Keynote Speech  

New frontiers in photonic chip technology

 

Speaker:

Professor Benjamin J. Eggleton, FAA, FTSE, FOSA, FIEEE, FSPIE

Director - The University of Sydney Nano Institute

Co-Director, NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN)

School of Physics, Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS)

University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Abstract:

The talk will review recent developments in photonic chip technology with emphasis on hybrid photonic integration that is offering new functionalities for radar and sensing applications with high-performance.

 

Biography:

Professor Ben Eggleton, Professor of Physics (Sydney University 2003) is Director of the University of Sydney Nano Institute (Sydney Nano) and co-Director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network. He has received $55 million in research funding, was an ARC Laureate Fellow and founding director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). His ground-breaking research into nanoscale optical waveguides underpins novel applications in telecommunications, quantum technologies and sensing.  He has published over 500 journal papers cited over 40,000 times with an h-number of 107 (google scholar). Eggleton is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, OSA, SPIE and IEEE.