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Australian Physics, 52, 4, Jul – Aug 2015 Volume 52, Number 4, Jul–Aug 2015 1960s AUSTRALIAN LASER RESEARCH SPIN QUBITS IN SILICON COHERENT OPTICAL MASKELYNE - 5TH METROLOGY ASTRONOMER ROYAL OCI_24x36 A4 Advert Print File.pdf 1 6/05/2015 1:34 pm Pervasive Spectral Sensing Full Spectroscopy Solutions Provider Pervasive Spectral Sensing Full Spectroscopy solutions provider www.bayspec.com The Ultimate Device for Practical Hyperspectral Imaging OCI-1000™ Hyperspectral Imager OCI-2000™ Compact Snapshot Imager True multispectral imaging at video High-performance handheld rates in compact size operation for field-based imaging ■ Push-broom technology ■ Snap-shot technology ■ 560-1000nm wavelength range ■ 600-1000nm wavelength range ■ ~100 bands ■ ~32 bands ■ Weighing <0.5 lbs. (227 g) ■ Weighing <0.8 lbs (363 g) ■ Adaptable for conveyor/in-line systems ■ Ideal for field handheld use Innovative, fully integrated hyperspectral imager and computer in a handheld form factor. 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[email protected] | www.lastek.com.au All BaySpec products are made in the USA CONTENTS Australian Institute of Physics Promoting the role of physics in research, education, industry and the community 110 Editorial AIP contact details: Early days of lasers in Australia PO Box 546, East Melbourne, Vic 3002 Phone: 03 9895 4477 Volume 52, Number 4, Jul–Aug 2015 Fax: 03 9898 0249 111 President’s Column email: [email protected] The Federal Budget and Science AIP website: www.aip.org.au Funding AIP Executive President Prof Warrick Couch 112 Letter to the Editor [email protected] Vice President Prof Andrew Peele [email protected] 113 News & Comment 1960s AUSTRALIAN LASER RESEARCH SPIN CUBITS IN SILICON Secretary A/Prof Joseph Hope COHERENT OPTICAL MASKELYNE - 5TH [email protected] METROLOGY ASTRONOMER ROYAL 117 The Blinding 1960s of Treasurer Dr Judith Pollard Australian Laser Research Cover [email protected] Registrar Prof Ian McArthur Stuart Jackson The 36-metre 2 kW continuous wave carbon [email protected] dioxide laser used for materials testing at the Immediate Past President Dr Robert Robinson Materials Research Laboratories (formerly 121 Digital Techniques [email protected] the Defence Standards Laboratories) for Coherent Optical Special Projects Officers between approximately 1974 and 1976. Dr Olivia Samardzic Metrology This laser was the product of the pioneering [email protected] Andrew John Sutton laser research that was established in the Prof Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop early 1960s by the Weapons Research [email protected] 122 Single Atom Spin Qubits Establishment in Silicon located at Salisbury, South Australia. AIP ACT Branch Photo courtesy of Russell Whitcher (who is in Chair Dr Wayne Hutchison Jarryd Pla the foreground of the photo). [email protected] Secretary Dr Timothy Lam 124 Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS – 5th Astronomer [email protected] Royal AIP NSW Branch Paul J Edwards Chair Dr Graeme Melville [email protected] Secretary Dr Frederick Osman 129 Conferences [email protected] AIP QLD Branch 130 Book reviews Chair Dr. Joanna Turner [email protected] Lee Weissel reviews Count Like an Egyptian by David Reimer Secretary Dr Till Weinhold Annie Ross reviews Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom by [email protected] Finn Aaserud and JL Heilbron AIP SA Branch Chair Prof Gunther Andersson 132 Samplings [email protected] Physics news that caught the eye of the editor Secretary Dr Laurence Campbell [email protected] 137 Product News AIP TAS Branch New products from Coherent Scientific, Lastek, and Warsash Chair Dr Stanislav Shabala Scientific. [email protected] Secretary Dr Stephen Newbery [email protected] AIP VIC Branch Chair Dr Mark Boland [email protected] Secretary Kent Wootton [email protected] For all information about the AIP WA Branch Australian Institute of Physics, visit: Chair John Chapman [email protected] www.aip.org.au Secretary Andrea F. Biondo [email protected] 52(4) | JUL–AUG 2015 AUSTRALIAN PHYSICS 109 EDITORIAL Early days of lasers in Australia A Publication of the Australian Institute of Physics The first article, The Blinding 1960s of Australian Laser Research, by Stu- EDITOR art Jackson (Macquarie University) A/Prof Brian James [email protected] is a fitting contribution for the In- [email protected] ternational Year of Light and and BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR (ACTING) Light-based Technologies. It is based A/Prof Brian James [email protected] on a talk that Stuart gave at the AIP [email protected] National Congress in 2012, and I EDITORIAL BOARD am very pleased that Stuart agreed A/Prof Brian James (Chair) to turn that talk into the article that [email protected] Dr M. A. Box you see in this issue. Although I have Dr J. Holdsworth some personal acquaintance with the early days of laser research in A/Prof R. J. Stening Prof H. A. Bachor Australia there is much in this article that is new to me. Prof H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop Prof S. Tingay The second main article, Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS – 5th Astronomer ASSOCIATE EDITORS Royal by Paul Edwards (University of Canberra) is also of the histori- Dr Laurence Campbell [email protected] cal genre. Those who have visited the Royal Observatory, Greenwich A/Prof Bruce Hartley [email protected] Dr John Humble [email protected] (as I was fortunate enough to do a few weeks ago) will have noted Prof Christian Langton [email protected] that Maskelyne was very much involved in controversies (essentially Dr Frederick Osman [email protected] astronomy vs. timekeeping) surrounding the attempts to improve SUBMISSION GUIDELINES the measurement of longitude at sea. What was not so apparent is Articles for submission to Australian Physics should be sent by email to the Editor. The text should be sent as a Word file and authors are advised to Maskelyne’s connection to the early days of the British settlement consult a recent issue as a guide to style. Images should not be embedded in Australia. It is pleasing to see that Paul’s article highlights this in the document, but should be sent as high resolution attachments in JPG involvement. or PNG format. Authors should also send a short bio and a recent photo. The Editor reserves the right to edit articles based on space requirements and editorial content. Between these two articles we have two short articles from the last ADVERTISING two winners of the Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics (to Enquiries should be sent to the Editor. recognize the work done by a Ph.D. student in Australia that is con- Published six times a year. sidered to be of outstanding quality). Although the award condi- © 2014 Australian Institute of Physics Inc. Unless otherwise stated, all written content in Australian Physics magazine is subject to copyright of the AIP and tions do not require an article for Australian Physics it is standard must not be reproduced wholly or in part without written permission. practice to invite recipients to write a short account of their thesis projects. The 2014 winner, Andrew Sutton (ANU, now Jet Propul- The statements made and the opinions expressed in Australian Physics do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Institute of Physics or its sion Laboratory), describes his PhD research in Digital techniques Council or Committees. for coherent optical metrology; and, similarly, the 2015 winner, Jarryd Print Post approved PP 224960 / 00008 Pla (UNSW, now University College, London) describes his PhD ISSN 1837-5375 research in Single atom spin qubits in silicon. PRODUCTION & PRINTING Pinnacle Print Group 1/87 Newlands Road, Reservoir VIC 3073 I look with envy upon the lively correspondence in Physics World www.pinnacleprintgroup.com.au and Physics Today. So with considerable pleasure we publish a Letter Ph: 8480 3333 Fax: 8480 3344 to the Editor, with response. Needless to say, I encourage more cor- respondence from members. Brian James 110 AUSTRALIAN PHYSICS 52(4) | JUL–AUG 2015 PRESIDENT’S COLUMN The Federal Budget and Science Funding In my last column, I comment- sum game’ with new initiatives hav- ed on how prominent science and ing to be funded by offsets elsewhere. research had been in the political This sees the Sustainable Research domain and the media. While the Excellence (SRE) component of the spotlight has not been quite as strong university block grant being cut by through May and June, there have $260M over the next few years in nonetheless been quite a number of order to pay for the NCRIS alloca- important announcements. tions. This is very unfortunate given The Federal Budget was an- the SRE program provides direct sup- nounced in early May, and this port for university-based research. A included mixed news for science. further $26.8M of savings from the The good news included another Cooperative Research Centres pro- the award of its prizes over the last $150M for the National Collabora- gram over the next four years have couple of months. In late May, the tive Research Infrastructure Strategy also been identified. winners of its Bragg Gold Medal (NCRIS) in 2016-17, in addition While there was no formal an- – which recognizes outstanding re- to the $150M allocated for 2015- nouncement about the ARC Future search undertaken by a PhD student 2016. This now means that NCRIS, Fellowship scheme in the Budget, in Australia – were announced, these and hence our national research in- as foreshadowed by Minister Pyne being Dr Andrew Sutton (ANU) frastructure facilities are funded for when he addressed the AIP Congress for his thesis entitled “Digital Tech- another two years, but the question in Canberra in December 2014, it niques for Coherent Optical Metrol- still remains as to if and how such fa- was expected that it would continue ogy”, and Dr Jarryd Pla (UNSW) for cilities are funded in the longer term this year, but with the number of fel- his thesis entitled “Single atom spin in a sustainable way.
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