interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories

In 2009 our leading photonics and optics research activities have relocated to new laboratory premises within the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Reflecting the times, the School of Chemistry leads the way at the University for developing broader interdiscplinary programs spanning physics, chemistry and engineering. The group is highly interdisciplinary with members from Physics, Chemistry and Engineering.

We currently have twenty national and international collaborations spanning the USA, South America, Europe and Asia covering areas as

wide as materials research, nanophotonics, molecular photonics, self assembly, lasers, gratings, fibres, devices and systems. Applications in telecommunications, sensing, biodiagnostics and much more are explored.

On this site you will find news and announcements as well as information regarding our research and activities. For more specific project details please do not hesitate to contact us.

• Glass and materials science
• Fibre fabrication research (rare doped, photosensitive, photonic crystal, air clad and a new generation of Fresnel fibres including Bragg and bandgap fibres)
• Gratings research (devices, hypersensitisation, two and more photon induced index change, interferometry, laser processing of fibre and planar waveguides of all materials particularly polymer and silica)
• Laser research (DFB fibre lasers, photonic crystal fibre lasers, air clad fibre lasers and many other structure and conventional fibre laser technologies)
• Sensing (biophotonics, fibres for sensing including liquid core fibres for biophotonic and other diagnostics, orthodontics, chromatography, etc) 
• Hybrid photonic and electronic fibre and planar devices (electrophoretic mobility, surface alignment, novel conductivity, nano interface processing, integrated porphyrins)
• Imaging technologies (photonic crystal fibres for SNOM tips, other)
• Coding and signal processing    
• Broadband fibre sources (alternative to supercontinuum sources)
• Self assembly
• Molecular Photonics
• New science and technologies
• Much more……..