Prof Wilson Sibbett

Emeritus Professor

Email: ws@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research interests are centred mainly in the development, assessment and applications of ultrashort-pulse lasers and associated ultrafast diagnostics. A key breakthrough in this area was our development of self (or Kerr-lens) modelocked femtosecond solid-state lasers for which the titanium sapphire system was the archetype. I have used these and other femotosecond lasers in areas such as optoelectronics, nonlinear and waveguide optics and time-resolved spectroscopy for a range of studies in physics. I am the Director of a major interdisciplinary research collaboration (Ultrafast Photonics Collaboration) where the primary objective is to develop femtosecond datacomms networks that might ultimately offer data transfer speeds up 100Tb/s. More recently, other research interests has encompassed applications in biophotonics and medical photonics where a range of novel laser configurations are being designed for specific light-matter interactions.

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Selected publications

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3D laser nano-printing on fibre paves the way for super-focusing of multimode laser radiation
Sokolovskii, G. S., Melissinaki, V., Fedorova, K. A., Dudelev, V., Losev, S. N., Bougrov, V. E., Sibbett, W., Farsari, M. & Rafailov, E. U., 2 Oct 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 9 p., 14618.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ultrafast high-repetition-rate waveguide lasers
Shepherd, D., Choudhary, A., Lagatsky, A. A., Kannan, P., Beecher, S., Eason, R., Mackenzie, J., Feng, X., Sibbett, W. & Brown, C. T. A., Mar 2016, In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 22, 2
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dropout dynamics in pulsed quantum dot lasers due to mode jumping
Sokolovskii, G. S., Viktorov, E. A., Abusaa, M., Danckaert, J., Dudelev, V. V., Kolykhalova, E. D., Soboleva, K. K., Deryagin, A. G., Novikov, I. I., Maximov, M. V., Zhukov, A. E., Ustinov, V. M., Kuchinskii, V. I., Sibbett, W., Rafailov, E. U. & Erneux, T., 29 Jun 2015, In: Applied Physics Letters. 106, 26, 5 p., 261103.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optical trapping with superfocused high-M² laser diode beam
Sokolovskii, G. S., Dudelev, V. V., Melissinaki, V., Losev, S. N., Sobolev, K. K., Deryagin, A. G., Kuchinskii, V. I., Farsari, M., Sibbett, W. & Rafailov, E. U., 3 Mar 2015, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVII. Kudryashov, AV., Paxton, AH., Ilchenko, VS., Aschke, L. & Washio, K. (eds.). Bellingham: SPIE, 7 p. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 9343).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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2 μm solid-state laser mode-locked by single-layer graphene
Lagatsky, A. A., Sun, Z., Kulmala, T. S., Sundaram, R. S., Milana, S., Torrisi, F., Antipov, O. L., Lee, Y., Ahn, J. H., Brown, C. T. A., Sibbett, W. & Ferrari, A. C., 7 Jan 2013, In: Applied Physics Letters. 102, 1, 4 p., 013113.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Raman spectroscopy bio-sensor for tissue discrimination in surgical robotics.
Ashok, P. C., Giardini, M. E., Dholakia, K. & Sibbett, W., 2013, In: Journal of Biophotonics. 7
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A diode-pumped 1.5 mu m waveguide laser mode-locked at 6.8 GHz by a quantum dot SESAM
Choudhary, A., Lagatsky, A. A., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhou, K. J., Wang, Q., Hogg, R. A., Pradeesh, K., Rafailov, E. U., Sibbett, W., Brown, C. T. A. & Shepherd, D. P., Oct 2013, In: Laser Physics Letters. 10, 10, 4 p., 105803.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
CW, Q-switched and mode-locking oscillations at 2.1 μm in novel Tm ³⁺:Lu₂O₃ ceramics lasers
Antipov, O. L., Novikov, A. A., Zinoviev, A. P., Yagi, H., Lagatsky, A. A., Sibbett, W. & Ivakin, E. V., 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Fundamentally mode-locked, femtosecond waveguide oscillators with multi-gigahertz repetition frequencies up to 15 GHz
Lagatsky, A. A., Choudhary, A., Kannan, P., Shepherd, D. P., Sibbett, W. & Brown, C. T. A., 26 Aug 2013, In: Optics Express. 21, 17, p. 19608-19614 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Algorithm-based continuous pulse duration tuning and performance control of a mode-locked laser diode
Metzger, N. K., Olle, V. F., Wonfor, A., Penty, R. V., White, I. H., Mazilu, M., Brown, C. T. A. & Sibbett, W., 26 Mar 2012, In: Optics Express. 20, 7, p. 7022-7034 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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