Department of Physics and Astronomy
News Archive
2010
Dec 2010: Invited talk on "Diamond Raman lasers" was presented at the Laserfest symposium at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Melbourne.
Oct 2010: Near quantum limited performance of a 1240nm diamond Raman laser accepted for publication in Optics Letters (Sabella, Piper, Mildren).
Sep 2010: Invited paper given at Europhoton Conference (Hamburg) on the Performance and Prospects of Diamond Raman Lasers.
Aug 2010: Postdeadline paper (Sabella, Mildren) accepted at Europhoton Conference (Hamburg) on record slope efficiency Raman laser.
Jun 2010: Diamond based spintronics, quantum communication and Raman lasers usher in the Coming Age of Diamond writes Aaron Cook in Cosmos Magazine
May 2010: Invited paper at CLEO (San Jose) on May 18 to report latest results.
Apr 2010: Visible diamond Raman laser research is highlighted in the April issue of Nature Photonics.
Feb 2010: Ultrafast (picosecond) synchronously pumped diamond Raman laser reported in Optics Letters (Spence, Granados, Mildren).
Jan 2010: Efficient diamond Raman laser demonstration was nominated by Photonics Spectra as the one of the Best of 2009: Laser Achievements together with several other high profile achievements including the X-ray free electron laser, the nanolaser and the 192 beam US National Ignition Facility.
2009
Dec 2009: Efficient Diamond laser results featured in Optics and Photonics News (OSA).
Nov 2009: Invited paper "The outlook for diamond in Raman lasers" presented at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (Boston 30 Nov- 4 Dec)
Oct 2009: The Optical Society of America has featured our recent diamond laser research in this press release.
Sep 2009: Awarded ARC Future Fellowship to support diamond laser research.
Aug 2009: High efficiency diamond Raman laser paper accepted for publication in Optics Letters.
May 2009: Winner Invention Disclosure Category in the 2009 University Innovation Awards. A description of the night's highlights appears in the June 2009 Issue of Quest Magazine
Feb 2009: Invited paper Diamond Raman Lasers presented at the Hasselt Diamond Workshop
2008
Nov 2008: First CVD-diamond Raman laser reported in Optics Express.