Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101691

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160101691

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Better vibrations: controlling light with sound in semiconductor chips. Combining new concepts in the theory of nonlinear optics with advanced experiments, this project aims to develop smart waveguides that bind sound and light tightly together. Laser light and sound waves seem worlds apart, but in the right conditions we can make them interact: sound can change the colour of light. Harnessing this control of light in tiny waveguides on semiconductor chips would enable the development of unique and useful optical devices, but trapping sound in chips is tremendously difficult. By exploiting untapped material properties, the project seeks to break limits on the freedom and strength of interactions between light and sound. Project outcomes may establish a new class of optical chips for optical sensing and analysis in fields from security to communications to the biosciences.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-03-2016

End Date: 09-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $552,001.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Optical Physics | Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Optical Physics | Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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