The Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) undertakes fundamental research towards the photonic chip. As data rates increase beyond the processing speeds of electronics, new devices are required to perform tasks such as 3R-regeneration – reshaping, retiming and reamplification, wavelength conversion, and buffering. At the core of this research are novel highly nonlinear materials, such as the chalcogenides, fashioned into waveguides and photonic crystals, which are then integrated into novel processing schemes. In this talk, I will give an overview of the scope of the work at the centre, founded by Prof. Ben Eggleton, Yuri Kivshar, and Martijn de Sterke et al, and then drill down into three specific projects which I have been involved in, namely, the slowing of light using gap solitons, pulse compression using chalcogenide single mode fiber, and a optical filter for reconfigurable networks.

Seminar, January 31, 15:00h. Conference Room