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ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems

An Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence

RMIT University will serve as a node of the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). CUDOS has been funded for a period of 7 years starting 2011 for a total of $23.6 million.

The Centre will take the next big step in optical systems by transforming photonic integrated circuits into a technology that will have a profound effect on economies and lifestyles around the world. This will enable the Internet to transfer vast amounts of data with significantly improved energy efficiency; it will lead to secure transmission using quantum photonics-based devices, and to the detection of mid-infrared signatures of light from distant stars and complex molecules of environmental or biochemical importance. We will achieve this by developing new materials with optical properties to control light and engineering them into miniature photonic processors.

The RMIT University node of CUDOS will focus on 3-D hybrid integration optics platforms and high-speed Tb/s coherent communications. These research activities will be led by the following research groups:

• Integrated Optics
• Functional Materials and Microsystems
• Microplatforms for Radio Frequency Applications
• Photonic Signal Processing

Extensive microfabrication and device characterisation facilities of the Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre (MMTC) will be utilised by CUDOS.

Key contact

Prof. Arnan Mitchell

Node Director, ARC Centre of Excellence (CUDOS) and Leader, Microplatforms Research Group

E-mail: arnan.mitchell@rmit.edu.au