Marseille, June 7th; Ross received a Doctorate Honoris Causa in acknowledgement of exceptional service to the Universite Paul Cezanne.

The ARC has awarded CI Professor Min Gu a highly prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship to tackle some of the most urgent and complex research issues facing Australia and the world.

Honouring his internationally recognised contributions to photonics both in university and industrial settings.

Sydney student Trung Duc Vo (first author of recent OFC postdeadline paper) in the news.

Congratulations to Christian Rosberg from the ANU Nonlinear Physics Centre who won this year's AIP Bragg Gold Medal for Best Physics PhD in Australia.

The innaugral Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Physical Sciences was awarded to Ben for his huge contribution to the fields of photonics and optical science.

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Recent postdeadline announcements included 4 CUDOS papers at 2 international conferences; 1 in Hawaii at the OSA Slow light meeting and 3 in Hong Kong at the OECC Conference.

Researchers at CUDOS produce green light from silicon - a material opaque to visible light.

Two of the 2008 Optics Summaries published in a special edition of Optics & Photonics News (OPN) were supplied by CUDOS@ANU members. This issue of OPN highlights the most exciting research to emerge in the preceding 12 months in the fast-paced world of optics. Refer to the articles on Diffractive Structures and Scattering.

Congratulations to Mr. Sangwoo Ha (and of course to his PhD thesis supervisor Dr. Andrey Sukhorukov) from Nonlinear Physics Centre of CUDOS@ANU who won one of the Outstanding Student Presentation Awards at the Frontiers in Optics 2008 conference of the Optical Society of America for his talk "Observation of Slow Light Tunneling in Coupled Periodic Waveguides".

We have had good news from CUDOS at Swinburne and congratulate Dr Baohua Jia and Dr Dario Buso on their prestigious Discovery Project awards.

CUDOS Director Professor Ben Eggleton was winner of the Physics & Astronomy category for the inaugural 2008 NSW Scientist of the Year awards organised by the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research (OSMR). The prize recognises the state’s leading researchers for cutting edge work that generates economic, health, environmental or technological benefits for NSW. Read about it on the OSMR website.

In only 10 minutes CUDOS ANU PhD student Amrita Prasad was able to explain and simplify the complexities of her research so well that she took out the $2000 prize in the recent Physics Students Uncovered 2008 competition. Read about it in the Canberra Times.

This Optics & Photonics News article by Visiting Professor Barry R. Masters highlights the globally significant expertise of Professor Min Gu and his group.

CUDOS's photonic chip potential is discussed in this article on fibresystems.org

A rare opportunity to become a critical part of CUDOS research activities is now available.

Prizes were awarded to three CUDOS students at the International Commission for Optics Congress 21 in Sydney. Congratulations to Hong Nguyen (Sydney University) for winning the Optium prize for best student submission, and SPIE prize recipients Felix Lawrence (Sydney University) and Sara Ek (Macquarie University) for their presentation excellence.

CUDOS researchers at the Australian National University and their collaborators have performed proof-of-principle experiments, demonstrating new possibilities for the realization of controlled mixing and interactions between optical pulses in the regime of slow-light, when velocity is reduced by orders of magnitude compared to the speed of light in vacuum.

CUDOS members from the Australian National University and the University of Sydney presented a collaborative postdeadline paper on a 640Gb/s Optical Switch at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference held this week in Darling Harbour, Sydney.

The result, involving work by CUDOS members and researchers from Denmark and China, has been popular with the press.

The paper is entitled "Error-free 640 Gbit/s demultiplexing using a chalcogenide planar waveguide chip".

A joint paper by Sydney University and UTS CUDOS nodes topped the OSA's Most Downloaded research papers of 2007.