Ben Eggleton

Benjamin J. Eggleton
Residence Australia
Fields
Alma mater University of Sydney
Website
http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/benjamin.eggleton

Professor Benjamin Eggleton is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney. [1] He is the founding Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), a multi-campus research team with more than 150 members.[2] Eggleton is also the Director for the University of Sydney’s Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) and Co-Director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN).[3]

Education and Career

Eggleton obtained the Bachelor's degree (with honors) in Science in 1992 and Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Sydney in 1996. In 1996, he joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a Postdoctoral Member of Staff in the Optical Physics Department under the supervision of Dr Richard Slusher. In 1998 he transferred to the Optical Fiber Research Department as a Member of Technical Staff and was promoted to Technical Manager of the Fiber Gratings Group in 2000. He was then promoted to Research Director within the Specialty Fiber Business Division of Bell Laboratories, where he was engaged in forward-looking research supporting Lucent Technologies business in optical fiber devices.[4]

Research

Eggleton's research links fundamental to applied science and spans physics and engineering. He has made pioneering contributions to nonlinear optics and all-optical signal processing with recent breakthrough achievements in the nonlinear optics of periodic media, slow-light in photonic crystals and ultrafast planar waveguide nonlinear optics.[5] His research into new classes of nonlinear waveguides has created a new paradigm for photonic chip based ultrafast optical signal processing and his group holds various world records.[6]

Eggleton's breakthroughs in the nonlinear optics of chalcogenide glasses have led to his demonstrations of new ultrafast optical devices for telecommunications applications, record low-threshold supercontinuum generation sources and on-chip parametric sources. His group reported the first demonstration of on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering,[7] and holds the record for on-chip SBS gain. His fundamental breakthroughs include the first demonstrations of gap soliton formation in periodic media and of slow-light-enhanced nonlinear optics in photonic crystals.[8] [9] [10]

Publications

Eggleton has published more than 450 journal publications (with over 17,000 citations and an h-index of 63 according to Web of Science) including articles in Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters and Optica and has filed over 35 patents.[11]

Awards and Honours

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA),[12] IEEE Photonics,[13] the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE),[14] and the Australian Academy of Science (AAS).[15]

Eggleton has received numerous awards for his contributions, including, the 2011 Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics,[5] [16] the Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science,[17] the 2008 NSW Physicist of the Year medal,[18] the 2007 Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science,[19] the 2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year,[20] the 2003 International Commission on Optics (ICO) Prize,[21] the 1998 Adolph Lomb Medal from OSA,[22] the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE/LEOS,[23] and the R&D100 Award.[24]

He was President of the Australian Optical Society from 2008-2010 and was Editor-in-Chief for Optics Communications from 2007-2015. He currently serves on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Photonics Society and is the Editor-in-Chief for APL Photonics.

References

  1. ↑ "Ben Eggleton named as new ARC Australian Laureate Fellow". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  2. ↑ Australian Research Council (2014-07-10). "ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems". www.arc.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  3. ↑ Bindi, Tas. "NSW government launches Smart Sensing Network | ZDNet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  4. ↑ "Professor Benjamin Eggleton". sydney.edu.au.
  5. 1 2 "Professor Ben Eggleton wins Walter Boas Medal". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  6. ↑ "Nanoscale Photonic Circuits". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  7. ↑ Pant, Ravi; Poulton, Christopher G.; Choi, Duk-Yong; Mcfarlane, Hannah; Hile, Samuel; Li, Enbang; Thevenaz, Luc; Luther-Davies, Barry; Madden, Stephen J. (2011-04-25). "On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering". Optics Express. 19 (9): 8285–8290. ISSN 1094-4087. doi:10.1364/OE.19.008285.
  8. ↑ Eggleton, Benjamin J. (1996). "Bragg Grating Solitons". Physical Review Letters. 76 (10): 1627–1630. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1627.
  9. ↑ Eggleton, Benjamin J.; Sterke, C. Martijn de; Slusher, R. E. (1997-11-01). "Nonlinear pulse propagation in Bragg gratings". JOSA B. 14 (11): 2980–2993. ISSN 1520-8540. doi:10.1364/JOSAB.14.002980.
  10. ↑ "Ben Eggleton, optical physicist". www.abc.net.au. 2011-08-02. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  11. ↑ "Benjamin J. Eggleton - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  12. ↑ "2003 OSA Fellows". osa.org.
  13. ↑ "Introducing the Class of 2010 - IEEE - The Institute". theinstitute.ieee.org. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  14. ↑ "Prof Ben Eggleton elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  15. ↑ "Professor Benjamin John Eggleton | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  16. ↑ "Walter Boas Medal | Australian Institute of Physics". aip.org.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  17. ↑ "Light speed research nets Eureka prize". www.abc.net.au. 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  18. ↑ "Honour Roll - NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer". www.chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  19. ↑ "2007 awardees | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  20. ↑ "2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year". www.science.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  21. ↑ "ICO Prize | International Commission for Optics". e-ico.org. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  22. ↑ "Adolph Lomb Medal". osa.org.
  23. ↑ "Award Winners | IEEE Photonics Society". ewh.ieee.org. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  24. ↑ "2004 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year". www.scienceinpublic.com.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
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