Dr Sebastian Ng

ARC Research Associate

School of Physical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Sebastian completed concurrent degrees in BSc (Experimental and Theoretical Physics) and BE (Mechanical) at the University of Adelaide receiving first class honours in 2010.

During his degrees he worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing to develop rare earth doped silica fibre lasers. From 2010-2016 he completed his PhD under the Supervision of A/Prof David Ottaway and Prof Tanya Monro on a project entitled "Development of air-clad holmium-doped fibre lasers."

Since the completion of his PhD Sebastian has worked on the development of portable MidIR fibre lasers and worked as a program developer for the Graduate Certificate in Radiation Management.

He is currently working as a Research Associate in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OZGrav). His current research involves the development of high power narrow linewidth lasers for third generation gravitational wave detection.

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Research Interests

Sebastian's research focuses on the application and development of laser technology. His core research interests include:

High power continuous wave lasers
Single frequency sources
2 micron fibre lasers
Optical fibre fabrication
Laser stabilisation for gravitational wave astronomy
Adaptive optics

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Appointments

Date Position Institution name
2016 ARC Research Associate University of Adelaide, Adelaide
Awards and Achievements

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2016 Award Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence — — —
Education

Date Institution name Country Title
2011 - 2016 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia PhD
2006 - 2010 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia BSc & BE (Hons, 1st Class)

Date	Position	Institution name
2016	ARC Research Associate	University of Adelaide, Adelaide

Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
2016	Award	Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence	—	—	—

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2011 - 2016	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	PhD
2006 - 2010	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	BSc & BE (Hons, 1st Class)

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Journals

Year	Citation
2021	Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2021). Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. SoftwareX, 13, 1-20. DOI Scopus32 WoS28
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Ottaway, D. (2020). MGW190425: observation of a compact binary coalescence with total mass ∼ 3.4 Mꙩ. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 892(1), L3-1-L3-24. DOI Scopus359 WoS367
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Veitch, P. (2020). Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(4), 045006-1-045006-43. DOI Scopus48 WoS58
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Salemi, F. (2020). Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Physical Review D, Covering Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 101(8), 084002-1-084002-24. DOI Scopus11 WoS16
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 Scopus38 WoS41
2020	Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, F., Ligo Scientific Collaboration, T., Hamburg, R., Fletcher, C., Burns, E., Goldstein, A., . . . Veitch, P. (2020). A joint fermi-gbm and ligo/virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 893(2), 1-14. DOI Scopus3 WoS6
2020	Cao, H. T., Brooks, A., Ng, S. W. S., Ottaway, D., Perreca, A., Richardson, J. W., . . . Veitch, P. J. (2020). High dynamic range thermally actuated bimorph mirror for gravitational wave detectors. Applied Optics, 59(9), 2784-2790. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2020	Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2020). GW190412: observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. Physical Review D, 102(4), 043015-1-043015-29. DOI Scopus120 WoS122
2020	Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2020). GW190814: gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 23 solar mass black hole with a 2.6 solar mass compact object. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 896(2), L44-1-L44-20. DOI Scopus271 WoS291
2020	Ackley, K., Adya, V. B., Agrawal, P., Altin, P., Ashton, G., Bailes, M., . . . Oloworaran, V. (2020). Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: a kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, e047-1-e047-11. DOI Scopus15 WoS15
2020	Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, A., . . . Weltevrede, P. (2020). Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsars. Letters of the Astrophysical Journal, 902(1), L21-1-L21-17. DOI Scopus13 WoS13
2020	Adhikari, R. X., Arai, K., Brooks, A. F., Wipf, C., Aguiar, O., Altin, P., . . . Zhao, C. (2020). A cryogenic silicon interferometer for gravitational-wave detection. CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, 37(16), 54 pages. DOI Scopus21 WoS20
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2020). GW190521: a binary black hole merger with a total mass of 150 M⊙. Physical Review Letters, 125(10), 101102-1-101102-17. DOI Scopus206 WoS201 Europe PMC1
2020	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2020). Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 Mꙩ binary black hole merger GW190521. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 900(1), L13-1-L13-27. DOI Scopus89 WoS109
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 Scopus2 WoS9
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 Scopus22 WoS52 Europe PMC1
2020	Cao, H. T., Ng, S. W. S., Noh, M., Brooks, A., Matichard, F., & Veitch, P. J. (2020). Enhancing the dynamic range of deformable mirrors with compression bias. Optics Express, 28(26), 38480-38490. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
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
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 Scopus28 WoS25
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Ciobanu, A. (2019). Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 883(2), 149-1-149-10. DOI Scopus24 WoS22
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Biscoveanu, S. (2019). Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 886(1), 75-1-75-15. DOI Scopus16 WoS13
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 Scopus20 WoS22
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 Scopus43 WoS38
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 Scopus18 WoS15
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 Scopus19 WoS19
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 Scopus149 WoS145
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 Scopus987 WoS951
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 Scopus23 WoS22
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 Scopus179 WoS236
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 Scopus60 WoS52
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 Scopus34 WoS31
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 Scopus10 WoS11
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 Scopus31 WoS18
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 Scopus56 WoS61
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 Scopus44 WoS38
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 Scopus183 WoS172
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Veitch, P. (2019). All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 99(10), 104033-1-104033-13. DOI Scopus11 WoS12
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 Scopus97 WoS67
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 Scopus21 WoS16
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Salemi, F. (2019). All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 100(2), 024017-1-024017-18. DOI Scopus28 WoS29
2019	Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Ng, S. (2019). Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO’second observing run. Physical Review Letters, 123(16), 161102-1-161102-13. DOI Scopus38 WoS37
2019	Mik, J. L., Sparkes, B., Perrella, C., Light, P., Ng, S., Luiten, A., & Ottaway, D. (2019). High-transmission fiber ring resonator for spectral filtering of master oscillator power amplifiers. OSA Continuum, 2(8), 2487-2495. DOI
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 Scopus403 WoS417
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 Scopus666 WoS573 Europe PMC4
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 Scopus34 WoS35
2016	Ng, S., Lancaster, D., Monro, T., Henry, P., & Ottaway, D. (2016). Air-clad holmium-doped silica fiber laser. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 52(2), 1600108-1-1600108-8. DOI Scopus4 WoS4

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2020	Ingram, C., Ng, S. W. S., Cao, H. T., Gambell, A., Simakov, N., Brown, D. D., . . . Veitch, P. J. (2020). High sensitivity measurement of thermal distortion in low-loss optical materials. In 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2020 - Proceedings (pp. 1-2). online: OSA/IEEE. DOI
2020	Cao, H. T., Ng, S., Noh, M., Brooks, A., Martichard, F., & Veitch, P. (2020). Adhesive-free, high optical quality deformable mirror. In 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2020 - Proceedings (pp. 1-2). online: IEEE. DOI
2020	Holmes, Z., Ng, S., Pease, J., & Ottaway, D. (2020). High Bandwidth Phase-Locking for Low-Noise Applications. In 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2020 - Proceedings (pp. 1-2). online: IEEE. DOI
2019	Beniwal, D., Cao, H., Ng, S., Brooks, A., Bharathan, G., Fuerbach, A., . . . Ottaway, D. (2019). Mid-IR laser for wavefront correction in gravitational wave detectors. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11200 (pp. 1-3). online: SPIE. DOI
2019	Ng, S., Oermann, M., Veitch, P., Munch, J., & Hemming, A. (2019). Single frequency thulium fibre distributed Bragg reflector laser. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11200 (pp. 1-3). online: SPIE. DOI
2019	Ingram, C., Cao, H., Ng, S., Brown, D., Ottaway, D., Veitch, P., . . . Hemming, A. (2019). High precision measurement of optical absorption in low-OH fused silica at 2 micron. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11200 (pp. 1-3). online: SPIE. DOI
2012	Ng, S., Lancaster, D., Ottaway, D., & Monro, T. (2012). Modelling and fabrication of a leaky mode depressed clad Ho³⁺ fiber. In Laser Science, LS 2012. Rochester, New York, U.S.A.: Optical Society of America. DOI
2012	Lancaster, D., Ottaway, D., Henry, P., Kostecki, R., & Monro, T. (2012). Air-clad holmium-doped silica fibre laser. In Proceedings Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology Vol. 2012;. Sydney, N.S.W..
2011	Lancaster, D., Gross, S., Ng, S., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Monro, T., Fuerbach, A., & Withford, M. (2011). A new class of 2µm waveguide laser produced by fs direct writing of Tm3+ and Ho3+ doped ZBLAN glass. In Proceedings of the international Quantum Electronics Conferenc (pp. 989-991). Sydney, Australia.

Date	Position	Course
2019-2020	Teaching Associate	Physics IE - Thermodynamics
2017-2018	Teaching Associate	Electromagnetism II - Circuit Theory
2016 - 2017	Program Developer	Graduate Certificate in Radiation Management
2016	Teaching Associate	Physics I - Mechanics
2010 - 2016	Practical Demonstrator	Physics I, Physics II, Experimental Physics III, Mechanical Engineering I

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2021	Principal Supervisor	2 micron laser development	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Georgia Nicole Bolingbroke
2021	Principal Supervisor	Development of high bandwidth optical wavefront measurement techniques	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Thomas James Roocke
2020	Co-Supervisor	High precision measurement of absorption in high quality optical materials around 2 micron	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Ms Sophie Kate Muusse
2020	Co-Supervisor	Low Noise 2-micron Lasers	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Zachary James Holmes

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2019 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	High precision measurement of optical absorption in ultra-low-OH fused silica at wavelengths near 2 µm	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Craig Ingram
2017 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Mid-Infrared Fibre Lasers for use in Wavefront Correction in Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Ms Deeksha Beniwal

Other Supervision Activities

Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
2020 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Laser frequency actuation for Gravitational Wave detectors	University of Adelaide	Bachelor Honours Degree	Honours	Full Time	Georgia Bolingbroke

Position: ARC Research Associate
Phone: 83137732
Email: sebastian.ng@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Physics, floor G
Room: G 15D
Org Unit: Physics

Dr Sebastian Ng

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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