News
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.
11th August 2009
Our recent work entitled "Ultrafast absorption recovery dynamics of 1300 nm quantum dot saturable absorber mirrors" has been selected for inclusion in the August 10, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. You can access the Virtual Journal at http://www.vjnano.org.
6th August 2009
Mr Flavio Fusari has been asked to give an invited paper entitled "Laser Operation of a Bulk Tm3+:Germanate Glass Laser Around 2 µm with 50 % Internal Slope Efficiency" at the 22nd Annual Lasers and Electro Optics Society Meeting, to be held 4 - 8 October 2009 in Belek-Antalya, Turkey. More details about this work can be found here.
Also congratulations to Prof. Wilson Sibbet who won the Annual Physics Golf cometition. This is the fourth time he has won the event!
29th July 2009
Dr Christopher Leburn and fellow workers have been collaborating with members of the Department of Physics, at Imperial College London and the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Cardiff. This has resulted in a new publication in Applied Physics Letters entitled, "Ultrafast absorption recovery dynamics of 1300 nm quantum dot saturable absorber mirrors". More details about this work can be found here.
21th July 2009
Congratulations to Professor Wilson Sibbett who has been granted by Her Majesty The Queen to recieve a Royal Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his "outstanding contributions to physics and Science in Scotland, and the role he has played in bringing Scottish research in opto-electronics and photonics to the world-leading position it has attained today".
20th July 2009
Mr Craig McDougall and co-workers have had thir work on "Targeted optical injection of gold nanoparticles into single mammalian cells" published in the Journal of Biophotinics. More information can be found here, or you can visit the journal website
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