News
14th January 2010
Dr Alex Lagatsky and Mr Flavio Fusari have just had two pieces of work accepted for publication. These publications relate to their research on Tm and Ho doped lasers operating near 2 μm. The first is a review article in Laser Physics Letters. The second is an article in Optics Letters. More details about these publications can be found here.
6th January 2010
Dr Alex Lagatsky and Dr Christopher Leburn have just had a review article accepted for publication in Progress in Quantum Electronics through a collaboration with Dr Edik Rafailov's group at the University of Dundee. More details about this work can be found here.
1st January 2010
Conratuations to Mr Flavio Fusari who recently came second in the IEEE Photonics Society 2009 Best Student Paper Award! This competition took place during the Photonics Society Annual Meeting.
25th November 2009
Miss Fiona Bain and Dr Alex Lagatsky have been collaborating with colleagues from the Research Institute for Optical Materials in Belarus and the School of Engineering and Physical Science at Heriot-Watt University here in Scotland on a new publicaton in Optics Express entitled "Ultrafast laser inscribed Yb:KGd(WO4)2 and Yb:KY(WO4)2 channel waveguide lasers". More details about this work can be found here.
26th October 2009
Dr Alex Lagatsky and fellow workers have a new publication in Applied Physics B entitled "Optical spectroscopy and efficient continuous-wave operation near 2 μm for a Tm,Ho:KYW laser crystal". More details about this work can be found here.
12th October 2009
Congratulations to Flavio Fusari who came second in the IEEE Photonics Society Best Student Paper Award at 22nd Annual Lasers and Electro Optics Society Meeting for his invited presentation on "Laser Operation of a Bulk Tm3+:Germanate Glass Laser Around 2 µm with 50 % Internal Slope Efficiency".
24nd September 2009
Mr Craig McDougall and co-workers have had thir work on "Synthesis, photolysis studies and in vitro photorelease of caged TRPV1 agonists and antagonists" published in the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. More information can be found here, or you can visit the journal website
22nd September 2009
Miss Fiona bain has been asked by Prof. Markus Pollnau (Twente University, Enschede, Netherlands) to present her work on "Diode-pumped Yb:tungstate waveguide lasers". Fiona will be travelling to Twente University to present her work on Tuesday the 6th October.
1st September 2009
Dr Alex Lagatsky and fellow workers have a new publication in Optics Letters entitled "Passive mode locking of a Tm,Ho:KY(WO4)2 laser around 2 μm". More details about this work can be found here.
low-threshold femtosecond lasers; mirror-based dispersioncompensation schemes; multi-GHz sources in the near-infrared and at the telecommunications wavelengths; new laser materials such as the Yb:tungstates and tellurite glasses; semiconductor-based pulsed sources and 
nanostructures; 1.3 micron femtosecond sources for bio-photonics applications as well as 2 micron laser sources. We also work in the field of Biophotonics where we are using a varity of photonics techniques for the study and treatment of disease processes at the cellular and molecular levels