26th Australian Institute of Physics Congress and the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics

Session

ANZCOP: Metasurfaces & Flat Optics

ANZCOP

9 Dec 2026, 16:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Conveners

ANZCOP: Metasurfaces & Flat Optics

• Kirill Koshelev (Research School of Physics, Australian National University)

806. 2D Graphene Oxide for Integrated Photonics

Jiayang Wu (Optical Sciences Centre |Swinburne University of Technology)

09/12/2026, 16:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Invited talk

High-power single-frequency lasers with controllable spatial modes are highly desirable for coherent detection, precision measurement, remote sensing, and nonlinear optics. However, simultaneously achieving high power, narrow linewidth, low noise, and flexible spatial-mode control remains challenging. In this presentation, we will introduce our recent progress in high-power single-frequency...

442. Geometric Phase 2D Material Metasurfaces for Polarization Entanglement

Mr Junru Chen (ANU TMOS node)

09/12/2026, 16:30

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Two-dimensional materials have emerged as a versatile platform for nonlinear and quantum photonic applications. In particular, rhombohedral (3R) polytypes of transition metal dichalcogenides, such as 3R-MoS$2$, feature a strong second-order nonlinear response and intrinsic C$_{3v}$ crystal symmetry. These properties allow polarization-entangled photon-pair generation through spontaneous...

586. Optimization of Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Slot Waveguides

Libertad Kasandra Rojas (University of Sydney)

09/12/2026, 16:45

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Metal–dielectric–metal (MDM) plasmonic slot waveguides combine strong field confinement with slow-light effects, enabling enhanced light–matter interactions over short propagation lengths [1]. This makes MDM waveguides ideal platforms for exploiting materials with large Kerr nonlinearities but also high losses, such as epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials [2,3]. However, harnessing the nonlinear...

689. Multi-channel wavelength-selective thermal emitter based on Tamm plasmon polariton structure

Mr Yiyang Cui (Department of Electrical and electronic engineering, University of Melbourne)

09/12/2026, 17:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Wavelength-selective thermal emitters (WS-EMs) are of great interest as cost-effective light sources in the mid-infrared. WS-EMs can be achieved by Tamm plasmon polariton (TPPs) devices, which consist of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) on metal films. It has been shown that a TPP emitter can produce narrowband mid-IR emission [1]. However, in previous works, each device generally produced...

113. Wide-Field Super-Resolved Quantitative Phase Imaging via Plasmon-Assisted Photothermal Nanoparticle Labeling

Natan T. Shaked (Tel Aviv University)

09/12/2026, 17:15

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) provides nanometric phase sensitivity for label-free mapping of biological samples, but its intrinsic contrast mechanism lacks molecular specificity. Here, we present an interferometric imaging approach that overcomes this limitation through plasmon-assisted photothermal labeling. Gold nanoparticles excited by time-modulated illumination at their plasmonic...