The Marsden Fund takes its name from physicist Sir Ernest Marsden (1889-1970) who made a remarkable contribution to science both in New Zealand and overseas. It is a blue skies…

Listen to RNZ’s episode of Smart Talk where three experts discuss the role of photonics in measuring climate change. The  discussion was recorded as part of this years Dodd-Walls symposium….

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this years Dodd-Walls symposium, highlighting the cutting-edge research on photonic and quantum technologies happening in New Zealand. In particular huge thanks to our…

The Dodd Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies was recently refunded as a Centre of Research Excellence $36.75M. The funding will allow further investigations to develop and harness quantum…

Solar paint – which captures and guides light to strips of solar panels in roof gutters – is fast becoming a reality thanks to Dodd-Walls Centre’s Associate Investigator Dr Nathaniel…

Photonics in Australia & New Zealand – Lighting Economic Growth Report   ANZ Optical Society and the Dodd-Walls Centre have commissioned an independent report, which has identified over 500 companies…

A new report has valued New Zealand’s little-known photonics industry at more than a billion dollars. Photonics use light for sensing, manufacturing, and transmitting information – much in the same…

Dr Amita Deb in a lab at the Physics Department, University of Otago. Photo / Otago Daily Times A clever piece of Kiwi-made tech could soon become a handy asset…

Dr Miro Erkintalo from the University of Auckland’s Department of Physics has won the MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Award at this year’s Prime Minister’s Science Prizes. Dr Erkintalo is a principal…

Ex-DWC member, Andrew Wilson, has been appointed Chief of the Quantum Science Division at NIST-JILA in the US. Listen to him talk quantum physics with Kim Hill on RNZ National….

Simon Poole, Chair of our Industry Advisory Board was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences this week. https://www.science.org.au/fellowship The fellowship recognises his research and entrepreneurial achievements. As…

In the lead-up to the International Day of Light celebration this Saturday 16th May, Dodd-Walls Centre Principal Investigator Cather Simpson has written this article on the incredible potential of light-based…

The Hamilton Award, the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Science, is awarded annually for the encouragement of scientific research by early-career researchers currently based in…

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/programmes/datelinepacific/audio/2018737999/research-group-hopes-to-win-fans-to-science-at-polyfest Click here to listen to the RNZ Broadcast

The eighth Asia Pacific Conference on Optical Sensors (APOS) was held in Auckland over the 19-22 November in 2019. This conference bought together 175 Asian and Pacific researchers with a…

Dodd Walls researchers lead by Mikkel Andersen have achieved the first bottom-up assembly of three atoms held in an optical trap. A myriad of equipment including lasers, mirrors, a vacuum chamber,…

The Julius von Haast Fellow, Prof Gerd Leuchs of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, visits DWC PI and host Harald Schwefel for a month…

DWC Investigators Schwefel and Lambert publish their invited review on “Coherent Conversion Between Microwave and Optical Photons–An Overview of Physical Implementations” in Advanced Quantum Technologies and are featured on the…

What happens when you stir a superfluid? Able to flow without resistance, superfluids respond by forming quantized vortices – tiny storms that interact with each other to create quantum turbulence….

In early December,  Otago Dodd-Walls students hosted the 12th Conference on Optics, Atoms and Laser Applications, known as KOALA. This is an annual, international student conference supported under the International…

Last night, two of our industry-facing research stars were recognised for their research at the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi 2019 Research Honours. Professor Cather Simpson was awarded…

Our Dodd Walls Member Amita Deb has been awarded 2019 MBIE Endeavour Round Smart Ideas funding Dr Amita Deb from Otago’s Department of Physics has been awarded a 2019 MBIE…

The Dodd-Walls Center helium-3 dilution refrigerator has arrived and been commissioned. The fridge is the only one of it’s type in New Zealand. It enables objects to be cooled down…

Dodd Walls researchers Mike Reid, Jon Wells and Jevon Longdell hosted the 20th International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids (DPC19) at the Chateau on the Park,…

Eric Cornell is an American physicist who, with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the…

The International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy is a biennial conference concerning developments and applications of precision measurement and control in atomic systems. The 24th ICOLS was held in Queenstown from…

Over 300 people (290 from overseas and from 34 countries) collected in Auckland the week of 8 July 2019 to discuss the latest developments and applications of vibrational spectroscopy. The…

Today DWC investigators Stuart Murdoch, Miro Erkintalo, Stéphan Coen and Harald Schwefel publish an article on generating an Octave-spanning tunable parametric oscillationin crystalline Kerr microresonators in Nature Photonics. This work…

An atom in the ground state subject to weak illumination will jump up, in an instant, to the excited state at some random time.  At least this is a standard…

DWC member Andrus Giraldo was one of the seven winners of the famous Red Sock Award for best poster at the biennial SIAM Conference on Applied Dynamical Systems, held with…

The DWC ran a highlight event in Auckland this year for Techweek19. It was a lively event with speakers including Hon Megan Woods, Prof Cather Simpson, and Charlotte Walshe. The…

A team of University of Otago/ Dodd-Walls Centre scientists have created a novel device that could enable the next generation of faster more energy efficient internet. Their breakthrough results have…

A team of University of Otago / Dodd-Walls Centre scientists have created a novel device that could enable the next generation of faster more energy efficient internet. Their breakthrough results…

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Congratulations to Ryan Thomas, Matthew Chilcott, Amita Deb and Niels Kjaergaard on another Nature Communications publication.

Huge congratulations to Dodd-Wall Centre Members who were successful in the latest round of Marsden Grants for 2018.  Computing with Walls of Light – Associate Professor Stephane Coen (PI) &…

Congratulations to Dr Simon Poole and his team at Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) for winning the Australian Prime Minister Prize for Innovation for 2018. Simon is the Chair of the…