1991.
  11. G. Town, "Dual methods of NMR excitation and imaging," Proceedings, 11th Annual Meeting Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM92), p. 3912, Berlin, August, 1992.
  12. G. Town, M. Sceats, and S. Poole, "Passively modelocked fibre laser stability," Proceedings, 17th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT92), pp. 154-157, Hobart, November, 1992.
  13. G. Town, "Response and design of coupled mode filters," Proceedings, 8th Conference of the Australian Optical Society, pp. T39, Sydney, February, 1993.
  14. M. Braun, G. Town, M. Hudson and L. Holley, "Multi-university postgraduate course run over UNINET in Sydney," 11th Biennial Forum, Australian & South Pacific External Studies Association, Adelaide, July, 1993.
  15. Y. Zhao, G. Town, and M. Sceats, "The third order nonlinearity: A factor limiting high SH efficiency in optical fibres," Third Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Guided Wave Phenomena, pp. 84, Cambridge, November, 1993.
  16. G. Town, "Adiabatic coupled mode filters with linear phase," Proceedings, 18th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT93), pp. 173-176, Wollongong, December, 1993.
  17. Y. Zhao, G. Town, and M. Sceats, "Nonlinear phase shift induced by SHG in optical fibre," Proceedings, 18th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT93), pp. 79-82, Wollongong, December, 1993.
  18. Y. Zhao, G. Town, and M. Sceats, "Quasi phase matched SHG in optical fibres with 3rd order nonlinearity," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optics Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS93), pp. 245, Melbourne, December, 1993.
  19. G. Town, K. Sugden, J. Williams, I. Bennion, and S. Poole, "Wideband Fabry-Perot-like filters in optical fibre," Proceedings, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 7th Annual Meeting (LEOS94), vol.2, pp. 144-142, Boston, October, 1994.
  20. G. Town, M. Braun, and M. Hudson, "Collaborative teaching of advanced courses by videoconference", Proceedings, 6th Annual Conference, Australasian Association for Engineering Education, pp. 239-241, Sydney, December, 1994.
  21. G. Town, K. Sugden, J. Williams, I. Bennion, and S. Poole, "Wideband Fabry-Perot-like filters in optical fibre", Proceedings, 19th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT94), pp. 97-99, Melbourne, December 1994.
  22. P. Roberts and G. Town, "Travelling-wave filter design using inverse scattering", Proceedings, 19th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT'94), pp. 254-257, Melbourne, December 1994.
  23. K. Sugden, L. Zhang, I. Bennion, and G. Town, "Efficient fibre grating transmission filters", IEE Colloquium on Optical Fibre Gratings and Their Applications,. Digest No.1995/017, paper 7, January 1995.
  24. G. E. Town, J. Chow, A. Robertson, and M. Romagnoli, "Sliding-frequency soliton laser", Technical Digest, Optical Fibre Communication (OFC'95), ThM7, San Diego, February 1995.
  25. J. Chow, G. Town, B. Eggleton, M. Ibsen, K. Sugden, I. Bennion, "CW Multiwavelength operation of an erbium-doped fiber laser using in-fibre comb filters," Technical Digest, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'95), CMB6, Baltimore, May 1995.
  26. J. Chow, G. Town, B. Eggleton, M. Ibsen, K. Sugden, I. Bennion, "Stable multiwavelength generation in an erbium-doped fibre laser using in-fibre comb filters," Technical Digest, Integrated Optics & Optical Fibre Communication (IOOC'95), ThA3-3, Hong Kong, July 1995.
  27. G. E. Town, J. Chow, A. Robertson, and M. Romagnoli, "Dual wavelength sliding-frequency laser," Technical Digest, CLEO/Pacific Rim'95, TuH2, Chiba, July 1995.
  28. G. Town, "Adiabatic excitation and response in scaled and multiply-rotating frames," Twelfth Conference of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR'95), T23, Sydney, July 1995.
  29. V. V. Afanasjev, N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, and G. E. Town "Dual-frequency pulses in fiber lasers," Technical Digest, Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS'96), QWJ2, Anaheim, June 1996.
  30. G. Town, M. Baldo, and M. Romagnoli, "Asymmetric pulse generation in an actively modelocked fibre laser," Technical Digest, 20th International Conference on Quantum Electronics (IQEC'96), WL107, Sydney, July 1996.
  31. M. Baldo and G. E. Town, "Analysis and design of actively modelocked fiber lasers for highly chirped pulse generation," Technical Digest, 20th International Conference on Quantum Electronics (IQEC'96), WL110, Sydney, July 1996.
  32. G. E. Town, J. Chow, A. Robertson, and M. Romagnoli, "Multiwavelength soliton generation in a sliding-frequency laser," Technical Digest, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Europe (CLEO-Europe '96), Postdeadline paper CPD2.10, Hamburg, September 1996.
  33. M. Baldo, G. E. Town, and M. Romagnoli, "Generation of highly chirped 5nJ pulses in an actively modelocked diode-pumped optical fibre laser," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT'96), pp. 25-28, Gold Coast, December 1996.
  34. G. E. Town, and C. O'Malley, "Chaotic fibre lasers for secure optical communications," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT'98), pp. 129-132, University of Melbourne, July 1998.
  35. J. Arkwright, G. Yoffe, G. Town, and B. Smith "All-fibre tunable optical delay line based on a uniform Bragg reflection grating," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT'98), pp. 117-120, University of Melbourne, July 1998.
  36. G. E. Town, G. Yoffe, and K. Chan, "Optical pulse code generation using optical fibre gratings," European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC'98), pp. 597-598, Madrid, September 1998.
  37. P. Blazkiewicz and G. E. Town, "Effect of UV and Thermal Pretreatment on the Formation of Seeded Second-Harmonic Generation and Optical Damage Threshold," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT'99), pp. 60-63, University of Sydney, July 1999.
  38. T. K. Gangopadhyay, G. E. Town, and A. D. Stokes, "Noncontact Vibration Monitoring Technique Using a Single-Mode Fiber Sensor," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT'99), pp. 167-170, University of Sydney, July 1999.
  39. A.De Francesco and G. E. Town, "Photoinduced Charge Separation Steady-State Electric Field in UV-Poled Germanosilicate Optical Fibre," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT'99), pp. 183-186, University of Sydney, July 1999.
  40. P. Blazkiewicz, W. Xu, D. Wong, J. Canning, M. Aslund, and G. E. Town, "Experimental demonstration of carbon-dioxide laser-assisted poling of optical fibres," Proceedings, OSA Topical Meeting on Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, & Poling in Glass Waveguides, Postdeadline Papers, pp. PD1-PD4, Stuart, Florida, September 1999.
  41. P. P. Roberts, G. E. Town, and W. E. Wilson "Wide bandwidth microwave phase detection using optical intensity modulators," Proceedings, IEEE International Microwave Symposium, THIF-10, Boston, June, 2000.
  42. G. E. Town, L. Chen, and P. W. E. Smith, "Dual wavelength, actively modelocked fiber laser," Technical Digest, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2000), CWE4, San Francisco, May, 2000.
  43. R. Charters, G. E. Town, and B. Luther Davies, Laser written directional coupler switch, Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2000), pp. 39-41, Australian National University, June 2000.
  44. A. De Francesco and G. E. Town, "Modeling positive and negative thermally poled germanosilicate optical fibre," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2000), pp. 65-67, Australian National University, June 2000.
  45. P. Blazkiewicz, et al and G. E. Town, "Thermal poling of twin-hole fibre with a charge donor layer," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2000), pp. 59-61 Australian National University, June 2000.
  46. A. Rodrigues, N. Akhmediev, and G. E. Town, "Interaction of dual-frequency pulses in passively mode-locked lasers," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2000), pp. 89-91, Australian National University, June 2000.
  47. Augusto S. Rodrigues, Nail Akhmediev, Graham E. Town, "Interaction of composite solitons of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation," 44th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Univ. of Queensland, July 2000.
  48. P. Blazkiewicz, W. Xu, D. Wong, S. Fleming, G. Town, and T. Ryan, "UV poling of specialty optical fiber with a charge trapping layer," 26th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2000), Munich, pp183-184, Sept. 2000.
  49. R. Chu and G. E. Town "Simplified beatlength measurement in hi-bi fiber by magnetic modulation," 13th Conference of the Australian Optical Society (AOS2000), MT028, Adelaide, Dec. 2000.
  50. T. Funaba and G. E. Town "Analysis of focusing beam in random scattering media using monte-carlo simulation," 13th Conference of the Australian Optical Society (AOS2000), MT058, Adelaide, Dec. 2000.
  51. B. Rebiere and G. E. Town "Fast scanning OCT: Two-dimensional scanning using a blazed optical fiber Bragg grating," 13th Conference of the Australian Optical Society (AOS2000, MT088, Adelaide, Dec. 2000.
  52. N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, and G. Town, "Pulsating solitons, chaotic solitons, periodic doubling, and pulse coexistence in mode-locked lasers," Nonlinear Guided Waves and their Applications, MC73, Clearwater, March 2001.
  53. D. Cairns, J. McCowat and N. Langford, and G. E. Town, "Mode-locked operation of a figure-of-eight erbium-doped fiber laser based on a 3-x-3 non-linear loop mirror," Technical Digest, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2001), CWA48 , Baltimore, May 2001.
  54. G. E. Town and J. T. Lizier, "Tapered holey fibers for spot size and numerical aperture conversion," Technical Digest, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2001), CTuAA3 , Baltimore, May 2001.
  55. J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev, and G. Town, "Multi-frequency pulsations in mode-locked fiber lasers," Technical Digest, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Pacific Rim (CLEO-PacRim 2001), P1-6, Chiba, July 2001.
  56. J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town, "Splices losses in holey optical fibres," Proceedings, International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication (OECC/IOOC/ACOFT), p.158, Sydney, July 2001.
  57. R. Chu and G.E. Town, "Improved birefringent filter design using digital filter algorithms," Proceedings, International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication (OECC/IOOC/ACOFT), p.292, Sydney, July 2001.
  58. N. Akhmediev, J. Soto-Crespo, and G.E. Town, "Self starting of passively modelocked lasers: CW vs pulse regime," Proceedings, International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication (OECC/IOOC/ACOFT), p.410, Sydney, July 2001.
  59. A. De Francesco and G.E. Town, "Optimising second harmonic in germanosilicate optical fibre during thermal poling," Proceedings, International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication (OECC/IOOC/ACOFT), p. 520, Sydney, July 2001.
  60. R.H. Chu and G.E. Town, ``Synthesis of coupled-mode optical filters,'' Technical Digest, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2002), C-Tu-K2, Long Beach, May 2002.
  61. G.E. Town, ``Scaled-cladding designs for microstructured refractive-index guiding optical fibres,'' Proceedings, 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2002), p.44, Sydney, July 2002.
  62. G.E. Town, T Funaba, T. Ryan, and K. Lyytikainen, ``Optical continuum generation with nanosecond pump pulses in an irregularly microstructured optical fiber,'' Proceedings, 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2002), p.84, Sydney, July 2002.
  63. J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town, ``Loss in microstructured fibre with a short taper,'' Proceedings, 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2002), M-PD-003, Sydney, July 2002.
  64. J.M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev, G. Town, ``Stability criterion for solitons in passively mode-locked fiber lasers,'' OSA Technical Digest, Nonlinear Guided Waves and their Applications, NLTuD7, Stresa, September 2002.
  65. G.E. Town and R.H. Chu ``Bandgap engineering: One dimension and beyond,'' Photonic Crystals Downunder, Australian National University, August, 2002.
  66. M. Hansen and G.E. Town, "All-optical switching in dual-core microstructured optical fibres modeled using beam-propagation," Proceedings, 28th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2003), TuC1-3, Melbourne, July 2003.
  67. R.H. Chu and G.E. Town, "Application Of Digital Filter Design Techniques To Thin-Film Filter Synthesis," Proceedings, 28th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2003), PO-1.15, Melbourne, July 2003.
  68. M. Hansen and G.E. Town, "Properties of dual-core couplers in microstructured optical fibres," Proceeedings, 28th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC/IOOC 2003), vol.3, p.616-617, Rimini, September, 2003.
  69. G.E. Town, "Broadband optical fibre sources," Workshop on the Applications of Radio Science (WARS04), Hobart, February, 2004.
  70. G.E. Town, S. Pradhan, and K.J. Grant, "Dual-wavelength DBR fibre laser," Proceedings, 29th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2004), Mon10:45, Canberra, July 2004.
  71. R.F. Copperwhite, M. Oubaha, K.R. Kribich, G.E. Town, K. O'Dwyer, B.D. MacCraith, "Characterisation of novel multimode interference sensing systems," paper 5826-65, SPIE Opto-Ireland, Dublin, 4-6th April, 2005.
  72. G.E. Town, A. Vasdekis, F. Bain, G.A. Turnbull, I.D.W. Samuel, "Dual-wavelength semiconducting polymer DFB laser," CA8-5-TUE, Proceedings CLEO/Europe-EQEC, 17th International Conference on Photonics in Europe, Munich, 12th-17th June, 2005.
  73. G. E Town, R. F. Copperwhite, R. Kribich, K. O'Dwyer, B.D. MacCraith, "Comparison of multimode and multichannel couplers for evanescent sensing of refractive index," Proceedings, 30th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2005), Sydney, 4th-9th July, 2005.
  74. S. Pradhan, G.E. Town, K. J. Grant, "Multiwavelength generation in a DBR fiber laser," Proceedings, 30th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2005), Sydney, 4th-9th July, 2005.
  75. M.T. Fellew, G.E. Town, "Continuum generation in silica microstructured fibre using a dual-wavelength Q-switched laser in the normal dispersion regime," Proceedings, 30th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2005), Sydney, 4th-9th July, 2005.
  76. A. Vasdekis, G.A. Turnbull, I.D.W. Samuel, G.E. Town, "Novel diffractive feedback structures for semiconducting polymer lasers," pp. 311-318, Proceedings of SPIE volume 5937, Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices IX, San Diego, 31st July - 4th August, 2005.
  77. R. F. Copperwhite, M. Oubaha, G. E. Town, R. Kribich, K. O'Dwyer, B. D. MacCraith, "Characterization of novel refractometric sensing systems, " pp. 78-88, Proceedings of SPIE volume 5993, Advanced Environmental, Chemical, and Biological Sensing Technologies III, OpticsEast, Boston, 23-26th October, 2005.
  78. G.E. Town, A. Vasdekis, G.A. Turnbull, I.D.W. Samuel, "Temperature tuning of a semiconducting-polymer DFB laser," ThH1, Proceedings 18th Annual Lasers and Electro Optics Society Meeting, Sydney, 23rd-27th October, 2005.
  79. S. Pradhan, G.E. Town, "Noise reduction in a multiwavelength fiber laser," WZ5, Proceedings 18th Annual Lasers and Electro Optics Society Meeting, Sydney, 23rd-27th October, 2005.
  80. D.I. Johnson, G.E. Town, "Refractive index and thermo-optic coefficient of composite polymers at 1.55um," pp. 438-445, Proceedings of SPIE volume 6038, Photonics: Design, Technology, and Packaging, Brisbane, 12-14th December, 2005.
  81. G.E. Town, "Dispersion in optical fibers with scaled microstructure," Proceedings, Integrated Photonics Research and Applications Topical Meeting (IPRA) and Nanophotonics Topical Meeting, NFC3, 2006.
  82. R.M. Chaplin, G.E. Town, M.J. Withford, D. Baer, "Fabrication conditions for randomly microstructured polymer optical fibers" Proceedings, Integrated Photonics Research and Applications Topical Meeting (IPRA) and Nanophotonics Topical Meeting, Uncasville, May 24-28, NFC4, 2006.
  83. D.I. Johnson, G.E. Town, "Total differential optical properties of polymer nanocomposite materials," Proceedings, International Conference On Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2006.
  84. S. Pradhan, G. E.Town, K. J. Grant, "Microwave frequency generation using a dual-wavelength DBR fiber laser," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2006), 139 TueP, Melbourne, 10-13th July, 2006.
  85. G. E. Town, R. M. Chaplin, M. J. Withford, D. Baer "Randomly Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre," Proceedings, Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT2006), 138 TueP, Melbourne, 10-13th July, 2006.
  86. A. Vasdekis, G. Town, G. A. Turnbull, I. D.W. Samuel, “Light pipes in contact giving a novel organic optical source,” Proceedings, Photon 06, P3.26, Manchester, 4-7th September, 2006.
  87. S. Pradhan, G.E Town, K.J. Grant, “Single mode lasing at multiple wavelengths in a distributed Bragg reflector fiber laser,” Proceedings, 2nd EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference on Solid-State Lasers,  Fiber an Waveguide Devices, ThC19, 10-15 September 2006, Pisa, Italy.

  88.  A. E. Vasdekis, G. E. Town, G. A. Turnbull, I. D. W. Samuel, “Microfluidic dye lasers based on microstructured optical fibres,” Proceedings CLEO/Europe, Munich, June, 2007. accepted

  89. G. E. Town, M. Fellew, “All-fiber periodically Q-switched laser," Proceedings CLEO/Europe, Munich, June, 2007. accepted

Invited Articles

  1. G. Town,
    "Optical Fibre Lasers," Australian Optical Society News, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 10-14, 1994.

Invited Conference Presentations

  1. M. Romagnoli, P. Franco, M. Midrio, F. Fontana, and G. Town, "Observation of dissipative soliton generation in a sliding frequency fiber laser," European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC94), Amsterdam, August 1994.
  2. Y. Zhao, T. Fujiwara, D. Wong, S Fleming, and G. Town, "Optical nonlinearity in poled silica fibres," International Conference on Nonlinear Optical Physics & Applications (ICNOPA95), Harbin, China, July 1995.
  3. P. A. Krug, J. Chow, B. J. Eggleton, P. Hill, M. Ibsen, F. Oullette, T. Stephens, and G. Town, "Applications for fibre Bragg gratings in communications," Technical Digest, Optical Fibre Communication (OFC'96), February 1996.
  4. G.E. Town, N.N. Akhmediev, J. Soto-Crespo, A. Rodrigues, "Optical fibre soliton lasers," International Workshop on Optical Solitons: Theory and Experiments, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi, India. January 2002.

Invited Lectures

  1. G. E. Town, "Broadband optical fibre systems," Joint Institution Lecture Series, Engineers Australia, Sydney, November 2003.

Patents

  1. S. Fleming, T. Fujiwara, S. Poole, M. Sceats, G. Town, D. Wong, and Y. Zhao, "Inducing or enhancing electro-optic properties in optically transmissive material," Australian Provisional Patent PO4828, filed November 1994.
  2. G. Town, J. Chow, and B. Eggleton "Multiwavelength laser," Australian Provisional Patent PM9395, filed November 1994.
  3. T. Fujiwara, D. Wong, S. Fleming, Y. Zhao, S. Poole, M. Sceats, and G. Town, "Inducing or enhancing electro-optic properties in optically transmissive material with simultaneous UV irradiation and electric field application," Australian Patent 711701. US Patent 5,966,233, August 1997.
  4. P. Blazkiewicz, J. Canning, W. Xu, D. Wong, and G. Town, "Method and Apparatus for Thermal Poling and Optical Devices," Australian Provisional Patent PQ2811, filed September 1999.
  5. G. Town, "Holey Waveguide Manufacture" Australian Patent, PR5652, filed July 2001. US Patent, 6,738,550 B2, May 2004.
  6. G. Town, "Optical Fibre and Method of Manufacture Thereof" Australian Provisional Patent 2003905073, filed July 2003.
  7. G. Town, R. Chaplin, M. Withford, D. Baer, "Microstructured polymer optical devices", Australian Provisional Patent, filed December 2006.

Reports and Theses

  1. G. Town, "Feasibility Study into a Frequency Division Multiplex System Using Optical Fibres," AWA Technical Report, June 1983.
  2. G. Town, "Microwave Antenna Measurements Using a Near-Field Holographic Technique." Undergraduate Thesis, NSW Institute of Technology, November 1983.
  3. G. Town, "Complex Excitation in NMR Imaging and Spectroscopy," PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, March 1991.

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