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

Session

ANZCOP: Integrated Nonlinear & Quantum Photonics

ANZCOP

9 Dec 2026, 16:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Conveners

ANZCOP: Integrated Nonlinear & Quantum Photonics

• Chathura Bandutunga

808. Photonic Integrated Lasers and Photonics for Atomic Quantum Sciences and Precision Applications

Prof. Daniel Blumenthal (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

09/12/2026, 16:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Invited talk

Advances in atomic quantum sciences have enabled new fundamental measurements, communications and computation that existed only in theory just decades ago. Yet the underlying lasers and optical infrastructure still occupies laboratory tables and racks, are power consuming and not reliable. Photonic integration has the potential to move the laser systems and other photonics on chip. In this...

469. Integration of periodically poled thin-film lithium tantalate and electro-optic modulators for on-chip photonic neural networks

Jan Brandes (Heidelberg University)

09/12/2026, 16:30

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

State-of-the-art photonic neural networks (PNNs) demonstrate ultrafast processing speeds and broadband operation by exploiting the intrinsic properties of light. However, conventional integrated optical matrix–vector multiplication (MVM) schemes rely on lossy coupling schemes and off-chip nonlinearities, which significantly reduce the overall energy efficiency and scalability of the system. To...

548. Performance of miniaturised vapour cells in a two-colour optical rubidium clock

Hannes Griesser (Adelaide University)

09/12/2026, 16:45

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Atomic clocks already play a crucial role in the modern world: most famously forming the backbone of the global positioning system. Those atomic clocks operate at microwave frequencies, but newer atomic clocks operating at optical frequencies can offer substantially greater precision.
A great deal of work has been done in recent years towards the miniaturisation of optical atomic clocks,...

253. Long-lifetime Repetition-rate-locked Soliton Crystal Microcomb

Dr Toby Mitchell

09/12/2026, 17:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Integrated optical frequency combs have potential to be highly deployable due to their size and robustness. However, this potential can only be fully realised if these qualities can be paired with reliability and remote operation. In this work we present a ‘palm’ state soliton crystal microcomb pumped by a 1569.1 nm laser amplified to 1.2 W. The repetition frequency of the soliton crystal was...

274. Multidimensional Brillouin–Kerr Frequency Combs in Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonic Resonators

Lewis Hill (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)

09/12/2026, 17:15

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Surface nanoscale axial photonic resonators (SNAPRs) provide a unique nonlinear photonics platform in which nanoscale effective-radius variations create axially confined whispering-gallery modes while preserving ultra-high optical quality factors. Theoretical studies have predicted that this axial confinement can fundamentally alter frequency-comb generation dynamics, while recent experiments...