Photonics and polymers

Some of the largest national collaborative projects funded are projects in next generation photonics research and polymer optical fibre drawing facility. These involved collaboration with 13 other Australian universities, CSIRO, MNRF's, the Australian Synchrotron Research Program, Geoscience Australia and CRC spin-off companies.

We are also home to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), for which one of our Federation Fellows is the Research Director, Dr Ben Eggleton. CUDOS is a collaborative project combining the established expertise of researchers at the University of Sydney, Australian National University, Macquarie University, Swinburne University, the University of Technology, Sydney and CSIRO. It also builds on research links with photonics research groups at other Australian universities and CRCs, and with international partners such as Bell Labs and OFS Laboratories in the USA, and CNRS in France.

In addition, we are the lead partner in the Photonics CRC which has the following core participants:

• Industry: ABB Transmission and Distribution Ltd; AOC Australia Ltd; Allen and Buckeridge Pty Ltd; Australian Photonics Pty Ltd; BAE Systems Australia Limited; Bishop Innovation Pty Ltd; CEOS Pty Ltd; Coherent Australia Scientific Pty Ltd; Ericsson Australia Pty Ltd; Filtronic Components Pty Ltd; Future Fibre Technologies Pty Ltd; Macquarie Photonics Pty Ltd; Nextrom OY; Nufern Inc; Redfern Photonics Pty Ltd; Telstra Corporation Limited; JDS Uniphase Pty Ltd; Tenix Systems Pty Ltd.
• University: The University of Sydney; The University of Melbourne; The Australian National University; The University of New South Wales; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
• Commonwealth: Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
• State: Electricity Transmission Authority (TransGrid); TAFE NSW.
• Other: Australian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers Association Limited