Laureate Fellowship
Since its foundation, the Centre for Micro-Photonics (CMP) has committed itself to cutting-edge research in ultra-high density optical storage technologies. Professor Min Gu, a leading international authority on three dimensional (3D) optical imaging science, has been recognised as a world class research centre with recently receiving the highly prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship award.The extremely competitive fellowship was awarded to Professor Gu, as one of the 15 in 2010, which will provide support for five years for the development of new generation optical recording technologies.
Professor Gu was awarded the Laureate Fellowship by Kim Carr,
Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, July, 2010
Aim
- The aim of this work is to extend the storage capacity of a compact disc from the current capabilities of a few Gigabytes to Petabytes, more than 20,000 fold improvement from current Blu-ray high-density optical disks.
Vision
- To provide long term environmentally sustainable and greener solutions for optical data storage devices through the use of high density compact discs.
Mission
- To develop world-leading Petabyte optical data storage (ODS) prototypes and technologies including cutting-edge super-resolution and multi-dimensional encoding techniques.
- To develop a transformable platform between optical data storage prototypes storage prototypes from within the lab to industry bulk manufacturing.
