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2024

Simpson, Niall and Lee, Martin and Kemp, Alan J. (2024) A low-cost approach to diode-pumped Ti:sapphire lasers with Watt-level output. IEEE Photonics Journal, 16 (5). pp. 1-5. 1502505. ISSN 1943-0655

Simpson, Niall and Lee, Martin and Kemp, Alan J. (2024) Wavelength and polarisation dependence of pump-induced loss in Ti:sapphire. Optical Materials Express, 14 (5). pp. 1370-1389. ISSN 2159-3930

Simpson, Niall and Lee, Martin and Kemp, Alan (2024) A low-cost approach to diode-pumped Ti:Sapphire resonators with Watt-level output. Other. Optica Open.

2023

Simpson, Niall and Lee, Martin and Kemp, Alan (2023) Wavelength and polarisation dependence of pump-induced loss in Ti:sapphire. Other. Optica, Washington, DC.

Simpson, Niall and Lee, Martin and Kemp, Alan J.; (2023) Wavelength and polarisation dependence of dynamic pump-induced loss in titanium:sapphire. In: Laser Congress 2023 (ASSL, LAC). Technical Digest Series . Optica Publishing Group, USA. ISBN 9781957171319

2021

Talala, Tuomo and Kaikkonen, Ville A. and Keränen, Pekka and Nikkinen, Jari and Härkönen, Antti and Savitski, Vasili G. and Reilly, Sean and Dziechciarczyk, Łukasz and Kemp, Alan J. and Guina, Mircea and Mäkynen, Anssi J. and Nissinen, Ilkka (2021) Time-resolved Raman spectrometer with high fluorescence rejection based on a CMOS SPAD line sensor and a 573 nm pulsed laser. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70. 6004110. ISSN 0018-9456

2020

Brooks, James and Bonner, Gerald M. and Kemp, Alan J. and Stothard, David J. M. (2020) Stability of Q-switched 2 μm lasers. OSA Continuum, 3 (3). pp. 568-579. ISSN 2770-0208

2019

Dziechciarczyk, Łukasz and Huang, Zhimeng and Demetriou, Giorgos and Cheng, Dan and Pidishety, Shankar and Feng, Yujun and Feng, Yutong and Wang, Guozheng and Lin, Huaiqin and Zhu, Sheng and Lin, Di and Hawkins, Thomas W. and Dong, Liang and Kemp, Alan and Nilsson, Johan and Savitski, Vasili (2019) 9 W average power, 150 kHz repetition rate diamond Raman laser at 1519 nm, pumped by a Yb fibre amplifier. In: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe – European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-27.

Coyle, Jamie C.E. and Hopkins, John-Mark and Lagatsky, Alexander A. and Kemp, Alan J.; (2019) Titanium sapphire : A decade of diode-laser pumping. In: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019. 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019 . IEEE, DEU. ISBN 9781728104690

Demetriou, Giorgos and Kemp, Alan J. and Savitski, Vasili (2019) 100 kW peak power external cavity diamond Raman laser at 2.52 μm. Optics Express, 27 (7). pp. 10296-10303. ISSN 1094-4087

2018

Savitski, Vasili G. and Demetriou, Giorgos and Reilly, Sean and Liu, Hangyu and Gu, Erdan and Dawson, Martin D. and Kemp, Alan (2018) Energy scaling, second Stokes oscillation and Raman gain-guiding in monolithic diamond Raman lasers. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 54 (6). 1700408. ISSN 0018-9197

Casula, Riccardo and Penttinen, Jussi-Pekka and Guina, Mircea and Kemp, Alan J. and Hastie, Jennifer E. (2018) Cascaded crystalline Raman lasers for extended wavelength coverage : continuous-wave, third-Stokes operation. Optica, 5 (11). pp. 1406-1413. ISSN 1899-7015

Demetriou, Giorgos and Savitski, Vasili and Kemp, Alan; (2018) External cavity diamond Raman laser at 2.52 μm. In: Advanced Solid State Lasers 2018. The Optical Society, USA. ISBN 978-1-943580-48-4

Savitski, Vasili and Demetriou, Giorgos and Reilly, Sean and Liu, Hangyu and Gu, Erdan and Dawson, Martin and Kemp, Alan (2018) Second Stokes oscillation and Raman gain-guiding in micro-lensed monolithic diamond Raman lasers. In: 8th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, 2018-09-02 - 2018-09-07.

Nikkinen, Jari and Savitski, Vasili and Reilly, Sean and Dziechciarczyk, Łukasz and Härkönen, Antti and Kemp, Alan and Guina, Mircea (2018) Sub-100 ps monolithic diamond Raman laser emitting at 573 nm. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 30 (11). pp. 981-984. ISSN 1041-1135

Coyle, Jamie C. E. and Kemp, Alan J. and Hopkins, John-Mark and Lagatsky, Alexander A. (2018) Ultrafast diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser with broad tunability. Optics Express, 26 (6). pp. 6826-6832. ISSN 1094-4087

2017

Casula, Riccardo and Penttinen, Jussi-Pekka and Kemp, Alan J. and Guina, Mircea and Hastie, Jennifer E. (2017) 1.4 µm continuous-wave diamond Raman laser. Optics Express, 25 (25). pp. 31377-31383. ISSN 1094-4087

Coyle, Jamie and Kemp, Alan and Hopkins, John-Mark and Lagatsky, A.A.; (2017) A broadly tunable ultrafast diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser. In: Laser Applications Conference part of Laser Congress. The Optical Society, JPN. ISBN 978-0-9600380-7-7

Coyle, Jamie C. E. and Kemp, Alan J. and Hopkins, John-Mark and Lagatsky, Alexander A. (2017) A broadly tunable ultrafast diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser. In: Advanced Solid State Lasers 2017, 2017-10-01 - 2017-10-05.

Brooks, J. A. and Bonner, G. M. and Kemp, A. J. and Oakes, K. and Stothard, D. J. M. (2017) Pathways to reducing jitter in Q-switched and cavity-dumped 2 μm lasers. In: Advanced Solid State Lasers 2017, 2017-10-01 - 2017-10-05.

Fraczek, Elisabeth and Savitski, Vasili G. and Dale, Matthew and Breeze, Ben G. and Diggle, Phil and Markham, Matthew and Bennett, Andrew and Dhillon, Harpreet and Newton, Mark E. and Kemp, Alan J. (2017) Laser spectroscopy of NV- and NV0 colour centres in synthetic diamond. Optical Materials Express, 7 (7). pp. 2571-2585. ISSN 2159-3930

Nikkinen, Jari and Reilly, Sean and Savitski, Vasili and Härko¨nen, Antti and Kemp, Alan and Guina, Mircea; (2017) Yellow picosecond diamond raman laser. In: The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO_Europe 2017. The Optical Society, DEU. ISBN 9781557528209

Reilly, Sean and Savitski, Vasili G. and Liu, Hangyu and Gu, Erdan and Dawson, Martin D. and Kemp, Alan J.; (2017) Energy scaling of yellow emission from monolithic diamond Raman lasers. In: 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference. The Optical Society, DEU. ISBN 978-1-5090-6736-7

Savitski, Vasili G. and Birch, Rolf B. and Reilly, Sean and Kalashnikov, Vladimir L. and Kemp, Alan J.; (2017) Femtosecond frequency conversion in diamond under gaussian and bessel beam pumping. In: The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017. The Optical Society, DEU. ISBN 978-1-5090-6736-7

Savitski, V. G. and Fraczek, E. and Dale, M. and Breeze, B. G. and Dziechciarczyk, L. and Diggle, P. and Markham, M. and Bennett, A. and Dhillon, H. and Newton, M. E. and Kemp, A. J.; (2017) Laser-related spectroscopic parameters of NV colour centres in diamond. In: The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017. The Optical Society, DEU. ISBN 978-1-5090-6736-7

Macrae, C. D. and Fraczek, E. and Newton, M. E. and Dhillon, H. and Bennett, A. and Markham, M. and Diggle, P. and Breeze, B. G. and Dale, M. and Savitski, V. and Griffin, P. F. and Kemp, A. and Riis, E. and McConnell, G.; (2017) Optical detection of magnetic resonance in nitrogen vacancy centre ensembles in bulk diamond using an off-resonant probe laser beam. In: The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017. The Optical Society, DEU. ISBN 978-1-5090-6736-7

2016

Casula, R. and Parrotta, D. C. and Kemp, A. J. and Penttinen, J.-P. and Leinonen, T. and Guina, M. and Hastie, J. E. (2016) ~1400-nm continuous-wave diamond Raman laser intracavity-pumped by an InGaAs semiconductor disk laser. In: 7th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, 2016-08-21 - 2016-08-26.

Loiko, P. and Yoon, S.J. and Serres, J.M. and Mateos, X and Beecher, S.J. and Birch, R.B. and Savitski, V.G. and Kemp, A.J. and Yumashev, K. and Griebner, U. and Petrov, V. and Aguiló, M. and Diaz, F. and Mackenzie, J.I. (2016) Temperature-dependent spectroscopy and microchip laser operation of Nd:KGd(WO4)2. Optical Materials, 58. pp. 365-372. ISSN 0925-3467

Liu, Hangyu and Reilly, Sean and Herrnsdorf, Johannes and Xie, Enyuan and Savitski, Vasili G. and Kemp, Alan J. and Gu, Erdan and Dawson, Martin D. (2016) Large radius of curvature micro-lenses on single crystal diamond for application in monolithic diamond Raman lasers. Diamond and Related Materials, 65. pp. 37-41. ISSN 0925-9635

Parrotta, Daniele C. and Casula, Riccardo and Penttinen, Jussi-Pekka and Leinonen, Tomi and Kemp, Alan J. and Guina, Mircea and Hastie, Jennifer E. (2016) InGaAs-QW VECSEL emitting >1300nm via intracavity Raman conversion. Proceedings of SPIE, 9734. 97340O. ISSN 0277-786X

2015

Schlosser, Peter J. and Parrotta, Daniele C. and Savitski, Vasili G. and Kemp, Alan J. and Hastie, Jennifer E. (2015) Intracavity Raman conversion of a red semiconductor disk laser using diamond. Optics Express, 23 (7). pp. 8454-8461. ISSN 1094-4087

Reilly, Sean and Savitski, Vasili G. and Liu, Hangyu and Gu, Erdan and Dawson, Martin D. and Kemp, Alan J. (2015) Monolithic diamond Raman laser. Optics Letters, 40 (6). pp. 930-933. ISSN 0146-9592

2014

Loiko, P. A. and Savitski, Vasili and Kemp, Alan and Pavlyuk, A. A. and Kuleshov, N.V. and Yumashev, K. V. (2014) Anisotropy of the photo-elastic effect in Nd:KGd(WO4)2 laser crystals. Laser Physics Letters, 11 (5). 055002. ISSN 1612-2011

Bonner, Gerald Michael and Lin, Jipeng and Kemp, Alan and Wang, Jiyang and Zhang, Huaijin and Spence, David. J. and Pask, Helen M (2014) Spectral broadening in continuous-wave intracavity Raman lasers. Optics Express, 22 (7). pp. 7492-7502. ISSN 1094-4087

2013

Savitski, V. G. and Birch, R. B. and Fraczek, E. and Kemp, A. J. and Loiko, P. A. and Yumashev, K. V. and Kuleshov, N. V. and Pavlyuk, A. A.; (2013) The prospects for Yb- and Nd-doped tungstate microchip lasers. In: 2013 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference CLEO EUROPE/IQEC. IEEE, DEU. ISBN 9781479905942

Parrotta, Daniele Carmine and Kemp, Alan and Dawson, Martin and Hastie, Jennifer (2013) Multiwatt, continuous-wave tunable, diamond Ramam laser with intracavity frequency-doubling to the visible region. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 19 (4). 1400108. ISSN 1077-260X

Kemp, Alan and Hopkins, John-Mark and Hastie, Jennifer and Calvez, Stephane and Yanfeng, Zhang and Gu, Erdan and Dawson, Martin and Burns, David; Mildren, Richard and Rabeau, James, eds. (2013) Thermal management of lasers and LEDs using diamond. In: Optical Engineering of Diamond. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. ISBN 9783527411023

Savitski, Vasili G. and Reilly, Sean and Kemp, Alan J. (2013) Steady-state Raman gain in diamond as a function of pump wavelength. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 49 (2). pp. 218-223. ISSN 0018-9197

Parrotta, Daniele Carmine and Schlosser, Peter and Kemp, Alan and Dawson, Martin and Hastie, Jennifer (2013) VECSEL-pumped infrared and visible Raman lasers (invited talk). In: VECSELs III, Photonics West 2013, 2013-02-04.

2012

Roth, Peter W. and Burns, David and Kemp, Alan J. (2012) Power scaling of a directly diode-laser-pumped Ti:sapphire laser. Optics Express, 20 (18). pp. 20629-20634. ISSN 1094-4087

Parrotta, Daniele Carmine and Kemp, Alan and Dawson, Martin and Hastie, Jennifer (2012) Second harmonic generation in a CW diamond Raman laser for tunable visible emission. In: 5th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, 2012-08-27.

Bonner, Gerald M. and Pask, Helen M. and Lee, Andrew J. and Kemp, Alan J. and Wang, Jiyang and Zhang, Huaijin and Omatsu, Takashige (2012) Measurement of thermal lensing in a CW BaWO4 intracavity Raman laser. Optics Express, 20 (9). pp. 9810-9818. ISSN 1094-4087

Savitski, Vasili and Friel, I. and Hastie, Jennifer and Dawson, Martin and Burns, David and Kemp, Alan (2012) Characterization of single-crystal synthetic diamond for multi-watt continuous-wave Raman lasers. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 48 (3). pp. 328-337. ISSN 0018-9197

Parrotta, Daniele Carmine and Kemp, Alan and Dawson, Martin and Hastie, Jennifer; (2012) Tunable diamond Raman laser intracavity-pumped by an InGaAs semiconductor disk laser. In: Lasers, Sources, and Related Photonic Devices. Optical Society of America, USA. ISBN 9781557529336

2011

Parrotta, Daniele Carmine and Kemp, Alan and Dawson, Martin and Hastie, Jennifer (2011) Tunable continuous-wave diamond Raman laser. Optics Express, 19 (24). pp. 24165-24170. ISSN 1094-4087

Parrotta, Daniele Carmine and Lubeigt, Walter and Kemp, Alan and Burns, David and Dawson, Martin and Hastie, Jennifer (2011) Continuous-wave Raman laser pumped within a semiconductor disk laser cavity. Optics Letters, 36 (7). pp. 1083-1085. ISSN 0146-9592

Lubeigt, Walter and Savitski, Vasili G. and Bonner, Gerald M. and Geoghegan, Sarah L. and Friel, Ian and Hastie, Jennifer E. and Dawson, Martin D. and Burns, David and Kemp, Alan J. (2011) 1.6 W continuous-wave Raman laser using low-loss synthetic diamond. Optics Express, 19 (7). pp. 6938-6944. ISSN 1094-4087

Parrotta, Daniele Carmine and Lubeigt, Walter and Kemp, Alan and Burns, David and Dawson, Martin and Hastie, Jennifer (2011) VECSEL-pumped tunable CW Raman laser. In: Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2011, 2011-02-13 - 2011-02-16.

Roth, Peter W. and Maclean, Alexander James and Burns, David and Kemp, Alan J. (2011) Direct diode-laser pumping of a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. Optics Letters, 36 (2). pp. 304-306. ISSN 0146-9592

2010

Savitski, V.G. and Kemp, A. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. (2010) Optically pumped saturable Bragg reflectors : nonlinear spectroscopy and application in ultrafast lasers. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 46 (11). pp. 1650-1655. ISSN 0018-9197

Lubeigt, Walter and Bonner, Gerald Michael and Hastie, Jennifer and Dawson, Martin and Burns, David and Kemp, Alan (2010) Continuous-wave diamond Raman laser. Optics Letters, 35 (17). pp. 2994-2996. ISSN 0146-9592

Lubeigt, Walter and Bonner, Gerald Michael and Hastie, Jennifer and Dawson, Martin and Burns, David and Kemp, Alan (2010) An intra-cavity Raman laser using synthetic single-crystal diamond. Optics Express, 18 (16). pp. 16765-16770. ISSN 1094-4087

Calvez, S. and Hastie, J.E. and Kemp, A. and Laurand, N. and Dawson, M.D.; Okhotnikov, O., ed. (2010) Thermal management, structure design and integration considerations for vecsels. In: Semiconductor Disk Lasers. John Wiley & Sons Inc.. ISBN 103527409335

2009

MacLean, A.J. and Birch, R.B. and Roth, Peter and Kemp, A.J. and Burns, D. (2009) Limits on efficiency and power scaling in semiconductor disk lasers with diamond heatspreaders. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 26 (12). pp. 2228-2236. ISSN 1520-8540

Roth, Peter W. and MacLean, A.J. and Burns, D. and Kemp, A.J. (2009) Directly diode-laser-pumped Ti:sapphire laser. Optics Letters, 34 (21). pp. 3334-3336. ISSN 0146-9592

Millar, P. and Kemp, A.J. and Burns, D. (2009) Power scaling of Nd:YVO4 and Nd:GdVO4 disk lasers using synthetic diamond as a heat spreader. Optics Letters, 34 (6). pp. 782-784. ISSN 0146-9592

Burns, D. and Hopkins, J.M. and Kemp, A.J. and Rosener, B. and Schulz, N. and Manz, C. and Kohler, K. and Rattunde, M. and Wagner, J. (2009) Recent developments in high-power short-wave mid-infrared semiconductor disk lasers. Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 7193. 719311.

2008

Laurand, N. and Lee, C.L. and Gu, E. and Hastie, J.E. and Kemp, A.J. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. (2008) Array-format microchip semiconductor disk lasers. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 44 (11). pp. 1096-1103. ISSN 0018-9197

Millar, P. and Birch, R.B. and Kemp, A.J. and Burns, D. (2008) Synthetic diamond for intracavity thermal management in compact solid-state lasers. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 44 (7-8). pp. 709-717. ISSN 0018-9197

MacLean, A.J. and Kemp, A. and Calvez, S. and Kim, J.Y. and Kim, T. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2008) Continuous tuning and efficient intracavity second-harmonic generation in a semiconductor disk laser with an intracavity diamond heatspreader. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 44 (3). pp. 216-225. ISSN 0018-9197

Kemp, A. and Hopkins, J.M. and MacLean, A.J. and Schulz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Wagner, J. and Burns, D. (2008) Thermal management in 2.3-mu m semiconductor disk lasers : a finite element analysis. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 44 (1-2). pp. 125-135. ISSN 0018-9197

Giet, S. and Kemp, A. and Burns, D. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. and Suomalainen, S. and Harkonen, A. and Guina, M. and Okhotnikov, O. and Pessa, M. (2008) Comparison of thermal management techniques for semiconductor disk lasers. Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, 6871. p. 687115. ISSN 0277-786X

2007

Kemp, A. and Hopkins, J.M. and MacLean, A.J. and Schultz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Wagner, J. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2007) Finite element analysis of the thermal effects in a 2.3µm gallium antimonide based semiconductor disk laser. In: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2007-06-17 - 2007-06-22. (Unpublished)

MacLean, A.J. and Kemp, Alan and Kim, J.Y. and Kim, K.S. and Kim, T. and Dawson, Martin D. and Burns, David (2007) Factors affecting tunable second harmonic generation in a semiconductor disk laser with an intracavity diamond heatspreader. In: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2007-06-17 - 2007-06-22.

Millar, Patricia and Kemp, Alan and van Loon, F. and MacLean, A.J. and Burns, David (2007) Synthetic diamond as an intracavity heatspreader in compact solid-state lasers. In: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2007-06-17 - 2007-06-22.

Rattunde, M. and Schultz, N. and Ritzenthaler, C. and Rosener, B. and Manz, C. and Kohler, K. and Wagner, J. and Hopkins, J.M. and Kemp, A. and MacLean, A.J. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2007) High-power, high brightness, tuneable GaSb-based VECSEL at 2.Xum. In: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2007-06-17 - 2007-06-22. (Unpublished)

Hempler, N. and Hopkins, J.M. and Kemp, A. and Schulz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Wagner, J. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2007) Pulsed pumping of semiconductor disk lasers. Optics Express, 15 (6). 3247 -3256. ISSN 1094-4087

Kemp, Alan and MacLean, Alexander J. and Hopkins, John-Mark and Hastie, Jennifer and Calvez, Stephane and Dawson, Martin and Burns, David (2007) Thermal management in disc lasers: doped-dielectric and semiconductor laser gain media in thin-disc and microchip formats. Journal of Modern Optics, 54 (12). pp. 1669-1676. ISSN 1362-3044

Hopkins, J.M. and Hempler, N. and MacLean, A.J. and Kemp, A. and Dawson, M.D. and Riis, E. and Schulz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Manzor, A.C.S. and Kohler, K. and Wagner, J. and Burns, D. (2007) High performance, GaSb-based, optically-pumped semiconductor disk lasers (invited). In: 8th International Conference on Mid-Infrared Optoelectronics: Materials and Devices, 2007-05-14 - 2007-05-16.

Hempler, N. and Hopkins, J.M. and Kemp, A. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. and Shultz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Wagner, J. IEEE (2007) Pulsed pumping of a 2.3 mu m ingaassb semiconductor disk laser. In: Laser and Electro-Optics 2007. IEEE, pp. 374-375. ISBN 978-1-55752-834-6

Hempler, N. and Hopkins, J.M. and Kemp, A. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. and Schulz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Wagner, J. (2007) Pulsed pumping of a 2.3um InGaAsSb semiconductor disk laser. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007-05-06 - 2007-05-07.

Kemp, A. and Hastie, J.E. and Hopkins, J.M. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. and Holt, T. (2007) Semiconductor disk lasers: the future's bright; the colour's flexible. In: The Industrial Laser Users, 1900-01-01.

Calvez, S. and Giet, S. and Kemp, A. and Hastie, J.E. and Dawson, M.D. and Jouhti, T. and Kontinnen, J. and Pessa, M. (2007) Tunable red laser emission by intra-cavity doubling of a GaInNAs VECSEL. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007-05-06 - 2007-05-07.

2006

Hastie, J.E. and Morton, L.G. and Kemp, A. and Dawson, M.D. and Krysa, A.B. and Roberts, J.S.; (2006) High power ultraviolet VECSEL through intra-cavity frequency-doubling in BBO. In: Semiconductor laser conference, 2006. Conference digest. 2006 IEEE 20th International. IEEE, pp. 109-110. ISBN 0-7803-9560-3

van Loon, Francesco and Kemp, Alan J. and MacLean, Alexander and Calvez, Stephane and Hopkins, John-Mark and Hastie, Jennifer E. and Dawson, Martin D. and Burns, David (2006) Intracavity diamond heatspreaders in lasers: the effects of birefringence. Optics Express, 14 (20). pp. 9250-9260. ISSN 1094-4087

Morton, L.G. and Hastie, J.E. and Kemp, A. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. (2006) Frequency doubling of a continuous-wave red vECSEL to produce 100mW at 337nm. In: Photon06, 2006-09-04 - 2006-09-07.

MacLean, A.J. and Kemp, A.J. and Kim, K.S. and Kim, J.Y. and Kim, T. and Burns, D. (2006) High power intracavity second harmonic generation in vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers at 1060nm. In: Photon 06, 2006-09-04 - 2006-09-07.

Kemp, A. and MacLean, A.J. and Hopkins, J.M. and Hastie, J.E. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2006) Thermal management in disc lasers: doped dielectric and semiconductor laser gain media in thin-disc and microchip formats. In: Photon06, 2006-09-04 - 2006-09-07. (Unpublished)

MacLean, A.J. and Kemp, A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Hastie, J.E. and Giet, S. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. and Kim, J.Y. and Kim, K.S. and Kim, T. (2006) An analysis of power scaling and thermal management in 1060nm VECSELs with diamond heatspreader. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006, 2006-05-21 - 2006-05-26.

Hopkins, J.M. and Calvez, S. and Kemp, A. and Hastie, J.E. and Smith, S.A. and MacLean, A.J. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2006) High-power vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers. Physica Status Solidi C, 3 (3). pp. 380-385. ISSN 1610-1642

Kemp, A. and MacLean, A.J. and Hastie, J.E. and Smith, S.A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Calvez, S. and Valentine, G.J. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2006) Thermal lensing, thermal management and transverse mode control in microchip VECSELs. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 83. pp. 189-194. ISSN 0946-2171

Hastie, J.E. and Morton, L.G. and Kemp, A. and Dawson, M.D. and Krysa, A.B. and Roberts, J.S. (2006) Tunable ultraviolet output from an intracavity frequency-doubled red vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser. Applied Physics Letters, 89 (6). 061114. ISSN 0003-6951

2005

Kemp, A. and Hastie, J.E. and Smith, S.A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Calvez, S. and Valentine, G.J. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2005) Heatspreader-based thermal management in VECSELs: thermal lensing in microchip in microchip devices. In: Advanced Solid-State Photonics 2005, 2005-02-06 - 2005-02-09.

Stormont, B. and Kemp, A. and Cormack, I.G. and Agate, B. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Szipocs, R. (2005) Broad tunability from a compact, low-threshold Cr: LiSAF laser incorporating an improved birefringent filter and multiple-cavity Gires-Tournois interferometer mirrors. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 22 (6). pp. 1236-1243. ISSN 1520-8540

Lake, T.K. and Kemp, A. and Friel, G.J. and Sinclair, B.D. (2005) Compact and efficient single frequency Nd:YVO4 laser with variable longitudinal mode discrimination. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 17 (2). pp. 417-419. ISSN 1041-1135

McWilliam, A. and Leburn, C.G. and Lagatsky, A.A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Valentine, G.J. and Kemp, A. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Kontinnen, J. and Jouhti, T. and Pessa, M. (2005) Femtosecond Cr:Forsterite laser modelocked with a GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector. In: Advanced Solid-State Photonics 2005, 2005-02-06 - 2005-02-09.

McWilliam, A. and Leburn, C.G. and Lagatsky, A.A. and Fischer, P. and Brown, C.T.A. and Valentine, G.J. and Kemp, A. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Pessa, M. and Sibbett, W. (2005) Low-loss GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector for femtosecond modelocking of a cr 4+ :forsterite laser. In: Advanced Solid-State Photonics 2005, 2005-02-06 - 2005-02-09. (Unpublished)

McWilliam, A. and Lagatsky, A.A. and Leburn, C.G. and Fischer, P. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Valentine, G.J. and Kemp, A. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Pessa, M. (2005) Low-loss GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector for mode-locking of a femtosecond Cr/sup 4+/:forsterite-laser. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 17 (11). pp. 2292-2294. ISSN 1041-1135

Kemp, A. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. (2005) Nd:GdVO4 in face-cooled geometries: Thin-disk and high-power microchip lasers. Trends in Optics and Photonics, 98. Vol 98. ISSN 1094-5695

Smith, S.A. and Calvez, S. and Hopkins, J.M. and Hastie, J.E. and Kemp, A. and Sun, H.D. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2005) Polarisation and modal characteristics of a 1.3µm diamond-microchip GaInNAs vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005, 2005-06-12.

Kemp, A. and Valentine, G.J. and Hopkins, J.M. and Hastie, J.E. and Smith, S.A. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. (2005) Thermal management in vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers: Finite-element analysis of a heatspreader approach. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 41 (2). pp. 148-155. ISSN 0018-9197

2004

Smith, S.A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Hastie, J.E. and Calvez, S. and Kemp, A. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2004) A diamond-microchip GaInNAs VECSEL operating at 1315nm. In: IEEE-LEOS Annual Meeting, 2004-11-07 - 2004-11-11.

Kemp, A. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. (2004) Progress towards high power, high brightness neodymium-based thin-disk lasers. Progress in Quantum Electronics, 28 (6). pp. 305-344. ISSN 0079-6727

Smith, S.A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Hastie, J.E. and Calvez, S. and Kemp, A.J. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. IEEE (2004) A diamond-microchip GaInNAs VECSEL operating at 1315nm. In: 2004 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings. IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., pp. 330-331. ISBN 0780385578

2003

Stormont, B. and Cormack, I.G. and Kemp, A. and Agate, B. and Brown, C.T.A. and Szipocs, R. and Sibbett, W. (2003) Tuning of compact femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers using a novel birefringent filter design. In: Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP), 2003-02-02 - 2003-02-05.

Stormont, B. and Cormack, I.G. and Kemp, A. and Mazilu, M. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Burns, D.; (2003) High repetition rate femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers based on four element cavities. In: Proceedings of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. (CLEO '03). IEEE, pp. 1439-1440. ISBN 1-55752-748-2

Kemp, A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Valentine, G.J. and Holt, T. and Burns, D. (2003) Housetraining a Titan: overcoming the hurdles to a real-world deployment of ultrafast lasers. The Laser User, 31. pp. 31-38.

Stormont, B. and Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Szipocs, R.; (2003) Tunable and compact femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers: single prism and prismless approaches. In: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. (LEOS 2002). IEEE, pp. 508-509. ISBN 0-7803-7500-9

Stormont, B. and Kemp, A. and Mazilu, M. and Brown, C.T.A. and Wadsworth, W.J. and Knight, J.C. and Russell, P.S.J. and Sibbett, W.; (2003) Wavelength dependence of induced nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibre. In: Summaries of Papers Presented at Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. IEEE, p. 489. ISBN 1-55752-706-7

2002

Hopkins, J.M. and Valentine, G.J. and Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Keller, U. and Sibbett, W. (2002) Highly compact and efficient femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 38 (4). pp. 360-368. ISSN 0018-9197

Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Birkin, D.J.L. and Rafailov, E.U. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Battle, P. and Fry, T. and Mohatt, D.; (2002) Compact and highly efficient blue light sources: bulk and waveguide approaches to the single pass frequency doubling of femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasrs. In: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002 (LEOS 2002). IEEE, pp. 438-439. ISBN 0-7803-7500-9

Druon, F. and Valentine, G.J. and Chenais, S. and Raybaut, P. and Balembois, F. and Georges, P. and Brun, A. and Birkin, D.J.L. and Sibbett, W. and Mohr, S. and Kopf, D. and Burns, D. and Courjaud, A. and Honninger, C. and Casalin, F. and Gaume, R. and Aron, A. and Aka, G. and Viana, B. and Clerc, C. and Kemp, A. and Bernas, H. (2002) Diode-pumped femtosecond oscillators using ultra-broad-band Yb-doped crystals and modelocked using low-temperature grown or ion implanted saturable-absorber mirrors. European Physical Journal: Applied Physics, 20 (3). pp. 177-182. ISSN 1286-0042

Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. (2002) Efficient, high repetition-rate femtosecond blue source using a compact Cr:LiSAF laser. Optics Express, 10 (16). pp. 824-831. ISSN 1094-4087

Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Keller, U. and Sibbett, W.; (2002) Efficient, high-repetition rate, blue source using a compact CR:LiSAF laser. In: Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 338-339. ISBN 1557527067

Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. (2002) Simplified cavity designs for efficient and compact femtosecond Cr: LiSAF lasers. Optics Communications, 205 (1-3). pp. 207-213. ISSN 0030-4018

2001

Kemp, Alan and Stormont, B. and Agate, B. and Brown, C.T.A. and Keller, U. and Sibbett, W. (2001) Gigahertz repetition-rate from a directly diode-pumped femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser. Electronics Letters, 37 (24). pp. 1457-1458. ISSN 0013-5194

Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Sibbett, W. (2001) Highly-compact femtosecond CR:LiSAF lasersL prismless and single-prism dispersion compensation. In: Quantum Electronics and Photonics 15, 2001-09-03 - 2001-09-06. (Unpublished)

Agate, B. and Kemp, Alan and Stormont, B. and Hopkins, J.M. and Keller, U. and Sibbett, W. (2001) Integral dispersion compensation in a compact femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser: a novel route towards miniaturisation. In: Quantum Electronics and Photonics 15, 2001-09-03 - 2001-09-06. (Unpublished)

Stormont, B. and Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. (2001) Gigahertz repetition-rate from a directly diode pumped femtosecond laser. In: Quantum Electronics and Photonics 15, 2001-09-03 - 2001-09-06. (Unpublished)

Lake, T.K. and Kemp, A. and Sinclair, B.D.; (2001) The effect of gain crystal temperature on a miniature single frequency Nd:YVO4 laser. In: Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. IEEE, p. 531. ISBN 1-55752-662-1

2000

Valentine, G.J. and Kemp, A. and Burns, D. and Balembois, F. and Georges, P. and Bernas, H. and Aron, A. and Aka, G. and Sibbett, W. and Brun, A. (2000) Application of an ion implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror to innitiate modelocking of a fetmosecond, low threshold Yb:YCOB laser. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics Europe, 2000-09-10 - 2000-09-15. (Unpublished)