ProfessorBenjamin Eggleton

Project Opportunities

Title: Nonlinear integrated photonics

Summary of opportunity:

Professor Benjamin Eggleton's breakthroughs in nonlinear optics of chalcogenide glasses have let to his deomonstations of new ultrafast optical devices for telecommunications applications, record low-threshold supercontinium generation sources and on-chip parametric sources. 

The supervisory team for this project also includes Dr Alvaro Casas Bedoya.

Opportunity synopsis:

Professor Eggleton's group reported the first demonstration of on-chip stimulaated Brillouin scattering, and holds the recod for on-chip SBS again.  His fundamental breakthroughs include the first demonstations of gap soliton formation in periodic media and of slow-light-enhanced nonlinear optics in photonic crystals.

----------Current Research Projects----------

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in a photonic chip On-chip light-sound interaction for next-generation microwave processing and information storage devices

Quantum integrated photonics Developing a flexible integrated platform for the generation and processing of quantum states through nonlinear optical devices

All optical and non-linear signal processing Using nonlinear optics to perform ultrahigh bandwidth all-optical signal processing

Mid-Infrared Photonics Developing novel mid-IR sources on a compact chip-scale platform for environmental monitoring

Air quality sensing using photonics Sensing gases and particles in the atmosphere