Seminars
MQ Photonics Seminar Series - 2021
For further information, please contact Haoran Ren by email haoran.ren(at)mq.edu.au.
MQ Photonics Seminar Series - 2020
For further information, please contact Mikolaj Schmidt by email mikolaj.schmidt(at)mq.edu.au.
MQ Photonics Seminar Series - 2019
For further information, please contact Mikolaj Schmidt by email mikolaj.schmidt(at)mq.edu.au.
MQ Photonics Seminar Series - 2018
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers (incl. staff, postdocs and postgrad students), several spots are allocated for distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Ondrej Kitzler on (02) 9850 8938 or ondrej.kitzler(at)mq.edu.au.
| Recent seminars | |||
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| Date d/m/y & Time | Location | Title(s) | Speakers(s) |
| 14 December 4 PM | 7 Wally's Walk, Room 149 | Tailoring the optical properties of low-dimensional materials for novel photonic applications | Prof. Fengqiu Wang, Nanjing University, China |
| 27 November 11 AM | E6B Multipurpose Room | Designing metasurfaces for nanoscale photonics | Andrea Mazzanti Polytecnico di Milano, Italy |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series - 2017
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers (incl. staff, postdocs and postgrad students), several spots are allocated for distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Ondrej Kitzler on (02) 9850 8938 or ondrej.kitzler(at)mq.edu.au.
| Recent seminars | |||
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| Date d/m/y & Time | Location | Title(s) | Speakers(s) |
| 01 December | E7B T2 | Adventures in On-chip Stimulated Brillouin Scattering and Myrmecobius fasciatus | Professor Michael Steel |
| 24 November | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | THz polariton lasers and their applications at MQ | Dr Andrew Lee |
| 17 November | E7B T2 | Intra-cavity THz polariton laser using a shallow-bounce configuration generating dual-beam emission Three ideas that haven't worked yet | Dr Ran Li Assoc. Prof. David Spence |
| 03 November | E7B T2 | AIP practice talks | Tushar Malica Andrea Ribeiro |
| 20 October | E7B T2 | Linewidth control of intracavity CW THz lasers | Yameng Zheng |
| 13 October | E7B T2 | Large brightness enhancement for continuous-wave beams by diamond Raman laser conversion | Zhenxu Bai |
| 29 September | E7B T2 | Optical Remote Sensing of Water temperature in natural water samples | Prof Helen Pask, Andrea Ribeiro |
| 22 September | E7B T2 | Multimode optical fibres with a twist for astrophotonics | Prof David Coutts |
| 01 September | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | TBA | Prof Takashige Omatsu Chiba University Japan |
| 25 August | E7B T2 | TBA | Vincent Ng |
| 18 August | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | Combining whispering gallery mode lasers and microstructured optical fibers: limitations, applications and perspectives for in-vivo biosensing applications | Dr Alexandre François University of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 11 August | E6B Multipurpose room | Industrial production of large scale LBO and RTP crystals for highly efficient lasers | Marc-André Herrmann CRISTAL LASER |
| 04 August | E6B Multipurpose room | Applications of ordered and disordered optical materials in optoelectronics | Prof Hernán Míguez Institute of Materials Science of Seville (Spanish National Research Council) |
| 28 July | E7B T2 | Structural Engineering of Nanoporous Anodic Alumina Photonic Crystals | Dr Abel Santos Alejandro The University of Adelaide The Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) |
| 21 July | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | Raman random lasing based on nanodiamond | Corentin Huard Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France |
| 9 June | E7B T2 | Heralded single photon generation in side-stressed hybrid laser-written waveguides | Dr Zachary Chaboyer |
| 19 May | E7B T2 | Basque map of nanooptics | Dr Mikolaj Schmidt |
| 12 May | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | Towards ultrafast and ultra-broadband all-fibre laser systems for the mid-infrared | Sergei Antipov PhD Student |
| 28 April | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | Integrated Quantum Photonics | Dr Luke Helt |
| 21 April | E6B 102 | What exactly is a random laser? | Prof Judith Dawes |
| 07 April | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | Acousto-optic properties of metamaterials: the role of artificial photoelasticity | Dr Mike Smith USYD |
| 31 March | E7B T2 | Micro-optical structures for security, astronomy and life science applications | Dr Fredrik Nikolajeff The Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 24 March | Hearing Hub, Lecture T1 | Short-Pulse Fibre Lasers: New Designs, New Materials, New Opportunities? | Dr Robert Woodward |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series - 2016
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers (incl. staff, postdocs and postgrad students), several spots are allocated for distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Varun Sreenivasan on (02) 9850 9547 or varun.sreenivasan@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Title(s) | Speakers(s) |
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Friday 9th December, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6B 2.300 | "Speckle-Free Lasers" | Prof. Hui Cao Yale University |
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Friday 2nd December, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E7B T2 |
"Modular Photonics: An Unexpected Journey" (Commercialisation Series - Part 3) | Prof. Michael Withford |
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 1200 - 1300 | E7B T2 | "Micro-and Nanostructuring for photonic applications" "Tailoring light propagation in fibers by localized fs laser modifications" | Ernst-Bernhard Kley Thorsten Goebel |
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Friday 25th November, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Demonstrating impact through commercialization – the diamond laser story" (Commercialisation Series - Part 2) | A/Prof. Rich Mildren |
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Friday 18th November, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6B 149 | "Design of functional micelles for drug delivery" | Prof. Martina Stenzel UNSW |
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Friday, 11th November, 2016 1100 - 1200 | Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "Femtosecond laser ablation of dielectrics: Tracking energy absorption" | Dr. Nicolas Sanner Aix-Marseille Univ., France |
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Friday, 4th November, 2016 1500 - 1600 | E7B T3 | "Scalable fabrication of high quality thin single crystal diamond membranes for nanophotonic and mechanical devices" | Dr. Afaq Piracha |
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Friday, 21st October, 2016 1100 - 1200 | Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "Whole cell imaging and analysis of all endocytic events at single molecule resolution" | Dr. Senthil Arumugam UNSW |
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Friday, 30th September, 2016 1100 - 1200 | Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "Your ideas, commercialisation and impact" (Commercialisation Series - Part 1) | Anna Grocholsky Director, Commercialisation & Innovation, MQ |
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Friday, 23rd September, 2016 1100 - 1200 | Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "Bragg Gratings: Lasers & Sensors" "Oxygen-surface interactions during UV etching of diamond" |
Dr. Martin Ams
Christopher Baldwin |
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Friday, 16th September, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E7B T3 | "Quantum Emitters in Flatland" | A/Prof. Igor Aharonovich, UTS |
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Friday, 9th September, 2016 1400 - 1500 | E6A 102 | "Turing patterns, optical vortices, turbulence, rogue waves, cavity solitons and other weird stuff in lasers with optical injection" | Prof Gian-Luca Oppo University of Strathclyde |
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Friday, 2nd September, 2016 1400 - 1500 | E6A 102 | "Spatio-temporal dynamics of nonlinear Airy beam interactions" | Noemi Wiersma Université de Lorraine |
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Friday, 2nd September, 2016 1130 - 1230 |
Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "Single molecule fluorescence approaches to plasma membrane biophysics" | Dr. Philip Nicovich University of New South Wales |
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Friday, 26th August, 2016 1100 - 1200 |
Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 |
"On the search of new planets using photonic devices”
"Second harmonic generation in optical antennas" | Dr. Alexander Arriola Prof. Costa De Angelis |
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Friday, 19th August, 2016 1130 - 1230 |
Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "At your service…. A review of the projects and facilities underpinning our ANFF activities" | Dr. Benjamin Johnston |
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Friday, 12th August, 2016 1100 - 1200 |
Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "Coping with the heat - from thin to cryogenic laser architectures" | A/Prof Jacob McKenzie Optical Research Institute, Southampton |
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Friday, 5th August, 2016 1100 - 1200 |
Australian Hearing Hub, Lecture Theatre 1 | "So you want to build a laser?" | A/Prof. David Spence |
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Friday, 28th July, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "The actin cytoskeleton at the interface of cancer and immunity: assembly, migration and cytotoxic interactions" | Dr. Maté Biro (University of New South Wales) |
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Friday, 22nd July, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Development of time-gated luminescence bio-imaging instruments" |
Xianlin Zheng (PhD Student) |
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Friday, 8th July, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "From CLA to MQ Photonics and beyond: goals, groups, grants, ..." | Emeritus Professor Brian Orr |
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Friday, 1st July, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Optical Trapping and Nanotechnology – New Opportunities for Nanoscale Sensing" | Dr. Peter J Reece (University of New South Wales) |
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Friday, 24th June, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Planar optics enabled by nanotechnology" | Dr. Jiao Lin (RMIT) |
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Friday 10th June, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 |
"Continuous wave, intracavity Terahertz laser radiation generated via stimulated polariton scattering"
"Biophotonics strategies towards cytokine sensing" | Yameng Zheng (PhD Student) Dr. Guozhen Liu |
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Friday, 3rd June, 2016 1100 - 1130 | E6A 102 | "Raman spectroscopy applied to remote sensing of water: challenges and perspectives" |
Andrea Ribeiro (PhD Student) |
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Friday, 27th May, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Photonic-phononic processing in integrated circuits" | Dr. Birgit Stiller (University of Sydney) |
Friday, 20th May, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Direct femtosecond inscription of chirped fiber Bragg gratings; Modelocked Mid-IR laser based on a nonlinear polarization rotation" |
Sergei Antipov (PhD Student) |
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Friday, 13th May, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "A sweet use of entanglement - measuring the interaction of light with chiral molecules" |
Nora Tischler (PhD Student) |
Friday, 6th May, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Nanolasers and Kerr Nonlinearity Based on Plasmonic Waveguides" | Dr. Clark Li (University of Sydney) |
Friday, 29th Apr, 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 |
"FLIM measurements using 512x128 pixels 'Swiss-SPAD chip'"
"Taking advantage of colour centres in nano-diamonds: a novel approach for quantum optomechanics" |
Piotr Wargocki (PhD Student) Dr. Mathieu Juan |
Friday, 22nd Apr 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "On the search of novel crystalline laser materials and their application for ultrafast laser written active optical devices" | Dr Thomas Calmano (University of Hamburg) |
Friday, 15th Apr 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "Physversity" | Prof. Deb Kane |
Friday, 8th Apr 2016 1100 - 1200 | E6A 102 | "The Huntsman observing systems: ultra-faint astronomical imaging from the ground and space" "Heralded Single Photon Generation in Complex Waveguides" | Dr. Lee Spitler Dr. Luke Helt |
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Friday, 18th Mar 2016 1600 - 1700 |
Australian Hearing Hub (Lecture Theatre 1) |
"Understanding the magnetic structure of DyN: a 161Dy Mössbauer spectroscopy study"
"Reconfigurable 3D laser-written photonic circuit" |
Jacob Evans (PhD Student) Zachary Chaboyer |
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Friday, 11th Mar 2016 1600 - 1700 | Senate Room |
"Preparing Continuous Variable Optical States for Quantum Error Correction by Coupling Atomic Ensembles to Squeezed States of Light"
"Observation of cooperatively-enhanced dipole forces from NV centres in optically trapped nanodiamonds" |
Keith Motes (PhD student) Dr. Carlo Bradac |
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Friday, 4th Mar 2016 1600 - 1700 | E6B 136 | "Windows to the human body with nanobiophotonics, current interdisciplinary research projects and workflow strategies" | Dr. Ayad Anwer |
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Friday, 26th Feb 2016 1600 - 1700 | E6A 102 | "Polarization Eigen modes of a resonator containing Raman gain and birefringence" | Dr. Ondrej Kitzler |
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Friday, 19th Feb 2016 1600 - 1700 | E6A 102 |
"THz polariton laser based on RbTiOPO4 crystal"
"Permutation entropy of white-noise time-series of finite length" |
Tiago Ortega (PhD Student) Dr. Douglas Little |
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Friday, 12th Feb 2016 1200 - 1300 | E6A 102 |
"Bio-Inspired Plasmonics"
"Characterisation of porous materials by fcsSOFI" | A/Prof. Stephan Link (Rice University) A/Prof. Christy F. Landes |
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Friday, 5th Feb 2016 1600 - 1700 | E6A 102 |
"High-power single-longitudinal mode and tunable diamond Raman laser at 1240 nm" - Photonics West Practise Talk
"Quantum Photonics at Bristol : Some Research Highlights and Future Challenges" |
Soumya Soumya (PhD Student) Dr. Graham Marshall |
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Friday, 29th Jan 2016 1600 - 1700 | E6A 102 |
"Circular and Linear birefringence in laser grade single crystal CVD diamond" - Photonics West Practise Talk
"Even nanoholes get the entanglement" - Combined with QSciTech |
Hadiya Valiyaveettil Mohammed Ashraf (PhD Student) A/Prof. Gabriel Molina-Terriza |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2015
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Robert Williams on (02) 9850 8975 or robert.williams@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
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Friday 2/10/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Assoc. Prof. Mike Steel | |
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Friday 25/09/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Assoc. Prof. Andrei Zvyagin | |
| Thursday 17/09/2015 13:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | LIBS spectroscopy meets the ocean. Chemical analysis of archaeological materials in Mediterranean waters | Prof. Javier Laserna University of Málaga, Spain |
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Friday 11/09/2015 12:00 noon | |||
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Friday 4/09/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Dr Roberto Osellame Politecnico di Milano, Italy | |
| Wednesday 26/08/2015 13:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Laser nanostructuring of polymers: from fundamentals to applications | Dr Esther Rebollar Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, IQFR-CSIC, Spain |
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Friday 21/08/2015 12:00 noon | – | (No MQ Photonics Seminar) | – |
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Friday 14/08/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Nanometre scale chemical mapping of organic and inorganic materials using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and focused ion beam SIMS (FIB-SIMS) | Dr David McPhail Imperial College, London |
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Friday 7/08/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Towards photodynamic therapy with ionising radiation: nanoparticle-mediated singlet oxygen generation Hyperspectral unmixing for endogenous florescent metabolites in biological samples | Sandhya Clement Saabah Mahbub |
| Friday 31/07/2015 | – | (No MQ Photonics Seminar) | – |
| Friday 24/07/2015 | – | (No MQ Photonics Seminar) | – |
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Friday 17/07/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Combining Optical Levitation Schemes for Large Quantum States WOMBAT practise talk: SBS in diamond | Reece Roberts Dr Robert Williams |
| Friday 10/07/2015 | – | (No MQ Photonics Seminar) | – |
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Friday 3/07/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Prof. Ewa Goldys | |
| Friday 26/06/2015 | – | (No MQ Photonics Seminar) | – |
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Friday 19/06/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Strategies for Deep Tissue Imaging | Dr W. M. (Steve) Lee Australia National University |
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Friday 12/06/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | E-CLEO practise talks | Dr Zhizhong Yan, Sergei Antipov and Dr Simon Gross |
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Friday 5/06/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | E-CLEO practise talks | Dr Simon Gross and Chris Artlett |
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Friday 29/05/2015 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Combinatorial optimisation of plasmonics for photovoltaics | Dr Tristan Temple |
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Friday 22/05/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Raman beam combining and polarization conversion in diamond. Tumor tissue engineering at crossroads of biophotonics and experimental pathology. | Dr Aaron McKay Anna Guller |
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Friday 15/05/2015 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Optical characterization of plasmonic nanostructures: near-field imaging of the magnetic field of light | Dr Denitza Denkova |
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Friday 8/05/2015 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | NA N/A: A highly skewed view of propagation in optical fibres, vortex beams and optical cyclones | Assoc. Prof. David Coutts |
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Friday 1/05/2015 14:00 | E7B T5 (third floor) | The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics instrument: commissioning status | Dr Nemanja Jovanovic Gemini Observatory, Hawaii |
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Friday 24/04/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Dielectrophoresis based integration of nanostructures and their sensorial application | Dr Christian Leiterer |
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Friday 17/04/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Optical manipulation and characterization of single nanowires and nanoparticles. Raman lasers and resonantly pumped Er:YAG lasers in the eye-safe spectral region for trace gas detection. | Dr Fan Wang Dr Oliver Lux |
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Friday 10/04/2015 12:00 noon |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Enhancing and inhibiting stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic integrated circuits | Prof. Benjamin EggletonUniversity of Sydney |
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Friday 3/04/2015 12:00 noon | No seminar | Good Friday. | |
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Friday 27/03/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | My First Decade in Optics Large-scale production and characterization of biocompatible ruby nanoparticles | Tiago Almeida Ortega Wan Aizuddin Wan Razali |
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Friday 20/03/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Bright nonlinear quantum optics | Nicolás Quesada University of Toronto |
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Friday 13/03/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Dynamics of the effective mass and the anomalous velocity | Prof. John SipeUniversity of Toronto |
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Friday 06/03/2015 12:00 noon | – | (No MQ Photonics Seminar) | – |
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Friday 27/02/2015 12:00 noon | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Enhancing the light-matter interaction with Bloch surface waves | Dr Marco LiscidiniUniversity of Pavia, Italy |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2014
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Martin Ams on (02) 9850 5044 or martin.ams@mq.edu.au
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
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Friday 26/12/2014 14:00 | Boxing Day | – | – |
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Friday 19/12/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
THz lasers utilising cascaded stimulated polariton scattering Lasers! Chaos! …Big Data? |
Dr Andrew Lee Dr Josh Toomey |
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Friday 12/12/2014 14:00 | – | Australian Institute of Physics Congress (No MQ Photonics Seminar) | – |
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Friday 05/12/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Australian Institute of Physics Congress Practice Talks | Barbara Wellmann, Jipeng Lin, Annemarie Nadort |
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Friday 28/11/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Molecular optical dispersion spectroscopy – a novel approach to chemical detection | Assistant Professor Gerard Wysocki Princeton University |
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Friday 21/11/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
MQ Photonics State of the Nation Generating Single Photons via Spontaneous Four Wave Mixing in Femtosecond Laser-Written Fused Silica Waveguides, Quantity and Purity |
Prof. Michael Withford Dr Zhizhong Yan |
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Friday 14/11/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Laser fabrication and astrophotonics – from rainy Scotland to sunny Sydney | Dr Alex Arriola |
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Friday 07/11/2014 14:00 | – | – | – |
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Friday 31/10/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Nanoparticle metrology using interferometric microscopy | Dr Douglas Little |
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Friday 24/10/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Astrophotonic instrumentation for exoplanet detection and study | Nick Cvetojevic (UoSyd) |
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Friday 17/10/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Quantum nanophotonics in Macquarie | A/Prof Gabriel Molina Terriza |
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Friday 10/10/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Development of advanced controllable solid-state lasers using intracavity active elements | Dr Walter Lubeigt & Ran Li (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) |
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Tuesday 30/09/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Recent Developments in Modelocked Solid State Lasers | Dr Tom Brown (University of St Andrews, Scotland) |
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Friday 26/09/2014 14:00 | – | Semester Break | – |
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Friday 19/09/2014 14:00 | – | Conception Day | – |
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Friday 12/09/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Searching for extrasolar planets with single-mode spectrographs | Tobias Feger |
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Friday 05/09/2014 14:00 | – | – | – |
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Friday 29/08/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Counting atoms: geochemistry and the fabric of geology | Associate Professor Norman Pearson (Manager, Geochemical Analysis Unit, GEMOC) |
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Friday 22/08/2014 14:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
Nanophotonic SuperDots Surface Plasmon Interactions with Nano-Structures and Particles |
Associate Professor JIN, Dayong Alireza Maleki |
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Wednesday 20/08/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Novel techniques for domain engineering of lithium niobate: from physical processes to nonlinear integrated optical devices | Arnan Mitchell & Andreas Boes (RMIT University, Melbourne) |
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Friday 15/08/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Trends in Excimer Laser Microprocessing | Dr Burkhard Fechner (Coherent excimer laser manufacturing) |
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Friday 08/08/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Astronomical instrument and R&D projects at the AAO | Dr Jon Lawrence (AAO Instrument Science Group) |
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Friday 01/08/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Raman lasers and more… How to survive as a Research Fellow for 20 years | Associate Professor Helen Pask |
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Friday 25/07/2014 11:30 | E7B T5 Theatre |
On spontaneous parametric down-conversion – Why it is both a blessing and a curse to not have simple photon pairs on demand Rare-Earth Nitrides: Ferromagnetic Semiconductors with Spintronic Applications |
Nora Tischler Jacob Evans |
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Friday 18/07/2014 12:00 | – | – | – |
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Friday 11/07/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Cancelled – Power Outage | – |
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Friday 04/07/2014 12:00-13:30 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
ACOFT/OECC Practice Talks (12 min talk + 3 min question time each) |
Vincent Ng Michael Steel Zachary Chaboyer |
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Friday 27/06/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
Nanosecond infrared nerve stimulation Femtosecond laser written spectrographs |
Blake Entwisle Glen Douglass |
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Friday 20/06/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | How can biophotonics help us to understand motor neurone disease? | Professor Roger Chung (Australian School of Advanced Medicine) |
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Friday 13/06/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Evolution of THz waveguides | Dr Shaghik Atakaramians, (IPOS University of Sydney) |
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Friday 06/06/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
3D Quantum Interferometry Interfacing plasmonics and optics via Adiabatic Passage Techniques |
Zachary Chaboyer Vincent Ng |
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Friday 30/05/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | — Cancelled — | – |
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Friday 23/05/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | NEWSPEAK: How to talk to journalists | Leigh Dayton (Science Writer & Broadcaster @ MQ) |
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Friday 16/05/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Diamond Raman lasers from the visible to the mid-infrared | Alexander Sabella (DSTO & MQ) |
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Friday 09/05/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
Ion-beam sculpting of plasmonic nanoparticles Developing Ultrafast Raman Lasers |
Dr Tristan Temple Aravindan Madhava Warrier |
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Friday 02/05/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | Numerical treatment of spontaneous emission from finite photonic crystals | Dr Christian Wolff (UTS) |
| Friday 25/04/2014 | Anzac Day | – | – |
| Wednesday 16/04/2014 | E6A 102 Theatrette | Few-cycle mid-IR sources and attosecond physics | Prof. Dr. Jens Biegert (ICFO – The Institute of Photonics Sciences, Barcelona, Spain) |
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Friday 11/04/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | “Under the Hood” at Finisar Australia: Optical technologies and their applications in telecom and other industries | Dr. Simon Poole (Director, New Business Ventures, Finisar, Australia) |
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Friday 04/04/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre |
2 pursuits in diamond Raman lasers: cw power scaling & low threshold waveguide devices Fluorescence imaging and beyond – There and back again |
Dr Robert Williams Dr Felix Dreisow (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena) |
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Friday 28/03/2014 12:00 |
Australian Hearing Hub Level 1 Lecture Theatre | My ‘sense’ of London | Dr Martin Ams |
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Friday 21/03/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
Dynamics of a semiconductor laser with frequency shifted feedback 3D integrated photonic lantern: multimode, multicore, multiband processing |
Yoann Noblet Izabela Spaleniak |
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Friday 14/03/2014 12:00 | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) |
Mode-Division Multiplexing using Femtosecond Laser Written 3-Dimensional Tapered Couplers Photons have a spectral degree of freedom too! |
Dr Simon Gross Dr Luke Helt |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2013
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Andrew Lee on (02) 9850 6366 or andrew.lee@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 am/ 6th December | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | ANZCOP presentations | Brian Orr, Lixin Zhang, Luke Helt, Aaron McKay, Robert Williams, Zhizhong Yan, Zachary Chaboyer |
| 11 am/ 8th November | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Introduction to multivariate analysis | Chris Artlett |
| 11 am/ 1st November | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Non-invasive optical techniques to assess microcirculation dynamics and permeability in vivo / Upconversion nanoparticle-assisted optical cancer diagnostic: in vitro modelling | Annemarie Nadort / Ekaterina Ivukina |
| 11 am/ 25th October | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Development of a force assay to monitor the mobility of cancer cells | Dr Varun Sreenivasan |
| 11 am/23rd September | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) | Lt Col Matthew Zickafoose (Air Force Research Laboratory, US Air Force) |
| 11 am/18th September | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Fluorescent nanoparticles for biosensing applications | Dr Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic (University of Melbourne) |
| 11am/30th August | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Towards a polymorphic phase change device | Dr Simon Clark (MQ Dpt. Earth and Planetary Sciences) |
| 11 am/16th August | E6B 2.300 (multipurpose) | Nonlinear optics by vortex lasers | Prof. Takashige Omatsu |
| 11 am/9th August- Cancelled | TBA | TBA | A/Prof. Norman Pearson (MQ GEMOC) |
| 12pm/2nd August | C8A 310 (Senate) | Nonlinear photonics in VCSELs-solitons and spin oscillations | Prof. Thorsten Ackermann (Strathclyde University) |
| 11 am/29th July | E6B 136 | Metal vapour lasers and their applications for diagnostics | A/Prof Fedor Gubarev |
| 11 am/26th July | E6B 136 | A versatile source of polarisation entangled photons for quantum network applications | Dr Olivier Alibart (University Sophia-Antipolis) |
| 11 am/19th July | E6B 136 | High-Tc superconducting devices for microwave and terahertz applications | Dr Jia Du (CSIRO) |
| 11 am/ 12th July- Rescheduled | E7B 263 | Depth-resolved remote sensing of water temperature | Chris Artlett |
| 11 am/ 5th July | E6A 131 | Emission spectra and coherence of random lasers | Wan Zakiah Wan Ismail |
| 11 am/24th June | E6B 136 (Briefing Room) | A Taste of Terahertz | Prof Roger Lewis (University of Wollongong) |
| 11 am/21st June | C8A 310 Senate (Lincoln) | MQ Photonics Group Address / Low bend loss waveguides and photonic bandgaps enabled by high index contrast modifications | Assoc Prof Mick Withford / Simon Gross |
| 11 am/14th June | C8A 310 Senate (Lincoln) | High-throughput time-resolved spectroscope system: characterization of luminescence properties in spectral and temporal domains / STED nanoscopy on SUPER Dots | Lixin Zhang and Yujia Liu |
| 11 am/31st May | E7B 264 | Wide bandgap semiconductors for nanophotonics | Dr Igor Aharonovich (UTS) |
| 11 am/24th May | E7B 264 | Blue lasers and generation of 4 nm radiation | Dr Chunyu (Ryan) Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China) |
| 11 am/17th May- Rescheduled | TBA | TBA | Assoc Prof Helen Pask |
| 11 am/10th May | E7B 264 | Amplifying DNA Bead Assays in Flow Cytometry: a Platform Technology Based on Exonuclease III-Aided Target Recycling / SUPER Dots: the next-generation fluorescent nanoparticles | Jie Lu/Tim Zhao |
| 12 pm/3rd May | W5A T2 | Excursions in Nonlinear Periodic Structures | Prof Herbert Winful |
| 11 am/26th April | E6A 102 | Why SUPER Dots are super: upconversion nanocrystals from biosensing to security printing | Dr Dayong Jin |
| 11 am/19th April | W5A T1 | Journal papers- Responding to reviewers and an editors perspective | Prof Brian Orr and Assoc Prof Mike Steel |
| 11 am/12th April | E7B 264 | Current research at the Institute of Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide; Endometrial receptivity probe using microstructured optical fibres; Identification and quantification of explosive species in solution by Raman spectroscopy in suspended core optical fibres. | Dr Kris Rowland, Dr Stephen Warren-Smith and Dr Georgios Tsiminis (IPAS- University of Adelaide) |
| 11 am/5th April | E7B 264 | Single frequency pumped extra-cavity diamond Raman laser | Ondrej Kitzler |
| 11 am/22nd March | E7B 264 | CW Tunable Raman laser pumped by VECSEL | Jipeng Lin |
| 11.30 am/1st March | C5C 498 | Progress and outlook for ultrafast laser development | Assoc Prof David Spence |
| 11 am / 15th February | E6A 102 | Hybrid Chalcogenide Microwires | Assoc Prof Martin Rochette (McGill University) |
| 11 am / 8th January | E7B-T2 | Few-Mode Optical Fibres | Prof John Love (ANU) |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2012
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact David Inglis on (02) 9850 7747 or david.inglis@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 am / 14th December | C5C-498 | Optical coherence elastography: imaging the micro-mechanical properties of tissue | Dr Brendan Kennedy |
| 11 am / 7th December | C5C-498 | Time and wavelength resolved measurements of the Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) excimer emission generated in a windowless-Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) / Continuous flow filtration using laminar flow | Rajesh Ganesan and Dr David Inglis |
| 2 pm / 30th November | E6A-102 | Laser fabrication of ultra-fast femtosecond waveguide lasers / MQ Photonics 2012 State of the Union Address | Dr Guido Palmer and Prof Mick Withford |
| 11 am / 9th November | C5C-498 | Nanotoxicology of sunscreen on human skin / CVD Diamond growth at MQ | Zhen Song and Dr Peter Ha |
| 11 am / 2nd November | C5C-498 | Surface plasmon polaritons on gold striplines / Discussion on attracting external funding Part I | Dr Than Phong Vo and Dr Rich Mildren |
| 11 am / 19th October | C5C-498 | Mid-IR waveguide lasers / High average power eye-safe diamond Raman lasers | Simon Gross and Dr Aaron McKay |
| 11 am / 12th October | C5C-498 | Integrated Photonic Lanterns: Multimode to Single Mode Light Converters for Applications in Astronomy / Upgrading the Optical Path Length Compensator at the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer | Izabela Spaleniak and Dr Benjamin Warrington |
| 11 am / 5th October | C5C-498 | Fabrication of high quality sub-micron Au gratings over large areas with pulsed laser interference lithography for SPR sensors / Effects of the nanodiamond host on the NV centre emission state | Alexander Arriola and Carlo Bradac |
| 11 am / 31st August | E7B-200 | Molecular dynamics simulations of laser ablation | Prof Johannes Roth |
| 11 am /17th August | E7B-200 | Optical vortex laser technologies and chiral nano-structured material processing | Professor Takashige Omatsu |
| 11 am / 27th July | E7B-200 | Excitation of single electromagnetic modes in dielectric spheres using cylindrically symmetric beams / Generation of frequency-tunable THz radiation using solid-state lasers | Xavier Zambrana Puyalto and Dr Andrew Lee |
| 11 am / 13th July | C5C-498 | Laser written quantum photonic devices / Chaotic Laser Systems | Thomas Meany and Dr Josh Toomey |
| 11 am / 3rd July | E6A-102 |
Two photon UV etching of diamond
Physical and Geometrical Optics of Optical Elements Within Spider Orb Webs Nonlinear plasmonics: utilizing parametric gain |
Christopher Baldwin
Jacob Evans Vincent Ng |
| 11 am / 29th June | C5C-498 | State Space Reconstruction from Observed Time Series / Plasmonic enhancement of silicon solar cells | Chetan Nichkawde and Dr Tristan Temple |
| 11 am / 22nd June | E6A-102 | Aspects of on-chip photonics: dynamically included non-reciprocity, and few-photon quantum transport in waveguide-atom system | Prof Shanhui Fan |
| 11 am / 25th May | C8A-310 (Senate) | Waveguide lasers fabricated by femtosecond laser writing technique / Optics of Orb-Weaver spider silks | Duan Yuwen and Doug Little |
| 11 am / 18th May | C5C-498 | Time-Resolved Luminescence: from Background-Free Imaging to Super-Multiplexing Bioassays / Optics and Optical Properties of Elements of Spider Webs | Yiqing Lu and Ricardo Pedregal-Cortes |
| 11 am / 11th May | E6A 102 | Soft x-ray spectroscopy of organic semiconductor thin films / Fibre Bragg gratings, also useful in astronomy? | Chris McMahon and Marien Geraldine |
| 11 am / 27th April | C8A-310 | Helicity of Light Fields. Applications in Focusing and Scattering / Engineering defects in diamond for quantum technologies and imaging | Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton and Stefania Castelletto |
| 11 am / 20th April | C5C-498 | Sensing Water Temperature with Raman Spectroscopy; The specific identification of Staphylococcus aureus with new fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) methods | Christopher Artlett and Tom Lawson |
| 11 am / 30th March | E6A-102 | Recent laser micromachining projects carried out at Optofab; Macquarie’s contribution to the Australian National Fabrication Facility | Benjamin Johnston |
| 11 am / 23th March | E6A-102 | Plasmonic properties of a periodic array of nanocylinders by a mirror/ Supercontinuum generation in birefringent multi-core microstructured optical fibers | Henrique Thadeu and Gabriele Manili |
| 11 am / 16th March | C5C-498 | The challenges of trying to image events inside single cells and their disruption due to disease | Dr Will Hughes, Garvin Institute |
| 11 am / 24th February | E7B-T5 | High average power diamond Raman beam conversion / Dynamics of ultrashort pulses in tapered photonic crystal fibers | Ondrej Kitzler and Dr Sebastian Stark |
| 11 am / 17th February | C5C 498 | Advanced point-by-point fibre Bragg gratings and applications in fibre lasers / Quantum and Classical Wave Mixing in Integrated Devices | Robert Williams and Luke Helt |
| 11 am / 10th February | E7B-T2 | Bio-Inspired Photonic Nanostructures and Lasers | Prof Hui Cao, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2011
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for highly distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Alex Fuerbach on (02) 9850 6145 or alex.fuerbach@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12noon, Thu 10th February | C5C 498 | MQ Photonics strategic seminar: The OptoFab node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) | Mick Withford and Ben Johnston |
| 2pm, Fri 25th February | C5C 498 | Quantum information processing in guided structures | Dr. Alex Clark, University of Bristol, UK |
| 12noon, Thu 24th March | C5C 498 | Applications of Solid-Core Photonic BandGap Fibres to Laser Systems and Nonlinear Effects Generation | Dr. Vincent Pureur,University of Franche Comté, Besançon France |
| 1pm, Wed 27th April | C5C 498 | Functional Elements in Three-Dimensional Photonic Bandgap Materials | Dr. Isabelle Staude, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
| 1:30pm, Wed 27th April | C5C 498 | New Light on Optical Activity: Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Chiral Photonic Metamaterials | Dr. Manuel Decker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
| 2pm, Fri 29th April | C5C 498 | A System Approach To Time-Gated Lanthanide Luminescence | Dr. Robert C. Leif, Newport Instruments |
| 11am, Fri 6th May | C8A Senate room | Technological Advances in Precision Astronomical Spectroscopy | Mike Ireland |
| 11am, Wed 11th May | C5C 498 | Fun with LCOS | Dr. Ian Clarke, Director of Engineering, Finisar |
| 11am, Wed 8th June | C5C 498 | Laser Technology at the Center for Lasers and Applications (CLA) of the University of São Paulo | Dr. Niklaus Wetter, Center for Lasers and Applications, University of São Paulo, Brasil |
| 1pm, Wed 15th June | C5C 498 | Super-dense aluminium in fs-laser-compressed sapphire: Al-chemy of ultra-fast micro-explosion | Prof. Andrei Rode, Laser Physics Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra |
| 11am, Tue, 21st June | W5A T1 | A new class of laser direct-written planar waveguide lasers and the IPAS silica fibre fabrication facility | A/Prof. David G Lancaster, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide |
| 1:15pm, Thu 11th August | C8A Senate room | The need for astrophotonics | Nem Jovanovic |
| 11am, Mon 22nd August | C5C 498 | Photonic tools from silica and air | Dr. William Wadsworth, Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, University of Bath, UK |
| 11am, Fri 26th August | E7B 100 | From Chemical Physics to Antarctic Fish Survival – Exploiting Pulsed Lasers | Dr. Cather Simpson, Departments of Chemistry & Physics, The Photon Factory, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| 11am, Fri 2nd September | C5C 498 | Micro solid-state photonics | Prof. Takunori Taira, Laser Research Center for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan |
| 2pm, Fri 2nd September | C5C 498 | Modelling relativistic quantum mechanics in optical waveguiding structures | Dr. Alexander Szameit, Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany |
| 11am, Fri 14th October | C8A Senate room | Advances in femtosecond micromachining and inscription of practical micro and nano photonic devices | Graham Smith |
| 11am, Tue 22nd November | E6A 102 | High-precision freeform optics… the shape of some important things to come | Dr. Greg Forbes, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, Macquarie University and Senior Scientist, QED Technologies Inc. |
| 11am, Fri 2nd December | C5C 498 | EPR and optical studies of silicon-vacancy defects in diamond | Andrew Edmonds |
| 11am, Fri 9th December | E7B T4 | Habitable Planet Detection and Characterization with Far Infrared Coherent Interferometry | A/Prof. James P. Lloyd, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA |
| 11am, Fri 16th December | E7B T4 | Generating picosecond pulses from Q-switched microchip lasers | Alex Butler |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2010
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for highly distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Alex Fuerbach on (02) 9850 6145 or alex.fuerbach@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10am, Fri 22nd February | C5C 498 | Optically pumped vertical external cavity semiconductor laser | Prof. Yanrong Song, Beijing University of Technology, China and currently at Swinburne University, Melbourne |
| 11am, Fri 26th February | C8A Senate room | Femtosecond laser-induced nanoscale architectures | Dr. Cyril Hnatovsky, Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, ANU, formerly National Research Council of Canada |
| 1pm, Wed 28th April | C8A Senate room | Photonic device fabrication in the cumulative heating regime | Chris Miese |
| 12:30pm, Wed 5th May | C5C 498 | Chastic Lasers – Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications | Josh Toomey |
| 12noon, Thu 13th May | C5C 498 | Temporal dynamics study of CW Raman lasers | Jipeng Lin |
| 12:30pm, Wed 19th May | C5C 498 | Proposed Cooperative Research Centre: Fiber-to-the premises | Prof. Graham Town |
| 12noon, Thu 3rd June | C5C 498 | The Integrated Photonic Spectrograph – Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for Astronomy | Nick Cvetojevic |
| 12noon, Thu 15th July | E7B 100 | A fiber-optic Surface Plasmon Resonance biosensor | Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Schuster, Communications Laboratory, Dresden University of Technology, Germany |
| 12:45pm, Thu 15th July | E7B 100 | Low-Cost Biochemical Sensing based on Polymer Microring Resonators | Dipl.-Ing. Rene Landgraf, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems, Dresden, Germany |
| 12noon, Thu 22nd July | C5C 498 | Laser ignition of internal combustion engines | Prof. Ernst Wintner, Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
| 12noon, Mon 26th July | E7B 100 | Optical fibre processing | Dr. Dominic Murphy, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide |
| 12:30pm, Mon 26th July | E7B 100 | Mid-IR fibre lasers – new architectures | A/Prof. David Lancaster, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide, |
| 11:30am, Tue 3rd August | C5C 498 | Diode-seeded Fiber-Amplifier with more than 20W at 589 nm for the next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELT) | Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders, TOPTICA Photonics, Germany |
| 12noon, Thu 19th August | C8A Senate room | Laser ablation by twisted light with Spin (Optical vortex beams) | Prof. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan |
| 2pm, Fri 20th August | C8A Senate room | Operator-independent cytometry data analysis for automated high-throughput compound screening | Dr. Bartek Rajwa, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA |
| 11am, Thu 16th September | E5A 118 | Applied Optics and Nanotechnology at Queensland University of Technology | Dr. Esa Jaatinen, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology |
| 11am, Tue 21st September | E6A 102 | Exploiting the colour variable in scientific imaging | A/Prof. David Coutts |
| 3pm, Thu 14th October | W5C 232 | Engineering novel defects centres in diamond for quantum communication and metrology | Dr. Stefania Castelletto, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne |
| 11am, Thu 4th November | E5A 118 | Novel coding and decoding in suspension arrays for accelerated biomolecular discovery and personalized medicine | Dr. Dayong Jin |
| 11am, Thu 11th November | C8A Senate room | Review of 2009 study leave activities | Prof. Graham Town |
| 11am, Thu 25th November | C5C 498 | Enhancement of spontaneous emission from colour centres in nanodiamond | Faraz Inam |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2009
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for highly distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Alex Fuerbach on (02) 9850 6145 or alex.fuerbach@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11am, Fri 27th February | C8A Senate room | Optimised laser sources for linear and nonlinear microscopy applications | Dr. Gail McConnell, Centre for Biophotonics, University of Strathclyde, UK |
| 12noon, Wed 4th March | C5C 498 | OSP at the University of Bath: Fibre Gas Lasers and other exciting adventures in England | A/Prof. David Coutts |
| 12noon, Wed 11th March | C5C 498 | Femtosecond laser written fibre Bragg gratings | Jens Thomas, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany |
| 12noon, Wed 18th March | C5C 498 | OSP at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon: Photonics research and other exciting adventures in France | A/Prof. Mick Withford |
| 12noon, Wed 25th March | C5C 498 | The Net sucks … power: Global Warming and the Internet (OSA Student Chapter talk) | Bill Corcoran, CUDOS, The University of Sydney |
| 11am, Fri 27th March | C8A Senate room | Active and Adaptive Optics in Microscopy | Dr. Alexander Jesacher, Dept. for Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK |
| 10am, Mon 30th March | C8A Senate room | Femtosecond laser micromachining | Prof. Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, USA |
| 12noon, Wed 8th April | C5C 498 | Mode-locked Ce:LiCAF lasers: the Ti:Sapphire of the ultraviolet? | Eduardo Granados |
| 12noon, Wed 15th April | C5C 498 | Bose Einstein Condensates, the Atom Laser and Precision Measurement | Prof. John Close, The Australian Centre for Quantum Atom Optics, Australian National University |
| 12noon, Tue 21st April | E6A 102 | Integrated Photonics Quantum Circuits | Jonathan Matthews, University of Bristol, UK |
| 12noon, Wed 22th April | C5C 498 | Quantum Technology | Prof. Andrew White, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland |
| 12noon, Wed 29th April | C5C 498 | New techniques for assessing eye diseases – Potential for Physics applications | Prof. Stuart Graham, Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University |
| 11am, Fri 1st May | C8A Senate room | An overview of some mid-IR laser research and applications at the DSTO in Edinburgh, SA | A/Prof. David G Lancaster, DSTO Edinburgh, South Australia |
| 12noon, Wed 6th May | C5C 498 | Ever wanted to be invisible? Find out how! (OSA Student Chapter talk) | Felix Lawrence, The University of Sydney |
| 12noon, Wed 20th May | C5C 498 | Production of colloidal gold nanoparticles using femtosecond laser ablation technique | Mushtaq Sobhan |
| 12noon, Wed 27th May | C5C 498 | Distinctive autofluorescence of urine samples from individuals with bacteriuria compared with normals | Sandeep Menon |
| 12noon, Wed, 15th July | C5C 498 | Slow-light Enhanced Non-linear Optics – Fundamentals and Applications (OSA Student Chapter talk) | Bill Corcoran, CUDOS, The University of Sydney |
| 12noon, Wed 22nd July | C5C 498 | Optical Device Fabrication and Characterisation | Benjamin W. McMillen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| 11am, Thu 6th August | C8A Senate room | Feeling with Photons: A fibre-optic seismic sensor array for geophysical measurement | Dr. Ian Littler, Centre for Gravitational Physics, Australian National University |
| 1pm, Thu 20th August | E7B 264 | Fibre Bragg grating catheters shed new light on the complexities of peristalsis in the human gut | Dr. John Arkwright, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Lindfield |
| 11am, Fri 28th August | C8A Senate room | High throughput and high resolution imaging: Optical and plasmonic structures for microfluidic detection | Dr. Paul Steinvurzel, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA |
| 11am, Mon 7th September | C5C 498 | Structuring, Manipulating, and Controlling Light by Light – Nonlinear Photonics in Information Processing and Life Sciences | Prof. Cornelia Denz, Institute for Applied Physics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany |
| 1pm, Thu 10th September | C5C 498 | Adaptive optics for microscopy and photonic engineering | Dr. Martin Booth, Dept. for Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK |
| 1pm, Thu 17th September | C5C 498 | Using gemstones to control the flow of light | Luke Stewart |
| 12noon, Wed 23rd September | C5C 498 | Characterization of optical properties and skin permeability of ZnO nanoparticle | Zhen Song |
| 12noon, Wed 30th September | C5C 498 | Enhanced Flow Cytometry Based Bead Immunoassays by Using Metal Nanostructures | Wei Deng |
| 12noon, Wed 21st October | C5C 498 | NV centres in nanodiamonds: from the “scratch” towards a high-resolution single spin magnetometer | Carlo Bradac |
| 12noon, Thu 29th October | C5C 498 | Nanoparticles – A probe to study cellular processes | Varun Kumaraswamy A.S. |
| 11am, Mon 2nd November | C5C 498 | New fiber material research for lightwave processing | Prof. Yasutake Ohishi, Research Center for Advanced Photon Technology, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan |
| 1pm, Thu 12th November | C5C 498 | Vibrational phase contrast imaging | Dr. Ir. Herman L. Offerhaus, MESA Institute for NanoTechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences (TNW), University of Twente, The Netherlands |
| 11am, Fri 13th November | C5C 498 | Effect of ionizing radiation on the viability and antibody affinity of Staphylococcus aureus | Tom Lawson |
| 12noon, Wed 9th December | C5C 498 | Generating Ultrashort Pulses from a Q-Switched Microchip Laser | Alex Butler |
| 12noon, Fri 11th December | C5C 498 | Intra-cavity pulse dynamics in mode-locked fiber lasers | Dr. Brandon Bale, Photonics Research Group, Aston University, Birmingham, UK |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2008
The MQ Photonics seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While some of the talks are given by MQ Photonics researchers themselves, several spots are allocated for highly distinguished guest speakers (highlighted below in bold).
The talks cover current trends and exciting new research in photonics and may also involve related topics such as lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Alex Fuerbach on (02) 9850 6145 or alex.fuerbach@mq.edu.au.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3pm, Fri 7th March | E7B T3 | Custom refractive beam correction of high power diode stacks for solid state planar waveguide laser pumping | Prof. Denis R. Hall, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK |
| 12pm, Wed 12th March | E6A 133 | Photonic band gap systems based on synthetic opals and mesoporous silica spheres | Dr. Frank Dillon, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland |
| 12pm, Wed 26th March | E6A 133 | Micro-tapered fibres: From applied optics to cold atoms studies | Dr. Síle Nic Chormaic, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland |
| 12pm, Wed 2nd April | E6A 133 | Microstructured polymer optical fibres: present and future research directions | Dr. Sergio G. Leon-Saval, The University of Sydney, OFTC |
| 12pm, Wed 9th April | E6A 133 | 3D nanostructures and 3D light synthesis for novel functionalities | A/Prof. Rafael Piestun, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA |
| 1pm, Mon 14th April | W5A T2 | Photonic Crystal Devices | Prof. John O’Brian, University of Southern California, USA |
| 12pm, Wed 16th April | E6A 133 | The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Has Finally Been Reached | Martin Ams |
| 12pm, Wed 30th April | E6A 133 | Current and future photonics R&D directions at UNSW | A/Prof. François Ladouceur, The University of New South Wales |
| 12pm, Thu 8th May | E7B T4 | Chemical Mapping of Defects and Impurities in Diamond Nanoparticles | Dr. Amanda Barnard, The University of Melbourne |
| 12pm, Wed 14th May | E6A 133 | National collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS): Facts and possibilities | Ms. Rosie Hicks, CEO of The Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), A/Prof. Mick Withford and Prof. Ewa Goldys |
| 12pm, Wed 21st May | E6A 133 | Ultrafast all-optical chalcogenide glass photonic circuits | Prof. Ben Eggleton, The University of Sydney |
| 12pm, Wed 11th June | E6A 102 | Actively Q-switched fibre laser: Experiment and Analysis | Matthew Fellew |
| 12pm, Wed 18th June | W5A T1 | Optical fibres in Astronomy – Focal Ratio Degradation: a new perspective | Dionne Haynes |
| 12pm, Wed 25th June | E6A 102 | Femtosecond waveguide writing – Circularly or Linearly polarised light? | Doug Little |
| 12pm, Wed 2nd July | E6A 102 | Artificial Opals for Photonic Crystal Devices | Sara Ek |
| 12pm, Wed 23rd July | E6A 102 | Miniature Cerium UV tunable solid-state laser study | Hua Liu |
| 3pm, Fri 25th July | E6A 133 | Self-pulsating optical source based on cascaded SPM spectral broadening and filtering | A/Prof. Martin Rochette, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| 12pm, Wed 30th July | E6A 102 | Laser micromachining and periodically poled lithium niobate | Ben Johnston |
| 11am, Fri 29th August | C5C 498 | Growth and Characterization of Crystalline Waveguides | Coeus Lu |
| 11am, Fri 5th September | C5C 498 | Photonic crystal fiber research at DTU Fotonik | A/Prof. Ole Bang, DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark |
| 11am, Fri 12th September | C5C 498 | Cancellation of Holographic Chirp in Planar Bragg Gratings | Dr. Stan Tarnavski, AiMedics Pty Ltd, Sydney |
| 12pm, Wed 17th September | C5A 407 | Polarisation dynamics in Neodymium-doped lasers for radio frequency generation | Aaron McKay |
| 12pm, Wed 24th September | E6A 102 | Radio over fibre research: review and future directions | Razibul Islam |
| 12pm, Wed 1st October | E6A 102 | Sub-100W picosecond phase conjugate lasers | Prof Takashige Omatsu,Chiba University, Japan. |
| 11am, Fri 10th October | C5C 498 | Fluorescent Nanoparticles for Bio-imaging: Semiconductor Nanoparticles and Rare Earth Doped Nanoparticles | Sun Jinjun |
| 11am, Fri 17th October | C5C 498 | Magnetophotonics: From Photonic Crystals to Plasmonic Nanostructures | Dr. Alexander Khanikaev |
| 11am, Fri 24th October | E6A 102 | THz generation and diffraction by photo mixing on a semiconductor | Matthias Stecher |
| 11am, Fri 14th November | C5C 498 |
Growth and characterisation of rare earth nitride thin films | Josh Brown |
| 12pm, Wed 26th November | E7B 100 | Supercontinuum Research at DTU Fotonik | A/Prof. Ole Bang, DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark |
| 12pm, Wed 10th December | E7B 100 | Spectrally Coded Digital Colour Imaging and Applications in 3D Particle Imaging Metrology | Tom McGregor |
| 12pm, Wed 17th December | E7B 100 | Applications of Inverse Scattering in Microwave and Optical Design | Ravi McCosker |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2007
The CLA seminar series is the Centre’s main vehicle for gaining feedback on research and for obtaining information on new research. While most of the talks are given by CLA researchers, several spots are allocated for guest invited talks (highlighted below in bold). The talks cover more than just the latest results, and may involve areas such as literature reviews, conference reports, or lessons learnt in commercialisation. After each seminar there is time for questions, informal discussion and (occasionally) refreshments.
For further information, please contact Alex Fuerbach on Ext. 6145 or David Spence on Ext. 8973.
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1pm, Wed 21st March | E7B 100 | Mass analysis of noncovalently bonded complexes of biomolecules from micro-droplets | Dr. Hans-Dieter Barth, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| 2pm, Fri 30th March | E7B 164 | Laser electron acceleration or How to surf a Plasma wave | Dr. Michael Geissler, Queens University, Belfast, UK |
| 2pm, Tue 10th April | W5A T1 | Ultrafast Nano-Optics | Prof. Harald Giessen, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1pm, Wed 11th April | E7B 165 | Conference review: Photonics West 07 (San Jose, USA) and Advanced Solid-State Photonics 07 (Vancouver, Canada) | Mick Withford, David Coutts, Aaron McKay, Hua Liu |
| 11am, Wed 18th April | E6A 131 | Optical biomedical imaging: towards single protein detection and live imaging | Andrei Zvyagin |
| 1pm, Wed 9th May | E7B 100 | Fabricating periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) from laser fabricated topographical electrodes AND | Ben Johnston |
| 1pm, Wed 23rd May | E7B 100 | Ultrafast laser ablation of graphite | Dr. Miklos Lenner, University of Birmingham, UK |
| 11am, Wed 25th July | E7B T3 | Conference Review: CLEO Europe 07 (Munich, Germany) | Graham Town, Helen Pask, Pete Dekker, Alex Fuerbach, Luke Stewart, Josh Toomey |
| 12pm, Wed 15th August | E7B 264 | High power fibre lasers based on point-by-point inscribed fibre-Bragg gratings | Nem Jovanovic |
| 11am, Wed 22nd August | E7A 333 | CLEO Pacific Rim Practice Talks | Tom McGregor, Yabai He |
MQ Photonics Seminar Series – 2006
| Date & Time | Location | Topic/s | Speaker/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2pm, Fri 1st December | E7B T3 | Modulation depth enhancement of optically-carried microwave signals by non-linear effects in optical fibres | Dr Stéphanie Molin, Thales Research & Technology, France |
| 2pm, Tuesday 21th November | E7B T3 | Optical fibres in astronomy | Roger Haynes, Anglo-Australian Observatory. |
| 2pm, Tuesday 14th November | E7B T3 | Coupled Plasmon Effects for the Enhancement of Fluorescent Immunoassays | Anne Barnett |
| 2pm, Tuesday 31th October | W5A T2 | 2007 Discovery Project discussions | |
| 2pm, Tuesday 24th October | W5A T2 | “Time-gated luminescence flow cytometry” | Jin Dayong |
| 2pm, Tuesday 17th October | W5A T2 | Electric field effects on adsorption/desorption of proteins and colloidal particles on a gold film observed using Surface Plasmon Resonance | Dr Richard Morrow, University of Sydney |
| 1pm, Friday 13th October | E7A 333 | 2007 ARC Discovery Proposal Pitches | |
| 2pm, Tuesday 19th September | W5A T2 | “Guides to the Future” | Martin Ams |
| 2pm, Tuesday 12th September | W5A T2 | “Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness” | Dr Barry Ward |
| 2pm, Fri 8th September | E7B100 | Bessel beam generation by frequency doubling in ferroelectric crystals with transverse poled pattern | Prof. Solomon Saltiel, Sofia University, Bulgaria. |
| 2pm, Tue 29nd August | W5A T2 | The War on Tera(hertz) | Dr Peter Browne |
| 2pm, Tue 22nd August | W5A T2 | “A Self-Adjusting Gain Equalising Filter for WDM Telecommunications” | Dr Peter Krug |
| 1pm, Thur 17th August 2006 | W6B 315 | High-quality, high-power side-pumped vanadate lasers | Dr. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan. |
| Noon, Mon 7th August 2006 | E7B 333 | CUDOS practice talks | Mick Withford et al. |
| 3pm, Tue 1st August 2006 | E7B T2 | Laser applications in processing and diagnostics | Prof. Dr. Peter Hess, Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
| Noon, Wed 26th July 2006 | E7B 100 | Sculpting the Near-field with a Photonic Crystal | Adel Rahmani |
| Noon, Wed 19th July 2006 | E7B 100 | An anisotropic rate equation model for solid state lasers | Professor Jong-Dae Park, Pai-Chai University, S. Korea |
| Noon, Wed 5th July 2006 | E7B 100 | Polarisation mode coupling in (100) cut Nd:YAG | Aaron McKay |
| 11:30am, Wed 28th June 2006 | E7A 333 | Lighthouse review | Richard Mildren |
| Noon, Wed 14th June 2006 | W5A T1 | How to measure slow light | Luke Stewart |
| Noon, Wed 7th June 2006 | E7B 100 | Review of recent developments in integrated and nanophotonics research | Graham Town |
| Noon, Wed 31st May 2006 | E7B 100 | Steeples Forum | Chair: Brian Orr |
| Noon, Wed 24th May 2006 | E7A 333 | Visible fibre lasers review | Richard Mildren et al. |
| Noon, Wed 17th May 2006 | E7B 100 | How do the Size, Shape & Crystal Structure of materials affect their Mechanical Properties? | Professor Greg Hartland, U of Notre Dame, USA |
| Noon, Wed 10th May 2006 | E7B 100 | Cerium goes ultrafast | Dave Spence |
| Noon, Wed 3rd May 2006 | E7A 333 | PICALO and Photonics Europe review | Graham Marshall |
| Noon, Wed 26th April 2006 | E7A 333 | Development of a high-energy low-rep-rate femtosecond oscillator | Nemanja Jovanovic |
| Noon, Wed 19th April 2006 | E7A 333 | Diatoms – nature’s low-k dielectric | Jonathan Jong Wah |
| Noon, Wed 12th April 2006 | E7B 100 | Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions and Ultrafast Lasers. | Dr David Kielpinski, Griffith University, Brisbane |
| Noon – 2pm, Wed 29th March 2006 | E7A 333 | PICALO practice talks | Fuerbach, Lee, Ams, Little, Johnson |