Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0774404

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0774404

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Nano-Engineered Glass for Next Generation Optical Fibre Devices and Systems. Optical fibre and fibre devices are a major technology platform of the IT revolution. The global photonics market is valued at $220bn, with Australian industry contributing ~$500m to the Australian economy. $158m is from communications photonics companies, largely SMEs, and comprises roughly 1% of the global telecoms photonic market. For Australia to be a significant player in this very competitive environment, the industry needs a continuing flow of research innovations. The breakthrough science in this research project will extend Australia's world leading speciality fibre and fibre device capabilities and the innovation will succour the growing Australian industry, ensuring a place on the next wave of deployment of photonic technology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 14-02-2007

End Date: 30-06-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $351,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Signal Processing | Communications Technologies | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Optical And Photonic Systems |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Telecommunications | Network switching equipment | Scientific instrumentation

Other Keywords

Communications Technologies | Network switching equipment | Optical And Photonic Systems | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Scientific instrumentation | Signal Processing | Telecommunications

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