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

Session

ANZCOP: Nanophotonic Materials, Resonances & Wave Transport

ANZCOP

7 Dec 2026, 15:45

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Conveners

ANZCOP: Nanophotonic Materials, Resonances & Wave Transport

• Haoran Ren (Monash University)

845. Nano Structures for Mega Lasers

Turan Erdogan (Optica President Elect, Plymouth Grating Laboratory, Inc.)

07/12/2026, 15:45

Invited talk

411. Doping Optical Fibres with NV-diamonds for Magnetic Field Sensing

Jacob Dalgleish (Adelaide University)

07/12/2026, 16:15

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond are prominent quantum defects that have attracted significant interest for sensing applications, particularly room-temperature magnetometry. Their optical and spin properties, with excitation at ~532 nm and emission spanning 600–800 nm, make them well suited for integration into optical systems. Embedding NV-diamonds within optical fibres enables...

310. Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy to map surface plasmon resonances in gold nanotriangles

Nisar Fatima (Monash University, School of Physics and Astronomy)

07/12/2026, 16:30

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Metallic surfaces can support charge density waves, quasi-particles known as surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). When the physical extent of the metal is in the nanoscale regime, i.e., < 100 nm, the SPPs are physically confined and nanoparticle supports collective oscillations known as localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). Such nanostructures can localize and manipulate electromagnetic...

476. Performance Limits for Radiative Cooling Structures

Ben Nel (University of Syndey)

07/12/2026, 16:45

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Passive daytime radiative cooling structures can reach sub-ambient temperatures under direct sunlight by reflecting solar radiation while emitting heat through the atmospheric transparency window. Amidst rising global temperatures and the urgent need to slash greenhouse emissions, radiative cooling offers a promising sustainable complement to conventional cooling. Although designs are...

284. Absence of Robust Light Transport in Reciprocal Optical Waveguides

Yecheng Hu (University of Sydney)

07/12/2026, 17:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Abstract

Undesired backscattering induced by spatial disorder, such as fabrication imperfections and material-composition fluctuations, is a central limitation in reciprocal optical waveguides, which serve as fundamental building blocks of a broad range of classical and quantum photonic systems. Suppressing spatial-disorder-induced backscattering in waveguides has therefore been a...