ACT Branch
The August 2010 Meeting
This public lecture is part of our LaserFest program - NB change of date and venue!
Ultrafast photonic integrated circuits: Breaking the Terabit per second-barrier
| Speaker | Prof Ben Eggleton
University of Sydney |
| Time | Wednesday 25th of August 2010 6.00pm (refreshments available from 5.30pm) |
| Location | Lecture Theatre PSYC G6 Building 39, The Australian National University |
This talk will review our progress in developing ultrafast photonic integrated circuits based on breakthroughs in highly nonlinear materials and nanophotonics. We have developed a monolithic integrated photonic chip for all-optical ultrafast information processing with terabit per-second bandwidth. Our approach takes advantage of different ultrafast nonlinear processes, such as four-wave-mixing and stimulated Raman scattering processes and exploits slow-light effects in photonic crystal waveguides. I will present our recent record-breaking results demonstrating photonic chip based transmitter optimization and receiver de-multiplexing of a 1.28 Tbit/s OTDM signal. I will also discuss some new directions that CUDOS is exploring, including mid infrared technologies, quantum information processing and new devices based on hybrid integration and functional metamaterials.
Benjamin J. Eggleton is an ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney and is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). He obtained the Bachelor’s degree (with honors) in Science and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Sydney. In 1996, he joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a Member of Staff and was subsequently promoted to Research Director within the Specialty Fiber Business Division of Bell Laboratories, where he was engaged in forward-looking research supporting Lucent Technologies business in optical fiber devices. Eggleton is the author of more than 270 journal publications. He is a Fellow of OSA, IEEE and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). Eggleton was the recipient of the2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the year award in the Physical Sciences category, the 2008 NSW Physicist of the Year medal, the 2007 Pawsey Medal, the 2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, the 2003 International Commission on Optics (ICO) Prize,the 1998 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America, the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE/LEOS, and the R&D100 Award. He is currently President of the Australian Optical Society and Editor for Optics Communications.