Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0211556

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Laser Micro-Fabrication of Optoelectronic Devices. The project aims to develop new techniques of laser direct-write fabrication of microstructures (1-100 micron in size) in crystalline materials, and to apply these to fabricating periodically-poled nonlinear crystals for optical frequency conversion. These techniques will use laser ablative surface profiling with subsequent electric field poling, and a completely new process of laser temperature profiling with simultaneous field poling, to write periodic domains in lithium niobate. Such laser direct-write processing is well suited to rapid prototyping and will enable investigation of novel periodically-poled structures, for example, chirped, fanned and multiplexed structures for nonlinear spectral and temporal conversion.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $391,782.00

Funder: Australian Research Council