A N N U a L R E P O R T 2006

The Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) The Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) An Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence Sydney Laboratory and Headquarters Professor Ben Eggleton, Research Director Phone: (02) 9351 3604 (+612 9351 3604) Dr Chris Walsh, Chief Operations Officer Phone (02) 9351 5897 (+612 9351 5897) School of Physics, A28 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Fax: (02) 9531 7726 Email: [email protected] Web: www.cudos.org.au CUDOS@ANU CUDOS@Swinburne Ms Wendy Quinn Professor Min Gu Director’s Unit Centre for Micro-Photonics Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering Swinburne University of Technology The Australian National University PO Box 218, Hawthorn ACT 0200 Australia VIC 3122 Australia Phone: (02) 6125 3423 Phone: (03) 9214 8776 CUDOS@Macquarie CUDOS@UTS Dr Michael Withford Professor Lindsay Botten Department of Physics Department of Mathematical Sciences Division of Information and Communication Sciences University of Technology Sydney Macquarie University PO Box 123 NSW 2109 Australia Broadway NSW 2007 Australia ANNUAL REPORT Phone: (02) 9850 7056 Phone: (02) 9514 2247 Ms Kali Madden Phone: 9850 8931 2006 CHIEF INVESTIGATOR Professor Jim Piper CUDOS Research Contribution Flagship Project: Waveguide amplifier and laser Roles and Responsibility within Centre Chief Investigator. Awards, honours, visits Carnegie Centenary Professorship Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from Heriot Watt University Invited Tutorial CLEO ‘06 Professor Jim Piper completed his PhD in atomic physics in Description of Research Activities 1970 at University of Otago, New Zealand, and from 1971-1975 Piper’s research activities in 2006 focussed on building new undertook postdoctoral research in experimental laser physics research links with Scottish Universities as part of the Carnegie at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK. He took Centenary Professorship scheme. Prof. Piper gave a series of up an academic appointment at Macquarie University in 1975 high level talks at Heriot Watt University, University of Glasgow and in 1984 was appointed to the Chair of Physics. In 1988 he and University of Strathcyde. This program included visits to the was awarded as Chief Investigator the ARC Special Research research groups of Prof. Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow), Centre for Lasers and Applications. He is author or co-author of A/Prof. Ajoy Kar (Heriot Watt University), Prof. Alistair Ferguson some 240 international refereed journal articles and full-length (University of Strathclyde), Prof. Alan Miller (University of conference proceedings, and a further 100 published international St. Andrews), Emeritus Prof. Colin Webb (University of Oxford) and conference abstracts, as well as inventor or co-inventor of Prof. David Payne (University of Southampton). CUDOS related 12 awarded patents. outcomes emerging from this activity include a planned linkage Professor Piper has served for several years as a member of with Prof. Kar’s research group on ultrafast laser processing of Australian Research Council committees including 4 years as glasses, and technology demonstrations with Dr Robert Maier Program Manager (International and National Cooperation) and (also Heriot Watt) on novel fibre sensing technologies. as a member of the Council. He was General Chair of the 20th Prof. Piper has also piloted a strategy to fund a state-of-the art International Quantum Electronics Conference held in Sydney lithium niobate fabrication plant within the Australian Technology in 1996, and serves on Program Committees for the leading Park under the NCRIS scheme. This plant will be offer small international conferences in lasers and applications. period (down to 4 μm) quasi-phase matched crystal fabrication Professor Piper has been awarded the Pawsey Medal (Australian capability with integrated waveguides. Technology transfer and Academy of Sciences), Walter Boas Medal (Australian Institute training from ex-Stanford University members will complement of Physics) and AOS Medal (Australian Optical Society) for this arrangement. This fabrication capability will enhance the his contributions to optics and laser physics and technology. experimental components within the Flagship Project Tunable He was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1994. Microphotonics. In 2004 he was awarded the Carnegie Centenary Professorship, Carnegie Trust Universities of Scotland. Professor Piper’s current appointment is as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Macquarie University and was formerly Head of Department of Physics and Dean of Division of Information and Communication Sciences. In 2005 Prof Piper was Chair of the Deputy/Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) Committee of the AVCC and served on the AVCC’s RQF Working Party and the EAG subcommittee on Quality and Eligibility. He has also served as a Director of a number of proprietary companies and has had significant experience of technology transfer and commercialisation. 47.

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