2003 Annual Report. Centre for Micro-Photonics. Contact: Professor Min Gu Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics

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1 Centre for Micro-Photonics 2003 Annual Report Contact: Professor Min Gu Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218, Hawthorn Victoria, 3122 Australia Tel: (director) Tel: (administration) Fax: (director) (administration) The Centre for Micro-Photonics is a node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems-CUDOS (Hhttp://cudos.org.au H)

2 Table of Contents PREFACE... 3 MISSION STATEMENT...5 GOAL... 5 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE...5 STAFF MEMBERS AND STUDENTS ( )...6 STRUCTURE OF THE CENTRE...8 GRANTS COLLABORATIONS...11 VISITORS CONFERENCE ORGANISATION INVITED PRESENTATIONS COMPLETED THESIS/REPORT HIGHLIGHTS OF RESEARCH PROJECTS PUBLICATIONS

3 Preface 2003 began with the successful achievement of the third milestone in the Centre for Micro-Photonics (CMP) development; the CMP officially became a node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). Professor Gu is the Director of the node, an Executive Member of CUDOS, the Manager of the microphotonics program, and the project leader of the 3-D photonic crystals. To further strengthen the CUDOS project at Swinburne, Dr. Martin Straub was appointed a Senior Research Fellow. One of the main events for the CMP in 2003 was a formal review by an external panel appointed by the University. I am very glad to announce that the review panel highly commended the achievement of the CMP by citing: Centre s research outcomes as being excellent and significant in three or four areas within which it works including femtosecond 2 photon interactions and spectroscopy, 3-D photonics materials, near field, fluorescence microscopy and medical photonic diagnostics. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the University and all CMP members, past or current students and staff, for their critical and outstanding support and contributions. To achieve the next objective of the CMP, we re-organised the structure of the CMP. Consequently, the CMP will be focused on two research programs, biophotonics and nanophotonics. As part of the restructuring, a position of deputy director was introduced to assist the Director in the aspects of general management and postgraduate coordination. As a result, Dr. Xiaosong Gan was elected to be a deputy director of the CMP for 12 months. To strengthen the teaching program in the Photonics course in the School, Dr. James Chon, a former postdoctoral research fellow of the CMP, was appointed as a Lecturer. In addition, three new faces joined the CMP, Ms. Benita Hutchinson-Reade as a administrative officer and personal assistant (during Mrs Anna Buzescu s secondment), Dr. Le-Huong Nguyen as a postdoctoral fellow and Ms. Ling Fu as a PhD student. The highlights of the CMP research in 2003 are summarized as follows. Together with other colleague Universities, the CMP was awarded an ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment Grant (LIEF) for a new electron microscope (Min Gu and Martin Straub are the Chief Investigators of the Grants). Dr. James Chon was awarded the ARC Institutional Grant on nanophotonics. Professor Min Gu received an ARC Linkage International Grant for collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology on biophotonics. The total number of publications from the CMP in 2003 was 60 (1 book chapter; 2 edited volumes of conference proceedings, 16 internationally refereed journal papers, 1 proceedings paper; 39 conference abstracts, and 1 review article). CMP staff members delivered three public seminar presentations and 10 invited presentations at international conferences. Professor Gu was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) in

4 Our paper entitled Parametric study of three-dimensional near-field Mie scattering by dielectric particles published by Ganic, Gan and Gu in Optics Communications was one of the 10 most downloaded papers in We generated the world s first multiple higher-order bandgaps in infrared polymer photonic crystals, which forms an innovative foundation of the next-generation alloptical devices. Our results were published in Physics Review Letters and featured in Laser Focus World. We proposed the concept of multiphoton-induced micro-spectroscopy under total internal reflection. This idea was successfully applied in studying the physical property of nanocrystal quantum dots. Our result was reported in Biophotonics International. Based on the results of Dr. Damian Bird who was a previous PhD student of the CMP, a group of Swinburne business students established a spin-off company (InVision Medical Technologies Pty. Ltd.). The business plan for this new company received several awards. These included: 1. The Chancellor s Prize of the Swinburne Venture Cup in The Winning Venture Prize (an international business plan competition organized by University of Texas at Austin) 3. Australian Distributor Incubator Prize (a Victorian Government funded program) in A CMP PhD student, Dennis McPhail, established a spin-off company, InFocus Enterprises Pty. Ltd., according to his result with photonic devices based on polymerdispersed liquid crystal material. At the end of 2003, the new CMP Nanophotonic Fabrication Facility was officially launched. This cutting-edge Facility integrates the ultrafast laser technology and modern superresolution optical microscopy. The operation of this Facility has formed a firm and unique foundation for the future research projects in the area of nanophotonics, a key to next-generation nanotechnology and biotechnology. It is clear that CMP has become a viable research and training Centre in photonics at Swinburne. I would like to thank two Vice Chancellors, Professor Iain Wallace and Professor Ian Young, Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Dale Murphy, Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Kerry Pratt, the Chancellery Office and many other offices of Swinburne, for their continuing support. Professor Min Gu Chair of Optoelectronics Melbourne, May

5 Mission Statement To become an internationally leading centre in the area of micro-photonics. To create a world-class laboratory for training research students. Goal To develop innovative nanophotonic devices for all-optical information technology. To develop novel optoelectronic imaging methods for biological studies and industrial applications. To understand mechanisms for light interaction with biological materials. International Advisory Committee Professor Ping-chin CHENG Professor Arthur CHIOU Dr. Stefan HELL Professor Satoshi KAWATA Professor Keith NUGENT Professor Paras PRASAD Professor Kerry PRATT (Chair) Professor Peter RENTZEPIS Professor Colin SHEPPARD Professor Dingping TSAI Professor Tony WILSON Professor Sunny XIE State University of New York at Buffalo, USA National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Science, Germany Handai Frontier Research Centre, Japan University of Melbourne, Australia State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Swinburne University of Technology, Australia University of California, USA National University of Singapore, Singapore National Taiwan University, Taiwan University of Oxford, U.K. Harvard University, USA 5

6 Staff Members and Students ( ) STAFF 1. Ross Ashman Dr. Postdoctoral Fellow ( ) 2. Damian Bird Mr. Part-time Research Assistant (2002) 3. Anna Buzescu Mrs. Admin. Officer & PA to Min GU (2000- Seconded in 2003) 4. Jianong Chen A/Professor Visiting Scholar from China ( ) 5. Ping-Chin Cheng Professor Visiting Professor from USA ( ) 6. James Chon Dr. Postdoctoral Fellow ( ); Lecturer (2003-) 7. Daniel Day Dr. Project Officer ( ) 8. Xiaoyuan Deng Dr. Postdoctoral Fellow ( ) 9. Hiromitsu Furukawa Dr. Visiting Scientist from Japan (2002) 10. Xiaosong Gan Dr. Senior Lecturer and ARC Research Fellow (2000-) 11. Min Gu Professor Professor and Director of CMP (2000-) 12. Benita Hutchinson- Reade Ms. Admin. Officer & PA to Min GU (2003-) (Temporarily replacing Mrs. Buzescu) 13. Mark Kivinen Mr. Senior Technical Officer (2000-) 14. Le Huong Nguyen Dr. Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-) 15. Qiang Lu Dr. Visiting Scholar from China (2002) 16. Tom Rodgers Mr. Casual Research Assistant (2002-) 17. Ben Smith Mr. Casual Research Assistant (2001-). 18. Martin Straub Dr. Postdoctoral/Research/Senior Research Fellow (2000-) 19. Guangyong Zhou Dr. Postdoctoral Scholar (2002-) 20. Wei Zhou Mr. Visiting Fellow from China (2002) 21. Minggun Xu Dr. Postdoctoral Fellow (2000) PhD and MSc STUDENTS 22. Mujahid Ashraf Mr. MSc student (2001-) 23. Damian 24. Daniel Bird Day Mr. Mr. PhD student ( ) PhD student ( ) 25. Ling Fu Ms. PhD student (2003-) 26. Djenan Ganic Mr. PhD Student (2000-) 27. Baohua Jia Ms PhD student (2002-) 28. Smitha Kuriakose Mrs. PhD student (2002-) 29. Dennis McPhail Mr. PhD Student (2000-) 30. Dru Morrish Mr. PhD student (2000-) 31. Michael Ventura Mr. PhD student (2002-) 6

7 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS 32. Mujahid Ashraf Mr. 5 th year Electrical Engineering student (2000) 33. Trent Boyce Mr. R & D undergraduate student (2002) 34. Roberto Calati Mr. R & D undergraduate student (2003) 35. Adis Fazlic Mr R & D undergraduate student (2002) 36. David Gachet Mr. Visiting undergraduate student from École Superieure d Orsay, France (June- August 2003) 37. Jean-Baptiste Haumonte Mr. Visiting undergraduate student from École Superieure d Orsay, France (June- August 2002) 38. Bart Hüsken Mr. Visiting student from Twente University, The Netherlands (August-November, 2000) 39. Wataru Inami Mr. Visiting PhD student form Shizuoka University, Japan (September-December 2001) 40. Ian Leeder Mr. R & D undergraduate student (2000) 41. Jose Martinez Mr. 5 th year Electrical Engineering student (2000) 42. Stephen McDonald Mr. Photonics Summer Scholarship student (2003) 43. Yoan Micheau Mr. Visiting undergraduate student from École Superieure d Orsay, France (June- August 2003) 44. Atsushi Ono Mr. Visiting PhD student form Osaka University, Japan (June-September 2003) 45. Nina Rimac Ms. Honours student (2000) 46. Tom Rodgers Mr. R & D undergraduate student (2001) 47. Simon Siemin Mr. 5 th year Electrical Engineering student (2000) 48. Ben Smith Mr. R & D undergraduate student (2001) 49. Michael Ventura Mr. Honours student (2002) 50. Sven Woldberg Mr. Visiting student from Twente University, The Netherlands (August-November, 2001) 7

8 Structure of the Centre The new structure of the Centre for Micro-Photonics adopted from October 2003 includes two research programs, biophotonics and nanophotonics. The project of the ARC Centre of Excellence CUDOS is one of the major projects in the nanophotonics program, shown as follows: Centre for Micro-Photonics (November 2003) DVC (Higher Education Division) Vice Chancellor HOS: BSEE International Advisory Committee Director: Professor Min Gu Deputy Director: Dr. X. Gan Administrative/Personal Assistant: Mrs. Benita Hutchinson-Reade Laboratory Coordinator: Dr. James Chon Postgraduate Coordinator: Dr. X. Gan Hazardous Materials Officer: Dr. Le Huong Nguyen Senior Technical Officer: Mark Kivinen Program 1: Biophotonics Project B1: Laser-tissue interaction Project B2: Nonlinear optical endoscopy Project B3: 3-D bio-array/chip (new) Projects B4, B5 Project BN1: Nanometric laser trapping Project BN2: Femtosecond transfection (new) Projects BN3, BN4. Program 2: Nanophotonics Project 1: 3-D photonic crystal (CUDOS) Project 2: Nanostorage and nanofabfication Project 3: Petabyte optical storage (new) Projects N4, N5 Director: Professor Min GU Deputy Director: Dr Xiaosong Gan Laboratory Coordinator: Dr. James Chon Postgraduate Coordinator: Dr. Xiaosong Gan Seminar Coordinator: Ms. Baohua Jia/Ms. Ling Fu Administrative Officer: Ms. Anna Buzescu/Ms. Benita Hutchinson-Reade Senior Technical Officer: Mr. Mark Kivinen Biophotonics Program Dr. Xiaosong Gan (Coordinator, ARC Fellow/Senior Lecturer) Dr. Ross Ashman (Part-time Postdoctoral Fellow) Mr. Damian Bird (Part-time Research Assistant) Dr. Xiaoyuan Deng (Postdoctoral Fellow until July) Professor Min Gu Dr. Qiang Lu (August 2002-January 2003) Mr. Wei Zhou (August 2002-January 2003) Ms. Ling Fu (1 st year PhD student: Fibre-optical nonlinear microscopy/endoscopy) Mrs. Smitha Kuriakose (2 nd year PhD student: Focused Evanescent Trapping: Theory and Experimental Validation) 8

9 Yoan Micheau (Visiting undergraduate student from École Superieure d Orsay, France, June-August) Mr. Stephen McDonald (Photonics Summer Scholarship student) Nanophotonics Program Professor Min Gu (Coordinator) Dr. James Chon (Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer) A/Professor Jiannong Chen (Visiting Scholar, Sept 2002 July 2003) Dr. Daniel Day (Project Officer, till Feb) Dr. Xiaosong Gan (ARC Fellow/Senior Lecturer) Mr. Ben Smith (Casual research assistant) Dr. Martin Straub (Research/Senior Research Fellow) Dr. Guangyong Zhou (Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar) Mr. Mujahid Ashraf (3 rd year MSc student: Fabrication of a liquid crystal lens with a tunable focal length) Mr. Roberto Calati (2 nd year R&D student) Mr. Djenan Ganic (3 rd year PhD student: Near-field MIE scattering for nanometry) Mr. David Gachet (Visiting undergraduate student from École Superieure d Orsay, France, June-August) Ms. Baohua Jia (2 nd year PhD student: Near-field fabrication of two-dimensional photonic crystals) Mr. Dennis McPhail (4 th year PhD student: Optical storage and micro-fabrication in polymer dispersed liquid crystal materials) Mr. Dru Morrish (3 rd year PhD student: Morphology-dependent resonance in a micro-cavity under two-photon excitation) Mr. Atsushi Ono (Visiting PhD student form Osaka University, Japan, June- September) Mr. Michael Ventura (1 st year PhD student: Void based photonic crystals and their applications) External collaborators with joint projects: Professor Satoshi Kawata (Osaka University, Japan) Professor Yuri Kivshar (Australian National University, Australia) Associate Professor Erik W. Thompson (St. Vincent s Institute of Medical Research, Australia) Dr. Sarah Russell (Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Australia) A/Professor Paul Mulvaney (University of Melbourne) Professor Din Ping Tsai (National Taiwan University) A/Professor Y. Kawata (Shizuoka University, Japan) A/Professor Peter So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 9

10 Grants 1. ARC Large Grant (Min Gu): Near field microscopy with an active lasing particle 2. ARC Linkage-International Grant (Taiwan, Min Gu): Characterisation and fabrication of nanophotonic devices based on multi-layer stacks 3. ARC Discovery project (Min Gu; Daniel Day): Development of a three-dimensional high-density optical data storage and photonic crystals in photo-polymers with a superresolution imaging system 4. ARC Fellowship (Xiaosong Gan): Imaging through tissue 5. ARC Linkage-Infrastructure Grant (Min Gu; S.M Russell; H.E. Richardson; Ross Ashman; S.Ellis): 2003 Real-time multi-dimensional multi-photon microscopy facility 6. ARC Centre of Excellence, Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (Carel Martijn de Sterke, Benjamin James Eggleton, Yuri S Kivshar, Justin Laurence Blows, Lindsay Charles Botten, Judith Margaret Dawes, Min Gu, Wieslaw Zbigniew Krolikowski, Barry Luther-Davies, Ross Campbell McPhedran, James Austin Piper, Michael John Withford, Satoshi Kawaka, Karl Kruszelnicki, Kathleen Richardson, Richard Slusher, Gerard Tayeb, Mark Nicholson): ARC Discovery Project Grant (Xiaosong Gan; James Chon): Nano-photonic fabrication and storage using near-field super-resolving probes 8. Research Development Grants Scheme (M. Straub) 2003 Nanoscale miniaturization in photopolymer microfabrication by focussing beyond the diffraction limitation 9. Swinburne University Postgraduate Award, Ling Fu,

11 Collaborations International Darmstadt Technical University, Germany Fudan University, China Hokkaido University, Japan Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan National Taiwan University, Taiwan Olympus Co., Japan Osaka University, Japan Oxford University, UK Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China Shizuoka University, Japan Spectra-Physics Inc., USA State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Stanford University, USA Tsinghua University, China University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Domestic Australian National University Coherent Scientific Pty. Ltd. CSIRO InVision Medical Technologies Pty. Ltd. LasTek Pty Ltd Macquarie University Monash University Olympus Pty Ltd Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute St. Vincent s Institute of Medical Research University of Melbourne University of Sydney University of Technology, Sydney Victoria University 3-D CD Technology Pty. Ltd. 11

12 Visitors International 6-Jan-03 Vincent Ricard Darian Riso National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark 9-Jan- 03 Adrian Keating Calient Networks, Santa Barbara, USA 15-Jan-03 Jin Guan Chang Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Tianjin University, Tianjin Polytechnic University, 14-Mar-03 Wei-Lian Guo China Optical Society of America (OSA); The International Society for Optical Engineering 25-Jun-03 Brendan Plapp (SPIE), Washington DC, USA Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 15-Aug-03 Yuquan Zhu et al. China 21-Aug-03 Lei Xu Shanghai Fudan University, China 22-Aug-03 Professor Huang Jin Nan University, China 17-Sept-03 William Mulholland Dept. Engineering Science, Univ Of Oxford, UK 17-Oct-03 Zhi ling Xu 19-Nov-03 John Mackay Accumux Technologies, Camarillo, USA Coherent Technologies, Santa Clara, USA 21-Nov-03 Pei-Nan Wang Fudan University, Shanghai, China 21-Nov-03 Chen Ji-Yao Fudan University, Shanghai, China 27-Nov-03 N.E. Moerner Stanford University, Stanford, USA 28-Nov-03 Satoshi Kawata Osaka University, Suita, Japan 4-Dec-03 Keiji Sasaki Institute for Electronic Science, Sapporo, Japan 10-Dec-03 Raman Kashyap Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada 12

13 National 30-Jan-03 Ben Eggleton University of Sydney, CUDOS University of Technology, Sydney 25-Mar-03 Lindsay Bolton CUDOS 25-Mar-03 Martyn de Sterke University of Sydney CUDOS 25-Mar-03 Paul Steinvursel University of Sydney CUDOS 16-Apr-03 Chris Walsh University of Sydney CUDOS 19-Jun-03 Xue Hua Wang The Australian National University 23-Jun-03 Ian Young University of Adelaide 17-July-03 Peter Binks NanoVic 17-July-03 Edward Kosior Visy 17-July-03 Stephen Parkinson Visy 17-July-03 Lisa Kearn Starfish 17-July-03 Nick Peace Starfish Aug/Sept-03 Sirnivas Jonnalagadda Aug/Sept-03 Vinod John Siri Technologies Siri Technologies Sept-03 D. Stewart Zeiss Pty Ltd 9-Oct-03 Vicki Sara et al. Australian Research Council 17-Nov-03 Ken Baldwin Australian National University 17-Nov-03 John Pilbrow Monash University 17-Nov-03 Jasper Munch University of Adelaide 13

14 Conference Organisation for 2003 Min GU International Advisory Committee and Session Chair, International Conference on Confocal Microscopy, Genoa, Italy, April Co-Chair of the International Advisory Committee, The 3 rd International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine, Wuhan, P. R. China, June Co-Chair of the International Advisory Committee, The 5 th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Confocal Microscopy and Related Technologies, Wuhan, P. R. China, June Organising Committee, The Fourth Australian Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference, Melbourne, July International Program Committee and Session Chair, the 6 th International Conference on Correlation Optics, Chernivtsy, Ukraine, September Organising/Program Committees, The Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy, Melbourne, December 1-4. International Advisory Committee and Session Chair, International Conference on Laser Application Optical Metrology, New Delhi, India, Dec Program Committee and Session Chair on Optical Switching, Storage, Computing and Information Processing, The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Taipei, December Program Committee and Session Chair on Medical and Biological Application, The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Taipei, December Xiaosong GAN Organising Committees, The Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy, Melbourne, December 1-4. Invited Presentations for 2003 Min GU Olympus Laser Scanning Microscopy Club (Invited), Beijing, China, March International Conference on Confocal Microscopy (Invited), Genoa, Italy, April International Nanophotonics Symposium Handai (Invited), Osaka, Japan, July The XXIst International Conference on Photochemistry (Invited), Nara, Japan, July

15 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (Invited), Sydney, Australia, August Victorian Photonics Network Forum on the Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Photonics and other Industries (Keynote), at Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 23. The 6 th International Conference on Correlation Optics (Plenary), Chernivtsy, Ukraine, September International Conference on Laser Application and Optical Metrology (Invited), New Delhi, India, December 1-4. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Invited), Taipei, December James CHON Asian Pacific Nanotechnology Forum (Invited), Cairns, Australia, November Completed Thesis/Reports for 2003 Mr. Roberto Calati, a R & D undergraduate student, completed a report in the area of nanophotonics (Report title: Spectroscopy of quantum dots embedded in polymer material for application to optical data storage) Mr. Jean-Baptiste Haumonte, a visiting student from École Superieure d Optique, Orsay, France, completed a report in the area of laser trapping (Report title: Three-dimensional trapping and near-field trapping in inverted microscopy) Mr. David Gachet, a visiting student from École Superieure d Optique, Orsay, France, completed a report in the area of nanophotonics (Report title: Trapping of micro-sphere under evanescent wave illumination) Mr. Atsushi Ono, a visiting PhD student from Osaka University, Japan, completed a report in the area of photonic crystals (Report title: Plane wave coupling and lens focusing into two-dimensional low-index hexagonal void channel) 15

16 Publications for Books/Book Chapters 1.1 Near-field scanning optical microscopy using a trapped-particle probe Min Gu, in Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Particles and Macromolecules: Applications in Colloid, Macromolecular and Biological Physics, Raj Raiagopalan and Aristide C. Dogariu eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003). 1.2 Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine, Eds: Q. Luo, V. Tuchin, Min Gu, L. Wang, Proceedings of SPIE, 5254 (Belingham, USA, 2003), ISBN Biomolecular Photonics and Multidimensional Microscopy, Q. Luo, Min Gu, Proceedings of SPIE, 5255 (Belingham, USA, 2003), ISBN Journal Papers 2.1 Effect of ultrashort pulsed illumination on foci caused by a Fresnel zone plate R. Ashman, Min Gu, Applied Optics, 42 (2003), Three-dimensional optical-transfer-function analysis of fiber-optical twophoton fluorescence microscopy Min Gu, D. Bird, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 20 (2003), Parametric study of three-dimensional near-field Mie scattering by dielectric particles Djenan Ganic, X. Gan, Min Gu, Opt. Commun., 216 (2003), Monte-Carlo simulation of multi-photon fluorescence microscopic imaging through inhomogeneous tissue-like turbid media X. Deng, X. Gan, Min Gu, J. Biomedical Opt. 8 (2003), Spectra and lifetime of fluorescence resonance energy transfer fluorophores under two-photon excitation R. Ashman, M. J. Ludford-Menting, S. Russell, Min Gu, Scanning, 25 (2003), Void-channel microstructures in resin solids as an efficient way to infrared photonic crystals M. Ventura, M. Straub, Min Gu, Appl. Phys. Lett., 82 (2003), Effect of numerical aperture on the spectral splitting feature near phase singularities of focused waves Djenan Ganic, James Chon, Min Gu, Appl. Phys. Lett., 82 (2003), Compensation for depolarization by a fibre coil in the presence of self phase modulation D. Bird, Min Gu, Optics and Laser Technology, 35 (2003), Penetration depth of single-, two- and three-photon fluorescence microscopic imaging through human cortex structures: Monte-Carlo simulation X. Deng, Min Gu, Applied Optics, 42 (2003),

17 2.10 Femtosecond fabrication of waveguide-like micro-structures in a photorefractive polymer Min Gu, Tom Rodgers, Daniel Day, Chinese Opt. Lett., 1 (2003), Two-photon fluorescence endoscopy with a micro-optic scanning head Damian Bird, Min Gu, Opt. Lett.,28 (2003), Multiple higher-order stop gaps in infrared polymer photonic crystals Martin Straub, M. Ventura, Min Gu, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91 (2003), Two-photon fluorescence scanning near-field microscopy based on a focused evanescent field under total internal reflection James Chon, Min Gu, Craig Bullen, Paul Mulvaney, Opt. Lett., 28 (2003), Experimental investigation of single voxels for laser nanofabrication via twophoton photopolymerization Hong-Bo Sun, Makoto Maeda, Kenji Takada, James Chon, Min Gu, Satoshi Kawata, Appl. Phys. Lett., 83 (2003), Focusing of doughnut laser beams by a high numerical-aperture objective in free space Djenan Ganic, X. Gan, Min Gu, Opt. Express, 11 (2003), Two-dimensional near-infrared photonic crystal fabrication by generation of void channels in solid resin Guangyong Zhou, Michael James Ventura, Min Gu, Chinese Opt. Lett., 1 (2003), Characterization of a confocal microscope readout system in a photochromic polymer under two-photon excitation* Jose Omar Amistoso, Min Gu, Satoshi Kawata, Japanese J. Appl. Phys., 41 (2002), Note*: this paper was not included in the 2002 CMP Annual Report Light-induced backward scattering in LiNbO3 : Fe,Zn* Q. Wu, J. Xu, Q. Sun, X. Zhang, F. Qiao, B. Tang, G. Zhang, Min Gu, Appl. Phys. Lett., 81 (2002), Note*: this paper was not included in the 2002 CMP Annual Report Gel point determination for the copolymerization system of Cardanyl Acrylate and Styrene and its critical conversion* Le Huong Nguyen, Hilmar Koerner, Klaus Lederer, J. Appl. Polym. Sci, 89 (2003) Note*: this paper was produced before the first author joined Swinburne Free radical co- and terpolymerization of styrene, hydrogenated cardanyl acrylate and cardanyl acetate * Le Huong Nguyen, Hilmar Koerner, Klaus Lederer J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 88 (2003) Note*: this paper was produced before the first author joined Swinburne. 17

18 3. Published Proceedings 3.1 Development of fibre-optical nonlinear endoscopy Min Gu, Proc. of International Conference on Laser Applications and Optical Metrology, Chandra Shakher and D. S. Metha, eds. (Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, 2004), p (ISBN ). (Invited talk on International Conference on Laser Application Optical Metrology, at New Delhi, India, Dec. 1-4, 2003). 4. Conference Abstracts 4.1 Confocal and two-photon fluorescence microscopy: spectroscopy, FRET and FLIM Min Gu (Invited talk on the Olympus Laser Scanning Microscopy Club, at Beijing, P. R. China, March 20-21, Two-photon scanning fluorescence microscopy under total internal reflection Min Gu, Program and Abstract Book, p. 49. (Invited talk on the 2003 International Conference on Confocal and Near-Field Microscopy, at Genoa, Italy, April 13-16, 2003). 4.3 New features of light focusing by a high numerical-aperture objective Min Gu, D. Ganic, J. Chon, X. Gan, Program and Abstract Book, p. 50. (Presentation on the 2003 International Conference on Confocal and Near-Field Microscopy, at Genoa, Italy, April 13-16, 2003). 4.4 Monte Carlo model for coherent microscopic imaging through turbid media Xiaosong Gan, Qiang Lu, Min Gu, Program and Abstract Book, p. 45. (Presentation on the 2003 International Conference on Confocal and Near-Field Microscopy, at Genoa, Italy, April 13-16, 2003). 4.5 Microvoid channels generated inside transparent polymer material: towards fabrication of photonic crystals and devices Michael James Ventura, Martin Straub, Min Gu, Program Book, p. 35. (Presentation on the Inaugural Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Sydney, May 22-23, 2003). 4.6 Engineering higher-order stop bands in void channel infrared polymer photonic crystals M. Straub, M. Ventura, Min Gu, Program Book, p. 51. (Presentation on the Inaugural Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Sydney, May 22-23, 2003). 4.7 Microphotonics Min Gu, Program Book, p (Presentation on the Inaugural Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Sydney, May 22-23, 2003). 18

19 4.8 Microvoid-channel polymer photonic crystals with large infrared stop gaps and a multitude of higher-order bandgaps fabricated by laser micromelting of solid resin M. Straub, M. Ventura, Min Gu, Scientific Programme, p. H-12. (Presentation on the 20th European Material Research Society Spring Meeting, at Strasbourg, France, June 10-13, 2003). 4.9 Multiple higher-order bandgaps in infrared polymer photonic crystals M. Straub, M. Ventura, Min Gu, Advanced Programme, Postdeadline Papers. (Presentation on the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/European Quantum Electronics Conference, at Munich, Germany, June 23-27, 2003) Fabrication and characterization techniques for surface nano-structures Baohua Jia, Xiaosong Gan, Min Gu, Book of Abstracts, (Presentation on the Fourth Australian Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference, in Melbourne, July 9-11, 2003) Femtosecond fabrication of photonic crystals using far field and near field optics Min Gu, Book of Abstracts, p. 54. (Invited talk on the International Nanophotonics Symposium Handai, at Osaka, Japan, July 24-26, 2003) Fabrication of photonic crystals in photo-polymers Min Gu, Book of Abstracts, p. 14. (Invited talk on The XXIst International Conference on Photochemistry, at Nara, Japan, July 26-31, 2003) Fibre-optic two-photon fluorescence endoscopy Min Gu (Invited talk on World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, in Sydney, Australia, August 24-29, 2003) Resolution and signal level in microscopic imaging through turbid media Min Gu (Invited talk on the Six International Conference on Correlation Optics, at Chernivtsi, Ukraine, September 16-19, 2003) Nanophotonics - a key to next generation information technology and biotechnology Min Gu (Keynote talk on the Victorian Photonics Network Forum on the Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Photonics and other Industries, at Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 23, 2003) 4.16 Multiphoton fluorescence imaging and spectroscopy of nanocrystal quantum dots Min Gu, James W. M. Chon (Invited talk on the Asian Pacific Nanotechnology Forum, at Cairns, Australia, November 19-21, 2003). 19

20 4.17 Recent development of fabricating two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals in photo-polymers Min Gu, Martin Straub, Le Huong Nguyen, Guangyong Zhou, Micheal Ventura, Dennis McPhail, Baohua Jia, Xiaosong Gan (Presentation on the Second Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Canberra, Nov , 2003) Fabrication of a polymer based photonic crystal superprism M. Ventura, Martin Straub, Kenji Takada, Hong-Bo Sun, S. Kawata, Min Gu (Presentation on the Second Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Canberra, Nov , 2003) Bandgap properties of polymer-based two-dimensional triangular photonic crystals Guangyong Zhou, Michael James Ventura, Martin Straub, Min Gu (Presentation on the Second Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Canberra, Nov , 2003) Three-dimensional photonic crystals based on inorganic-organic hybrid materials Martin Straub, Le Huong Nguyen, Min Gu (Presentation on the Second Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Canberra, Nov , 2003) Novel acrylate-based photopolymer for microfabrication and photonic applications Le Huong Nguyen, Martin Straub, Min Gu (Presentation on the Second Workshop of the Australian Research Council Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, at Canberra, Nov , 2003) Recent development of fibre-optic two-photon fluorescence endoscopy devices Min Gu (Invited talk on the 2003 Pacific-Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, at Taipei, Dec , 2003) Femtosecond fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals in polymers Min Gu, M. Ventura, M. Straub (Presentation on the 2003 Pacific-Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics, at Taipei, Dec , 2003) Use of quantum dot nanocrystals for spectrally encoded optical data storage James W. M. Chon, Min Gu (Presentation on the 2003 Pacific-Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics, at Taipei, Dec , 2003). 20

21 4.25 Nano-fabrication techniques for near-field photonic crystals Xiaosong Gan, Baohua Jia, Min Gu (Presentation on the 2003 Pacific-Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics, at Taipei, Dec , 2003) Two-dimensional near-infrared void channel photonic crystals fabricated in solid resin G. Zhou, M. Ventura, M. Straub, Min Gu, (Presentation on the 2003 Pacific-Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics, at Taipei, Dec , 2003) Height controllable two-dimensional photonic crystal structures fabricated with two-photon photopolymerisation Baohua Jia, Xiaosong Gan, Min Gu, (Presentation on the 2003 Pacific-Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics, at Taipei, Dec , 2003) Characterization of formulations of acrylate-based photopolymers for microfabrication and photonic applications Le Huong Nguyen, Martin Straub, Min Gu 4.29 Photonic crystal structures generated by two-photon photopolymerization of inorganic-organic hybrid materials Martin Straub, Le Huong Nguyen, Min Gu 4.30 Near-field scattering by a microscopic particle probe: imaging model Djenan Ganic, Xiaosong Gan, Min Gu 4.31 Second harmonic generation microscopy based on a single-mode fibre coupler Ling Fu, Xiaosong Gan, Min Gu 4.32 Single-beam laser trapping of active micro-spheres under two-photon excitation Dru Morrish, Xiaosong Gan, Min Gu 4.33 Fabrication of high aspect ratio two-dimensional photonic crystal structures using femtosecond laser shot induced photopolymerization in SU-8 resin Baohua Jia, Xiaosong Gan, Min Gu 21

22 4.34 Coherent phase functions for photon migration in turbid media Xiaosong Gan, Xiaoyuan Deng, Min Gu 4.35 Fabrication of a photonic crystal prism based on woodpile structures M. J. Ventura, M. Straub, Min Gu, Kenji Takada, Hong-Bo Sun, and Satoshi Kawata 4.36 In-plane and out-of-plane bandgap properties of two-dimensional void channel polymer photonic crystals Guangyong Zhou, Michael J. Ventura, Martin Straub, Min Gu 4.37 Photonic bandgaps in liquid crystal doped polymer woodpile structures Dennis McPhail, Martin Straub, Min Gu 4.38 Three-photon excited fluorescence of CdS semiconductor nanocrystals James W. M. Chon, Roberto Calati, Min Gu 4.39 Lateral Thinking with photonic crystal fibres H. Nguyen, M. Sumetsky, P. Domachuk, M. J. Steel, M. Straub, Min Gu, B. J. Eggleton 5. Other Publications 5.1 Polymer photonic crystals by laser void-microstructuring M. J. Ventura, M. Straub, Min Gu, Australian Optical Society News, 17, No. 3, (2003), The future of cancer detection, Swinburne News, Autumn, Feature Article: High quality produces higher-order stop gaps, Laser Focus World, October 2003 (USA). 5.4 Feature Article: Two-photon total internal reflection, Biophotonics International, June, 2003 (USA). 5.5 Cover Page: 2D photonic crystal structures characterised with AFM, The Physicist June/July, 2003 (Australia). 5.6 Shrinking data down to size Leading Edge November, 2003 (Australia). 22