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Benjamin Eggleton

@profbeneggleton.bsky.social
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Professor of Physics, Photonics. University of Sydney, currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research). Co-Director of NSW Smart Sensing Network. Contributing leading edge research to sovereign capability.

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NSW Smart Sensing Network @nswsmartsensing.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📹NSSN Co-Director @profbeneggleton.bsky.social discussed why smart sensing, photonics, semiconductors & AI are becoming critical to Australia’s security, sovereign capability & economic resilience at the NSW Science & Research Breakfast Seminar Series in May. www.nssn.org.au/news/2026/5/...
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Smart sensing critical to Australia’s future security and resilience, NSSN Co-Director says — NSSN
NSW Smart Sensing Network Co-Director Professor Benjamin Eggleton has warned Australia is entering a more unstable and technologically competitive era, where smart sensing technologies, photonics, sem...
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NSW Smart Sensing Network @nswsmartsensing.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Great turnout at NSW Parliament for a seminar by NSW Smart Sensing Network Co-Director @profbeneggleton.bsky.social 📸 today. He shared how smart sensing is reshaping how we manage our natural & built environments, infrastructure, & key industries, driving smarter, data-led decisions.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Looking forward to present to the NSW community on Wednesday 6th May 7.30-9.30am at the Science & Research Breakfast Seminar Series at Parliament of NSW, Sydney. - "Sensing the Future: Smart Technologies for NSW and National Resilience". Register soon. events.humanitix.com/sensing-the-...
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Sensing the Future: Smart Technologies for NSW and National Resilience
The Office of the Chief Scientist & Engineer invites you to the Science & Research Breakfast Seminar Series
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Looking forward to present to the NSW community on Wednesday 6th May 7.30-9.30am at the Science & Research Breakfast Seminar Series at Parliament of NSW, Sydney. - "Sensing the Future: Smart Technologies for NSW and National Resilience". Register soon. events.humanitix.com/sensing-the-...
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Sensing the Future: Smart Technologies for NSW and National Resilience
The Office of the Chief Scientist & Engineer invites you to the Science & Research Breakfast Seminar Series
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So nice to get away for a few days on Pittwater with the family for a nice reset. Beautiful weather, and an all‑round fantastic location.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Great to be on the harbour for the 125 anniversary of the foundation of Australia’s Navy
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Sydney researchers tame ‘noisy’ light in tiny lasers
Findings pave the way for next-generation GPS, quantum machines and communications technology.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Great dinner in Newtown tonight as we farewelled Paul Newman after seven years at the University of Sydney and exceptional leadership of our Clinical Trials team. A fantastic colleague and steady presence in our leadership group. All the best, Paul — hope to keep seeing you.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Sydney Researchers Tame ‘Noisy’ Light In Tiny Lasers
Sydney researchers have successfully reduced noise in microchip-scale lasers by introducing tiny structures within the devices, enabling the production of exceptionally pure light. This advancement pa...
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Great day with the team at our annual research group retreat (@Knowledge Hub) - strengthening teamwork, celebrating achievements, and looking ahead to new challenges & opportunities. We even wrapped up a first-aid course… practical, relevant, & fun. A valuable reset with a fantastic group.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Sydney researchers tame 'noisy' light in tiny lasers Findings pave the way for next-generation GPS, quantum machines and communications technology. www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...
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Sydney researchers tame 'noisy' light in tiny lasers
Researchers at the University of Sydney have cracked a long-standing problem in chip-scale lasers by carving ‘tiny speed bumps’ into the optical cavity to produce exceptionally ‘clean’ light.
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NSW Smart Sensing Network @nswsmartsensing.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🎉The NSW Smart Sensing Network team 📸 was thrilled to attend the InnovationAus.com 2025 Awards for Excellence at Sydney Town Hall last night. Celebrated as the Oscars 🏆 of the innovation sector, the awards celebrated the brightest minds shaping the nation's future.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Researchers at the University of Sydney have demonstrated a new way to suppress noise in microchip-scale Brillouin lasers by introducing nanoscale “speed bumps” inside the devices’ optical cavity. www.australianmanufacturing.com.au/university-o...
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University of Sydney researchers develop method to reduce ‘noisy’ light in tiny lasers - Australian Manufacturing
Researchers at the University of Sydney have demonstrated a new way to suppress noise in microchip-scale Brillouin lasers by introducing nanoscale “speed bumps” inside the devices’ optical cavity.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I’m pleased to share our latest invited review article just published in Optica's journal Optical Materials Express: “Integrated nonlinear photonics with chalcogenide glasses: compositions, properties, applications, and roadmap.” opg.optica.org/ome/fulltext...
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Great session today at the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) Board meeting, hosted at the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist here in Sydney. Always energising to sit around the table with such a sharp group of thinkers from industry, government and our member universities.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Great session today at the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) Board meeting, hosted at the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist here in Sydney. Always energising to sit around the table with such a sharp group of thinkers from industry, government and our member universities.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Spotted in local area
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Stimulating day at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the famous Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, hosted by Marin Soljacic and his team, shown around by #Jelena_Notaros and her amazing students and then with #Juejun_Hu- presenting a seminar / enjoyable lunch.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
An enjoyable day at the INRS - Institut national de la recherche scientifique facility in Montreal, hosted by photonics legends #Jose_Azana and Roberto Morandotti, touring impressive laboratories, exploring new collaborations and research ecosystems - and a great lunch.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Great visit to Quebec for the Microwave Photonics topical meeting and a visit to Laval University
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Last night we gathered with colleagues and friends of IPOS for the biennial Peter Domachuk Memorial Lecture from Prof. Shanhui Fan (Stanford), one of the world’s leading minds in photonics and electromagnetism. We closed with dinner at the Opera House.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Grateful to join the APL Photonics Editors meeting with our outstanding Associate Editors & AIP Publishing staff. My last as EiC after 10 years—it’s been a great ride! Thanks to all who’ve shared this journey
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Grateful to join the APL Photonics Editors meeting with our outstanding Associate Editors & AIP Publishing staff. My last as EiC after 10 years—it’s been a great ride! Thanks to all who’ve shared this journey
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🚀 The NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) is now live on #Bluesky! Follow the NSSN for: 🔹 Smart sensing innovations 🔹 Research–industry collaborations 🔹 Solutions for NSW’s economy, environment & society 👉 Join this network of innovators here: bsky.app/profile/nsws...
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🚀 The NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) is now live on #Bluesky! Follow the NSSN for: 🔹 Smart sensing innovations 🔹 Research–industry collaborations 🔹 Solutions for NSW’s economy, environment & society 👉 Join this network of innovators here: bsky.app/profile/nsws...
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It was a pleasure to host two outstanding leaders this morning – Professor Tony Haymet PhD, Australia's Chief Scientist, and Professor Professor Reuben Bolt, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney – for a fast-paced tour of our photonics laboratories
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Great to be at @questacon in Canberra with the @NSWsensing team for engagement - kicking off National Science Week
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Great to meet the Australian Chief Scientist Tony Haymet PhD - and to hear his exciting vision for Australian science and innovation, 🇦🇺 future sovereign R&D (and innovation) ecosystem. @NSWsensing @questacon
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Great couple of days in Cardiff for the European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) 2025 — catching up with old friends, making new connections and leading edge photonics research
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Great trip to Bristol University hosted by Dr Alex Clark, (Director of the Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, former CUDOS postdoc), who is doing fantastic work leading the Centre and his team.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Great to be in London / UK for a week of conference and meetings, kicked off with breakfast with @silentypewriter.bsky.social
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Great Sunday afternoon at the Rabbitohs game
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New from our group @sydney_uni with team @UniofAdelaide via #COMBS_COE Event-based cameras track both passive & active matter—including sperm cells—with 100x less data vs sCMOS. Smart sensing meets fertility science! #Photonics #EdgeComputing #COMBS doi.org/10.1002/lpor...
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A Neuromorphic Camera for Tracking Passive and Active Matter with Lower Data Throughput
The merits of an event-based camera (EBC) for studies of passive and active matter are demonstrated. It is shown that it is possible to achieve results equivalent to those from an sCMOS camera while ...
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Just wrapped up a very successful leadership retreat with the outstanding Research Operations Division leadership team at the University of Sydney. It was a productive and energising day — a chance to step back, reflect on what we’ve achieved, and sharpen our focus for the next phase.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Heading back to Sydney from LAX after an energising week at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) conference. #CLEO2025 lived up to its reputation as the premier forum for cutting-edge photonics and optical physics with outstanding science and technology driving impact.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Great to celebrate APL Photonics @aplphotonics with colleagues and friends of APLP at CLEO last night! Lots of fun chatting about the journal and sharing stories from the past 10 years.
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AIP Publishing @aip-publishing.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
APL Photonics Editor-in-Chief, @profbeneggleton.bsky.social, will be leading a short course on Principles and Applications of Guided Wave Nonlinear Optics Monday, May 5 as part of #CLEO2025! Learn more 👇 aippub.org/3YuY46J
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Friday is a day I get to spend in my physics office and with my research group and even get to walk into the lab to see what’s happening ..🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Great to tour the amazing Chris O'Brien Lifehouse with my colleague Prof David R McKenzie from @Sydney_Uni - David from the School of Physics has invented and translated Plasma technology to medicine at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse (an Affiliated organisation of @Sydney_Uni)
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Great to be in Penrith (at panthers) for the Western Sydney Manufacturers forum: Building profits on the path to sustainability- for the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) session in “Measuring and monitoring for net-zero compliance”. M
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Australian National Fabrication Facility @anff.org.au · 24/03/2025
The International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN) will be held from 3-5 February 2026 in Sydney, Australia! Join us to discuss nano in energy, photonics, quantum, MedTech, electronics and more. Visit the website at iconnference.com #ICONN2026 #NCRIS @profbeneggleton.bsky.social
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ICONN 2026 - Save the Date! - Australian National Fabrication Facility Limited
Dive into the nanoworld at ICONN 2026 in Sydney ANFF is thrilled to announce that the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN) will be held 3-5 February 2026 at the Hilton Sy...
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Wrapping up an amazing week in the USA, Washington DC and New York City, with the @AmChamAU Australia Alliance Summit. Fabulous to listen and understand what leaders and those in the know are thinking 60 days in to trumps presidency and to hangout with the fantastic delegation
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Wrapping up an amazing week in the USA, Washington DC and New York City, with the @AmChamAU Australia Alliance Summit. Fabulous to listen and understand what leaders and those in the know are thinking 60 days in to trumps presidency and to hangout with the fantastic delegation
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Save the date ICONN2026 - International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 3-5 FEB 2026 SYDNEY (iconnference.com)! Plenaries include Nobel Laureate Konstantin Novoselov Supported by ANFF, chaired by @AnitaHoBaillie @ProfBenEggleton, Martina Stenzel & @wenlongcheng
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ICONN 2026
Embark on the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, a journey into the amazing world of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Save the date ICONN2026 - International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 3-5 FEB 2026 SYDNEY (iconnference.com)! Plenaries include Nobel Laureate Konstantin Novoselov Supported by ANFF, chaired by @AnitaHoBaillie @ProfBenEggleton, Martina Stenzel & @wenlongcheng
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ICONN 2026
Embark on the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, a journey into the amazing world of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Out and about with my lovely @sydneyuni.bsky.social colleagues at the Royal Society of NSW annual dinner and Award Presentations held at Parliament House, Sydney
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Nice to see our publication “On-Chip Stimulated Brillouin Scattering to Linearize a Dual-Parallel Mach-Zehnder Modulator”, very fruitful collaboration with Prof José Capmany’s team, from Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Exciting leadership opportunity - APL Photonics Editor-in-Chief appAIP Publishing is seeking an Editor-in-Chief for APL Photonics, a global, gold open access journal at the forefront of photonics research t.co/9OmqEMAfia
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https://publishing.aip.org/publications/journals/call-for-applications/#APP
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Sunday afternoon
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Benjamin Eggleton @profbeneggleton.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Great to collaborate with Reena Parihar and Amol Choudhary from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and our long term collaborators at ANU to demonstrate “On-chip power efficient MHz to GHz tunable Brillouin microwave photonic filters,” published in APL Photonics. pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...
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On-chip power efficient MHz to GHz tunable Brillouin microwave photonic filters
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) offers optically tunable, narrowband gain and loss resonances, which makes it ideal for optical filtering and signal proce
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