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

Session

ANZCOP: Metamaterials & Optical Materials

ANZCOP

11 Dec 2026, 09:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Conveners

ANZCOP: Metamaterials & Optical Materials

• Toby Severs Millard (The University of Melbourne / Imperial College London)

723. Structured radiation generated with resonant metaphotonics

Yuri Kivshar (Australian National University)

11/12/2026, 09:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Invited talk

We discuss novel types of subwavelength passive and active metadevices driven by resonances that allow generation of structured light and structural thermal radiation.

First, we demonstrate a new strategy for generation of optical vortices at the nanoscale that surpasses single-pixel phase control [1]. We reveal that interaction between neighbouring nanopillars of a meta-quadrumer can...

226. AC Electro-Osmotic Conveyor Belt for Nanoparticle Capture and Transportation

Dayantha Lankanath Karunasena Danthure Arachchige (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne)

11/12/2026, 09:30

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Optical tweezers enable contactless manipulation of nanoparticles and find applications in biology, physics, and chemistry. Both conventional optical tweezers and their counterparts based on nanostructured metals (plasmonic tweezers) rely on Brownian motion to load the trap, which can be slow. Here, we address this limitation by demonstrating a device that uses the AC electro-osmotic (ACEO)...

491. Toward developing next-generation telecom fibers: how fabrication methods dictate optical performance

Prof. Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem (Adelaide University)

11/12/2026, 09:45

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Optical fibers made from soft glasses that have minimum loss in the infrared region are gaining remarkable attention in various applications. Among the different soft glasses, ZBLAN glass which is the most common composition of zirconium fluoride-based glasses has long been thought of as a good alternative for silica fibers in telecommunications owing to its low intrinsic loss of ~0.01 dB/km...

675. Resolution-Enhanced Spectral Reconstruction Using MEMS Fabry–Pérot Filters

Jiajun Meng (The University of Melbourne)

11/12/2026, 10:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Spectral reconstruction is a computational technique used to recover spectral information from a limited number of spectrally selective optical measurements. It is particularly useful for compact spectroscopic systems, where the measured response may be limited by filter bandwidth, tuning step size, signal-to-noise ratio, or available instrumentation. By combining calibrated filter responses...

362. Thermal Stability of Type-II Modifications Written by Near-Infrared Femtosecond Laser Irradiation in Novel Oxycarbide Glasses

Mr Shreyas J. Kashyap (School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney)

11/12/2026, 10:15

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Optical sensors operating in extreme environments, such as aircraft engines, nuclear reactors and combustors, require materials capable of maintaining stable refractive-index modifications at elevated temperatures over extended periods. Femtosecond laser writing has emerged as a promising technique to induce such modifications inside glasses; however, preventing their thermal erasure remains a...