Professor Miftar Ganija

Professor

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Miftar Ganija holds a professor appointment at The University of Adelaide, in the School of Physical Sciences and School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME) at The University of Adelaide.

Miftar Ganija is the founder and Lead Scientist of DualTech - USPL at the University of Adelaide.
Miftar Ganija is Theme Leader in Hypersonic & Counter-measures in the Defence Trailblazer. The Defence Trailblazer for Concept to Sovereign Capability is a $250 million enterprise powered by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Adelaide (UoA), with funding from the Australian Government through the Trailblazer Universities Program, as well as university and industry partners.
The applications for ultra-short pulsed lasers is expanding rapidly and requires new technology to be on the forefront of engineering and scientific innovation.

Miftar’s research includes the development of USPL laser sources, beam propagation and transitioning lasers to industry, medical and defence. Current research includes the development of high-power Q-switched near infrared cryogenic lasers and mode-locked laser sources for a variety of industrial, remote sensing and defence applications and blue lasers for medical applications.

DualTech-USPL Program

There is a shortage of ultra-short pulsed laser technology development and a workforce to support its development in Australia. Therefore, the DualTech-USPL scientific team are working on pathways to address these deficiencies through the dual-use laser approach. This involves creating a sovereign eco-system for industrial and science capability, thereby ensuring that we are in a position to address mid- and long-term critical technology needs for Australia.

Our program focuses on three major areas of R&D for:
• Source development
• Propagation and Effect generation
• Applications

Currently, DualTech-USPL program provides innovation in the source design, development and construction of USPL, bringing together a diverse range of skills ranging from mechanical, electronic and optical, in developing the future workforce, providing impact to sovereign manufacturing capability.
The program is developing those skillsets among our cross-disciplinary students by presenting them with a variety of open-group, flexible and hands-on projects and experimental activities. These projects are fantastic tactile opportunities for the diverse background of our students, by combining a variety of interesting, practical challenges from mechanical design of experimental components to electronic control, all the way through to the complicated optics problems that are crucial to building a laser system and understanding the unknown of science and enabling and manufacturing.

Our Team

The DualTech-USPL Group is seeking highly motivated students to work on cutting edge physics and engineering projects. Ultra-short and Short pulsed lasers are driving substantial innovation in medicine, defence, remote sensing, academic research, machining and spectroscopy. The team has international recognition for laser sources developed at two micron and are pushing new breakthroughs for energy in pulsed lasers.

We have a variety of Honours and HDR (M.Phil and PhD) scholarships available.

My Research
Career
Publications
Supervision
Contact

His current interests include:

Laser development
Cryogenically cooled solid state lasers
High power solid state lasers
Interferometry
Pulsed laser
Mode-locked laser
Frequency doubling
Mid-Infrared Lasers
Blue lasers

DualTech-USPL

Appointments

Date Position Institution name

2019 - ongoing Visiting Research Fellow University of Adelaide

2017 - 2019 University Research Fellow School of Physical Sciences
Language Competencies

Language Competency

Albanian Can read, write and speak

German Can read, write and speak
Education

Date Institution name Country Title

2008 - 2013 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD
Research Interests

Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy Optics Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering

Date	Position	Institution name
2019 - ongoing	Visiting Research Fellow	University of Adelaide
2017 - 2019	University Research Fellow	School of Physical Sciences

Language	Competency
Albanian	Can read, write and speak
German	Can read, write and speak

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2008 - 2013	The University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD

Journals

Year	Citation
2025	Lukas, E., Santos, A. M. C., Ganija, M., & Veitch, P. (2025). Evaluating the effects of increased stimulation power on a beryllium oxide real-time optically stimulated luminescence fibre-coupled dosimeter. Radiation Measurements, 184, 107439. DOI
2021	Madden, L., Lukas, E., Santos, A., Ganija, M., Veitch, P., Rosenfeld, A., & Li, E. (2021). Deconvolution analysis improves real-time OSL of BeO ceramic. Radiation Measurements, 149, 106680-1-106680-8. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2020). Erratum: Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO Data (vol 879, 10, 2019). ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 899(2), 9 pages. DOI Scopus6 WoS17
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Veitch, P. (2020). Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 23(1), 3-1-3-69. DOI Scopus580 WoS335 Europe PMC15
2020	Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Simakov, N., Boyd, K., Carmody, N., Veitch, P., . . . Munch, J. (2020). Cryogenically cooled, Ho:YAG, Q-switched laser. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 126(4), 1-6. DOI Scopus13 WoS8
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2020). A guide to LIGO-Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(5), 055002. DOI Scopus263 WoS89
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blair, C. D. (2019). Erratum: Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO data (Astrophysical Journal (2019) 879 (10) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab20cb). Astrophysical Journal, 882(1), 13 pages. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Ackley, K., Adams, A., . . . Papa, M. A. (2019). Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. Physical Review D, 100(6), 064064-1-064064-18. DOI Scopus63 WoS39
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X, 9(1), 011001-1-011001-32. DOI Scopus1108 WoS706
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Veitch, P. (2019). Constraining the p-Mode-g-Mode Tidal Instability with GW170817. Physical Review Letters, 122(6), 061104-1-061104-12. DOI Scopus44 WoS36
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 1-19. DOI Scopus104 WoS72
2019	Burns, E., Goldstein, A., Hui, C. M., Blackburn, L., Briggs, M. S., Connaughton, V., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search for electromagnetic signals coincident with gravitational-wave candidates in advanced LIGO's first observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 871(1), 1-12. DOI Scopus32 WoS22
2019	Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. J., Aublin, J., . . . Lefèvre, D. (2019). Search for multimessenger sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its first observing run, ANTARES, and IceCube. Astrophysical Journal, 870(2), 134-1-134-16. DOI Scopus32 WoS27
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Ganija, M. (2019). Tests of general relativity with GW170817. Physical Review Letters, 123(1), 1-15. DOI Scopus483 WoS563 Europe PMC8
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). GWTC-1: A gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs. Physical Review X, 9(3), 031040-1-031040-49. DOI Scopus2947 WoS1745
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Searches for continuous gravitational waves from 15 supernova remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 122-1-122-15. DOI Scopus52 WoS44
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 882(2), L24-1-30. DOI Scopus463 WoS408
2019	Soares-Santos, M., Palmese, A., Hartley, W., Annis, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Lahav, O., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 876(1), 1-15. DOI Scopus202 WoS132
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts for multimessenger astronomy during the second Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 161-1-161-20. DOI Scopus84 WoS57
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Ng, S. W. (2019). Search for transient gravitational-wave signals associated with magnetar bursts during Advanced LIGO's second observing run. The Astrophysical Journal, 874(2), 163-1-163-14. DOI Scopus38 WoS23
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Veitch, P. (2019). Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 99(12), 122002-1-122002-20. DOI Scopus70 WoS40
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Pisarski, A. (2019). All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data. Physical Review D, 100(2), 27 pages. DOI Scopus119 WoS156
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Weltervrede, P. (2019). Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal, 879(1), 10-1-10-28. DOI Scopus86 WoS60
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1. Physical Review D, 100(10), 104036-1-104036-30. DOI Scopus625 WoS310
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Veitch, P. (2019). Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run. Physical Review D, 100(6), 061101-1-061101-16. DOI Scopus281 WoS103
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 100(6), 062001-1-062001-14. DOI Scopus63 WoS45
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2019). Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model. Physical Review D, 100(12), 122002-1-122002-21. DOI Scopus58 WoS47
2018	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Bell, A. S. (2018). GW170817: measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state. Physical Review Letters, 121(16), 161101-1-161101-16. DOI Scopus1873 WoS184 Europe PMC21
2018	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2018). Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 97(10), 102003-1-102003-31. DOI Scopus50 WoS41
2018	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Betzwieser, J. (2018). Search for tensor, vector, and scalar polarizations in the stochastic gravitational-wave background. Physical Review Letters, 120(20), 201102-1-201102-13. DOI Scopus108 WoS53 Europe PMC1
2018	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Bell, A. S. (2018). Search for subsolar-Mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters, 121(23), 231103-1-231103-13. DOI Scopus90 WoS65 Europe PMC6
2018	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2018). Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 97(10), 102002-1-102002-20. DOI Scopus114 WoS87
2018	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Birnholtz, O. (2018). First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars. Physical Review Letters, 120(3), 031104-1-031104-13. DOI Scopus79 WoS63 Europe PMC4
2018	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Betzwieser, J. (2018). GW170817: implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from compact binary coalescences. Physical Review Letters, 120(9), 091101-1-091101-12. DOI Scopus208 WoS148 Europe PMC3
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Veitch, P. (2017). On the progenitor of binary neutron star merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850(2), 18 pages. DOI Scopus86 WoS115
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2017). Search for post-merger gravitational waves from the remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851(1), L16-1-L16-13. DOI Scopus214 WoS152
2017	Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J., Aublin, J., . . . Leonora, E. (2017). Search for high-energy neutrinos from binary neutron star merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850(2), 1-18. DOI Scopus167 WoS116
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Woudt, P. (2017). Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848(2), L12-1-L12-59. DOI Scopus3285 WoS2051
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Bero, J. (2017). GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral. Physical Review Letters, 119(16), 161101-1-161101-18. DOI Scopus7834 WoS4064 Europe PMC196
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Ubertini, P. (2017). Gravitational waves and gamma-rays from a binary neutron star merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848(2), L13-1-L13-27. DOI Scopus2734 WoS1692
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Bertolini, A. (2017). GW170608: observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851(2), 1-11. DOI Scopus1004 WoS626
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Bersanetti, D. (2017). GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters, 119(14), 141101-1-141101-16. DOI Scopus1853 WoS1407 Europe PMC54
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2017). All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 96(6), 062002-1-062002-35. DOI Scopus75 WoS63
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Betzwieser, J. (2017). First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122006-1-122006-20. DOI Scopus61 WoS46
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Serra-Ricart, M. (2017). A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant. Nature, 551(7678), 85-88. DOI Scopus932 WoS559 Europe PMC34
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Bertolini, A. (2017). Estimating the contribution of dynamical ejecta in the kilonova associated with GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850(2), L39-1-L39-13. DOI Scopus175 WoS68
2017	Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Simakov, N., Boyd, K., Haub, J., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2017). High power cryogenic Ho:YAG laser. Optics Express, 25(25), 31889-31895. DOI Scopus21 WoS12 Europe PMC3
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Evans, R. (2017). Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model. Physical Review D, 95(12), 122003-1-122003-20. DOI Scopus57 WoS47
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2017). Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 96(2), 022001-1-022001-14. DOI Scopus83 WoS64
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Billingsley, G. (2017). GW170104: observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters, 118(22), 221101-1-221101-17. DOI Scopus2197 WoS1593 Europe PMC72
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Wang, L. (2017). Upper limits on gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 from a model-based cross-correlation search in Advanced LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal, 847(1), 47-1-47-14. DOI Scopus56 WoS44
2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Anderson, D. (2017). First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122004-1-122004-26. DOI Scopus62 WoS56
2016	Ganija, M., Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Haub, J., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2016). Efficient, low threshold, cryogenic Ho:YAG laser. Optics Express, 24(11), 11569-11577. DOI Scopus22 WoS14 Europe PMC1
2013	Ganija, M., Ottaway, D., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2013). Cryogenic, high power, near diffraction limited, Yb:YAG slab laser. Optics Express, 21(6), 6973-6978. DOI Scopus29 WoS22 Europe PMC3
2012	Ganija, M., Hosken, D., Munch, J., Ottaway, D., & Veitch, P. (2012). Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO's sixth science run and Virgo's science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review. D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 85(8), 1-12. DOI Scopus204 WoS188
2012	Ganija, M., Hosken, D., Munch, J., Ottaway, D., & Veitch, P. (2012). Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, 1-15. DOI Scopus82 WoS81
2012	Ganija, M., Hosken, D., Munch, J., Ottaway, D., & Veitch, P. (2012). All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review. D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 85(2), 022001-1-022001-19. DOI Scopus72 WoS56
2011	Ganija, M., Hosken, D., Munch, J., Ottaway, D., & Veitch, P. (2011). A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics, 7(12), 962-965. DOI Scopus809 WoS683
2008	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., . . . Zweizig, J. (2008). All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review. D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 77(2), 022001-01-022001-38. DOI Scopus111 WoS111

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2023	Ganija, M., Boyd, K., & Munch, J. (2023). High-Power Q-switched Near Infrared Cryogenic Lasers. In 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (pp. 1). Munich, Germany: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
2021	Ganija, M., Boyd, K., Hemming, A., Carmody, N., Simakov, N., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2021). High Energy Cryogenically Cooled Ho:YAG Oscillator. In 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2021 (pp. 1). online: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2020	Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Boyd, K., Gambell, A., & Simakov, N. (2020). Progress towards High Power Scaling of Ho: YAG Lasers. In 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2020 - Proceedings (pp. 2 pages). Sydney, Australia: Optica Publishing Group. DOI Scopus2
2019	Gambell, A., Simakov, N., Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Daniel, J. M. O., Shardlow, P. C., . . . Haub, J. (2019). Intra-cavity semiconductor laser tuning using a frequency compensating acousto-optic tunable filter pair. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11200 (pp. 1-2). online: SPIE. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2019	McAfee, D., Boyd, K., Ganija, M., Simakov, N., Carmody, N., Munch, J., . . . Haub, J. (2019). Mode-locked Holmium fibre laser. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11200 (pp. 1-3). online: SPIE. DOI
2019	Taylor, L. E., Oermann, M. R., Ganija, M., Munch, J., McAfee, D. M., & Hemming, A. (2019). Single frequency holmium-doped DBR fibre laser at 2.1 μm. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11200 (pp. 1-2). online: SPIE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2018	Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Simakov, N., Carmody, N., Veitch, P., Haub, J., & Munch, J. (2018). Q-switched cryogenic Ho:YAG laser. In Proceedings of the CLEO: Science and Innovations 2018 Vol. Part F94-CLEO_SI 2018 (pp. 1-2). San Jose, California: OSA Publishing. DOI
2016	Ganija, M., Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Haub, J., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2016). High Resolution Spectroscopy For Cryogenic Ho:YAG Laser. In OSA (pp. 2 pages). Online: The Optical Society. DOI Scopus2 WoS3
2016	Ganija, M. (2016). Second Harmonic Generation Using a Monolithic, Linearly Polarized Thulium Doped Fiber Laser. In OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016) Vol. paper AW2B.2 (pp. 2 pages). online: OSA. DOI Scopus1
2013	Ganija, M., Ottaway, D., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2013). Cryogenically cooled end pumped Yb: YAG zigzag slab laser. In Proceedings 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - International Quantum Electronics Conference (pp. CA_7_1). Munich, Germany: Optical Society of America.
2013	Ganija, M., Ottaway, D., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2013). Cryogenically cooled end pumped Yb: YAG zigzag slab laser. In Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (pp. 1). IEEE. DOI
2012	Ganija, M., Ottaway, D., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2012). Cryogenic, conduction cooled, end pumped, zigzag slab laser, suitable for power scaling. In 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2012 (pp. 1-2). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2011	Ganija, M., Ottaway, D., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2011). A cryogenic, end pumped, zigzag slab laser suitable for power scaling. In Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (pp. 627-629). Sydney, Australia: Optical Society of America. DOI Scopus3
2009	Ganija, M., Ottaway, D., Hosken, D., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2009). Power scaling of cryogenically cooled high power solid state laser. In Proceedings of the ACOLS ACOFT 09 Conference (pp. 548-549). CDROM: Australian Optical Society.

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2017	Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Simakov, N., Haub, J., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2017). High power cryogenically cooled Ho: YAG laser. Poster session presented at the meeting of Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. Munich, GERMANY: IEEE.
2014	Ganija, M., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2014). Comparison of diode pumping efficiency of an Er: YAG laser at 300 K and 77 K for Gravitational Wave Interferometry. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australian and New Zealand conference of Optics. Adelaide.
2010	Ganija, M., Ottaway, D., Hosken, D., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2010). Power scaling and reliable cryogenic cooling of a high power solid state laser. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australian Institute of Physics Congress. Melbourne, Australia.

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2025	Principal Supervisor	Ultra fast laser research	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Oliver Thomas Cobcroft
2024	Principal Supervisor	Compression of the pulse laser	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Jack Samuel Wigley
2024	Principal Supervisor	Research and Development in Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser (USPL) machining systems in the 2–5-micron region for the investigation of fundamental laser/material interactions for industrial and medical applications.	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Sitivi Napier Sooaemalelagi
2024	Principal Supervisor	USPL	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Jonte Colin Reilly
2023	Principal Supervisor	Ultrashort and Short Pulsed Lasers	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Joshua Gabriel Cudmore
2021	Co-Supervisor	Real-Time Optically Stimulated Luminescence Fibre-Coupled Dosimetry with Beryllium Oxide	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Erin Jennifer Lukas

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2022 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	Passively Q-Switched and Mode-Locked Pulse Generation in a Ho:YAG Laser	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Jonte Colin Reilly
2022 - 2025	Principal Supervisor	Pulse Stretching, Compression and Supercontinuum Generation in a Mode-locked Erbium Fibre Laser	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Andrew Phillip Matulick
2022 - 2025	Principal Supervisor	Development of a High Repetition Rate, Electro-optically Q-switched Ho:YAG Laser	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Henry Duncan Rogers
2020 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Experimental and Numerical Optimisation of a SESAM Mode-locked Holmium Fibre Laser	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Alexandros Kolovinos
2018 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Operating Regimes and Automated Control of Holmium and Thulium Non-linear Polarisation Rotation Mode-locked Fibre Optic Lasers	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr David Michael McAfee
2017 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Investigation of Narrowband Acousto-Optic Tunable Filters for Semiconductor Laser Tuning	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Adam James Gambell

Position: Professor
Phone: 83135037
Email: miftar.ganija@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor Level Three
Room: 3.36
Org Unit: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

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