Chief Investigator Profi les

THE UNIVERSITY OF Phone: +61 2 9351 3604 Email: egg@.usyd.edu.au Benjamin J Eggleton - Director

Benjamin Eggleton is currently an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Physics at the . He is founding Director of the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), an ARC Centre of Excellence. He is also the founding Director for the Sydney University Institute of and Optical Science (IPOS). He studied at the University of Sydney, obtaining his BSc (Hons 1) in 1992 and his PhD in Physics in 1996. After graduation, he went to the United States to join the world’s leading research institute in his fi eld, Bell Laboratories, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Optical Physics Department. Soon after this, he became the Research Director of the Specialty Photonics Business Division of Bell Lab’s parent company, Lucent Technologies where he drove Lucent’s research program in optical fi bre devices.

Eggleton has made pioneering contributions of Science, the 2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize to nonlinear and all-optical signal for Physical Scientist of the Year, the 2003 processing with recent breakthrough International Commission on Optics (ICO) Prize, achievements in the of the 1998 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical periodic media, slow-light in photonic crystals Society of America, the Distinguished Lecturer and ultrafast planar waveguide nonlinear Award from the IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics optics. His research into new classes of Society, and the R&D100 Award. He was nonlinear waveguides has created a new President of the Australian Optical Society paradigm for photonic chip based ultrafast and is currently Editor-in-Chief for the journal optical signal processing and his group holds Optics Communications. various world records. His breakthroughs in the nonlinear optics of chalcogenide glasses have Key Areas of Research Contribution led to his demonstrations of new ultrafast As the CUDOS Director, Professor Eggleton is optical devices for telecommunications responsible for setting the vision and focus applications, record low-threshold for the research program and establishing supercontinuum generation sources and and directing the research collaborations. on-chip parametric sources. His fundamental He oversees the six current CUDOS Flagship breakthroughs include the fi rst demonstrations research projects and drives strong interactions of gap soliton formation in periodic media and with CUDOS Partner investigators and of slow-light-enhanced nonlinear optics in end-users. He also heads the University of photonic crystals. Sydney CUDOS node and leads the Sydney experimental programs, in close collaboration He is the author or co-author of more than with Professors de Sterke, McPhedran and 320 journal publications, which have received Dr Kuhlmey, which will be reported here. He over 10,000 citations (h-number 50) and contributes to the Terabit per second project, over 100 invited presentations. Professor quantum integrated photonics and midinfrared Eggleton is a Fellow of the Optical Society of project and collaborates closely with the hybrid America, IEEE and the Australian Academy integration project. of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). He was the recipient of the 2011 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science and the Walter Boas Medal for Physics from the AIP, the 2007 Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy