Seminar: Applications of Optical Microcombs
Join us on April 16 for a discussion with David Moss on the history and applications of microcombs.
Apr 16, 2026 — 9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Event details
In this seminar, Professor David Moss will explore the evolution and growing impact of optical microcombs, a rapidly advancing technology with wide‑ranging applications in communications, spectroscopy, signal processing, navigation, and quantum science. He will provide a historical overview of the field and highlight the latest breakthroughs that are redefining photonic innovation.
Speaker
David Moss
Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University
Distinguished Professor David Moss is Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence COMBS: the Centre for Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE Photonics Society, LF of Optica, and LFSPIE, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). He has a 35 year career spanning academia, industry, and government research labs across Canada, Japan, and Australia. His research interests span photonics, optical microcombs, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, quantum optics, opto-electronics and optical communications. He won the 2011 Australian Museum and Google Eureka Science for Innovation in Computer Science. In May 2024 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Copenhagen by the Danish Technical University and King Frederik X for his pioneering work on optical microcombs. He has published over 1000 research papers including 3 Nature and 9 Nature Photonics.