Judith Dawes
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Judith Dawes and her research group study the emission and control of light at the nanoscale, in random lasers and plasmonic structures, for applications ranging from communications to biomedicine. Judith graduated with a B.Sc.(Hons) and Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. After postdoctoral research at the Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Centre, University of Toronto, Canada, she joined the Centre for Lasers and Applications, at Macquarie University. She is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, a chief invesigator of th ARC Centre of Excellence CUDOS (Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems) and member of MQ Photonics, Macquarie University. She teaches physics and photonics, and supervises postgraduate research students in random lasers and plasmonics, and biomedical applications of lasers.
Research Interest
Her research achievements include the invention and development of a new laser material, Yb:YAB; the development of a tunable narrow linewidth, terahertz laser source; laser applications in dentistry; and the invention and development of a solid protein laser-cured solder for microsurgical tissue repair. She has supervised the thesis research of 13 PhD, 10 Masters and 10 Honours graduates. With over 1300 citations to her work, she has an h-index of 31, and has published in excess of 90 refereed journal articles, and more than 200 conference papers. She was the Head of Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2013-2015.
Publications
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Wang P, Dawes JM, Dekker P, Knowles DS, Piper JA, Lu B. Growth and evaluation of ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum borate as a potential self-doubling laser crystal. JOSA B. 1999 Jan 1;16(1):63-9.
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Zhao J, Jin D, Schartner EP, Lu Y, Liu Y, Zvyagin AV, Zhang L, Dawes JM, Xi P, Piper JA, Goldys EM. Single-nanocrystal sensitivity achieved by enhanced upconversion luminescence. Nature nanotechnology. 2013 Oct 1;8(10):729-34.
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Pask HM, Carman RJ, Hanna DC, Tropper AC, Mackechnie CJ, Barber PR, Dawes JM. Ytterbium-doped silica fiber lasers: versatile sources for the 1-1.2/spl mu/m region. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 1995 Apr;1(1):2-13.
