Bill Corcoran

Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

Phone+61399050265
EmailBill.Corcoran@monash.edu

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PhD projects

Rainbows on Demand (ARC DP19) This project aims to create photonic circuit technologies that will generate hundreds of coherent laser lines from a single chip. The emerging industrially scalable silicon nitride on thin-film lithium niobate platform will be advanced to create resonant modulators and nonlinear waveguides with unprecedented efficiency and innovative monitoring and control techniques. When combined, these components will enable highly flexible and robust systems for generating a comb of coherent laser lines. These photonic chip comb sources will be inexpensive, compact and energy efficient with transformative impact in spectroscopy, microscopy, precision measurement, quantum computing and ultra-fast optical fibre communications. Needle in a Haystack: Brillouin processing (ARC DP19) The project aims to apply Brillouin processing to the development of an innovative self-tracking optical filter for isolating optical carriers in the coherent receiver of future ultrahigh bit-rate optical communication systems. By recovering a needle-like optical carrier with great precision from a drifting sea of wide-band noise and data channels, the project expects to minimise the effect of optical carrier distortions on the data-carrying signals. The project should advance knowledge in optical signal processing and communications technologies, with outcomes that increase the data-carrying capacity of optical networks. Future telecommunication networks should benefit through improved transmission rates and extended fibre links.

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Biography

Bill is a Lecturer at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), with research focusing on optical communications and the application of photonics to communication systems.

Bill had his PhD conferred in Physics at the University of Sydney in 2011, focused on light-by-light control on photonic chips (enhanced optical nonlinearities in silicon waveguides), and it's applications to fibre optic systems. From 2011 to 2013 he held a post-doctoral position at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Seeden) ) on a novel type of optical amplifier (phase-sensitive fibre optic parametric amplification), and the use of their unique properties in optical communications.

In 2014, he joined Monash as a project leader the Terabit-per-second Systems flagship of ARC Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), focused on processing high-capacity optical 'super-channels'. In 2015, he joined the faculty as part of the department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash, and began establishing the Monash Photonic Communications Laboratory.

Research area keywords

Applied Physics
Communication Systems
ENGINEERING
Electro-optical Technology
Electronic/Optical Materials
Fiber Optics
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Lasers
Optical Communications
Optics
Photonics
Physical Sciences
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY/MATHEMATICS/COMPUTER SCIENCE
Signal processing
Telecommunications

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95 Conference Paper
64 Article
1 Review Article

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks
Xu, X., Tan, M., Corcoran, B., Wu, J., Boes, A., Nguyen, T. G., Chu, S. T., Little, B. E., Hicks, D. G., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A. & Moss, D. J., 6 Jan 2021, In : Nature. 589, 7840, p. 44-51 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Broadband SBS filter for optical carrier recovery applications in telecommunication systems
Zarifi, A., Merklein, M., Liu, Y., Choudhary, A., Eggleton, B. J. & Corcoran, B., May 2020, 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO): Proceedings. Ilev, I. & Müller, D. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Vol. 2020. p. 1-2 2 p. (Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS; vol. 2020-May).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
Clamping of noise from a stimulated Brillouin scattering amplifier through optical injection locking
Kotecha, S., Zafiri, A., Merklein, M., Liu, Y., Choudhary, A., Eggleton, B. & Corcoran, B., 2020, Proceedings 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO PR 2020). Vanholsbeeck, F., Roberts, A., de Sterke, M. & Jackson, S. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 3 p. 9256187
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
EDFA-band coverage broadband SBS filter for optical carrier recovery
Zarifi, A., Merklein, M., Liu, Y., Choudhary, A., Eggleton, B. J. & Corcoran, B., 2020, Proceedings 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO PR 2020). Vanholsbeeck, F., Roberts, A., de Sterke, M. & Jackson, S. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2 p. 9256154
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
Electro-optical tuning of phase matching wavelength in Lithium Niobate on insulator (LNOI)
Huang, H., Zhou, H., Boes, A., Nguyen, T., Corcoran, B., Chang, L., Bowers, J. & Mitchell, A., 2020, Proceedings 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO PR 2020). Vanholsbeeck, F., Roberts, A., de Sterke, M. & Jackson, S. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 3 p. 9256189
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

CISRA Postgraduate Prize
Corcoran, Bill (Recipient), 2009
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Dean's Prize for Outreach
Corcoran, Bill (Recipient), 2008
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Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement
Corcoran, Bill (Recipient), 2009
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Wanda Henry Prize (Best Student Paper)
Corcoran, Bill (Recipient), 2010
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