Abstract

My talk will overview the research highlights of CUDOS, an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. CUDOS is a research consortium between five Australian Universities: The University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University and Swinburne University of Technology. The CUDOS research program has two central themes: nanophotonics and nonlinear photonics. Our goal of achieving ultra-high-speed, all-optical signal processing on a single photonic chip is addressed by combining these two themes to develop micron-scale photonic components incorporating nonlinear photonics processes. This talk will review progress on CUDOS flagship projects that represent ambitious cross-node collaborations toward this goal: i) Dispersionless slow light in photonic crystals; (ii) Chalcogenide-based alloptical switching and regeneration schemes based on low-loss waveguides and photonic crystals; and (iii) optofluidic integration.

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