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June 2009: Focus on Astrophotonics - This issue of the MQ Photonics Newsletter features Astrophotonics – the most recent addition to MQ Photonics's research focus areas. Jon Lawrence has written something to keep us informed. Please note, too, that Jon has a number of new publications listed later in this issue. The AAO are also in a stronger financial position following the recent announcement of the next Federal Budget. This will hopefully result in new opportunities to build strategic links between the AAO and MQ Photonics.
May 2009: Congratulations to the winning teams in Macquarie University's Innovation Awards Dinner on Wednesday 6 May 2009. Visit here to view video-clip presentations that describe their inventions. The following research teams from MQ Photonics were winners of 2009 Innovation Awards:
- Invention Disclosure: "Diamond Laser System for Advanced Ablative Microsurgery" Dr Richard Mildren
- Innovation in Research: "Quantum Informatics on a Chip" Dr Graham Marshall, Dr Martin Ams, Dr Peter Dekker & Assoc. Prof. Michael Withford (with Prof. Jeremy O’Brien, Mr Alberto Politi & Mr Jonathan Matthews from U of Bristol, UK)
- Research Students' Innovation: "Highly Functional and Robust, Monolithic Fibre Laser Systems" Mr Nemanja Jovanovic, Dr Graham Marshall, Dr Alexander Fuerbach, Assoc. Prof. Michael Steel & Assoc. Prof. Michael Withford (with Jens Thomas, Stefan Nolte & Andreas Tünnermann from Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany)
Congratulations, too, to Dr Helen Pask and her colleagues, who were Highly Commended in the Commercial Innovation category for their "Continuous Wave Yellow Raman Laser" invention.
April 2009: Four MQ Photonics groups enter final round of the 5th Macquarie University Innovation Awards and are now up for the Winner's prizes to be announced on Wed May 6.