St Andrews Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Research Group

K. M. Tan, G. P. Singh, S.Herrington, C. T. A. Brown.
"NIR Raman spectroscopy using Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers"
Opt. Communications, (2010) - (in print)

P. C. Ashok, G. P. Singh, K. M. Tan, K. Dholakia.
"Fiber Probe Based Microfluidic Raman Spectroscopy"
Optics Express, 18, (8), pp.7642-7649, (2010).

M. E. Giardini, G. P. Singh, D. Stevenson, T. F. Krauss, K. Dholakia, W. Sibbett, C. T. A. Brown
"Optical Diagnostic Techniques for Robotic Surgery"
SU2P Annual Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland. 22-23 March 2010.(Poster)

N. K. Metzger, W. Lubeigt, D. Burns, M. Griffith, L. Laycock, A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. A. Brown, and W. Sibbett
" Ultrashort-pulse laser with an intracavity phase shaping element"
Optics Express, Vol. 18, 8, pp. 8123–8134, (2010)

X. Han, F. Fusari, M. D. Serrano, A. A. Lagatsky, J. M. Cano-Torres, C. T. A. Brown, C. Zaldo, and W. Sibbett
Continuous-wave laser operation of Tm and Ho co-doped NaY(WO₄)₂ and NaLu(WO₄)₂ crystals
Optics Express, Vol. 18, 6, pp. 5413–5419, (2010)

B. Richards, A. Jha, Y. Tsang, D. Binks, J. Lousteau, F. Fusari, A. Lagatsky, C. Brown, W. Sibbett
"Tellurite glass lasers operating close to 2 μm"
Laser Physics Letters (currently online only).

A. A. Lagatsky, F. Fusari, S. Calvez, S. V. Kurilchik, V. E. Kisel, N. V. Kuleshov, M. D. Dawson, C. T. A. Brown, and W. Sibbett
"Femtosecond pulse operation of a Tm,Ho-codoped crystalline laser near 2 μm"
Optics Letters, 35, (2), pp. 172, (2010).

A.A. Lagatsky, C.G. Leburn, C.T.A. Brown, W. Sibbett, S.A. Zolotovskaya and E.U. Rafailov
"Ultrashort-pulse lasers passively mode locked by quantum-dot-based saturable absorbers"
Progress in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 34, pp. 1-45 (2010).

M. E. Giardini, G. P. Singh, D. Stevenson, Krauss T, Dholakia K, Sibbett W, Brown T.
"Intraoperative Optical Diagnostics for Robotic Surgery"
21st International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT), Sinaia, Romania. 7-9 October 2009. (Best Poster Award)

F. M. Bain, A. A. Lagatsky, R. R. Thomson, N. D. Psaila, N. V. Kuleshov, A. K. Kar, W. Sibbett, and C. T. A. Brown
"Ultrafast laser inscribed Yb:KGd(WO₄)₂ and Yb:KY(WO₄)₂ channel waveguide lasers"
Optics Express, 17, (25), pp. 22417-22422, (2009).

A. A. Lagatsky, F. Fusari, S. V. Kurilchik, V. E. Kisel, A. S. Yasukevich, N. V. Kuleshov, A. A. Pavlyuk, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett
"Optical spectroscopy and efficient continuous-wave operation near 2 μm for a Tm,Ho:KYW laser crystal"
Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics, 97, pp. 321-326, (2009).

M. P. Van Ryssen, N. Avlonitis, R. Giniatullin, C. McDougall, J. L. Carr, M. N. Stanton-Humphreys, E. L. A. Borgström, C. T. A. Brown, D. Fayuk, A. Surin, M. Niittykoski, L. Khiroug and S. J. Conway
"Synthesis, photolysis studies and in vitro photorelease of caged TRPV1 agonists and antagonists"
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2009, DOI: 10.1039/b914981c.

A. A. Lagatsky, F. Fusari, S. Calvez, J. A. Gupta, V. E. Kisel, N. V. Kuleshov, C. T. A. Brown, M. D. Dawson, W. Sibbett
"Passive mode locking of a Tm,Ho:KY(WO₄)₂ laser around 2 μm"
Optics Letters, 34, (17), pp. 2587-2589 (2009).

M. P. Lumb, E. M. Clarke, E. Harbord, P. Spencer and R. Murray
F. Masia, P.Borri and W. Langbein
C. G. Leburn, C. Jappy, N. K. Metzger, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett
"Ultrafast absorption recovery dynamics of 1300 nm quantum dot saturable absorber mirrors"
Applied Physics Letters: 95, (4), 041101 (2009).

C. McDougall, D. Stevenson, C. T. A. Brown, F. Gunn-Moore , K. Dholakia
"Targeted optical injection of gold nanoparticles into single mammalian cells"
Journal of Biophotonics, DOI:10.1002/jbio.200910030, (2009).

M. P. Lumb, P. N. Stavrinou, E. M. Clarke and R. Murray
C. G. Leburn, C. Jappy, N. K. Metzger, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett
"Dispersionless saturable absorber mirrors with large modulation depths and low saturation fluences"
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics: 97, pp.53-60, (2009).

N. Avlonitis, S. Chalmers, C. McDougall, M. N. Stanton-Humphreys, C. T. A. Brown, J. G. McCarron and S. J. Conway
"Caged AG10: new tools for spatially predefined mitochondrial uncoupling"
Molecular BioSystems, DOI: 10.1039/b820415m, (2009).

F. M. Bain, A. A. Lagatsky, S. V. Kurilchick, V. E. Kisel, S. A. Guretsky, A. M. Luginets, N. A. Kalanda, I. M. Kolesova, N. V. Kuleshov, W. Sibbett, C. T. A. Brown
"Continuous-wave and Q-switched operation of a compact, diode-pumped Yb³⁺:KY(WO₄)² planar waveguide laser "
Optics Express, 17, (3): 1666–1670 (2009).

F. Fusari, A. A. Lagatsky, B. Richards, A. Jha, W. Sibbett, and C. T. Brown
"Spectroscopic and lasing performance of Tm³⁺-doped bulk TZN and TZNG tellurite glasses operating around 1.9 μm "
Optics Express, 16, (23): 19146–19151 (2008).

N. K. Metzger, C. G. Leburn, A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. Brown, S. Calvez, D. Burns, H. D. Sun, M. D. Dawson, J. C. Harmand, and W. Sibbett
"Femtosecond pulse generation around 1500nm using a GaInNAsSb SESAM "
Optics Express, 16, (23): 18739-18744 (2008).

A. A. Lagatsky, V. E. Kisel, A. E. Troshin, N. A. Tolstik, N. V. Kuleshov, N. I. Leonyuk, A. E. Zhukov, E. U. Rafailov and W. Sibbett
"Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Er,Yb:YAl3(BO3)(4) laser at 1.5-1.6 μm"
Optics Letters, 33, (1): 83-85, (2008).

P. Fischer, S. E. Skelton, C. G. Leburn, C. T. Streuber, E. M. Wright and K. Dholakia
"Propagation and diffraction of optical vortices"
Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications, 468, (7-10): 514-517, (2008).

C. T. A. Brown, D. Stevenson, X. Tsampoula, C McDougall, A. A. Lagatsky, W. Sibbett, F. J. Gunn-Moore and K. Dholakia
"Enhanced operation of femtosecond lasers and application in cell transfection"
Journal of Biophotonics, 1, (3):183-199 (2008).

S. Calvez, N. Laurand, H. D. Sun, J. Weda, D. Burns, M. D. Dawson, A. Harkonen, T. Jouhti, M. Pessa, M. Hopkinson, D. Poitras, J. A. Gupta, C. G. Leburn, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett
"GaInNAs(Sb) surface normal devices"
Physica Status Solidi a-Applications and Materials Science, 205, (1): 85-92, (2008).

A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, S. J. Holmgren, C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell and E. U. Rafailov
"Efficient doubling of femtosecond pulses in aperiodically and periodically poled KTP crystals"
Optics Express, 15, (3): 1155-1160, (2007).

A. A. Lagatsky, F. M. Bain, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, D. A. Livshits, G. Erbert and E. U. Rafailov
"Low-loss quantum-dot-based saturable absorber for efficient femtosecond pulse generation"
Applied Physics Letters, 91, (23), (2007).

P. Fischer, S. E. Skelton, C. G. Leburn, C. T. Streuber, E. M. Wright and K. Dholakia
"The dark spots of Arago"
Optics Express, 15, (19): 11860-11873, (2007).

J. L. Mortensen, A. McWilliam, C. G. Leburn, P. Tidemand-Lichtenberg, M. Thorhauge, J. Janousek, C. T. A. Brown, A. A. Lagatsky, P. Buchhave and W. Sibbett
"Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+ : forsterite and Nd : YVO4 lasers"
Optics Communications, 260, (2): 637-640, (2006).

A. McWilliam, A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, A. E. Zhukov, V. M. Ustinov, A. P. Vasil'ev and E. U. Rafailov
"Quantum-dot-based saturable absorber for femtosecond mode-locked operation of a solid-state laser"
Optics Letters, 31, (10): 1444-1446, (2006).

A. M. Malyarevich, M. S. Gaponenko, K. V. Yumashev, A. A. Lagatsky, W. Sibbett, A. A. Zhilin and A. A. Lipovskii
"Nonlinear spectroscopy of PbS quantum-dot-doped glasses as saturable absorbers for the mode locking of solid-state lasers"
Journal of Applied Physics, 100, (2), (2006).

A. A. Lagatsky, A. M. Malyarevich, V. G. Savitski, M. S. Gaponenko, K. V. Yumashev, A. A. Zhilin, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett
"PbS quantum-dot-doped glass for efficient passive mode locking in a CW Yb:KYW laser"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 18, (1-4): 259-261, (2006).

A. McWilliam, A. A. Lagatsky, C. G. Leburn, P. Fischer, C. T. A. Brown, G. J. Valentine, A. J. Kemp, S. Calvez, D. Burns, M. D. Dawson, M. Pessa and W. Sibbett
"Low-loss GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector for mode-locking of a femtosecond Cr⁴⁺:forsterite-laser"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 17, (11): 2292-2294, (2005).

A. A. Lagatsky, E. U. Rafailov, W. Sibbett, D. A. Livshits, A. E. Zhukov and V. M. Ustinov
"Quantum-dot-based saturable absorber with p-n junction for mode-locking of solid-state lasers"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 17, (2): 294-296, (2005).

A. A. Lagatsky, E. U. Rafailov, A. R. Sarmani, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, L. Ming and P. G. R. Smith
"Efficient femtosecond green-light source with a diode-pumped mode-locked Yb³⁺:KY(WO₄)₂ laser"
Optics Letters, 30, (10): 1144-1146, (2005).

A. A. Lagatsky, A. R. Sarmani, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, V. E. Kisel, A. G. Selivanov, I. A. Denisov, A. E. Troshin, K. V. Yumashev, N. V. Kuleshov, V. N. Matrosov, T. A. Matrosova and M. I. Kupchenko
"Yb³⁺-doped YVO₄ crystal for efficient Kerr-lens mode locking in solid-state lasers"
Optics Letters, 30, (23): 3234-3236, (2005).

Y. J. Chai, C. G. Leburn, A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. A. Brown, R. V. Penty, I. H. White and W. Sibbett
"1.36-Tb/s spectral slicing source based on a Cr⁴⁺:YAG femtosecond laser"
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 23, (3): 1319-1324, (2005).

E. U. Rafailov, S. J. White, A. A. Lagatsky, A. Miller, W. Sibbett, D. A. Livshits, A. E. Zhukov and V. M. Ustinov
"Fast quantum-dot saturable absorber for passive mode-locking of solid-state lasers"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 16, (11): 2439-2441, (2004).

C. G. Leburn, A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett
"Femtosecond Cr⁴⁺: YAG laser with 4GHz pulse repetition rate"
Electronics Letters, 40, (13): 805-807, (2004).

A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett
"Highly efficient and low threshold diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KYW laser"
Optics Express, 12, (17): 3928-3933, (2004).

A. A. Lagatsky, C. G. Leburn, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, A. M. Malyarevich, V. G. Savitski, K. V. Yumashev, E. L. Raaben and A. A. Zhilin
"Passive mode locking of a Cr⁴⁺: YAG laser by PbS quantum-dot-doped glass saturable absorber"
Optics Communications, 241, (4-6): 449-454, (2004).

C. T. A. Brown, M. A. Cataluna, A. A. Lagatsky, E. U. Rafailov, M. B. Agate, C. G. Leburn and W. Sibbett
"Compact laser-diode-based femtosecond sources"
New Journal of Physics, 6, (2004).

A. A. Lagatsky, C. G. Leburn, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett and W. H. Knox
"Compact self-starting femtosecond Cr⁴⁺: YAG laser diode pumped by a Yb-fiber laser"
Optics Communications, 217, (1-6): 363-367, (2003).

A. A. Lagatsky, E. U. Rafailov, C. G. Leburn, C. T. A. Brown, N. Xiang, O. G. Okhotnikov and W. Sibbett
"Highly efficient femtosecond Yb:KYW laser pumped by single narrow-stripe laser diode"
Electronics Letters, 39, (15): 1108-1110, (2003).