Professor Barry Luther-Davies
CURRICULUM VITAE
Post
Professor/Head of Department,
Laser Physics Centre
Research School of Physical Sciences and
Engineering.
Date of Birth:
9th August 1949
Academic Qualifications:
BSc, First class honours in Electronics,
University of Southampton, U.K., 1970.
PhD, University of Southampton U.K.
"A Proustite Parametric Oscillator
for Infra-red Spectroscopy", 1974
Awards:
1970 University of Southampton E.E. Zeppler
prize for outstanding achievement in Electronics.
1974-1976, Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship.
1986 Pawsey Medal of Australian Academy of Sciences for outstanding contributions to experimental physics.
Research of Interests and
Experience:
Professor Luther-Davies undertook his
undergraduate and postgraduate training at the University of
Southampton, U.K. where he was one of the pioneers developing
infra-red optical parametric oscillators. He joined the Australian
National University in 1974 to work on high power solid state lasers
for research into laser produced plasmas and spent more than a decade
in working on the physics of plasmas produced at extreme laser
intensities. More recently his interests have refocussed on nonlinear
optics and he has been involved in photorefractive phenomena; novel
frequency conversion schemes using ultra-short pulses; the use of
spatial solitons for all-optical switching; and in the development of
organic third order nonlinear optical materials.
Topics:
Solid-state laser design and development;
nonlinear optics; fibre optics; the physics of laser-produced
plasmas; development of diagnostics for laser-produced plasmas; x-ray
production by laser-produced plasmas; interferometry; photorefraction
and optical phase conjugation, spatial solitons; nonlinear optical
materials; non-linear waveguides physics.
Publications:
1992
Waveguides and Y-Junctions Formed in Bulk Media Using Dark Spatial Solitons
Optics Letters 17 (1992) 496-498 , B. Luther-Davies and X.Yang.
Pulsations and Chaos in a Laser-Produced Plasmas
Journal of Soviet Laser Research 13 (1992) 214-218, B. Luther-Davies, S. Guskov and A.Rode.
Optical Power Transfer of a Single Mode Beam Through a Distorting Medium Using a Semi-Linear Phase Conjugate Mirror
Journal of Non-linear Optics 1 (1992) 421-430, E. Jaatinen and B. Luther-Davies.
Solid-State Lasers for Planetary Exploration
Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 12 (1992) 67-72 , B. Greene, M. Taubman, B. Luther-Davies, J. Watts and G. Gaither.
Steerable Optical Waveguides Formed in Self-Defocussing Media Using Dark Spatial Solitons
Optics Letters 17 (1992) 1755, B. Luther-Davies and X. Yang.
A Frequency Doubling Pulse Compressor for High Power Nd Lasers
Optics Letters 17 (1992) 1459-1461, Y. Wang and B. Luther-Davies.
Analytic Solution for Soliton Propagation
in Saturating Non-Linear Media
Optics Letters 17 (1992) 1414-1417,W. Krolikowski and B. Luther-Davies.
Guiding Light by Light Using Dark Spatial
Solitons
Non-linear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and
Applications Technical Digest 18 (Optical Society of America,
Washington DC) (1992) 303-305, B. Luther-Davies.
Waveguides, Y-Junctions and Other Structures Formed in Bulk Media using Dark Spatial Solitons
Integrated Photonics Research 10 OSA Technical Digest series (1992) 104-105, B. Luther-Davies, X. Yang and A. Snyder.
Guiding Light by Light using Dark Spatial Solitons
Optics and Photonics News 3 (1992) 17, B. Luther-Davies and X. Yang.
The Effect of High External Electric Field on a Photorefractive Ring Phase-Conjugator
Applied Physics B 55
(1992) 180-182, Krolikowski, W. and Luther-Davies, B.
The Intense Laser Pulse Interaction with
Matter (Review)
Kvantovaya Electronica N4 (Soviet Quantum Electronics) (1992) 1-40, Luther-Davies, B.,Gamaly, E.G., Wang, Y., Rode, A. and Tikhonchuk,V.T.
Capacitor Model of Resonance Absorption at a High Degree of Density Steepening in a Laser-Produced Plasma
Journal of Soviet Laser Research B13 (1992) 499-502, S. Gus'kov, A. Rode amd B. Luther-Davies.
1993
On The Pulsation of K[[alpha]],
3/2[[omega]]0 and 2[[omega]]0-Emission From Laser-Produced Plasmas
Physical Review E 47 (1993) 2778-2784, B. Luther-Davies and A. Rode.
Dynamic Control of the Spatial Modes in the
External Resonator of a Semi-Linear Phase Conjugate Mirror
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 10 (1993) 933-940, E. Jaatinen, W. Krolikowski and B. Luther-Davies.
Dark Spatial Solitons Constructed From
Modes of Linear Waveguides
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 10 (1993) 2344, A. Snyder, J. Mitchell and B . Luther-Davies.
On The Properties of Waveguide X-Junctions
Written by Spatial Solitons
International Journal of Non-linear Optics 2 (1993) 339-352, B. Luther-Davies, X. Yang, W. Krolikowski.
Photophysical Processes Involved in
Creation of Dark Spatial Solitons in Composite Photonic Media
Proceedings of 6th Symposium on Unconventional Photoactive Solids
(Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst.) A.Samoc, M. Samoc, M. Woodruff and B. Luther-Davies.
Darker Than Black Solitons: Dark Optical
Solitons with Total Phase Greater Than [[pi]]
Physical Review E 48
(1993) 3980-3987, W. Krolikowski, N. Akmediev, B. Luther-Davies.
1994
Dark Soliton Steering in a Saturable Non-Linear Medium
Optics Communications105 (1994) 219-225,W. Krolikowski, X. Yang, B.
Luther-Davies and J. Breslin.
Is Two Photon Absorption a Limitation to
Dark Soliton Switching?
Optics Letters 19 (1994) 344-346, X.
Yang, Y. Kivshar and B. Luther-Davies.
Converting 10kW Multi-Mode Fields Into a
Single Spatial Mode with a Semi-Linear Phase Conjugate Mirror
International Journal of Non-linear Optics 3 (1994) 117-125, E. Jaatinen and B.Luther-Davies.
Nonlinear Rotation of 3D Dark Spatial Solitons in a Gaussian Laser Beam
Optics Letters 19 (1994) 1816-1818, Luther-Davies , B. Powles, R and Tikhonenko V.
A Technique for Phase-Matching Parametric Gain in Nonlinear Waveguides
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 11 (1994) 1374-1379,
Andersen, D, Yang, X., Krolikowski, W and Luther-Davies, B.
Third Order Optical Nonlinearity of Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) at 800nm
Polymer Preprints 35 (1994) 246-247, Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B., Samoc, A. and Woodruff, M.
Optical Parametric Oscillator Based
Pre-Pulse Eliminator For a Chirped Pulse Amplification Nd:glass
Laser
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 11 (1994) 1531-1538, Wang, Y. and Luther-Davies, B.
Mutually Pumped Phase-Conjugate Mirror in a
Bidirectional Ring Resonator Geometry
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 11 (1994) 1872-1877, W. Yu, W. Krolikowski and B.
Luther-Davies.
1995
Wave Mixing and Beam Profile Control in a
Photorefractive Waveguide
Optics Letters 20 (1995) 563-565, W. Yu, W. Krolikowski, B. Luther-Davies, M. Webster and M. Austin.
Tuning the Optical Properties of Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) for Use in All-Optical Switching
Optics Letters 20 (1995) 1-3, A. Samoc, M. Samoc, M. Woodruff and B. Luther-Davies.
Photophysical Processes Involved in Creation
of Dark Spatial Solitons in Composite Photonic Media
Mol. Cryst.
Liq. Cryst 253 (1995) 133-142, A. Samoc, M. Samoc, M. Woodruff and B.
Luther-Davies.
The Dependence of the Third Order Nonlinear Optical Properties on the Linear Optical Properties of poly(p-phenylenevinylene) - PPV
Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 72 (1995) 224-225, A. Samoc, M. Samoc, M. Woodruff and B. Luther-Davies.
Spiraling Bright Spatial Solitons Formed by
the Break-Up of an Optical Vortex in a Saturable Self-Focussing
Medium
Journal of the Optical Society of America B12 (1995) 2046-2052, V. Tikhonenko, J. Christou. B. Luther-Davies.
Third Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of
Pseudoazulene
Acta Phys. Polonica 88 (1995) 411-416, Samoc, M.,
Swiatkiewicz, J., Samoc, A., Luther-Davies, B. and Olszowski,
A.
Real and Imaginary Components of the
Third-Order Nonlinearity of Polyanilene Dodecylbenzenesulfonic Salt
Optics Letters 22 (1995) 2478-2480, Samoc, M., Samoc, A.,
Luther-Davies, B., Swiatkiewicz, J., Jin, C.Q. and White,
J.W.
Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics. 4. Cubic Hyperpolarizabilities of (cyclopentadienyl)bis(phosphine) Ruthenium s Arylacetylides
Organometallics 14 (1995) 5493-5495, Whittal, I.R., Humphrey, M.G.,
Samoc, M., Swiatkiewicz, J. and Luther-Davies, B.
1996
Planar Graded-Index (GRIN) PECVD Lens
Electronics Letters 32 (1996) 549-550, Beltrami, D.R., Love, J.D., Durandet, A., Samoc, A., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B. and Boswell, R.W.
Waveguide Laser Produced By Li Implantation in Nd:YAG
XX International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour Sydney Australia, 14-19 July 1996, Optical Society of America, 118, Body, D. and Luther-Davies, B.
A Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator Using LBO
XX International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour Sydney Australia, 14-19 July 1996, Optical Society of America, 108, Giordano, H., Luther-Davies, B., Rode, A. and Wang, Y.
Self-Bending Photorefractive Solitons
Physical Review E 54 (1996) 5761-5765, Krolikowski, W., Akhmediev, N., Luther-Davies, B. and Cronin-Golomb, M.
Effect Of Natural Optical Activity on Propagation Of Photorefractive Solitons
Optics Communications 132 (1996) 179-189, Krolikowski, W., Akhmediev, N., Andersen, D. and Luther-Davies, B.
Self-Bending Photorefractive Solitons
XX International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour Sydney Australia, 14-19 July 1996, Optical Society of America, 29-30, Krolikowski, W., Akhmediev, N., Luther-Davies, B. and Holmstrom, S.
Multimode Structure of Bright+Dark Vector Solitons in Photorefractive Media
Optics Letters 21 (1996) 782, Krolikowski, W., Akhmediev, N. and Luther-Davies, B.
Diagnostics of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using Films of Poly (p-phenylenevinylene)
Optics Communications 131 (1996) 301-306, Luther-Davies, B., Samoc, M., Swiatkiewicza, J., Samoc, A., Woodruff, M., Trebino, R. and Delong, K.W.
Ultrafast Measurements of Third Order Nonlinear Optical Properties Of Organic Materials
XX International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour Sydney Australia, 14-19 July 1996, Optical Society of America, 133, Luther-Davies, B., Samoc, M., Samoc, A., Woodruff, M., Fotheringham, D., White, J. and Jin, C.Q.
Comparison of the Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of poly(p-phenylenevinylene)/Sol-gel Composites Derived from Tetramethoxysilane and Methyltrimethoxysilane
Chemistry of Materials 8 (1996) 2586-2594, Luther-Davies, B., Samoc, M. and Woodruff, M.
Organometallic Complexes for Non-Linear Optics VII1. Cubic Optical Non-Linearities of Octahedral trans-bis{bis(diphenylphosphino)methane}ruthenium acetylide complexes; X-ray Crystal Structure of trans-[Ru(C∫CPh) (4-C∫CC6H4NO2) (dppm) 2]
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 526 (1996) 99-103, McDonagh, A.M., Cifuentes, M.P., Whittall, I.R., Humphrey, M.G., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B. and Hockless, D.C.R.
Thin Film Deposition by Picosecond Ultrafast Pulsed Laser Ablation
XX International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour Sydney Australia, 14-19 July 1996, Optical Society of America, 137, Rode, A.V., Gamaly, E.G. and Luther-Davies, B.
The Concept of Guiding Light with light and Negative Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities of Organics
Pure and Applied Optics 5 (1996) 681-687, Samoc, M., Samoc, A., Luther-Davies, B. and Woodruff, M.
Effect of Doping on Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polyaniline Investigated by Femtosercond Degenerate Dour-Wave Mixing and Z-Scan at 800 nm
XX International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour Sydney Australia, 14-19 July 1996, Optical Society of America, 256-257, Samoc, A., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B., Jin, C.Q. and White, J.W.
Observation of Vortex Solitons Created by the Instability of Dark Soliton Stripes
Optics Letters 21 (1996) 1129-1131, Tikhonenko, V., Christou, J., Luther-Davies, B. and Kivshar, Y.S.
Three Dimensional Bright Spatial Soliton Collision and Fusion in a Saturable Nonlinear Medium
Physical Review Letters 76 (1996) 2698-2701, Tikhonenko, V., Christou, J. and Luther-Davies, B.
The Creation and Dynamics of 3D Spatial Solitons Formed in a Saturable Nonlinear Medium
XX International Quantum Electronics Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour Sydney Australia, 14-19 July 1996, Optical Society of America, 30-31, Tikhonenko, V., Christou, J., Luther-Davies, B. and Kivshar, Y.S.
Vortex Soliton Motion and Steering
Optics Letters 21 (1996) 1649-1651, Tikhonenko, V., Christou, J., Kivshar, Y.S. and Luther-Davies, B.
Dark Spatial Soliton Stripe Instability
Optical Society of America Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, Cambridge, England, 30 August - 1 September 1996, Optical Society of America, USA (1996) 263-266, Tikhonenko, V., Christou, J., Luther-Davies, B. and Kivshar, Y.S.
1997
Beam Smoothing and Temporal Effects: Optimized Preparation of Laser Beams for Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion
Laser and Particle Beams 15(1997) 277-295, Boreham, B.W., Hora, H., Aydin, M., Eliezer, S., Goldsworthy, M.P., Min, G., Gahatak, A.K., Lalousis, P., Stening, R.J., Szichman, H., Luther-Davies, B., Baldwin, K.G.H., Maddever, R.A.M. and Rode, A.V.
Non-Linear Optical Response Of Metallic And Semiconducting Nanocrystals In Fused Silica
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (Materials Modification and Synthesis by Ion Beam Processing), Boston USA, Materials Research Society, Pitsburg Pa (1997) 423-428, Elliman, R.G., Luther-Davies, B., Samoc, M. and Dowd, A.
Propagation and Collision of Photorefractive Screening Solitons
Optica Applicata 24 (1996) 249-253, Krolikowski, W., Luther-Davies, B., Holmstrom, S. and Akhmediev, N.
GaAs Based Anti-Resonant Fabry-Perot Satruable Absorber Fabricated by Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy and Ion Implantation
Applied Physics Letters 70 (1997) 3428-3430, Lederer, M.J., Luther-Davies, B., Tan, H.H. and Jagadish, C.
Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Organic Materials for Photonic Switching
Current Opinion in Solid State Materials Science 2 (1997) 213-219, Luther-Davies, B. and Samoc, M.
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Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics VII. Cubic Optical Nonlinearities of Octahedral Trans-bis{bis(diphenylphosphinomethane)}Ruthenium Acetylide Complexes; X-ray CrystalStructure of Trans-[Ru(C:CPh)(4-C:CC6H4NO2)(dppm)2]
Journal of Organometalic Chemistry 526 (1996) 99-103, McDonagh, A.M., Cifuentes, M.P., Whittall, I.R., Humphrey, M.G., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B. and Hockless, D.C.R.
Syntheses and Quadratic Hyperpolarizabilities of Some (pyridylalkynyl)Metal Complexes: Crystal Structures of [Ni{2-(C∫C)C5H3NNO2-5}PPh3)] and [Au{2-(C∫C)C5H4N}(PPh3)]
Journal of Chemical Society Dalton Trans (1997) 4167-4174, Naulty, R.H., Cifuentes, M.P., Humphrey, M.G., Houbrechts, S., Boutton, C., Persoons, A., Heath, G.A., Hockless, D.R., Luther-Davies, B. and Samoc, M.
Evidence of Magnetic Fields Imprinted in Ferromagnetic Targets by the Spontaneous Magnetic Field of a Laser-Produced Plasma Demonstrated by After-Pulse Pulsations of Ka Emission
Physics of Plasmas 4 (1997) 3676-3683, Rode, A.V., Gamaly, E.G. and Luther-Davies, B.
Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of a Ladder Poly(p-phenylene) Polymer
Synthetic Metals 87 (1997) 197-200, Samoc, M., Samoc, A., Luther-Davies, B. and Scherf, U.
Photocurrent Autocorrelation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Poly(p-phenylenevinylene)
Journal of Physics D (1997) 895-899, Samoc, M., Samoc, A., Luther-Davies, B., Dowd, A. and McDonnell, M.
Nonlinear Optical and Waveguiding Properties of Poly(p-phenylenevinylene)-poly(1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) (PPV-PVP) Blends
11th Topical Meeting of the European Optical Society "Materials for Nonlinear Optics, Capri, Italy, 8-12 July 1997, France 16-17, Samoc, A., Samoc, M. and Luther-Davies, B.
Molecular Cubic Hyperpolarizablities of Systematically Varied (triphenylphosphine) Gold-Ó-Arylacetylide Complexes
Angewaddte Chemie International Edition (English) 36 (1997) 370-371, Whitall, I.R., Humprey, M.G., Samoc, M. and Luther-Davies, B.
Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics XII. Syntheses and Second-Order Susceptibilities of (Neomenthyldiphenylphosphine)gold s-Arylacetylides: X-ray Crystal Structures of Au(C∫CPh)(nmdpp) and Au((E)-4,4'-CCC6H4CH=CHC6H4NO2)(nmdpp)
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 544 (1997) 189-196, Whittall, I.R., Humphrey, M.G., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B. and Hockless, D.R.
Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics. 11. Molecular Quadratic and Cubic Hyperpolarizabilities of Systematically Varied (Cyclopentadienyl)(triphenlyphosphine)nickel s-Arylacetylides
Organometallics 16 (1997) 2631-2637, Whittall, I.R., Cifuentes, M.P., Humphrey, M.G., Luther-Davies, B., Samoc, M., Houbrechts, S., Persoons, A., Heath, G.A. and Bogsanyi, D.
Manuscripts Submitted or In
Press:
Annihilation of Photorefractive Solitons
Optics Letters (1998) IN PRESS, Krolikowski, W. and Luther-Davies, B.
Femtosecond Z-scan and Degenerate Four-wave Mixing Measurements of the Real and Imaginary Part of the Third-order Nonlinearity of Soluble Conjugated Polymers
Journal of the Optical Society of America B (1998) IN PRESS, Samoc, M., Samoc, A., Luther-Davies, B., Bao, Z., Yu, L., Hsieh, B. and Scherf, U.
Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) - An Attractive Material for Photonics Applications
Electrical and Optical Polymers, Ed. Wise, D.L., Trantolo, D.J. and Wnek, G.E., World Scientific, (1998) IN PRESS, Samoc, A., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B. and Woodruff, M.
Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics. X. Molecular Quadratic and Cubic Hyperpolarizabilities of Systematically Varied (Cyclopentadienyl)bis(phosphine)ruthenium s-Arylacetylides: X-ray Crystal Structure of Ru((E)-4,4'-C∫CC6H4CH=CHC6H4NO2)(PPh3)(h-C5H5)
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (1998) IN PRESS, Whittall, I.R., Cifuentes, M.P., Humphrey, M.G., Luther-Davies, B., Samoc, M., Houbrechts, S., Persoons, A., Heath, G.A. and Hockless, D.C.R.
Patents:
1. "A Laser Beam Activated Ion Source"
PC5614/76. with J.L. Hughes, H. Hora, and J. Kelly.
2. "Optical Resonator" Provisional Patent
filed March, 1987.
3. "Spark Plug" Provisional Patent filed
February, 1989.
4. "Photonic Devices using Optical
Waveguides induced by Dark Spatial Solitons" International Patent
filed April 1993.
5. "Laser Pulse Generator" Provisional patent filed September 1995
