Upcoming events

Novel Pulsed Laser Sourses - Dr Mifta Ganija

High-energy pulsed lasers operating at around 2 µm are of interest for a variety of applications: LIDAR, materials processing, medical and for non-linear conversion into the mid-IR using OPOs. The most promising approaches to nonlinear conversion use zinc germanium phosphide (ZGP) and cadmium silicon phosphide (CSP) but, for efficient conversion and low risk of optical damage, the pump source must have a wavelength > 2.05 μm and excellent beam quality.

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Bernard Evans

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Richard Lewis - IPAS best PhD led paper award

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Deep borehole disposal of radioactive waste: challenges and RD&D opportunities

CSIRO is exploring deep borehole disposal as a potential solution for countries with small inventories of long-lived intermediate-level radioactive waste. In Australia, such waste originates mainly from research reactors and radiopharmaceutical production and requires deep geologic disposal.

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New ways of identifying and preventing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Atherosclerosis is a disease of the blood vessels in which fatty deposits (plaques) build up over time and block the flow of oxygen-carrying blood to the tissues. When this happens in the blood vessels of the heart, it causes the heart tissue to die and can lead to a heart attack. This accounts for 1 in 3 deaths in Australia.

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Elodie Janvier - IPAS Strategic Grant Developer

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Prof Dave Lancaster - Recent progress in chip lasers, waveguide writing, and photonic component fabrication

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Dr Cornelia Wilske

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Jillian Moffatt - the journey from laboratory to prototype

Over the past five years, part of the Novel Fluorescence team in the Environmental Luminescence group at IPAS have moved from analysing previously unknown fluorescence characteristics of minerals, to developing a prototype cross-belt sensor for mining after winning two grants from CRC ORE. Analysing this process gives useful information and advice on the pre-commercialisation journey from laboratory discovery to designing a useful product.

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Alexei Ciobanu - Modelling circulating cavity fields using the discrete linear canonical transform

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