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Annual Report 2016 Annual Report 2016 CUDOS Annual Report 2016 1 CUDOS Vision & Mission 2 Director’s Report 4 Chairman’s Note 6 Structure & Governance 7 PEOPLE Centre Members 10 Chief Investigator Profiles 12 RESEARCH Functional Metamaterials and Metadevices 44 Hybrid Integration 48 Mid-Infrared Photonics 52 On-chip Nanoplasmonics 56 Nonlinear Quantum Photonics 60 Terabit Per Second Photonics 64 EDUCATION & TRAINING Research Training 70 Student Achievements 73 Research Students 74 CREATING WEALTH 78 COMMUNITY Linkages & Collaborations 82 Outreach & Public Awareness 84 PUBLICATIONS Publications List 90 Invited Talks and Presentations 93 Postdeadline Presentations 97 PERFORMANCE MEASURES, 100 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS & ACTIVITY PLAN Vision and Mission Vision To be the world-leader in research in on-chip photonics, for all-optical signal processing. Mission At CUDOS, we aim to lead research, which creates a world-best on-chip photonic platform for information transfer and processing technologies. We will translate the intellectual capital that we create to build a community of professionals, which can drive wealth creation in Australia. To achieve this vision and mission, CUDOS will be guided by an interlocking set of strategic goals across a number of areas of activity. 2 Research CUDOS will perform world-leading research in integrated nanophotonics for all-optical information processing. Education and Training CUDOS will inspire, mentor and nurture the people needed to shape the future Australian photonics community. Creating Wealth CUDOS will create and exploit the intellectual capital essential for wealth creation through new jobs and new companies, and building industrial strength. Community CUDOS will create excellent linkages between academia, industry, government and community, be a flagship of Australian science and the national authority on photonics. CUDOS Annual Report 2016 3 Director’s Report Ben Eggleton Our second last year of CUDOS started with a publication, in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, on the discovery by CUDOS researchers of a new kind of optical solitary wave or soliton. It ended with acknowledgements of our achievements in commercial translation: the recognition by MIT Technology Review of one of our researchers as the region’s top tech innovators, and the selection of our Australian Silicon Photonics team by CSIRO for its sci-tech accelerator program to help transform research invention into an innovative venture. These announcements epitomise the Centre at this mature stage of its life cycle: excellence in fundamental science balanced by dedication and commitment to the translation of that research to outcomes of benefit to the community. Our year started as always with the CUDOS Workshop, held at the Kooindah Waters Resort near Wyong. Shelley and her team of Vera, Silke and Jacqui brought together a program of speakers and topics that covered all the Flagship projects of the Centre as well as a session discussing the importance of science communication along with a Technology Showcase highlighting the inventions and spin-off companies started and developed at CUDOS. The aim is to provide the skills and technology awareness to increase the visibility of our research in the last two years of the Centre’s operation. I honestly believe that this was our best Workshop ever! 4 CUDOS Technology Showcase at the 2016 Annual CUDOS Workshop. In research, it was most pleasing to see, even as the Centre draws to a close, three separate collaborations with international partners yielding ground breaking results. Our collaboration with the Technion in Israel achieved a landmark result, the first demonstration of topologically protected optical guided waves in a silicon nano-photonic platform. While the topic sounds academic, the implications of this work are very much rooted in potential applications. Topological protection means that the guided modes cannot couple to light travelling in the opposite direction – an optical diode, in other words. Our collaboration with Japan’s Advanced Institute for Science and Technology also made a major advance during the year. This research aimed to improve the optical frequency comb technology (recognised by the Nobel Prize in 2005) that can replace an array of sophisticated lasers currently used in telecommunications at a fraction of the cost, weight and size. Our collaboration demonstrated an innovative approach to overcoming the high noise that has hampered the performance of frequency combs to date. Our joint results were presented in a prestigious paper at the Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) in Niigata, Japan in July 2016. The third collaboration, with our partner organisation FOM Institute AMOLF (Netherlands) and Thales France, has observed the splitting of optical pulses in a nanoscale photonic chip for the first time. This observation of so-called soliton fission, which was reported in the high-impact journal Nature Photonics, could lead to novel rainbow light sources used in compact optical communications systems and lab-on-a-chip spectroscopic tools for portable medical diagnostics. To finish this Report, I would like to acknowledge with pleasure the recognition that our researchers and students were given by the wider community during the year. During CUDOS Annual Report 2016 5 2016 the following alumni and present CUDOS members were recognised: Associate Professor Sharath Sriram, a former PhD student at CUDOS, who won the 2016 Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science; another former PhD student Dr Tomonori Hu, winner of the Rita and John Cornforth Alumni Medal of the University of Sydney; PhD student Moritz Merklein, who was awarded a 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship and then the first prize at the student oral presentation competition of the 7th International Conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications in Montreal; Dr Andrea Blanco Redondo, who won the highly competitive AOS Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize and was awarded the Harry Messel Fellowship at the University of Sydney; Professor Min Gu, who was recognised by the Victorian Government with its most prestigious science and innovation prize for his pioneering contributions to physical sciences and the impact of his research to the community; and Dr Simon Gross, who was named as one of the region’s top Drs Amol Choudhary, Mark Pelusi and David Marpaung presented their tech innovators by MIT Technology Review. It gives me great results in a postdeadline paper at OECC. pleasure to acknowledge Professor Martijn de Sterke, Chair of the influential Board of Editors for the Optical Society of America and recent winner of the OSA’s Esther Hoffman Beller Medal which recognises “outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education”. I was honoured to be invited to join the Australian Academy of Science. CUDOS Chief Investigators exercise leadership roles both in Australia and internationally. I am the founding editor of the new online journal APL Photonics, published by the American Institute of Physics, while Martijn de Sterke is Chair of the Board of Editors for journals published by the Optical Society of America (OSA). Min Gu, Martijn, and I attend the annual leadership meetings of the OSA. I also serve on the Board of Governors for IEEE Photonics. Nationally, I serve on the Council of the Australian Optical Society. 2015 was the International Year of Light which celebrated the role that photonics has played in our world and looked forward to the future potential impact of photonics. We know that Photonics is the lynchpin of a seven trillion dollar industry, underpinning the internet for example. The 21st century will be the era of photonics and CUDOS is poised to play a key role in create the revolutionary technologies that will change our world and drive our innovation economy. Professor Min Gu received his Victoria Prize from Hon Philip Dalidakis MP, Victorian Minister for Innovation, Small Business & Trade, photo: veski. Benjamin Eggleton Director, CUDOS ARC Laureate Fellow Chairman’s Note Gregory Clark The Advisory Board met once in 2016, but Ben met with me and other members of the Board informally during the year. With the commercial background of many of the Board members, it’s no surprise that the CUDOS work on technology translation and commercialisation was of great interest to us. The Board is strongly supportive of the initiatives that Ben and his fellow Chief Investigators are taking in this area. I was particularly pleased to see that personnel from two of our small start- up companies are participating in the CSIRO On! program – Modular Photonics in 2016 and Australian Silicon Photonics in 2017. I am impressed that even as the Centre moves towards the end of its funding, the enthusiasm of Ben and his colleagues for research and collaboration is undimmed. There are strong new collaborations in place with groups in Germany and France, an exciting defence collaboration underway with government agencies and private companies, and stellar research outcomes that continue to be published in the leading journals. On behalf of the Board, I congratulate all members of CUDOS for their dedication, motivation, and commitment to excellence. 6 Gregeory Clark Chairman, CUDOS CUDOS Organisational Structure Advisory Committee Director Manager, External Relations Commercialisation Committee Centre Manager Scientific Advisory Committee Director. Education and Training Director. Outreach Research Planning Group Executive
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