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Recent progress in chip-based nonlinear optics - 20 September 2013

Professor Benjamin J. Eggleton, Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), The University of Sydney, Australia

The Zepler Institute hosted a guest lecture from Professor Benjamin J. Eggleton, Professor of Physics, ARC Laureate Fellow, Director of CUDOS – ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems and Director of the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) on Friday 20 September 2013. The lecture entitled 'Recent progress in chip-based nonlinear optics' was followed by a questions and answer session.

Abstract

We review recent progress in inducing and harnessing Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) in integrated photonic circuits. Exciting SBS in a chip-scale device is challenging due to the stringent requirements on materials and device geometry. The dependence of SBS on critical material parameters, such as optical refractive index and acoustic velocity, as well as device properties such as acousto-optic confinement, is discussed. Recent work on SBS in nanophotonic waveguides is presented, with special attention paid to photonic integration of applications such as slow- and fast-light, microwave signal processing, Brillouin dynamic gratings and non-reciprocal devices.

Short biography

Benjamin J. Eggleton is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney and Director of the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). He obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1996 and then joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a Postdoctoral Member of Staff. In 2000, he was 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 fibre devices. He is the author or co-author of more than 340 journal publications and over 100 invited presentations with 11,000 citations and an h-index of 50.

Professor Eggleton is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, IEEE Photonics and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). He has received numerous prizes for his research achievements, including the 2011 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, the 2007 Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science, the 2003 International Commission on Optics (ICO) Prize and the 1998 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America, the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, and the R&D100 Award. He was President of the Australian Optical Society and is currently Chief Editor for Optics Communications. Read Professor Eggleton's profile on the University of Sydney website.