Talk Schedule

Monday 25th November

Session 1

Time

Presenter

Title

11:00

Luis Villegas-Aguilar
Griffith University

Achieving absolutely secure randomness from noisy entangled states in a photonic quantum network

11:15

Claudia Imiolczyk
University of Adelaide

3D printed encapsulated microlens for intravascular optical coherence tomography

11:30

Simon Barter
University of Auckland

Optimization of laser induced periodic surface structures for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy of extracellular vesicles

11:45

Taylor Christie
Monash University

Magnetometry using Raman heterodyne detection of sodium

12:00

Jadon Lin
University of Sydney

Generalized Poynting-Robertson damping of relativistic lightsails: orders of magnitude improvements of stability through optical design

12:15

Kane Hill
University of Aukland

Ultra-thin film sensing with terahertz whispering gallery mode resonators

Session 2

Time

13:30

Presenter

Zane Peterkovic
University of Adelaide

Title

Photon counting cameras for low-light biological imaging of autofluorescence

13:45


Nandana Thuranalloor Raveendranath
Griffith University

The simplest detection-loophole-free demonstration of quantum nonlocality with polarization-encoded photons

14:00


Michał Suplewski
Gdańsk University of Technology

Cellulose coating of 2D optoelectronic materials

14:15

Lauren McQueen
University of Queensland

Fibre-coupled and on-chip photonic acoustic sensors

14:30


Bianca Rae Fabricante
Australian National University

Narrow-linewidth exciton-polariton laser

14:45

Darven Murali Tharan
University of Aukland

Polarisation-sensitive optical coherence tomography enabled mechanical testing of cartilage under creep load

Session 3

Time

Presenter

Title

15:30

Lincoln Clark
University of Melbourne

Freeform diffracting metasurface for multimodal imaging

15:45

Caitlin Murray
Monash University

Tuneable Soliton Crystals

16:00

Laura Fang
University of Adelaide

Quantum-secured time transfer: beyond the lab

16:15


Thomas Slattery
University of Adelaide

"About 2-SPEW": A study of rare-earth element asymmetric upconversion in  non-sensitised samarium and praseodymium co-doped zinc molybdate

16:30

Ella Walsh
University of Melbourne

Quantum sensing protocols for all-optical identification of magnetoreception candidates in African mole-rats

16:45

Israa Uday Hameed
Monash University

Cold atom magnetometry of neuron action potentials

Tuesday 26th November

Session 1

Time

Presenter

Title

10:30

Trent Ralph
University of Melbourne

Miniaturisation of quantum spin relaxometry for the clinical detection of ferritin-bound iron

10:45

Mitchell Chalmers
University of Otago

Probing microcalcifications at various depths using spatially offset low wavenumber Raman spectroscopy

11:00



Laura Daniela Valencia Molina
Australian National University

Second harmonic generation polarisation study in MoS2 interacting with gold nanopaticles

11:15

Kenneth Choo
Monash University

Polariton-induced superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides

11:30

Glen Pearce
Macquarie University

Elastic sum rules and power-bandwidth products

11:45


Seyed Saleh Mousavi Khaleghi
University of Melbourne

Strong photoresponse in MoS2 phototransistors photogated by PN junction

12:00

Shaban Sulejman
University of Melbourne

Tunable metasurfaces for infrared multi-modal image processing

Session 2

Time

Presenter

Title

13:15


Rhys Jones
University of Western Australia

Towards wireless stereoscopic optical palpation for intraoperative breast cancer detection

13:30


Denis Ilin
University of Technology Sydney

Light-matter coupling in waveguide quantum optomechanics waveguide QED with static and dynamic positional disorder

13:45


Ivan Toftul
Australian National University

Harnessing symmetry: efficient designs for chiral metasurfaces

14:00


Jorge Gerardo Acosta Montes
Monash University

Multiplicative Gaussian noise in optical communications

14:15


Pavel Tonkaev
Australian National University

Metasurfaces with a strong nonlinear chiral response

14:30

Elizabeth Arcadi
Macquarie University

Strong photoresponse in MoS2 phototransistors photogated by PN junction

Session 3

Time

Presenter

Title

15:15


Sarah Dean
Australian National University

Dielectric metasurfaces for multispectral polarisation imaging

15:30

Jacob Charvetto
University of Adelaide

Coupled-waveguides for increasing power-output of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers

15:45

Jayden Webster
Griffith University

Compact single-photon source

16:00


Caitlin Smith
University of Auckland

Quantitative flow mapping in bone models with photoacoustic imaging


Thursday 28th November

Session 1

Time

Presenter

Title

10:30

Kaih Mitchell
University of Melbourne

Using selective ionisation of Rydberg atoms to reduce chromatic aberration in focused ion beams

10:45

Jin Wei
University of Sydney

Photonic lantern - a focal plane wavefront sensor

11:00


Joshua Jordaan
Australian National University

Optical beam steering via electrically tunable liquid crystal III-V metasurfaces

11:15


Farzan Navaeipour
University of Western Australia

Breast tissue-mimicking phantoms for functional optical coherence tomography

11:30


Miguel Bacaoco
University of Technology Sydney

Nonlinear metasurfaces for photon triplet generation via third-order spontaneous parametric downconversion

11:45

Sam White
Monash University

Sensor fusion quantum metrology in an alkali ground-state manifold

12:00

Leila Vatandoust
University of Sydney

Quantitative assessment of unidirectional and bidirectional arrayed waveguide grating designs in integrated silicon photonics

Session 2

Time

Presenter

Title

13:15

Sophie Cottam
University of Sydney

Plasma functionalised laser induced graphitisation

13:30

Kai L. Metzner
University of Western Australia

An integrated optical stress sensor for accurate estimation of micro-scale tissue mechanics in quantitative micro-elastography

13:45

Joseph T. Ward
Monash University

Atomic companding: high-dynamic-range absorption imaging in a single exposure

14:00

Xinyue Xu
University of Melbourne

Application of ultrafast transient infra-red spectroscopy in observing symmetry-breaking processes in solid-state singlet fission

14:15


Anastasia Romashkina
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Enhanced exciton-plasmon interaction and observation of near-field photoluminescence in WSe2-gold nanoparticle hybrid system

14:30


Ankit Papneja
Australian National University

An alkali-noble SERF co-magnetometer not reliant on passive compensation