Category: News




Message from our Chief Operations Officer

This year, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about what we need to do as a Centre as we head toward our mid-term review. All Centres of Excellence are reviewed by the Australian Research Council (ARC) [...]

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Message from our Centre Deputy Director

One of the striking things about meta-optics is how quickly it is transitioning from the laboratory into real-world applications. This represents a precious opportunity for Australia. As it is a new a [...]

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Message from our Director

2022 was an important year for TMOS. Firstly, interstate and overseas travel opened for us to meet and undertake many activities in person. I will never forget the enthusiasm of all students and early [...]

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A new breakthrough in quantum light sources could make hacking a thing of the past.

Physicists working in the new field of meta-optics have made a breakthrough in the generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs that could allow quantum key distribution, a highly secure form of [...]

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Breathtaking: the whistle that might save lives

TMOS Researchers are hopeful the new Ketowhistle could spare people living with diabetes from invasive tests and help them take control of their health. [...]

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Move over diamond. hBN is quantum’s new best friend.

Diamond has long been the go-to material for quantum sensing due to its coherent nitrogen-vacancy centres, controllable spin, sensitivity to magnetic fields, and ability to be used at room temperature [...]

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The Good Fight: Advance in flexible photodetector could improve monitoring of greenhouse gases

There will soon be a new tool to fight global warming with the development of lightweight flexible light sensors that can simultaneously image across a wide spectral range, from the visible to the inf [...]

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TMOS PhD student Shaban Sulejman awarded the prestigious SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

Shaban Sulejman has been awarded a 2023 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions to the field of optics, [...]

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Spinning into the future: New Photonic Dirac Waveguide changing the way data is transferred and manipulated

A fridge that can do your shopping for you and tell you when food has gone bad is a shiny, exciting not-to-far-away future. A less exciting element of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the amount of dat [...]

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New deal inked to space test meta-optical surfaces

A new engineering study has been commissioned by the European Space Agency (under PECS, the Program for European Cooperating States), to prove the reliability of meta-optical elements for space use in [...]

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