Professor Ben Eggleton (left) with recent graduate, Joe Mok, in the CUDOS lab.
The University of Sydney's Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) is set to present a year of research breakthroughs in photonics since its inception when it hosts its first symposium tomorrow and Friday. Professor Ben Eggleton , ARC Federation Fellow and Director of IPOS said it had been a busy year for IPOS researchers. "In just over a year, IPOS has broken new ground in terms of what can be achieved with photonics and optics," he said. "One of the most significant directions is the integration of biology with photonics and optics. The breakthrough of the 'optic chip on a strip' is truly life-saving technology." Professor Eggleton said that by working across diverse areas such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering and microscopy, ideas that were once thought to be in the realm of fiction, such as invisibility or remote surgery, were now becoming reality. "At the same time as pioneering new ways to use photonics, IPOS has met one of its core objectives to create photonic processing solutions to move the Internet to operate at one terabit per second capacity," he said. "Researchers are now researching clever ways to create a new class of photonic integrated circuits in the context of the CUDOS, ARC Centre of Excellence collaboration.
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