21-Mar-2008

Members of the CUDOS group at the University of Sydney have had 14 papers accepted for presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/Quantum Electronics and Spectroscopy in San Jose in May.

More details on the CUDOS papers:

1. (CMDD6) Low-Energy Threshold Supercontinuum Generated in Highly Nonlinear As2Se3 Chalcogenide Submicron Tapers,
Dong-Il Yeom, Eric C. Mägi, Michael R. E. Lamont, Michaël A. F. Roelens, Libin Fu, Benjamin J. Eggleton;
ARC Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwith Devices for Optical Systems, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

2. (QTuL4) Nonlinear Long-Period Gratings in As2Se3 Chalcogenide Fiber for All-Optical Switching,
Hong C. Nguyen, Dong -I. Yeom, C. M. de Sterke, Klaus Finsterbusch, Eric C. Magi, Libin B. Fu, Boris T. Kuhlmey, Benjamin J. Eggleton;
Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Sciences, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

3. (QTuL6) Modulation Instability and Bragg Soliton Formation in a Highly Nonlinear As2S3 Waveguide Bragg Grating,
Neil J. Baker1, Michaël Roelens1, Steve Madden2, Barry Luther-Davies2, C. Martijn de Sterke1, Benjamin J. Eggleton1;
1Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 2Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Natl. Univ., Australia.

4. (CThJ7) Reconfigurable Microfluidic Photonic Crystal Cavities,
Christian Karnutsch1, Cameron L. C. Smith1, Darran K. C. Wu1, Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic1, Michael W. Lee1, Christelle Monat1, Christian Grillet1, Ross McPhedran1, Benjamin J. Eggleton1, Darren Freeman2, Steve Madden2, Barry Luther-Davies2;
1Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 2Australian Natl. Univ., Australia.

5. (CThEE1) Cladding Modes in All-Solid Photonic Bandgap Fibers,
Feng Luan1, Boris T. Kuhlmey1, Libin B. Fu1, Dong-Il Yeom1, Benjamin J. Eggleton1, Aimin Wang2, Jonathan C. Knight2;
1Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwith Devices for Optical Systems, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 2Ctr. for Photonics and Photonic Materials, United Kingdom.

6. (CFO7) Fiber Taper Coupling to Chalcogenide Microsphere Modes,
Christian Grillet, Eric Magi, Benjamin J. Eggleton;
Ctr. for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth for Optical Sciences, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

7. (CThCC4) Local Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities Using Chalcogenide Glasses,
Andrei Faraon1, Dirk Englund1, Douglas Bulla2, Barry Luther-Davies2, Benjamin J. Eggleton3, Nick Stoltz4, Pierre Petroff4, Jelena Vuckovic5;
1Dept. of Applied Physics, Stanford Univ., USA, 2Ctr. for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Laser Physics Ctr., Australian Natl. Univ., Australia, 3Ctr. for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 4Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA, 5E. L. Ginzton Lab, Stanford Univ., USA.

8. (CTuS6) Large Kerr Nonlinearity in Ultra Low Loss High-Index Glass Waveguides,
David Duchesne1, Marcello Ferrera1, Luca Razzari1, Roberto Morandotti1, Brent Little2, David J. Moss3;
1INRS-EMT, Canada, 2Infinera Ltd., USA, 3CUDOS, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

9. (CThO7) Ultra-Low Power Frequency Conversion in High-Index Glass Micro Ring Resonators,
Marcello Ferrera1, Luca Razzari1, David Duchesne1, Roberto Morandotti1, Zhenshan Yang2, Marco Liscidini2, John E. Sipe2, Brent Little3, David J. Moss4;
1Enérgie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Inst. Natl. de la Res. Scientifique, Canada, 2Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 3Infinera Ltd., USA, 4Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwith Devices for Optical Systems, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

10. (QMK5) Dynamics of Gap Solitons in Random Fiber Gratings,
Eduard N. Tsoy1, C. Martijn de Sterke1, Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev2;
1School of Physics, Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 2Physical-Technical Inst. of the Uzbek Acad. of Sciences, Uzbekistan.

11. (JTuA127) Impedance of Photonic Crystals,
Felix Lawrence1, Lindsay C. Botten2, Kokou B. Dossou2, C. Martijn de Sterke1;
1Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 2Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

12. (JTuA129) Evolution of Defect States in 2-D Photonic Crystals,
Kokou B. Dossou1, Lindsay C. Botten1, Christopher G. Poulton1, Ross C. McPhedran2, Ara A. Asatryan1, C. Martijn de Sterke2;
1Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2School of Physics, Ctr. for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

13. (JTuA125) High-Q Cavity Design in Photonic Crystal Heterostructures,
Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic, C. Martijn de Sterke;
ARC Ctr. of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

14. (QThJ6) The Effect of Metamaterials on Anderson Localisation,
Ara A. Asatryan1, Lindsay C. Botten1, Michael A. Byrne1, Valentin D. Freilikher2, Sergey A. Gredeskul3, Ilya V. Shadrivov4, Ross C. McPhedran5, Yuri S. Kivshar4;
1Ctr. for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel, 3Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel, 4Australian Natl. Univ., Australia, 5Univ. of Sydney, Australia.