Professor Arthur James Lowery BSc (Hons) Dunelm, PhD (Nottingham), Fellow IEEE, Fellow IET, Fellow ATSE (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering) Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton CTO, Ofidium Pty Ltd (www.ofidium.com) ( Press Release) Recent Prizes and Honours: January 2009, Elected as a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA) for "leadership in computer modelling of optical communication systems" November 2007, Elected to be a Fellow ATSE (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering) (Press Release) April 2007: Clunies Ross Award “For excellence in the application of science and technology, for the economic benefit of Australia>”, awarded by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Monash Memo Story also Video with details of my research courtesy of ATSE June 2006: Peter Doherty Prize for Innovation (with Jean Armstrong). Awarded $100,000 for “Faster Optical Communications – Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing” at Commercialization Expo, Melbourne, 2006. We also won the ICT Prize and the ANZA Technology Award at the same event. Monash Memo Story Latest Publications (2009): A. J. Lowery, "Reducing Cyclic Prefix Overhead in Optical OFDM Systems," European Conference on Optical Communications, (ECOC 2009), Vienna, Austria, paper 1.3.4 Liang B. Du, A. J. Lowery, " Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation for CO-OFDM Systems with Periodic Dispersion Maps ," Optical Fiber Telecommunications (OFC 2009), San Diego, CA, paper OTuO1 Brendon J. C. Schmidt, Arthur J. Lowery and Liang B. Du , " Low Sample Rate Transmitter for Direct-Detection Optical OFDM" Optical Fiber Telecommunications (OFC 2009), San Diego, CA, paper OWM4 Postdeadline Brendon J. C. Schmidt, Zuraidah Zan, Liang B. Du and Arthur J. Lowery, " 100 Gbit/s Transmission using Single-Band Direct-Detection Optical OFDM", Optical Fiber Telecommunications (OFC 2009), San Diego, CA, paper PDPC3 (a more detailed J. Lightwave Technology will appear in 2010) Brendon J. C. Schmidt, Arthur James Lowery, and Jean Armstrong, "Impact of PMD in Single-Receiver and Polarization-Diverse Direct-Detection Optical OFDM", J. Lightwave Technology, vol. 27, No. 14, July 15, 2009, pp. 2792-2799 Papers on noise and its mitigation for optical OFDM systems (and a full paper on our experimental demonstrations): A. J. Lowery, "Improving sensitivity and spectral efficiency in direct-detection OFDM lightwave systems," Optical Fiber Telecommunications (OFC 2008), San Diego, paper OMM4 Zuraidah Zan, Malin Premaratne and A. J. Lowery, " Laser RIN and linewidth requirements for direct detection optical OFDM," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2008), San Jose, May 2008, paper CWN2 A. J. Lowery, "Amplified-spontaneous noise limit of optical OFDM lightwave systems," Opt. Express 16, 860-865 (2008) B. Schmidt, A.J. Lowery and Jean Armstrong, "Experimental Demonstrations of Electronic Dispersion Compensation for Long-Haul Transmission Using Direct-Detection Optical OFDM", J. Lightwave Technology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Jan.1, 2008 Page(s):196 - 203 Papers on fiber nonlinearity and its compensation for optical OFDM systems: Liang B. Du, A. J. Lowery, " Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation for CO-OFDM Systems with Periodic Dispersion Maps ," Optical Fiber Telecommunications (OFC 2009), San Diego, paper OTuO1 Liang B. Du and A. J. Lowery, " Improved nonlinearity precompensation for long-haul high-data-rate transmission using coherent optical OFDM ," Opt. Express 16(24), 19920-19925 (2008) L. B. Du and A. J. Lowery, "Improving nonlinear precompensation in direct-detection optical OFDM communications systems," Presented at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Brussels, Sept. 2008, paper P. 4.08. A. J. Lowery, "Fiber nonlinearity and its compensation in direct-detection optical OFDM systems" (Invited) Workshop on multi-tone transmission techniques for optical networks, European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Brussels, Sept. 2008 Hu Chen, L. B. Du and A. J. Lowery, "Compatibility of Optical OFDM and NRZ in WDM Communication Links," Joint Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), Sydney, July 2008. http://www.iceaustralia.com/OECC_ACOFT2008/index.html L. B. Du and A. J. Lowery, "Fiber nonlinearity precompensation for long-haul links using direct-detection optical OFDM," Opt. Express 16, 6209-6215 (2008) A. J. Lowery, S. Wang, and M. Premaratne, "Calculation of power limit due to fiber nonlinearity in optical OFDM systems," Opt. Express 15, 13282-13287 (2007) A. J. Lowery, "Fiber nonlinearity pre- and post-compensation for long-haul optical links using OFDM," Opt. Express 15, 12965-12970 (2007) A. J. Lowery, "Fiber nonlinearity mitigation in optical links that use OFDM for dispersion compensation," Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE, vol. 19, pp. 1556-1558, 2007. Invited Papers and Keynote Speeches A. J. Lowery "Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing: the story so far....", Keynote Speech, International Symposium on Global Optical Infrastructure Technologies towards the Next Decades (A New Horizon of Innovations in Optical Communications Technologies), Wed 12th Nov. 2008, organised by NiCT, Tokyo, Japan A. J. Lowery "Electronic Dispersion Compensation and Optical OFDM", Keynote Speech, opening of Malaysia Photonics 2008, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, August 2008. A. J. Lowery, "Optical OFDM," Invited Talk, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2008), San Jose, May 2008, paper CWN1 Invited Tutorial at ECOC 2007 (Berlin): Adaptation of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, to Compensate Impairments in Optical Transmission Systems Experimental results for direct-detection OFDM for long-haul systems: OFC Postdeadline PDPC3 Brendon J. C. Schmidt, Zuraidah Zan, Liang B. Du and Arthur J. Lowery, " 100 Gbit/s Transmission using Single-Band Direct-Detection Optical OFDM", Optical Fiber Telecommunications (OFC 2009), San Diego, CA, paper PDPC3 (a more detailed J. Lightwave Technology will appear in 2010) Brendon J. C. Schmdt, A. J. Lowery, Liang B. Du, " Low Sample Rate Transmitter for Direct-Detection Optical OFDM ," Optical Fiber Telecommunications (OFC 2009), San Diego, paper OWM4 OFC Postdeadline PDP18, Brendon Schmidt, Arthur Lowery, Jean Armstrong, "Experimental Demonstrations of 20 Gbit/s Direct-Detection Optical OFDM and 12 Gbit/s with a colorless transmitter" Optical Fiber Communications, OFC2007, Anaheim, (Please cite the J.LT below as it is easier to access....) Brendon Schmidt, Arthur Lowery, Jean Armstrong, "Experimental Demonstrations of Electronic Dispersion Compensation for Long-Haul Transmission Using Direct-Detection Optical OFDM", Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 26(1), Jan. 2008. pp. 196-203 Early Long-Haul Optical OFDM Papers A. J. Lowery, L. Du, and J. Armstrong, "Performance of Optical OFDM in Ultralong-Haul WDM Lightwave Systems" Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 25(1), Jan 2007 pp. 131-138 A. J. Lowery and J. Armstrong, "Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for dispersion compensation of long-haul optical systems", Optics Express. Vol. 14, 2006, pp. 2079-2084 (2006) Invited A. J. Lowery and J. Armstrong, "Orthogonal-Frequency-Division Multiplexing for Optical Dispersion Compensation" Optical Fiber Communications, OFC 2007, paper OTuA4

Arthur Lowery is an engineer, innovator and educator with a proven success record transforming ground breaking technical innovations into successful international businesses. His core competencies in management of research and development, communications technology, intellectual property management, export marketing, and innovative teaching. He has a proven track record launching Australian businesses in US and Europe , and has extensive contacts in the global scientific and technical business communities.

Arthur built the global Photonic Design Automation (PDA) industry from his fundamental research in semiconductor laser modeling (see http://www.vpiphotonics.com ). In 1996 he founded Virtual Photonics Pty Ltd (later Inc) with Phil Gurney, to commercialise OPALS, a software tool for designing optical communications devices and circuits. In 1997 GOLD was launched to an enthusiastic and rapidly-growing market. GOLD (Gigabit Optical Link Designer) was developed in a joint project with Telstra and the University of Melbourne. Phil and Arthur merged Virtual Photonics Inc with BNeD Inc, a competitor out of the Heinrich Hertz Institute (Berlin) that had obtained government funding and VC money, to form VPI Virtual Photonics Inc in late 1998 (known in the industry as VPI). VPI has grown by technology acquisition and internal development to be the leading supplier of design tools for communication components, systems and networks (see www.vpisystems.com and www.vpiphotonics.com ). VPI boasts 150 corporations as customers and VPI’s software tools are used by over 130 universities for research and teaching. Free software tools are available for teaching at http://www.vpiphotonics.com/VPIplayer.php.

Arthur was appointed Chair of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, at Monash University (15 km SE of Melbourne City) in September 2004 ( www.ecse.monash.edu.au)

In 2008, Arthur founded Ofidium Pty Ltd, (www.ofidium.com) which secured A$6M of funding in March 2009 (Press Release).

His research interests include:

• Optical OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) - the use of OFDM techniques to improve the performance of fiber and free-space optical systems http://www.opticsexpress.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=86439&seq=0 http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-6-2079
• Design Automation – the use of computer tools to streamline design processes and form tightly-integrated design chains throughout research communities and  industry
• Photonic Circuits and Systems – creating novel topologies of photonic components to create useful circuit functionality and improve systems http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-13-1-290
• Laser instrumentation design http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-13-10-3647
• Electronics for biomedical applications.

Arthur's publications list can be found here (with downloads).

Arthur is currently seeking PhD students to help create new global industries from high-tech research. He can be contacted at Arthur.lowery@eng.monash.edu.au

Just for fun: hear what lasers and optical systems sound like!

Arthur has transposed the outputs of computer simulations into audio files. These reveal the fascinating spectral dynamics of lasers and systems.

The simulations were 'performed' using VPIsystems' VPItransmissionMaker and VPIcomponentMaker products. VPIcomponentMaker is based on Arthur's early work on time-domain modeling of semiconductor lasers (the Transmission Line Laser Model, TLLM), which is widely used for active photonic circuit design and is often called the time-domain model of lasers.