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2014-04 (Vol.28, No.4) Volume 28 Issue 4 December 2014 ISSN 1832-4436 Registered by Australia Post Publication No: 233066 / 00028 Biella Koch NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA KochBiella_Plakat_Light2.indd 1 10.07.13 11:27 Lastek (Quantum Composers) A4 Ad Print File.pdf 1 20/08/2014 10:04 am ABN 63 009 548 387 AOS News is the official news magazine of the Australian Optical Society. Formed in 1983, the Society is a non- profit organisation for the advancement of optics in Australia. Membership is open to all persons contributing to, or interested in, optics in the widest sense. See the back page (or the AOS website) for details on joining the Society. Submission guidelines How can you submit? The AOS News is always looking ► The easiest way is by email. We accept nearly all file formats. (Famous for contributions, especially from last words!). AOS members. Here is a short ► Submitted articles will be imported into an Adobe InDesign file. 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Please bear in mind that refereeing 35 Stirling Highway takes time and the article should therefore be submitted well in advance of the Crawley, WA 6009 publication date. 2 Submission Of Copy: December 2014 Volume 28 Number 4 Contributions on any topic of interest to the Australian optics community are solicited, and Articles should be sent to the editor, or a 9 Welcome to the Year of Light 2015 in Australia, by Ken member of the editorial board. Baldwin Use of electronic mail is strongly 12 Peter Schultz, Co-inventor of Fibre Optics, by Fotios encouraged, although submission of hard copy together with a text Sidiroglou and Stephen Collins file on CD will be considered. 14 Photons Going for a Quantum Walk on a Nonlinear Chip, by Alexander S. Solntsev, Dragomir N. Neshev, and Andrey A. Advertising: Sukhorukov Potential advertisers in AOS News are welcomed, and should contact 17 OECC/ACOFT, a Premier Conference in Melbourne, the editor. 2014, by Benjamin Eggleton, and William Shieh Rates: Under Review 21 5th IPOS Symposium on Imaging Spectroscopy, by Places may be booked for placing ads Alexander Argyrosuri - this attracts a 10% surcharge. Black and White in main body of newslet- 27 Optical Elastography: Visualizing the Microscale ter - free to corporate members. Mechanical Properties of Tissue, by Kelsey M. Kennedy, Brendan F. Kennedy, Lixin Chin, Philip Wijesinghe, Andrea Copy Deadline Curatolo, Shaghayegh Es’haghian, Peter R.T. Munro, Robert Articles for the next issue (March A. McLaughlin, and David D. Sampson 2015) should be with the editor 31 Graphene Plasmonics: Exploring Surface Nonlinearities, by no later than 13 February 2015, Daria A. Smirnova, Ilya V. Shadrivov and Yuri S. Kivshar advertising deadline 6 February 2015. Editor Jessica Kvansakul Departments School of Physics 5 President’s Report – Stephen Collins University of Melbourne Parkville Campus VIC 3010 6 Editor’s Intro – Jessica Kvansakul [email protected] 19 News 23 Product News AOS News is the official news magazine of the Australian 34 Optics in Everyday Life: The ‘Fire’ of Opals - Tony Klein Optical Society. The views 35 Events expressed in AOS News do not 38 Index of Advertisers & Corporate Members Information necessarily represent the policies of the Australian Optical Society. Australian Optical Society website: http://www.optics.org.au • News Cover Pictures: • Membership • Poster for the International Year of Light 2015, see page 9. Designed by • Optics links Biella Koch, Offenburg University (www.magic-of-light.org/iyl2015). • Prizes/awards Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. • Insets (left to right) • Conferences • OECC/ACOFT 2014 was held in the Melbourne Convention and • Jobs/Scholarships Exhibition Centre in July, see page 17. • Affiliated societies • Graphene-wrapped nanoparticles show interesting nonlinear effects, • ...and more see page 31. • Precious opals have unique optical properties, see page 34. 3 AOS News Volume 28 Number 4 2014 AOS Executive AOSAOS CouncillorsCouncilors PRESIDENT Ken Baldwin Maryanne Large Stephen Collins Atomic and Molecular Physics Labs Innovation and Commercialisation Eng & Sci - Footscray Park campus ANU, RSPSE Faculty of Science Victoria University, PO Box 14428 Canberra ACT 0200 University of Sydney MELBOURNE VIC 8001 Tel. (02) 6125 4702 Sydney NSW 2006 Telephone: 03 9919 4283 Fax. (02) 6125 2452 Tel. (02) 9114 0850 Fax: 03 9919 4698 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] John Harvey Ben Eggleton VICE PRESIDENT (and honorary Department of Physics, Director, CUDOS treasurer) University of Auckland, School of Physics, Simon Fleming Private Bag 92019, University of Sydney School of Physics (A28) Auckland 1010, New Zealand Sydney NSW 2006 University of Sydney Tel: (+64 9) 373 7599 Tel: 0401 055 494 Institute of Photonics and Optical Fax: (+64 9) 373 7445 Fax: (02) 9351 7726 Science, SYDNEY NSW 2006 [email protected] [email protected] Telephone: 02 9114 0581 Fax: 02 9351 7726 Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop John Grace INDUSTRY [email protected] Department of Physics, REPRESENTATIVE University of Queensland, PO Box 958 HONORARY SECRETARY Brisbane, QLD 4072 John Holdsworth, NEWPORT BEACH NSW 2106 Tel: (07) 3365 3139 School of Mathematical and Physical Tel:(02) 9979 7646 Fax: (07) 3365 1242 Sciences, University of Newcastle, Fax: (02) 9979 8207 [email protected] Callaghan 2308 NSW [email protected] Australia Peter Veitch Dragomir Neshev Tel: (02) 4921 5436 Department of Physics, Nonlinear Physics Centre, RSPE Fax: (02) 4921 6907 University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Australian National University [email protected] Tel: (08) 8313 5040 CANBERRA ACT 0200 PAST PRESIDENT Fax: (08) 8313 4380 Tel: 02 6125 3792 Ann Roberts [email protected] Fax: 02 6125 8588 School of Physics University of Melbourne MELBOURNE VIC 3010 Telephone: 03 8344 5038 Fax: 03 9347 4783 [email protected] Affiliates: OSA and SPIE Corporate Members AFW Technologies Pty Ltd Lastek Pty Ltd BAE Systems Photon Scientific Coherent Scientific Pty Raymax Applications CUDOS Warsash Scientific Pty EzziVision Pty Ltd Wavelength Optoelectronic Finisar Australia Pty 4 AOS News Volume 28 Number 4 2014 President’s Report It is a privilege to have become the president of the Australian Optical Society and, in writing my first report in this capacity, I am aware of how well the Society has been served by previous presidents and other office- bearers. I particularly wish to thank Ann Roberts for her great leadership of AOS over the past 2 years; amongst the many achievements she oversaw include the celebration of the AOS’s 30th anniversary, the revision of our constitution and the commitment of AOS to the International Year of Light 2015. The AGM was held on Thursday 6 November 2014 during the IPOS symposium at the University of Sydney. Congratulations to Simon Fleming in becoming Vice President and to Ben Eggleton, John Harvey, Maryanne Large and Dragomir Neshev for being re-elected to Council. I thank Judith Dawes, who concluded her time as a Council member at this AGM, for her long and enthusiastic service to AOS over a considerable period of time. There is now a casual vacancy (to fill Simon Fleming’s position) and the Council are grateful that he will remain in the Treasurer role for the time being. At the time of writing the Council is dealing with the filling of this vacancy. In recent months the Industry representative on Council, Alex Stanco of Lastek Pty. Ltd., has been replaced by John Grace of Raymax Lasers.
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