Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)

CUDOS is a research consortium funded by the Australian Research Council under the Centres of Excellence program, between seven Australian Universities: The University of Sydney (main host of CUDOS - The University of Sydney manages the ARC grant and disburses funds in accordance with an agreement signed off between the Universities in April 2003), Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University, Swinburne University of Technology, RMIT University and Monash University. 

The principles of an intellectual property agreement were negotiated by August 2003 and a legal contract based on those principles has been circulated for signature. CSIRO is a signatory to the intellectual property agreement, in addition to the five University collaborators. (CUDOS 2003 Annual Report http://www.cudos.org.au/reports/2003/2003_30_Governance.pdf (viewed 27/04/2016).

CUDOS has played a pivotal role in demonstrating ground-breaking integrated photonic signal processors that can massively increase the information capacity of the Internet. The vision of CUDOS is to be the world-leader in research in on-chip photonics, for all-optical signal processing.