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8th June 2010
Congratulations to Mr Ronan Valentine who has won the student presentation award at Laser Europe 2010 held in Tarragona, Spain.
We have also updated the photos that appear in the extras section of this website - feel free to have a look!
10th May 2010
**Upcoming CLEO presentations** - Next week Miss Fiona Bain and Mr Flavio Fusari will be presenting their work at CLEO.
27th April 2010
Several puplications have been produced by W-Squad over that last few months. More details about these publications can be found here.
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.
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
14th-19th June 2009
Dr Alex Lagatsky, Dr Klaus Metzger, Mr Craig McDougall and Miss Fiona Bain, will all be presenting at CLEO Europe and ECBO this week. Click on each individual for more information about the work they will be presenting.
8th June 2009
Mr Flavio Fusari will be presenting work entitled "Continuous-wave laser operation of a bulk Tm:Germanate glass laser around 2 μm with 40 % internal slope efficiency" at the Middle Infrared Coherent Sources conference in Trouville, France this week. More details about this work can be found here.
5th May 2009
Dr Christopher Leburn and Miss Christine Jappy have been collaborating with members of the Department of Physics, at Imperial College London. This has resulted in a new publication in Applied Physics B entitled, "Dispersionless saturable absorber mirrors with large modulation depths and low saturation fluences". More details about this work can be found here.
31st March 2009
Mr Craig McDougall and co-workers have had thir work on "Caged AG10: new tools for spatially predefined mitochondrial uncoupling" published in Molecular BioSystems. This work is also highlighted in the Royal Society of Chemistry Research News.
3rd March 2009
Miss Christine Jappy & Dr Christopher Leburn have had their work, in partnership with Imperial College London, on "Dispersionless Saturable Absorber Mirrors for Ultrashort Pulse Generation" accepted for presentation at CLEO 2009 .
9th February 2009
Fiona Bain and her fellow colleagues have had their work on "Continuous-wave and Q switched operation of a compact, diode-pumped Yb3+:KY(WO4)2 planar waveguide laser" accepted for publication in Optics Express. More details can be found here. Congratulations Fiona - it's her first publication!
4th November 2008
Flavio Fusari and his fellow colleagues have had their work on "Spectroscopic and lasing performance of Tm3+-doped bulk TZN and TZNG tellurite glasses operating around 1.9 μm" accepted for publication in Optics Express. More details can be found here. Congratulations Flavio - it's his first publication!
30th October 2008
Dr Klaus Metzger and his fellow colleagues have had their work on "Femtosecond pulse generation around 1500nm using a GaInNAsSb SESAM" accepted for publication in Optics Express. More details can be found here.