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Benjamin J. Eggleton

Benjamin J. Eggleton

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Australia
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
123
Citations
46799
World Ranking
56
National Ranking
4

Physics

D-Index
124
Citations
48231
World Ranking
701
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Australia Leader Award
  • 2019 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the development and applications of Bragg gratings and other periodic structures in optical fibers
  • 2003 - OSA Fellows For fundamental contributions to the understanding of light propagation in optical fiber gratings and for the invention and subsequent development of novel types of fiber-based photonic devices.

Overview

Benjamin J. Eggleton is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus in Engineering and Physics and Astronomy.

Their work encompasses several subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Key research topics by Benjamin J. Eggleton cover:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Frequent publication venues include:

  • APL Photonics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nanophotonics
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Laser & Photonics Review

Notable recent papers by Eggleton are:

  • Nanotechnology for a Sustainable Future: Addressing Global Challenges with the International Network4Sustainable Nanotechnology, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Integrated microwave photonic filters, 2020, Advances in Optics and Photonics
  • Roadmap for phase change materials in photonics and beyond, 2023, iScience
  • Photonic radar for contactless vital sign detection, 2023, Nature Photonics
  • 100 years of Brillouin scattering: Historical and future perspectives, 2022, Applied Physics Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eggleton include Moritz Merklein, Steve Madden, Duk-Yong Choi, Yang Liu, and Choon Kong Lai.

Eggleton has received several recognitions throughout their career including the SPIE Fellow award in 2019, IEEE Fellow in 2010 for contributions to the development and applications of Bragg gratings and other periodic structures in optical fibers, and OSA Fellow in 2003 for foundational work in light propagation in optical fiber gratings and the invention of novel fiber-based photonic devices.

Best Publications

  • Integrated optofluidics: A new river of light

    Christelle Monat;P. Domachuk;B. Eggleton

  • Antiresonant reflecting photonic crystal optical waveguides.

    N. M. Litchinitser;A. K. Abeeluck;C. Headley;B. J. Eggleton

  • Bragg Grating Solitons

    BJ Eggleton;RE Slusher;de Sterke Cm;PA Krug

  • Green light emission in silicon through slow-light enhanced third-harmonic generation in photonic-crystal waveguides

    Bill Corcoran;Christelle Monat;Christian Grillet;David J Moss

  • Roadmap of optical communications

    Erik Agrell;Magnus Karlsson;A R Chraplyvy;David J Richardson

  • Microstructured optical fiber devices.

    Benjamin J. Eggleton;Charles Kerbage;Paul Westbrook;Robert S. Windeler

  • Optical delay lines based on optical filters

    G. Lenz;B.J. Eggleton;C.K. Madsen;R.E. Slusher

  • Supercontinuum generation in air–silica microstructured fibers with nanosecond and femtosecond pulse pumping

    John M. Dudley;Laurent Provino;Nicolas Grossard;Hervé Maillotte

  • On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Ravi Pant;Christopher Poulton;Hannah MacFarlane;Luc Thevenaz

  • Ultrasensitive photonic crystal fiber refractive index sensor

    Darran K C Wu;Boris T Kuhlmey;Benjamin J Eggleton

  • Multiwavelength generation in an erbium-doped fiber laser using in-fiber comb filters

    J. Chow;G. Town;B. Eggleton;M. Ibsen

  • Ultrafast all-optical chalcogenide glass photonic circuits

    Vahid G. Ta’eed;Neil J. Baker;Libin Fu;Klaus Finsterbusch

  • Harnessing and control of optical rogue waves in supercontinuum generation

    John. M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Benjamin J. Eggleton

  • Low-power, chip-based stimulated Brillouin scattering microwave photonic filter with ultrahigh selectivity

    David Marpaung;Blair Morrison;Mattia Pagani;Ravi Pant

  • Brillouin integrated photonics

    Benjamin J. Eggleton;Christopher G. Poulton;Peter T. Rakich;Michael. J. Steel

  • High-energy pulse synthesis with sub-cycle waveform control for strong-field physics

    Shu-Wei Huang;Giovanni Cirmi;Jeffrey Moses;Kyung-Han Hong

  • Soliton self-frequency shift in a short tapered air-silica microstructure fiber.

    X. Liu;C. Xu;W. H. Knox;J. K. Chandalia

  • Grating resonances in air-silica microstructured optical fibers.

    B J Eggleton;P S Westbrook;R S Windeler;S Spälter

  • Long periodic superstructure Bragg gratings in optical fibres

    B.J. Eggleton;P.A. Krug;L. Poladian;F. Ouellette

  • Dispersionless slow light using gap solitons

    Joe T. Mok;C. Martijn de Sterke;Ian C. M. Littler;Benjamin J. Eggleton

  • Low-threshold supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear chalcogenide nanowires

    Dong-Il Yeom;Eric C. Mägi;Michael R. E. Lamont;Michaël A. F. Roelens

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Luther-Davies
Barry Luther-Davies Australian National University
Steve Madden
Steve Madden Australian National University
Mark Pelusi
Mark Pelusi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
David J. Moss
David J. Moss Swinburne University of Technology
Eric Magi
Eric Magi University of Sydney
David Marpaung
David Marpaung University of Twente
Thomas F. Krauss
Thomas F. Krauss University of York
Christelle Monat
Christelle Monat École Centrale de Lyon
C. Martijn de Sterke
C. Martijn de Sterke University of Sydney
Bill Corcoran
Bill Corcoran Monash University

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