Dodd Walls Symposium Programme 2011
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Dodd-Walls Symposium 2011 Program and Abstracts 1 General Information Location Weir House is located on Gladstone terrace, on the Kelburn campus of Victoria University of Wellington. Directoins and maps can be found at: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/weirhouse/about/location.aspx Internet Wireless internet is available in the sky lounge and the dining hall at Weir House. Catering during the conference All catering at Weir House will be served in the dining hall. Meal times are as follows: • Breakfast – 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. • Lunch – 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. • Dinner – 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Conference Dinner The Conference dinner will be held at the Travelodge Wellington on Thursday 10 February at 7 p.m. Session and Event Information Notes to presenters Please see the chair of each session before you are due to give your presentation to organize anything that will be needed. Poster Presentations Poster boards will be located at Weir house in the Sky lounge. Please put your poster up next to your poster number on the morning of Wednesday 9 February. Poster numbers are in the abstract section of the programme. 2 Invited Speakers Prof. Benjamin Eggleton Benjamin Eggleton is an ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney and is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). He obtained the Bachelorʼs degree and Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Sydney. In 1996, he joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a Member of Staff and was subsequently promoted to Research Director within the Specialty Fibre Business Division of Bell Laboratories, where he was engaged in forward-looking research supporting Lucent Technologies business in optical fibre devices. Since 2003, he has been the founding director of CUDOS, Australiaʼs Centre of Excellence in Photonics which spans seven universities and more than 120 researchers. His vision of a photonic chip that will enable the Internet to transfer vast amounts of data with significant energy savings brought together a team of national and international scientists that achieved world-first demonstrations of photonic-chip-based ultrafast photonic processing. Eggleton has published more than 270 journal publications, including articles in Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters and he has filed over 35 patents. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, IEEE and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). Eggleton has received numerous awards for his contributions, including the 2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the year award in the Physical Sciences category, the 2008 NSW Physicist of the Year medal, the 2007 Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science, the 2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, the 2003 International Commission on Optics (ICO) Prize, the 1998 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America, the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE/LEOS, and the R&D100 Award. He was President of the Australian Optical Society from 2008-2010 and is Editor for Optics Communications. 3 Prof. Allister Ferguson Professor Allister Ferguson is responsible for all aspects of the University of Strathclydeʼs research and knowledge exchange policy, strategy and governance. He also has responsibility for postgraduate research student matters and overall responsibility for Research Exchange and Knowledge Services. He was appointed Deputy Principal in August 2004. Allister Ferguson was educated at the University of St Andrews, where he obtained his BSc and PhD in physics. After completing his PhD in lasers and nonlinear optics he was awarded a Lindemann Fellowship that enabled him to spend time as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He has held academic posts at the University of Oxford, where he was a Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Southampton, and in 1989 he took up the Chair of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde. At Strathclyde his research group is active in lasers, nonlinear optics and laser spectroscopy. He founded the Institute of Photonics, where he is the Technical Director, and the Centre for Biophotonics, where he is Associate Director. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute for Contemporary Scotland and Royal Society of Edinburgh. 4 Timetable TUESDAY Check-in at Weir House. Dinner served from 5.30–6.30 p.m. in the Weir House dining hall. WEDNESDAY: Weir House Session 1: Chair – John Harvey 8:50 Opening remarks 10min 9:00 Talk 1 Ben Eggleton, University of Sydney (Invited Speaker): 40min Delivering Photonics to Transform the New Information Age – Smaller, Faster and Energy Efficient 9:40 Talk 2 Rainer Leonhardt, DWC, University of Auckland: THz 20min research at the University of Auckland 10:00 Talk 3 Claude Aguegaray, DWC, University of Auckland: 20min Similariton propagation and break-up with third-order dispersion 10:20 Talk 4 Stuart Murdoch, DWC, University of Auckland: 20min Measurement of the spectral amplitude and phase of periodic optical signals 10:40–11:10 Coffee break (30 min) Session 2: Chair – Rob Ballagh 11:10 Talk 5 Joachim Brand, Massey University (Invited Speaker): 20min Dark solitons in superfluid Fermi gases 11:30 Talk 6 Niels Kjaergaard, DWC, University of Otago: From 20min ASTRID to lHC 11:50 Talk 7 David Hutchinson, DWC, University of Otago: Physics 20min of the Riemann hypothesis 12:10 Talk 8 Igor Meglinski, DWC, University of Otago: Biophotonics 20min computational research tool Lunch served from 12:30–1:30 p.m. in the Weir House dining hall. 5 Session 3: Chair – Howard Carmichael 1:30 Talk 9 Charles Rohde, DWC, University of Auckland: Altering 20min reflectivity through nanoscale laser-induced pattern formation on nickel films 1:50 Talk 10 Brett Telfer, Industrial Research Ltd, Wellington (Invited 20min speaker): Photonics research at IRL 2:10 Group The Dodd-Walls Centre - Strategic Direction 80min Discussion Chair: Crispin Gardiner DWC PIʼs & Invitees 3:30– Coffee break 3:30 Poster To be held in the Sky Room 90min Session Dinner served from 5:30–6.30 p.m. in the Weir House dining hall. THURSDAY: Weir House Session 4: Chair – David Hutchinson 9:00 Talk 1 Allister Ferguson, University of Strathclyde (Invited 40min Speaker): Photonics and innovation in Scotland 9:40 Talk 2 John Harvey, DWC, University of Auckland: Parametric 20min frequency conversion of optical data streams 10:00 Talk 3 Jevon Longdell, DWC, University of Otago: Quantum 20min optics and sensing with cryogenic rare earth ion dopants 10:20 Talk 4 Scott Parkins, DWC, University of Auckland: Cavity QED 20min in cascaded microtoroidal resonators 10:40–11:10 Coffee break (30 min) 6 Session 5: Chair – Rainer Leonhardt 11:10 Talk 5 Tzahi Grunzweig, DWC, University of Otago: Consistent 20min preparation of a single trapped atom 11:30 Talk 6 Howard Carmichael, DWC, University of Auckland: 20min Ground-state quantum beats seen in spontaneous emission: Evolution of coherence through quantum jumps 11:50 Talk 7 Blair Blakie, DWC, University of Otago: Not so ultra-cold 20min 12:10 Talk 8 Dipankar Das, DWC, University of Otago: High precision 20min measurement of 1270nm transition in O2 Lunch served from 12.30-1.30 in the Weir House dining hall. Session 6: Chair – Igor Meglinski 1:30 Talk 9 Stephane Coen, DWC, University of Auckland: Temporal 20min cavity solitons and symmetry breaking instability in externally driven passive fibre resonators 1:50 Talk 10 Maarten Hoogerland, DWC, University of Auckland: 20min High resolution spectroscopy in helium 2:10 Talk 11 Andrew Hilliard, DWC, University of Otago: Parametric 20min excitation of atoms in an optical micro-trap Afternoon free 7:00 Dinner for all Symposium attendees at Travelodge FRIDAY morning A second meeting will be held for DWC Principal Investigators in Weir House Common Room, followed by lunch. An agenda will be distributed at the Symposium. 7 Abstracts Oral Presentations Wednesday Talk 1 (Invited): Delivering Photonics to Transform the New Information Age – Smaller, Faster and Energy Efficient Benjamin Eggleton School of Physics, University of Sydney Director, CUDOS ARC Centre of Excellence Institute of Photonics and Optical Science The importance to 21st-century economies of a fast and efficient Internet was acknowledged in 2009 by the Australian Government’s decision to build the National Broadband Network (NBN). The key technology behind the Internet is photonics—the science of generating, transmitting, processing and detecting light. Going far beyond the optical fibres which merely transfer light, photonics has the capability to transform all areas of modern society that rely on information transfer. In biology, photonics interrogates molecular structures and can provide information critical to human health and environmental sustainability; photons from distant galaxies carry information that can reveal the origins of the Universe; and the quantum properties of photons promise new information systems with impenetrable security. Photonic signal processing is the key to opening up technological opportunities in all of these areas. CUDOS has played a pivotal role in demonstrating ground breaking integrated photonic signal processors that can massively increase the information capacity of the Internet, bringing us within reach of breathtaking capabilities that will transform almost every facet of the information society and economy. This