Areas of expertise

• Photonics, Optoelectronics And Optical Communications 020504
• Photonics And Electro Optical Engineering (Excl. Communications) 090606
• Nanophotonics 100711
• Classical And Physical Optics 020501
• Nonlinear Optics And Spectroscopy 020503
• Quantum Optics 020604
• Glass 091206

Publications

• Zarifi, A, Stiller, B, Merklein, M et al. 2018, 'Brillouin spectroscopy of a hybrid silicon-chalcogenide waveguide with geometrical variations', Optics Letters, vol. 43, no. 15, pp. 3493-3496.
• Stiller, B, Merklein, M, Wolff, C et al. 2018, 'On-chip multi-stage optical delay based on cascaded Brillouin light storage', Optics Letters, vol. 43, no. 18, pp. 4321-4324pp.
• Aryanfar, I, Choudhary, A, Liu, Y et al. 2017, '47 dB Net on-chip Brillouin gain for true time delay applications', CLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO_SI 2017, Optical Society of American (OSA), Online, pp. 2pp.
• Choudhary, A, Liu, Y, Morrison, B et al. 2017, 'High-resolution, on-chip RF photonic signal processor using Brillouin gain shaping and RF interference', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-9 pp.
• Morrison, B, Bedoya, A, Ren, G et al. 2017, 'Compact Brillouin devices through hybrid integration on silicon', Optica, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 847-854.
• Choudhary, A, Morrison, B, Aryanfar, I et al. 2017, 'Advanced Integrated Microwave Signal Processing with Giant On-Chip Brillouin Gain', Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 846-854.
• Aryanfar, I, Marpaung, D, Choudhary, A et al. 2017, 'Chip-based Brillouin radio frequency photonic phase shifter and wideband time delay', Optics Letters, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1313-1316pp.
• Merklein, M, Stiller, B, Vu, K et al. 2017, 'A chip-integrated coherent photonic-phononic memory', Nature Communications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 574 (7pp).
• Choudhary, A, Pelusi, M, Marpaung, D et al. 2017, 'On-chip Brillouin purification for frequency comb-based coherent optical communications', Optics Letters, vol. 42, no. 24, pp. 5074-5077pp.
• Stiller, B, Merklein, M, Vu, K et al. 2017, 'Simultaneous opto-acoustic light storage at multiple frequency channels', 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2017, IEEE, TBC, pp. 1-2.
• Choudhary, A, Giacoumidis, E, Pelusi, M et al. 2017, 'On-chip Brillouin processing for coherent optical communications', 22nd Microoptics Conference, MOC 2017, IEEE, Japan, pp. 48-49.
• Choudhary, A, Liu, Y, Aryanfar, I et al. 2016, 'Amplitude and phase control of RF signals using on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering', International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Optical Society of American (OSA), TBC, pp. 3pp.
• Casas-Bedoya, A, Morrison, B, Ren, G et al. 2016, 'Net Brillouin gain of 18.5 dB in a hybrid silicon chip', Frontiers in Optics 2016, Optical Society of American (OSA), United States, pp. 1-2.
• Zarifi, A, Casas-Bedoya, A, Morrison, B et al. 2016, 'Nonlinear loss engineering in a silicon-chalcogenide hybrid optical waveguide', 2016 OSA Photonics and Fiber Technology Conference, Optical Society of American (OSA), United States, pp. 1-2.
• Merklein, M, Stiller, B, Kabakova, I et al. 2016, 'Opto-electronic oscillator employing photonic-chip based stimulated Brillouin scattering', 2016 OSA Photonics and Fiber Technology Conference, Optical Society of American (OSA), United States, pp. -.
• Yu, Y, Gai, X, Ma, P et al. 2016, 'Spectroscopy application of linearly polarized 2-10 μm supercontinuum in a chalcogenide rib waveguide', 2016 OSA Photonics and Fiber Technology Conference, Optical Society of American (OSA), United States, pp. 2pp.
• Yu, Y, Gai, X, Ma, P et al. 2016, 'Spectroscopy Application of Linearly Polarized 2-10 μm Supercontinuum in a Chalcogenide Rib Waveguide', Nonlinear Photonics NP 2016, Optical Society of American (OSA), New York, USA, pp. 2pp.
• Merklein, M, Stiller, B, Kabakova, I et al. 2016, 'Photonic-chip based widely tunable microwave source using a Brillouin opto-electronic oscillator', Frontiers in Optics 2016, Optical Society of American (OSA), United States, pp. 1-2.
• Stiller, B, Merklein, M, Vu, K et al. 2016, 'A coherent on-chip optical memory: Storing amplitude and phase as acoustic phonons', Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2016), Optical Society of American (OSA), New York, USA, pp. -.
• Stiller, B, Merklein, M, Vu, K et al. 2016, 'Access to acoustic decay time in photonic circuits via Brillouin-based phononic memory', 2016 OSA Photonics and Fiber Technology Conference, Optical Society of American (OSA), United States, pp. 2pp.
• Choudhary, A, Aryanfar, I, Shahnia, S et al. 2016, 'Tailoring of the Brillouin gain for on-chip widely tunable and reconfigurable broadband microwave photonic filters', Optics Letters, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 436-439.
• Jiang, H, Marpaung, D, Pagani, M et al. 2016, 'Wide-range, high-precision multiple microwave frequency measurement using a chip-based photonic Brillouin filter', Optica, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 30-34.
• Yu, Y, Gai, X, Ma, P et al. 2016, 'Experimental demonstration of linearly polarized 2-10 μm supercontinuum generation in a chalcogenide rib waveguide', Optics Letters, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 958-961.
• Yan, K, Vu, K, Wang, R et al. 2016, 'Greater than 50% inversion in Erbium doped chalcogenide waveguides', Optics Express, vol. 24, no. 20, pp. 23304-23313.
• Merklein, M, Stiller, B, Kabakova, I et al. 2016, 'Widely tunable, low phase noise microwave source based on a photonic chip', Optics Letters, vol. 41, no. 20, pp. 4633-4636.
• Choudhary, A, Aryanfar, I, Shahnia, S et al. 2016, 'On-chip tunable microwave photonic filters with a reconfigurable bandwidth of up to 440 MHz', 2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2016, IEEE, Anaheim, United States, pp. 3pp.
• Marpaung, D, Aryanfar, I, Casas-Bedoya, A et al. 2016, 'On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering for microwave photonic signal processing', 2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2016, IEEE, Anaheim, United States, pp. 3pp.
• Choudhary, A, Aryanfar, I, Shahnia, S et al. 2016, 'Reconfigurable and frequency-agile on-chip microwave photonic bandpass and bandstop filters using stimulated Brillouin scattering', Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications X, ed. Guo R.Yin S., Conference Organising Committee, TBC, pp. 1-7.
• Merklein, M, Stiller, B, Vu, K et al. 2016, 'An on-chip multi-wavelength photonic-phononic memory ', Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016, Optical Society of American (OSA), Online.
• Aryanfar, I, Choudhary, A, Shahnia, S et al. 2016, 'Reconfigurable microwave bandstop filter based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in a photonic chip ', Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016, Optical Society of American (OSA), Online, pp. 1-2.
• Pagani, M, Vu, K, Choi, D et al. 2016, 'Instantaneous microwave frequency measurement using four-wave mixing in a chalcogenide chip', Optics Communications, vol. 373, no. -, pp. 100-104.
• Quinn, M, Vu, K, Madden, S et al. 2016, 'Photothermal Breaking of Emulsions Stabilized with Graphene', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 8, no. 16, pp. 10609-10616.
• Yu, Y, Gai, X, Ma, P et al 2016, 'Experimental demonstration of linearly polarized 2-10micron supercontinuum generation in a chalcogenide rib waveguide', Optics Letters, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 958-961.
• Marzban, S, Bartholomew, J, Madden, S et al. 2015, 'Observation of Photon Echoes from Evanescently Coupled Rare-Earth Ions in a Planar Waveguide', Physical Review Letters, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 013601-1 to 013601-5.
• Merklein, M, Stiller, B, Vu, K et al. 2015, 'Storing light as sound in a photonic integrated circuit', Frontiers in Optics 2015, FIO 2015, Optical Society of American (OSA), USA, pp. 2pp.
• Vu, K, Yan, K & Madden, S 2015, 'Internal gain in er-doped as2s3 planar waveguide amplifiers', European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2015, Optical Society of American (OSA), New York, USA, pp. 1pp.
• Vu, K, Shahrabi Farahani, S & Madden, S 2015, '980nm pumped erbium doped tellurium oxide planar rib waveguide laser and amplifier with gain in S, C and L band', Optics Express, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 747-755.
• Yan, K, Vu, K & Madden, S 2015, 'Internal gain in Er-doped As2S3 chalcogenide planar waveguides', Optics Letters, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 796-799.
• Ma, P, Choi, D, Yu, Y et al. 2015, 'High Q factor chalcogenide ring resonators for cavity-enhanced MIR spectroscopic sensing', Optics Express, vol. 23, no. 15, pp. 19969-19979.
• Ma, P, Choi, D, Yu, Y et al. 2015, 'High-Q mid-infrared chalcogenide ring resonators', European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2015, Optical Society of American (OSA), New York, USA, pp. 1pp.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2014, 'Fabrication of Passive and Active Tellurite Thin film and Waveguide for Integrated Optics', in Rongping Wang (ed.), Amorphous Chalcogenides: Advances and Applications, Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, pp. 271-303.
• Yan, K, Vu, K & Madden, S 2014, 'Intense photoluminescence from Er doped chalcogenide thin films fabricated by cothermal evaporation', OSA CLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO_SI 2014, Optical Society of American (OSA), San Jose USA.
• Yan, K, Vu, K, Yang, Z et al. 2014, 'Emission properties of erbium-doped Ge-Ga-Se glasses, thin films and waveguides for laser amplifiers', Optical Materials Express, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 464-475.
• Marzban, S, Bartholomew, J, Sellars, M et al. 2014, 'Progress towards the development of rare-earth doped waveguides for quantum communications applications', OSA CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO_QELS 2014, Optical Society of American (OSA), San Jose USA.
• Madden, S, Vu, K, Jin, Z et al. 2013, 'Hybrid As2S3: Er-TeO2 loss compensated nonlinear waveguides', CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO:QELS FS 2013, Conference Organising Committee, San Jose, CA.
• Li, J, Shen, X, Sun, J et al. 2013, 'Fabrication and characterization of Ge₂₀Sb₁₅Se₆₅ chalcogenide glass rib waveguides for telecommunication wavelengths', Thin Solid Films, vol. 545, pp. 462-465.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2011, 'Erbium doped tellurium dioxide planar waveguide amplifiers with 2.8dB/cm internal gain', Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim CLEOPR 2011, IEEE, Sydney Australia, pp. 860-862.
• Malinowski, A, Vu, K, Chen, K et al. 2008, 'Selective generation of individual Raman Stokes wavelengths using shaped optical pulses', OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, Conference Organising Committee, San Diego, CA.
• Prasad, A, Vu, K, Han, T et al. 2008, Bridging the gap, pp. 12-13pp.
• Vu, K, Yan, K, Jin, Z et al. 2013, 'Hybrid waveguide from As₂S₃ and Er-doped TeO₂ for lossless nonlinear optics', Optics Letters, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 1766-1768.
• Yan, K, Wang, R, Vu, K et al. 2012, 'Photoluminescence in Er-doped Ge-As-Se chalcogenide thin films', Optical Materials Express, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 1270-1277.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2012, 'High Gain Waveguide Amplifier and Laser using Erbium Doped Tellurium Oxide Pumped at 980nm', Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2012), Australian Institute of Physics, Sydney, pp. 860-862.
• Madden, S & Vu, K 2012, 'High-Performance Integrated Optics with Tellurite Glasses: Status and Prospects', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 289-298.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2012, 'Tellurium oxide thin film waveguides for integrated photonics', International Conference on Advances in the Fusion and Processing of Glass and Symposium 15 - Structure, Properties and Photonic Applications of Glasses AFPG-9, Conference Organising Committee, Cairns Australia, pp. 181-186.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2011, 'Erbium Doped Tellurium Dioxide Planar Waveguide Amplifiers with 2.8dB/cm Internal Gain', IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics 2011, IEEE Photonics Society, Piscataway USA, pp. 317-319.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2011, 'Reactive ion etching of tellurite and chalcogenide waveguides using hydrogen, methane, and argon', Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 011023-6.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2011, 'High Gain Erbium Doped Tellurium Oxide Waveguide Amplifier', European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe 2011), European Physical Society, Munich Germany.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2011, 'Passive and Active Amorphous Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Waveguides for Integrated Photonics', International Meeting of Pacific Rim Ceramic Societies (PACRIM 2009), ed. B. Ben-Nissan, Australian Ceramic Society, Sydney.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2010, 'Tellurium dioxide Erbium doped planar rib waveguide amplifiers with net gain and 2.8dB/cm internal gain', European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe 2011), European Physical Society, Munich Germany.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2010, '2.8dB/cm Internal Gain Tellurium Dioxide Erbium Waveguide Amplifiers', Australian Institute of Physics Congress and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (AIP/ACOFT 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, Australian Institute of Physics, Melbourne Australia, pp. 1-3.
• Yan, K, Wang, R, Vu, K et al. 2011, 'Photoluminescence in Er-doped Ge-As-Se chalcogenide thin films', Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011), Optical Society of American (OSA), United States, pp. 1612-1616.
• Malinowski, A, Vu, K, Chen, K et al. 2009, 'High power pulsed fiber MOPA system incorporating electro-optic modulator based adaptive pulse shaping', Optics Express, vol. 17, no. 23, pp. 20927-20937.
• Vu, K, Malinowski, A, Roelens, M et al. 2008, 'Full Characterization of Low-Power Picosecond Pulses From a Gain-Switched Diode Laser Using Electrooptic Modulation-Based Linear FROG', IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 505-507.
• Vu, K, Malinowski, A, Roelens, M et al. 2008, 'Detailed comparison of injection-seeded and self-seeded performance of a 1060-nm gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser diode', IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 645-651.
• Vu, K, Malinowski, A, Richardson, D et al. 2006, 'Adaptive pulse shape control in a diode-seeded nanosecond fiber MOPA system', Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 23, pp. 10996-11001.
• He, F, Price, J, Vu, K et al. 2006, 'Optimisation of cascaded Yb fiber amplifier chains using numerical-modelling', Optics Express, vol. 14, pp. 12846-12858.
• Duering, M, Kolev, V, Luther-Davies, B et al. 2005, 'High power picosecond mid-IR source for polymer ablation', International Conference on Laser Ablation 2005, ed. Wayne P Hess, IOP Publishing, Banff, Canada.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2010, 'Tellurium dioxide Erbium doped planar rib waveguide amplifiers with net gain and 2.8dB/cm internal gain', Optics Express, vol. 18, no. 18, pp. 19192 - 19200.
• Vu, K & Madden, S 2009, 'Low Loss Nonlinear Planar Tellurite Waveguides', Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons (ACOLS ACOFT 2009), ed. Australian Optical Society, Australian Optical Society, Australia, pp. 154-155.
• Luther-Davies, B, Prasad, A, Gai, X et al. 2009, 'Ge11.5As24Se64.5 Glass: a New Material for the Fabrication of Highly Nonlinear (!!33,000W-1km-1) Dispersion Engineered Waveguides', Optical Society of America Optics and Photonics Congress/Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA 2009), ed. Optical Society of America, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. IWB5 3.
• Madden, S & Vu, K 2009, 'Very low loss reactively ion etched Tellurium Dioxide planar rib waveguides for linear and non-linear optics', Optics Express, vol. 17, no. 20, p. 17645.
• Vu, K, Madden, S & Luther-Davies, B 2009, 'Low loss stoichiometric TeO2 thin films and waveguides', European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/EQEC 2009), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Germany, p. 2.
• Luther-Davies, B, Prasad, A, Madden, S et al. 2009, 'Supercontinuum Generation and Four Wave Mixing in Ge11As22Se67 rib Waveguides with a nonlinear Parameter >26000W-1km-1', European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/EQEC 2009), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Germany, p. 1.
• Vu, K, Madden, S, Luther-Davies, B et al. 2008, 'Stoichiometric Low Loss Tellurium Oxide Thin Films for Photonic Applications', COIN and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (COIN-ACOFT 2008), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Sydney Australia, p. 2.
• Duering, M, Kolev, V, Luther-Davies, B et al. 2006, 'Solid-State Laser Source for Resonant Infra-Red Pulsed Laser Deposition of Polymers', Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science/Conference on Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies (CLEO/QELS 2006), ed. Xinbing Liu, Corey Dunsky, Detao Du, et al, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. PWB4-1-4.
• Duering, M, Kolev, V, Vu, K et al. 2005, 'High-gain optical parametric amplifier as a key element of a polymer ablation and deposition system', Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society (LEOS 2005), ed. Ekaterina Golovchenko, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 264-265.

Projects and Grants

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• Brighter than a synchrotron: mid-infrared sources for spectroscopy & sensing (Secondary Investigator)