Researcher Information - Associate Professor Thas Nirmalathas


Personal Details

Name Associate Professor Thas A Nirmalathas
Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Melbourne
Contact Details Photonics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng., The University of Melbourne
Victoria, Vic
Phone: +61-3-83445789
Fax: +61-3-83447412
Email:
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Website http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/ampa/

Biography

Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas received the BE (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1993. He received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering also from the University of Melbourne in 1997 for his thesis on experimental investigation of high frequency optical signal generation at the Photonics Research Laboratory. In 1997, he joined the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL), a member of the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre (APCRC), at the University of Melbourne where he held Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow positions before moving to his current position as a Senior Lecturer. He is also the Director of PRL and the Program Manager of the Telecommunications Technologies Research Program in the APCRC.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is also the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society's representative on the Steering Committee of the CLEO Pacific Rim Conference and he has been a member of committees associated with a number of international conferences in his field of expertise.

His current research interests include fibre-wireless networks, optical networks, optical signal monitoring, photonic packet switching technologies, ultra-fast optical communications systems and applications of mode-locked semiconductor lasers.

He has written more than 68 technical papers in his field and has given a number of invited presentations at leading international conferences. He also holds one International and one Provisional Patents.

Linkages and Collaboration

Telecommunications Technology Program
Australian Photonics CRC

Projects

Project1 Active2
Thas Nirmalathas, Christina Lim and C Chae.
Architectures and System Technologies for Intelligent Photonic Packet Routers.
ARC Discovery. 		*
Dalma Novak, Thas Nirmalathas, Christina Lim and Rodney Waterhouse.
Integrated Microwave-Photonic Subsystems for Antenna Remoting Applications in Defence and Wireless Communications.
ARC Discovery. 		*

Areas of Expertise

Research Areas Photonics; Broadband Access; Communications Theory; Wireless Access;
Application Areas Broadband Communications; Optical Networks; Wireless Data Communications;