1. Ben Eggleton is Professor in the School of Physics where he leads a research group in integrated photonics, nonlinear optics and smart sensors and serves as co-director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network.
15 Facts About Ben Eggleton
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Ben Eggleton was then promoted to Research Director within the Specialty Fiber Business Division of Bell Laboratories, where he was engaged in forward-looking research supporting Lucent Technologies business in optical fiber devices.
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Ben Eggleton returned to the University of Sydney in 2003 as a full Professor and ARC Federation Fellowship in the School of Physics.
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Ben Eggleton was founding Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems and served as Director from 2003 to 2017.
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In 2009 Ben Eggleton established the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science at the University of Sydney and was the Director from 2009 to 2018.
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Ben Eggleton was an ARC Laureate Fellow and an ARC Federation Fellowship twice.
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In 2016 Ben Eggleton and Gooding established the NSW Smart Sensing Network as the inaugural NSW Innovation Network.
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From 2018 to 2022, Ben Eggleton was Director of the University of Sydney Nano Institute.
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Ben Eggleton has made pioneering contributions to nonlinear optics and all-optical signal processing with recent breakthrough achievements in the nonlinear optics of periodic media, slow-light in photonic crystals and ultrafast planar waveguide nonlinear optics.
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Ben Eggleton's group reported the first demonstration of on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering, and holds the record for on-chip SBS gain.
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Ben Eggleton is the author and coauthor of more than 530 journal publications, including articles in Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Science and Optica and over 200 invited presentations.
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Ben Eggleton was recipient of the 2017 University of Sydney Vice Chancellors Award for Outstanding Research.
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In 2022 Ben Eggleton was recognized as Academic of the Year at the 2022 Defence Industry Awards.
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Ben Eggleton was President of the Australian Optical Society from 2008 to 2010.
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Ben Eggleton was Editor-in-Chief for Optics Communications from 2007 to 2015 and is the Editor-in-Chief for APL Photonics.