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

Session

ANZCOP: Photonic Integration & Fabrication

ANZCOP

11 Dec 2026, 09:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Conveners

ANZCOP: Photonic Integration & Fabrication

• Nima Nader (NIST)

614. Inverse-designed silicon nitride photonics for neural stimulation

Dr Stefano Palomba (The University of Sydney)

11/12/2026, 09:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Integrated photonic technologies provide a scalable route towards high-density neural interfaces capable of delivering engineered light fields for neuron stimulation. Compared with conventional fibre-based and LED-based approaches, integrated photonic circuits offer compact form factors, improved optical routing, reduced power consumption, and the ability to address large arrays of...

464. Improving inverse-designed transverse mode (de)multiplexers using machine learning interpretability

Airin Antony (The University of Queensland)

11/12/2026, 09:30

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ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Inverse design methodologies have shown great promise in improving on-chip nanophotonic components. Unlike conventional design techniques, which tune only a handful of basic parameters such as waveguide widths or gaps, inverse design algorithms like SPINS (Stanford Photonic INverse design Software) [1] optimise over a much larger parameter space to generate compact, unintuitive, and often...

162. Excitation of parametrically driven cavity solitons in dispersive Kerr resonators via detuning scans

Benjamin Haenraets (University of Auckland)

11/12/2026, 09:45

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Dissipative cavity solitons (CSs) in monochromatically driven Kerr resonators have emerged as a leading platform for chip-scale coherent optical frequency comb generation. Recent experiments have revealed a new class of CS — the parametrically driven cavity soliton (PDCS) — which has been demonstrated in both quadratic-Kerr and purely Kerr resonators. Here, we focus on the latter...

601. Multi-wavelength polarisation imaging with inverse designed metasurfaces

Sarah E. Dean (ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University)

11/12/2026, 10:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Polarisation imaging is used in remote sensing to capture enhanced information in a scene. Multispectral polarisation imaging, in particular, has agricultural applications such as crop classification and vegetation health monitoring$~$[1]. Drones, small satellites, and other lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles are accessible platforms for remote sensing, but have size and weight limitations...

667. Towards photonic circuits in isotopically enriched Silicon on Insulator

Yanan Xu

11/12/2026, 10:15

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Integrating Erbium trivalent ions in Silicon (Si) is the promising pathway towards telecom-compatible single photon sources with the spin degree of freedom, the quantum resource highly attractive for quantum communication and information processing [1, 2]. However, naturally occurring Si-29 in naturally abundant Si has a nonzero nuclear spin that could result in unwanted magnetic field...