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Prof Arthur Lowery - Researcher Profile

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Arthur Lowery is internationally recognised for his innovations in optical communications and commercialisation of research ideas. Arthur has founded two companies, Virtual Photonics Pty Ltd (now VPIsystems) and Ofidium Pty Ltd). He has also published more than 220 scientific papers. Arthur is the Director of the Monash Vision Group, which aims to develop a bionic eye implant by 2013 and is funded by the Australian Research Council's Special Research Initiative in bionic vision. Arthur is a Fellow of the IEEE (for leadership in computer aided design of optical communications systems), ATSE and the IET. Arthur is also a Science Leader in the ARC's Centre of Excellence in Devices for Ultrahigh bandwidth Optical Systems (CUDOS).

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As a child, Arthur was always disappointed by the constraints placed on him when constructing Lego and Meccano kits. Bored with simply replicating the image on the box, he wanted to make something capable of producing unknown, unpredictable results.

It is this drive that led him to his first breakthrough as an engineer and researcher. With new technology established in his PhD and later developed with colleague Phil Gurney, Arthur founded VPIsystems, a software company whose products have been used to establish high-bandwidth telecommunications networks around Australia, the US, Europe and Russia. The software has become a cornerstone of optical communications research and has been referenced in more than 1000 publications around the world.

Unlike the static constructions kits of his youth, the VPIsystems software is near endlessly flexible, a simulation able to quickly predict the outcome of combining a range of technologies within a data-centric network.

Arthur continued this record of translating research into real world success when he joined Monash in 2004. Along with Professor Jean Armstrong, Arthur and Jean turned pioneering bandwidth-boosting research into patented technology – known as optical OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing). Arthur then founded a spin-out company, Ofidium, to develop techniques to increase the transmission capacity of new and existing optical fibre links.

Arthur’s research success has been broadly respected. He is Chair of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash and has over 200 refereed publications and several patents. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA), the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and of the Institution of Engineers and Technology (UK).

Such a pedigree is needed when you are project leader of a research effort as ambitious as the Monash Vision direct to brain bionic eye collaboration. The project will develop a brain implant to directly stimulate the V1 visual cortex and be appropriate for people of all ages with vision impairment caused by a number of conditions, including glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. These three conditions cause up to 85 per cent of cases of clinical blindness.

Using digital cameras mounted on a pair of glasses – customised for both indoors and out – Arthur and colleagues from Monash, Alfred Health, MiniFAB and Grey Innovation will be able to send visual signals directly to the brain, bypassing any potentially damaged optics such as the eyeball and optic nerve.

“The scientific trick is taking the large amounts of information, the megapixels of information coming from the camera and working out the best way to present it in a few hundred pixels, dots of you like, that will be presented on the brain in order to give the maximum amount of useful information,” Arthur says.

“Similar to the way radar works or the way the brain makes sense of the blurred images of a movie, it is amazing what you can do with what seems like very limited information.

“One of the keys is that, just like a movie, the visual information is being updated very rapidly, and your brain is quite good at putting limited information streaming into it into a context.

“For people with major vision impairment the bionic eye will restore their freedom and independence.”

Keywords

Bionic Vision, Laser instrumentation design , Optical OFDM , Photonic Circuits and Systems, Research Management

Qualifications

PhD, Electronic Engineering: Institution: University of Nottingham; Year awarded: 1998

BSc(Hons) Applied Physics (with Electronics): Institution: Durham University; Year awarded: 1983

Publications

Journal Articles

Brunton, E.K., Lowery, A., Rajan, R., 2012, A comparison of microelectrodes for a visual cortical prosthesis using finite element analysis, Frontiers in Neuroengineering [E], vol 5, Frontiers Research Foundation, Switzerland, pp. 1-23.

Du, L., Morshed, M.M., Lowery, A., 2012, Fiber nonlinearity compensation for OFDM super-channels using optical phase conjugation, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 18, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 19921-19927.

Zhu, C., Tran, A., Chen, S., Du, L., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Frequency-domain blind equalization for long-haul coherent pol-mux 16-QAM system with CD prediction and dual-mode adaptive algorithm, I E E E Photonics Journal [E], vol 4, issue 5, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 1653-1661.

Zhu, C., Tran, A., Chen, S., Du, L., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Improved two-stage equalization for coherent Pol-Mux QPSK and 16-QAM systems, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 26, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 41-50.

Lowery, A., 2012, Inserting a cyclic prefix using arrayed-waveguide grating routers in all-optical OFDM transmitters, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 9, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 9742-9754.

Chen, S., Anderson, T., Hewitt, D., Tran, A., Zhu, C., Du, L., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Optical performance monitoring for OFDM using low bandwidth coherent receivers, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 27, Optical Society of America, United States, pp. 28724-28733.

Hong, Y., Lowery, A., Viterbo, E., 2012, Sensitivity improvement and carrier power reduction in direct-detection optical OFDM systems by subcarrier pairing, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 2, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 1635-1648.

Zhu, C., Tran, A., Chen, S., Du, L., Do, C.C., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Statistical moments-based OSNR monitoring for coherent optical systems, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 16, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 17711-17721.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2012, The validity of "Odd and Even" channels for testing all-optical OFDM and Nyquist WDM long-haul fiber systems, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 26, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 45-51.

Lowery, A., Du, L., 2011, All-optical OFDM transmitter design using AWGRs and low-banwidth modulators, Optics Express [P], vol 19, issue 17, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 15696-15704.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2011, No-guard-interval coherent optical OFDM with self-tuning receiver, Optics Express [P], vol 19, issue 3, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 2181-2186.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2011, Optimizing the subcarrier granularity of coherent optical communications systems, Optics Express [P], vol 19, issue 9, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 8079-8084.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2011, Pilot-based XPM nonlinearity compensator for CO-OFDM system, Optics Express [P], vol 19, issue 26, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 862-867.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2011, Pilot-based cross-phase modulation compensation for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing long-haul optical communications systems, Optics Letters [P], vol 36, issue 9, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 1647-1649.

Lowery, A., 2010, Design of arrayed-waveguide grating routers for use as optical OFDM demultiplexers, Optics Express [P], vol 18, issue 13, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 14129-14143.

Zan, Z., Lowery, A., 2010, Experimental demonstration of a flexible and stable semiconductor laser linewidth emulator, Optics Express [P], vol 18, issue 13, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 13880-13885.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2010, Improved single channel backpropagation for intra-channel fiber nonlinearity compensation in long-haul optical communication systems, Optics Express [P], vol 18, issue 16, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 17075-17088.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2010, Practical XPM compensation method for coherent optical OFDM systems, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters [P], vol 22, issue 5, IEEE-Inst. Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 320-322.

Tran, D., Lowery, A., 2010, SPM mitigation in 16-ary amplitude-anddifferential-phase shift keying long-haul optical transmission systems, Optics Express [P], vol 18, issue 8, Optical Society of America, Washington DC, USA, pp. 7790-7797.

Schmidt, B.J., Lowery, A., Armstrong, J., 2009, Impact of PMD in single-receiver and polarization-diverse direct-detection optical OFDM, Journal of Lightwave Technology [P], vol 27, issue 14, IEEE/LEOS, USA, pp. 2792-2799.

Lowery, A., 2008, Amplified-spontaneous noise limit of optical OFDM lightwave systems, Optics Express, vol 16, issue 2, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 860-865.

Schmidt, B.J., Lowery, A., Armstrong, J., 2008, Experimental demonstrations of electronic dispersion compensation for long-haul transmission using direct-detection optical OFDM, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 26, issue 1, IEEE, USA, pp. 196-203.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2008, Fiber nonlinearity precompensation for long-haul links using direct-detection optical OFDM, Optics Express, vol 16, issue 9, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 6209-6215.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2008, Improved nonlinearity precompensation for long-haul high-data-rate transmission using coherent optical OFDM, Optics Express, vol 16, issue 24, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 19920-19925.

Lowery, A., Wang, S.J., Premaratne, M.H., 2007, Calculation of Four-wave mixing in optical OFDM lightwave systems, Optics Express, vol 15, issue 20, OSA, USA, pp. 13282-13287.

Lowery, A., Wang, S.J., Premaratne, M.H., 2007, Calculation of power limit due to fiber nonlinearity in optical OFDM systems, Optic Express, vol 15, issue 20, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 13282-13287.

Lowery, A., 2007, Fiber nonlinearity mitigation in optical links that use OFDM for dispersion compensation, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol 19, issue 19, IEEE, USA, pp. 1556-1558.

Lowery, A., 2007, Fiber nonlinearity pre- and post-compensation for long-haul optical links using OFDM, Optics Exrpess, vol 15, issue 20, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 12965-12970.

Lowery, A., Du, L., Armstrong, J., 2007, Performance of optical OFDM in ultralong-haul WDM lightwave systems, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 25, issue 1, IEEE/OSA, USA, pp. 131-138.

Lowery, A.J., Armstrong, J., 2006, Orthogonal-frequency-division multiplexing for dispersion compensation of long-haul optical systems, Optics Express, vol 14, issue 6, The Optical Society of America, Washington USA, pp. 2079-2084.

Armstrong, J., Lowery, A.J., 2006, Power efficient optical OFDM, Electronics Letters, vol 42, issue 6, IEE Publishing, Stevenage UK, pp. 370-372.

Premaratne, M.H., Lowery, A.J., 2006, Semiclassical analysis of the impact of noise in SOA-based optical pulse delay discriminator, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol 12, issue 4, IEEE, USA, pp. 708-716.

Lowery, A.J., Armstrong, J., 2005, 10 Gbit/s multimode fiber link using power-efficient orthogonal-frequency- division multiplexing, Optics Express, vol 13, issue 25, Optical Society of America, Massachusetts USA, pp. 10003-10009.

Premaratne, M.H., Lowery, A.J., 2005, Analytical characterization of SOA-based optical pulse delay discriminator, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 23, issue 9, IEEE, USA, pp. 2778-2787.

Lowery, A.J., Premaratne, M.H., 2005, Design and simulation of a simple laser rangefinder using a semiconductor optical amplifier-detector, Optics Express, vol 13, issue 10, Optical Society of America, Washington USA, pp. 3647-3652.

Lowery, A., 2005, Performance predictions and topology improvements for optical serrodyne comb generators, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 23, issue 8, IEEE, Piscataway USA, pp. 2371-2379.

Lowery, A.J., Premaratne, M.H., 2005, Reduced component count optical delay discriminator using a semiconductor optical amplifier-detector, Optics Express, vol 13, issue 1, Optical Society of America, Washington USA, pp. 290-295.

Premaratne, M.H., Premaratne, E., Lowery, A.J., 2005, The photon transport equation for turbid biological media with spatially varying isotropic refractive index, Optics Express, vol 13, issue 2, Optical Society of America, Washington USA, pp. 389-399.

Conference Proceedings

Du, L., Morshed, M.M., Lowery, A., 2012, 604-Gb/s coherent optical OFDM over 800 km of S-SMF with mid-span spectral inversion, OECC 2012 - 17th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2 July 2012 to 6 July 2012, IEEE, USA, pp. 41-42.

Du, L., Schroeder, J., Lowery, A., 2012, Blind subcarrier equalization without pre-filtering for optical OFDM systems, OFC/NFOEC, 4 March 2012 to 8 March 2012, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-3.

Zhu, C., Tran, A., Chen, S., Du, L., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Dual-stage frequency domain blind equalization for long-haul coherent polarization-multiplexed QPSK and 16-QAM systems, European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication, 16 September 2012 to 20 September 2012, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-3.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2012, Experimental investigation of the effect of using 'Odd and Even' channels in all-optical OFDM and Nyquist WDM system comparisons, European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication, 16 September 2012 to 20 September 2012, Optical Society of America, Washington DC, pp. 1-3.

Zhu, C., Tran, A., Chen, S., Du, L., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Frequency domain multi-modulus blind equalization for coherent 16 QAM polarization-multiplexed system, OECC 2012 - 17th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2 July 2012 to 6 July 2012, IEEE, USA, pp. 150-151.

Schroder, J., Roelens, M.A.F., Du, L., Lowery, A., Eggleton, B.J., 2012, LCOS based waveshaper technology for optical signal processing and performance monitoring, 2012 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2 July 2012 to 6 July 2012, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, pp. 859-860.

Zhu, C., Tran, A., Chen, S., Du, L., Do, C.C., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Moments-based OSNR monitoring for QPSK and QAM coherent optical systems, OECC 2012 - 17th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2 July 2012 to 6 July 2012, IEEE, USA, pp. 747-748.

Schroder, J., Roelens, M.A.F., Du, L., Lowery, A., Eggleton, B.J., 2012, Multi-output-port spectral pulse-shaping for simulating complex interferometric structures, 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 6 May 2012 to 11 May 2012, The Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 1-2.

Anderson, T., Chen, S., Tran, A., Hewitt, D., Du, L., Lowery, A., 2012, Optical performance monitoring with low bandwidth coherent receivers, European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication, 16 September 2012 to 20 September 2012, Optical Society of America, Washington DC, pp. 1-3.

Do, C.C., Tran, A., Zhu, C., Chen, S., Du, L., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, PMD monitoring in 16-QAM coherent optical system using golay sequences, OECC 2012 - 17th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2 July 2012 to 6 July 2012, IEEE, USA, pp. 767-768.

Morshed, M.M., Du, L., Lowery, A., 2012, Performance limitation of coherent optical OFDM systems with non-ideal optical phase conjugation, Photonics Conference (IPC) 2012 IEEE, 23 September 2012 to 27 September 2012, IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 394-395.

Schroeder, J., Du, L., Roelens, M.A.F., Eggleton, B.J., Lowery, A., 2012, Reconfigurable all-optical discrete fourier transform in a wavelength selective switch for optical OFDM demultiplexing, OFC/NFOEC, 4 March 2012 to 8 March 2012, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-3.

Lowery, A., 2012, Sensitivity to phase errors of fourier transforms using arrayed waveguide grating routers for optical OFDM, OFC/NFOEC, 4 March 2012 to 8 March 2012, Optical Society of America, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-3.

Tran, A., Zhu, C., Do, C.C., Chen, S., Du, L., Anderson, T., Hewitt, D., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Single carrier QPSK and 16 QAM system demonstration using frequency domain equalization and training sequences, OECC2012 - The 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2 July 2012 to 6 July 2012, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA, pp. 463-464.

Zhu, C., Tran, A., Chen, S., Du, L., Anderson, T., Lowery, A., Skafidas, E.S., 2012, Two-stage frequency domain blind equalization for coherent pol-mux 16-QAM system with CD prediction and dual-mode adaptive algorithm, IPC 2012 IEEE Photonics Conference, 23 September 2012 to 27 September 2012, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 451-452.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2011, Experimental demonstration of XPM compensation for CO-OFDM systems with periodic dispersion maps, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC 2011), 6 March 2011 to 10 March 2011, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-3.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2010, Compensating XPM for 100 Gbit/s coherent channels with 10 Gbit/s direct-detection NRZ neighbors, Proceedings of OFC/NFOEC 2010 - Optical Fiber Communication Conf. and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conf., 21 March 2010 to 25 March 2010, The Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 1-3.

Du, L., Schmidt, B., Lowery, A., 2010, Efficient digital backpropagation for PDM-CO-OFDM optical transmission systems, Proceedings of the 2010 (OFC/NFOEC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 21 March 2010 to 25 March 2010, Optical Society of America, USA, pp. 1-3.

Zan, Z., Du, L., Lowery, A., 2010, Experimental demonstration on the reduction of linewidth impact of a self-heterodyne optical OFDM system, Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 21 March 2010 to 25 March 2010, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-3.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2010, Mitigation of dispersion penalty for short-cyclic-prefix coherent optical OFDM systems, Proceedings of the 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication, 19 September 2010 to 23 September 2010, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-3.

Schmidt, B.J., Zan, Z., Du, L., Lowery, A., 2009, 100 Gbit/s transmission using single-band direct-detection optical OFDM, OFC/NFOEC 2009, 22 March 2009 to 26 March 2009, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-3.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2009, Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation for CO-OFDM Systems with Periodic Dispersion Maps, OFC/NFOEC 2009, 22 March 2009 to 26 March 2009, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-3.

Schmidt, B.J., Lowery, A., Du, L., 2009, Low sample rate transmitter for direct-detection optical OFDM, OFC/NFOEC 2009, 22 March 2009 to 26 March 2009, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-3.

Lowery, A., 2009, Reducing Cyclic Prefix Overhead in Optical OFDM Systems, 35th European Conference on Optical Communication Proceedings, 20 September 2009 to 24 September 2009, IEEE VDE Verlag GMBH, Austria, pp. 1-2.

Chen, H., Du, L., Lowery, A., 2008, Compatibility of optical OFDM and NRZ in WDM communication links., Proc. of the Joint Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference 2008 - (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology 2008 - (ACOFT), July 7 2008 to July 10 2008, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-2.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2008, Improving nonlinear porecompensation in direct-detection optical OFDM communication systems., Proc. of the European Conference on Optical Communications 2008 - (ECOC2008), September 21 2008 to September 25 2008, IEEE, USA, pp. 147-148.

Lowery, A., 2008, Improving sensitivity and spectral efficiency in direct-detection optical ODFM systems., Proc. of the Optical Fiber Communications/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2008 - (OFC/NFOEC2008), February 24 2008 to February 28 2008, IEEE, USA, pp. OMM4-1-OMM4-3.

Zan, Z., Premaratne, M.H., Lowery, A., 2008, Laser RIN and linewidth requirements for direct-detection optical OFDM., Proc. of the 28th Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference 2008 - (CLEO/IQEC2008), May 4 2008 to May 9 2008, IEEE, USA, pp. CWN2-1-CWN2-2.

Lowery, A., 2008, Optical OFDM, Proc. of the 28th Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference 2008 - (CLEO/IQEC2008), May 4 2008 - May 9 2008, IEEE, USA, pp. CWN1-1-CWN1-2.

Lowery, A., Armstrong, J., 2007, Dispersion compensation in long haul transmission systems - an orthogonal approach, Proc. of the Optical Internet and the Optical Fibre Technology Conference on., 24th June 2007 - 27th June 2007, IEEE, USA, pp. 1-3.

Schmidt, B.J., Lowery, A., Armstrong, J., 2007, Experimental demonstrations of 20Gbit/s Direct-Detection optical OFDM and 12 Gbit/s with a colorless transmitter, PFC/NFOEC 2007 Postdeadline Papers, 25th March 2007 - 29th March 2007, Omnipress (Madison), Madison Wisconsin, USA, pp. 1-3.

Lowery, A., Armstrong, J., 2007, Orthogonal-frequency-divison multiplexing for optical dispersion compensation, Proc. of Otpcial Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2007 OFC/NFOEC 2007 Conference on., 24th March 2007 - 29th March 2007, IEEE, Anaheim, CA, pp. 1-3.

Lowery, A.J., Armstrong, J., 2006, Comparison of power-efficient optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed transmission methods, ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Proceedings, 10 July 2006 to13 July 2006, Australian Optical Society, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-3.

Dallaali, M.A., Premaratne, M.H., Lowery, A., 2006, Cost optimal strategies for placement of amplifiers in a point to point optical link, 2006 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, 11 September 2006 to 14 September 2006, IEEE, Piscataway USA, pp. 69-70.

Gopalakrishnapillai, B.S., Lee, K.L., Lowery, A.J., Premaratne, M.H., Shinada, S., Wada, N., Miyazaki, T., Nirmalathas, A., Lim, C., 2006, Experimental demonstration of a simple time-of-flight rangefinder based on semiconductor optical amplifier, 2006 OFC/NFOEC Technical Digest, 5 March 2006 to 10 March 2006, IEEE, NJ USA, pp. OTul5-1-OTul5-3.

Lowery, A.J., Du, L., Armstrong, J., 2006, Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for adaptive dispersion compensation in long-haul WDM systems, 2006 OFC/NFOEC Technical Digest, 5 March 2006 to 10 March 2006, Omnipress, Madisson WI USA, pp. 1-3.

Armstrong, J., Schmidt, B.J.C., Kalra, D., Suraweera, H.A., Lowery, A.J., 2006, Performance of asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM in AWGN for an intensity modulated direct detection system, IEEE Globecom 2006 Proceedings, 27 November 2006 to 1 December 2006, IEEE, New York USA, pp. 1-5.

Du, L., Lowery, A.J., Armstrong, J., 2006, WDM channel spacing in ultra long haul optical OFDM systems, ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Proceedings, 10 July 2006 to 13 July 2006, Australian Optical Society, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 7-9.

Lowery, A., Premaratne, M.H., 2005, Programmed wavelength-hopping semiconductor laser, Proceedings of LEOS 2005, 23-27/10/2005, IEEE, USA, pp. 796-797.

Other

Schmidt, B., Lowery, A., Armstrong, J., 2010, Method and apparatus for reception of optical signals, Melbourne Australia.

Armstrong, J., Lowery, A., 2010, Methods and apparatus for optical transmission of digital systems, Australia.

Lowery, A., Armstrong, J., 2009, Methods and apparatus for generation and transmission of digital signals, Australia.

Du, L., Lowery, A., 2009, Non-linearity compensation in an optical transmission, Patent Office, Australian Government , IP Australia.

Lowery, A., 2009, Optical OFDM transmission with improved efficiency, Patents Office, Australian Government, IP Australia.

Armstrong, J., Lowery, A., 2009, Reception of signals transmitted over a dispersive optical channel, Patent Office, Australian Government, IP Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Examination of new pharmacological therapies in a rat model of diffuseTraumatic Brain injury.
Supervisors:: Rajan, R (Main), Lowery, A (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Mitigation of fiber nonlinear effect using mid-span spectral inversion in CO-OFDM systems.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main), Li, J (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Optimising electrode geomentry for a cortical visual prosthesis.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Joint-co), Rajan, R (Joint).

Program of Study:: (MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: TBA.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main), Viterbo, E (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:: Al-Aubaidy, Z.
Program of Study:: Effect of semiconductor laser noise on coherent optical OFDM systems. (PHD) 2012.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main).
Student:: Amaratunga, V.
Program of Study:: Modelling and numerical simulation of mesoscopic semiconductor optoelectronic devices. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:: Premaratne, M (Main), Lowery, A (Associate).
Student:: Chan, C.
Program of Study:: Characterization and design-optimization of Raman amplifiers. (PHD) 2006.
Supervisors:: Premaratne, M (Main), Lowery, A (Associate).
Student:: Chen, H.
Program of Study:: Interoperability of NRZ/EPD and O-OFDM in optical communication systems. (Masters) 2008.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main), Premaratne, M (Associate).
Student:: Dallaali, M.
Program of Study:: Constrained design optimization of point-to-point optical links. (PHD) 2006.
Supervisors:: Premaratne, M (Main), Lowery, A (Associate).
Student:: Dissanayake, C.
Program of Study:: Numerical modeling and simulation of active and passive silicon photonic waveguides. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:: Premaratne, M (Main), Lowery, A (Associate).
Student:: Du, L.
Program of Study:: Fibre nonlinearity mitigation techniques in optical communication systems. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main), Premaratne, M (Associate).
Student:: Li, X.
Program of Study:: OFDM for optical and radio communications: performance and channel capacity of ACO-OFDM and performance of MIMO PCC OFDM with time offsets. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:: Armstrong, J (Main), Lowery, A (Associate).
Student:: Nguyen, D.
Program of Study:: Generation propagation and detection of multi-bound solitons for optical communications. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main).
Student:: Nguyen, T.
Program of Study:: Energy-efficient routing algorithms in wireless sensor networks. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:: Egan, G (Joint), Lowery, A (Joint-Co).
Student:: Rawal, A.
Program of Study:: Development of a Dual-Planar L-Shaped RFID Tag Antenna. (Masters) 2010.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main), Premaratne, M (Joint).
Student:: Roy, S.
Program of Study:: Development of a frequency encoded chipless RFID tag. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:: Karmakar, N (Main), Lowery, A (Associate).
Student:: Singh, A.
Program of Study:: Modeling silicon on insulator photonic devices. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main).
Student:: Tran, D.
Program of Study:: Multi-level optical modulation for optical fiber communication. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main).
Student:: Wang, S.
Program of Study:: Effect of four wave mixing (FWM) in coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems. (Masters) 2008.
Supervisors:: Lowery, A (Main), Premaratne, M (Associate).