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A/PROF ANN ROBERTS



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies, Physics
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow), ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email:
Work: 8344 5038
Mobile: 0409 011 262
Fax: 9347 4783
Room: 504
Level: 05
Building: Physics Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Optical Physics Optics; Photonics; Nanophotonics; Imaging; Microscopy Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
France Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Sydney 18-May-1985
Doctor of Philosophy University of Sydney 01-Apr-1989

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Registered Australian Optical Society 12-Jul-2006
Registered Optical Society of America 31-Dec-2005
Member Australian Institute of Physics 31-Dec-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellowship Visit to National University of Singapore August 2007 - $5,000 24-Nov-2006
Scholarship Australian Academy of Science - Scientific Visit to Europe Visit to Imperial College October 2007 - Airfare - $2,500 + Living expenses $6,100 22-Dec-2007
Medal University of Sydney University Medal in Physics 18-May-1985
Scholarship Australian Research Council Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award 31-Dec-1985
Scholarship Mitsui Educational Foundation Visiting Fellowship to Japan 31-Dec-1985
Scholarship Telecom Telecom Short Term Research Fellowship 31-Dec-1991

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
The behaviour of western artists' materials in tropical environments Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2002
Innovation in photonic device imaging: the keystone for future technologies Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
Quantum and classical imaging with light and atoms Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
MICROCHARACTERISATION OF RARE-EARTH-DOPED OPTICAL FIBRES Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2005
PHASE SINGULARITIES IN FOCUSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS Chief Investigator AUST ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Scientific Visits to Europe 22/12/2006
Next generation front projection screens Chief Investigator HERMA PROJECTION SCREEN TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/07/2007
Nanophotonic resonators: Metamaterials, extraordinary transmission & sensing Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
LASER FACILITY FOR QUANTUM OPTICS, IMAGING, AND FABRICATION Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Dual resonance mechanisms facilitating enhanced optical transmission in coaxial waveguide arrays


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optics Letters
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 821-823
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  • Index mapping for fibers with symmetric and asymmetric refractive index profiles
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 15
    Page numbers: 10912-10917
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  • Quantitative phase and refractive index analysis of optical fibers using differential interference contrast microscopy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Applied Optics
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 28
    Page numbers: 5182-5189
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  • Three-Dimensional Refractive Index Reconstruction With Quantitative Phase Tomography
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Microscopy Research and Technique
    Volume: 71
    Page numbers: 5-10
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Cardiomycytes birefingence imaging: simultaneous phase and retardation 2D measurements
    Year: 2007
    Journal: G I T Imaging & Microscopy
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 62-64
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  • Experimental measurement of the four-dimensional coherence function for an undulator x-ray source
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physical Review Letters
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 2248011-2248014
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  • Extraordinary optical transmission with coaxial apertures
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters
    Volume: 90
    Page numbers: 2511071-2511073
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  • Modelling of classical ghost images obtained using scattered light
    Year: 2007
    Journal: New Journal of Physics
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 2851-28510
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  • Noninterferometric characterization of partially coherent scalar wave fields and application to scattered light
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of the Optical Society of America A -Optics Image Science and Vision
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 3189-3197
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  • Optical properties of silver composite metamaterials
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physica B
    Volume: 394
    Page numbers: 176-179
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  • Optical tomographic reconstruction of ion beam induced refractive index changes in silica
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters
    Volume: 91
    Page numbers: 1811021-1811023
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  • Quantitative polarized phase microscopy for birefringence imaging
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 26
    Page numbers: 17690-17698
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A photographic method for documenting daylight fluorescent paint
    Year: 2007
    Event name: AICCM National Conference Brisbane 2007
    Conference Publication: Contemporary Collections: AICCM National Conference
    Page numbers: 31-36
    Publisher: Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Analysis of changes in optical fibers during arc-fusion splicing by use of quantitative phase imaging
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Microscopy Research and Technique
    Volume: 69
    Page numbers: 847-851
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  • Phase-sensitive imaging techniques applied to optical fibre characterisation
    Year: 2006
    Journal: IET Optoelectronics
    Volume: 153
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 217-221
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  • Quantitative investigation of the refractive-index modulation within the core of a fiber Bragg grating
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 10332-10338
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  • Resonance and extraordinary transmission in annular aperture arrays
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 26
    Page numbers: 12623-12628
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  • Simultaneous multidopant investigation of rare-earth-doped optical fibers by an ion microprobe
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Optics Letters
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 3258-3260
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  • Single cell volume measurement by Quantitative Phase Microscopy (QPM): A case study of Erythrocyte Morphology
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 193-200
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Nanoscale annular array metamaterials


    Year: 2006
    Event name: ICONN 2006
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
    Page numbers: 355-358
    Publisher: IEEE Press(Melbourne)
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  • Investigation of dopant profiles in erbium doped optical fibres by ion microprobe and fluorescence confocal microscopy
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 31st Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and Meeting of the Australian Optical Society
    Conference Publication: ACOFT&AOS Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 97-99
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Micro-tomographic reconstruction for arbitrary refractive index profiling of optical fibers
    Year: 2006
    Event name: A NIST Symposium for Photonic and Fiber Measurements
    Conference Publication: Technical Digest: SOFM 2006
    Volume: 1055
    Page numbers: 119-122
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Non-destructive three-dimensional index profiling of optical fibres and photonic devices
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 31st Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and Meeting of the Australian Optical Society
    Conference Publication: ACOFT&AOS Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 103-105
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Micro-characterisation of erbium-doped fibers using a Raman confocal microscope
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 5506-5512
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  • Phase space density measurement of interfering x-rays
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and