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Gibbings, Alison and Vasile, Massimiliano and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David and Watson, Ian A (2013) Experimental analysis of laser ablated plumes for asteroid deflection and exploitation. Acta Astronautica, 90 (1). pp. 85-97. ISSN 0094-5765

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

Gibbings, Alison and Vasile, Massimiliano and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David and Watson, Ian A. (2013) Experimental characterization of the thrust induced by laser ablation on an asteroid. In: IAA Planetary Defense Conference, 2013-04-15 - 2013-05-19.

Vasile, Massimiliano and Vetrisano, Massimo and Gibbings, Alison and Garcia Yarnoz, Daniel and Sanchez Cuartielles, Joan-Pau and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David and McInnes, Colin and Colombo, Camilla and Branco, Joao and Wayman, Alastair and Eckersley, Steven (2013) Light-touch2 : a laser-based solution for the deflection, manipulation and exploitation of small asteroids. In: IAA Planetary Defense Conference, 2013-04-15 - 2013-05-19.

Vasile, Massimiliano and Vetrisano, Massimo and Gibbings, Alison and Garcia Yarnoz, Daniel and Sanchez Cuartielles, Joan-Pau and Burns, David and Hopkins, John-Mark and Colombo, Camilla and Branco, Joao and Wayman, Alastair and Eckersley, Steven (2013) Light Touch2 : Effective solutions to asteroid manipulation. In: ESA/ESTEC SYSNova Space Concept Challenge, 2013-01-21 - 2013-01-22.

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

Gibbings, Alison and Vasile, Massimiliano and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David and Watson, Ian A. (2012) Potential of laser-induced ablation for future space applications. Space Policy, 28 (3). pp. 149-153. ISSN 0265-9646

Gibbings, Alison and Vasile, Massimiliano and Watson, Ian A. and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David (2012) Laser ablation for the effective deflection, exploration and exploitation of asteroids. In: Astrobiology Science Conference 2012, 2012-04-16 - 2012-04-20.

Savitski, Vasili G. and Metzger, Nikolaus K. and Calvez, Stephane and Burns, David and Sibbett, W. and Brown, C. T. A. (2012) Optical trapping with "on-demand" two-photon luminescence using Cr:LiSAF laser with optically addressed saturable Bragg reflector. Optics Express, 20 (7). pp. 7066-7070. 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

Gibbings, Alison and Vasile, Massimiliano and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David and Watson, Ian A. (2012) LASER BEES : A concept for asteroid deflection and hazard mitigation. The Planetary Society, Pasadena, USA.

Gibbings, Alison and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David and Vasile, Massimiliano and Watson, Ian A. (2011) Exploring and exploiting asteroids with laser ablation. In: UK Space Conference 2011, 2011-07-04 - 2011-07-05.

Gibbings, Alison and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David and Vasile, Massimiliano (2011) On testing laser ablation processes for asteroid deflection. In: IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Protecting Earth from Asteroids: From threat to Action, 2011-05-09 - 2011-05-12.

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.

Lubeigt, Walter and Gomes, Joao and Brown, James and Kelly, Andrew and Savitski, Vasili and Uttamchandani, Deepak and Burns, David (2011) Control of solid-state lasers using an intra-cavity MEMS micromirror. Optics Express, 19 (3). pp. 2456-2465. ISSN 1094-4087

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

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

Metzger, N.K. and Lubeigt, W. and Burns, D and Griffith, M. and Laycock, L. and Lagatsky, A.A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. (2010) Ultrashort-pulse laser with an intracavity phase shaping element. Optics Express, 18 (8). pp. 8123-8134. ISSN 1094-4087

Savitski, V.G. and Schlosser, P.J. and Hastie, J.E. and Krysa, A.B. and Roberts, J.S. and Dawson, M.D. and Burns, D. and Calvez, S. (2010) Passive mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laser by InGaP quantum-dot saturable absorber. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 22 (4). pp. 209-211. ISSN 1041-1135

Lubeigt, W. and Poland, S.P. and Valentine, G.J. and Wright, A.J. and Girkin, J.M. and Burns, D. (2010) Search-based active optic systems for aberration correction in time-dependent applications. Applied Optics, 49 (3). pp. 307-314. ISSN 1559-128X

Loiko, P. A. and Yumashev, K. V. and Kuleshov, N. V. and Savitski, Vasili and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Pavlyuk, A. A. (2009) Thermal lens study in diode pumped N-g- and N-p-cut Nd:KGd(WO4)(2) laser crystals. Optics Express, 17 (26). pp. 23536-23543. ISSN 1094-4087

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

Hempler, N. and Hopkins, J.M. and Rosener, B. and Rattunde, M. and Wagner, J. and Fedorov, V.V. and Moskalev, I.S. and Mirov, S.B. and Burns, D. (2009) Semiconductor disk laser pumped Cr2+:Znse 
lasers. Optics Express, 17 (20). pp. 18136-18141. ISSN 1094-4087

Lubeigt, W. and Griffith, M. and Laycock, L. and Burns, D., DTI (Funder) (2009) Reduction of the time-to-full-brightness in solid-state lasers using intra-cavity adaptive optics. Optics Express, 17 (14). pp. 12057-12069. ISSN 1094-4087

Stothard, D.J.M. and Hopkins, J.M. and Burns, D. and Dunn, M.H. (2009) Stable, continuous-wave, intracavity, optical parametric oscillator pumped by a semiconductor disk laser (VECSEL). Optics Express, 17 (13). pp. 10648-10658. ISSN 1094-4087

Savitski, V.G. and Burns, D. and Calvez, S. (2009) Optically-pumped saturable absorber for fast switching between continuous-wave and passively mode-locked regimes of a Nd:YVO4 laser. Optics Express, 17 (7). pp. 5373-5378. ISSN 1094-4087

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.

Metzger, N.K. and Leburn, C.G. and Lagatsky, A.A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Sun, H.D. and Dawson, M.D. and Harmand, J.C. and Sibbett, W. (2008) Femtosecond pulse generation around 1500nm using a GaInNAsSb SESAM. Optics Express, 16 (23). pp. 18739-18744. ISSN 1094-4087

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

Lubeigt, W. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. (2008) Enhancement of laser performance using an intracavity deformable membrane mirror. Optics Express, 16 (15). pp. 10943-10955. ISSN 1094-4087

Rattunde, M. and Rosener, B. and Schulz, N. and Manz, C. and Hopkins, J.M. and Burns, D. and Wagner, J. (2008) Two-micron semiconductor disk lasers achieve higher powers. SPIE Newsroom. ISSN 1818-2259

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

Gupta, James A. and Calvez, Stephane and Laurand, Nicolas and Weda, Jelmer and Burns, David and Poitras, Daniel and Aers, Geof C. and Dawson, Martin D. (2008) Characteristics of GaInNAsSb VCSELs operating near 1.55µm. Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6908. 69080E.

Hopkins, J.M. and Hempler, N. and Rosener, B. and Schulz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Manz, C. and Kohler, K. and Wagner, J. and Burns, David (2008) High-power, (AlGaIn)(AsSb) semiconductor disk laser at 2.0µm. Optics Letters, 33 (2). pp. 201-203. ISSN 0146-9592

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

Schulz, N. and Hopkins, J.M. and Rattunde, M. and Burns, D. and Wagner, J. (2008) High-brightness long-wavelength semiconductor disk lasers. Laser and Photonics Reviews, 2 (3). pp. 160-181. ISSN 1863-8880

Hopkins, J.M. and MacLean, A.J. and Burns, D. and Riis, E. and Schulz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Manz, C. and Kohler, K. and Wagner, J. (2007) Tunable, single-frequency, diode-pumped 2.3um VECSEL. Optics Express, 15 (13). pp. 8212-8217. ISSN 1094-4087

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.

Lubeigt, W. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. and Griffith, M. and Laycock, L. (2007) Adaptive optics control of solid-state lasers. In: 6th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics in Industry and Medicine, 2007-06-11 - 2007-06-15. (Unpublished)

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)

Schulz, N. and Rattunde, M. and Manzor, A.C.S. and Kohler, K. and Wagner, J. and Hopkins, J.M. and Burns, D.; (2007) Resonant in-Well pumping of GaSb-based VECSELs emitting the 2.Xum wavelength regime. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. IEEE, pp. 1-2. ISBN 9781557528346

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

Leburn, C.G. and McRobbie, A.D. and Lagatsky, A.A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Gupta, J.A. and Aers, G.C. (2007) Self-starting femtosecond Cr4+:YAG laser mode locked with a GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector. In: Advanced Solid State Photonics Conference, ASSP 2007, 2007-01-28 - 2007-01-31.

Calvez, S. and Laurand, N. and Sun, H.D. and Weda, J. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Harkonen, A. and Jouhti, T. and Pessa, M. and Hopkinson, M. and Poitras, D. and Gupta, J.A. and Leburn, C.G. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. (2007) GaInNAs(Sb) surface normal devices. Physics Status Solidi A, 205 (1). pp. 85-92. ISSN 1521-396X

Hopkins, J.M. and Preston, R.D. and MacLean, A.J. and Calvez, S. and Sun, H. and Ng, J. and Steer, M. and Hopkinson, M. and Burns, D. (2007) High performance 2.2um optically-pumped vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser. Journal of Modern Optics, 54 (12). pp. 1677-1683. 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.

Esposito, E. and Harris, J. and Burns, D. and McConnell, G. (2007) Measurement of white-light supercontinuum beam properties from a photonic crystal fibre using a laser scanning confocal microscope. Measurement Science and Technology, 18 (8). pp. 2609-2615. ISSN 0957-0233

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.

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

Hopkins, J.M. and MacLean, A.J. and Burns, D. and Ng, J.S. and Hopkinson, M. and Calvez, S. and Sun, H.D. (2006) High performance 2.2um optically-pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting laser. In: Photon 06, 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

Poland, S.P. and Burns, D. and Lubeigt, W. and Patterson, B.A. and Valentine, G.J. and Wright, A.J. and Girkin, J.M.; Jiang, Wenhan, ed. (2005) Use of optimisation algorithmic techniques with active optics for aberration correction in optical sectioning microscopy. In: 5th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine Proceedings. SPIE. ISBN 9780819460424

Wright, Amanda and Burns, David and Patterson, B.A. and Poland, S. and Valentine, G.J. and Girkin, J. (2005) Exploration of the optimisation algorithms used in the implementation of adaptive optics in confocal and multiphoton microscopy. Microscopy Research and Technique, 67 (1). pp. 36-44. ISSN 1059-910X

Wright, A.J. and Poland, S.P. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. and Girkin, J.M. (2005) Optimisation methods for adaptive optics in microscopy. In: Focus on Microscopy, 2005-03-20 - 2005-03-23. (Unpublished)

Cerny, P. and Sun, H. and Burns, D. and Roy, U.N. and Burger, A.; (2005) Spectroscopic investigation and continuous-wave laser demonstration utilising single crystal cr2+:CdZnTe. In: Solid-State Photonics, Technical Digest. Optical Society of America.

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.

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

Cerny, P. and Burns, D. (2005) Modelling and experimental investigation of a diode-pumped Tm: YA1O(3) Laser with a- and b-cut crystal orientations. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 11 (3). pp. 674-681. ISSN 1077-260X

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

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.

Wright, A.J. and Poland, S.P. and Patterson, B.A. and Burns, D. and Valentine, G.J. and Girkin, J.M. (2004) Adaptive optics in microscopy. In: Photon 04, 2004-09-06 - 2004-09-09. (Unpublished)

Sun, H.D. and Macaluso, R. and Calvez, S. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Gundogdu, K. and Hall, K.C. and Boggess, T.F. and Jouhti, T. and Pessa, M. (2004) Effects of rapid thermal annealing on the optical properties of low-loss 1.3um GaInNAs/GaAs saturable bragg reflectors. Journal of Applied Physics, 96 (3). pp. 1418-1424. ISSN 0021-8979

Cerny, P. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. (2004) Actively stabilised diode pumped Tm : YAIO laser. Electronics Letters, 40 (17). pp. 1061-1063. ISSN 0013-5194

Smith, S.A. and Hopkins, J.M. and Hastie, J.E. and Burns, D. and Calvez, S. and Dawson, M.D. and Jouhti, T. and Kontinnen, J. and Pessa, M., Institution of Engineering and Technology (2004) Diamond-microchip GaInNAs vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser operating CW at 1315nm. Electronics Letters, 40 (15). pp. 935-937. ISSN 0013-5194

Cerny, P. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D.; Quarles, Gregory J., ed. (2004) Pulse shortening and power scaling of passively mode-locked feedback-stabilised Nd:KGW laser. In: Proceedings of the advanced solid-state photonics conference 2004. Optical Society of America, Washington DC, USA. ISBN 1557527717

Cerny, P. and Valentine, G. and Burns, D. and McEwan, K.; (2004) Passive stabilisation of an SBR-mode-locked Nd:KGW laser by nonlinear absorption in indium phosphide. In: Proceedings of the 2004 conference on lasers and electro-optics Europe (CLEO/Europe). IEEE, p. 2. ISBN 1-55752-777-6

Cerny, P. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. (2004) Passive stabilization of a passively mode-locked laser by nonlinear absorption in indium phosphide. Optics Letters, 29 (12). pp. 1387-1389. ISSN 0146-9592

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

Stormont, B. and Cormack, I.G. and Mazilu, M. and Brown, C.T.A. and Burns, D. and Sibbett, W. (2003) Low-threshold, multi-gigahertz repetition-rate femtosecond Ti : sapphire laser. Electronics Letters, 39 (25). pp. 1820-1822. ISSN 0013-5194

Hastie, J.E. and Hopkins, J.M. and Jeon, C.W. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Abram, R.H. and Riis, E., IEEE, IEEE (2003) Microchip vertical external cavity surface-emitting lasers. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 2. pp. 507-508. ISSN 1092-8081

Lubeigt, W. and VanGrol, P. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D.; (2003) Use of intracavity adaptive optics in solid-State lasers operation at 1um. In: Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop Münster, Germany, Oct. 19-24, 2003. Springer Proceedings in Physics, 102 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 217-227. ISBN 978-3-540-23978-9

Hastie, J.E. and Jeon, C.W. and Burns, D. and Hopkins, J.M. and Calvez, S. and Abram, R.H. and Dawson, M.D.; Huber, Guenter and Scherbakov, Ivan A. and Panchenko, Vladislav Y., eds. (2003) A 0.5W 850nm Al(x)Ga(1-x)As VECSEL with intracavity silicon carbide heatspreader. In: International Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies 2002: Advanced Lasers and Systems. SPIE, Bellingham, pp. 201-206. ISBN 9780819450050

Valentine, G.J. and Sun, H.D. and Macaluso, R. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Jouhti, T. and Pessa, M.; (2003) High-power picosecond quasi-CW 1.3µm ND-lasers passively modelocked using novel low-loss GaInNAs SBRs. In: Proceedings of the 2003 conference on lasers and electro-optics Europe (CLEO/Europe). IEEE, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, p. 13. ISBN 0-7803-7734-6 (Unpublished)

Burns, D.; (2003) Intra-cavity adaptive optic control of lasers. In: 2003 conference on lasers and electro-optics Europe (CLEO/EUROPE 2003). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp. 104-105. ISBN 0-7803-7734-6

Hastie, Jennifer and Hopkins, John Mark and Calvez, Stephane and Jeon, C.W. and Burns, David and Dawson, Martin and Abram, R.H. and Ferguson, A.I. (2003) Characteristics of high power VECSELs with silicon carbide heatspreaders. In: 2003 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003-06-22 - 2003-06-27.

Burns, D. and Valentine, G.J. and Bente, E.A.J.M. and Ferguson, A.I.; Kudryashov, Alexis V., ed. (2003) Development of high average power picosecond laser systems. In: Laser resonators and beam control V: Proceedings SPIE 2002. SPIE, p. 129. ISBN 0819443689

Hastie, J.E. and Jeon, C.W. and Burns, D. and Hopkins, J.M. and Calvez, S. and Abram, R.H. and Dawson, M.D.; (2003) A 0.5w, 850nm alxga1-xasvecsel with intra-cavity silicon carbide heatspreader. In: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE. IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., pp. 329-330. ISBN 0780375009

Major, A. and Langford, N. and Graf, T. and Burns, D. and Ferguson, A.I. (2003) Diode-pumped passively mode-locked nd:KGd(WO4)2 laser with 1-W average output power. Optics Letters, 27 (16). pp. 1478-1480. ISSN 0146-9592

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.

Hastie, J.E. and Hopkins, J.M. and Jeon, C.W. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Abram, R.H. and Riis, E. and Ferguson, A.I. and Alford, W.J. and Raymond, T.D. and Allerman, A.A. (2003) Microchip vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers. Electronics Letters, 39 (18). pp. 1324-1326. ISSN 0013-5194

Marsh, P.N. and Burns, D. and Girkin, J.M. (2003) Practical implementation of adaptive optics in multiphoton microscopy. Optics Express, 11 (10). pp. 1123-1130. ISSN 1094-4087

Sun, H.D. and Macaluso, R. and Calvez, S. and Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2002) 1.3um GaInNAs/GaAs Bragg-mirror-based structures for passive mode-locking of solid-state and semiconductor lasers. In: International Workshop on the Physics and Technology of dilute Nitrides for Optical Communications, 2002-09-08 - 2002-09-12.

Major, A. and Langford, N. and Graf, T. and Burns, D. and Ferguson, A.I. (2002) Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:KGd(WO_4 )_2 laser with 1-W average output power. Optics Letters, 27 (16). pp. 1478-1480. ISSN 0146-9592

Valentine, G.J. and Bente, E.A.J.M. and Burns, D.; Huber, Guenter and Scherbakov, Ivan A. and Panchenko, Vladislav Ya., eds. (2002) Active stabilisation of quasi-CW passively modelocked nd:based lasers using closed-loop feedback. In: Advanced lasers and systems: International Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies 2002. Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering, 5137 (5137). SPIE, pp. 88-99. ISBN 0819450057

Hastie, J.E. and Jeon, C.W. and Hopkins, J.M. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2002) Thermal management of AlGaAs VECSELs using intracavity sapphire and silicon carbide heatspreaders. In: International Quantum Electronics Conference/ Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies (IQEC/LAT 2002), 2002-06-22 - 2002-06-28. (Unpublished)

Hastie, J.E. and Jeon, C.W. and Burns, D. and Hopkins, J.M. and Calvez, S. and Abram, R.H. and Dawson, M.D. (2002) A 0.5W, 850nm AlxGa1-xAs VECSEL with intra-cavity silicon carbide heatspreader. In: International Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies 2002: Advanced Lasers and Systems, 2002-06-22 - 2002-06-28.

Major, A. and Giniunas, L. and Langford, N. and Ferguson, A.I. and Burns, D. and Bente, E. and Danielius, R. (2002) Saturable bragg reflector-based continuous-wave mode locking of yb : kgd(wo4)(2) laser. Journal of Modern Optics, 49 (5-6). pp. 787-793. ISSN 1362-3044

Lubeigt, W. and Valentine, G.J. and Girkin, J.M. and Bente, E. and Burns, D. (2002) Active transverse mode control and optimisation of an all-solid-state laser using intracavity adaptive-optic mirror. Optics Express, 10 (13). pp. 550-555. ISSN 1094-4087

Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. and Ferguson, A.I.; Huber, G. and Scherbakov, I.A. and Panchenko, V.Y., eds. (2002) Closed loop stabilisation of high power, quasi-cw, passively-modelocked ND-based lasers. In: LAT 2002 Conference on Lasers, Applications and Technologies, 2002-06-22 - 2002-06-28. (Unpublished)

Vysniauskas, G. and Burns, D. and Bente, E.A.J.M. and Valentine, G.J. (2002) Development of a nanosecond high energy KTA OPO operating at 2.9um. In: Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02, 2002-01-01.

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

Major, A. and Langford, N. and Ferguson, A.I. and Graf, T. and Burns, D.; (2002) Diode-pumped passively mode-locked nd:KGd(WO4)2 laser using saturable Bragg reflector. In: Lasers and electro-optics 2002 technical digest. IEEE, GBR. ISBN 1557527067

Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. and Ferguson, A.I. and Bente, E.A.J.M.; (2002) High power, passively modelocked quasi-cw ND:YLF laser with feedback for q-switch and spike suppression. In: Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, United States of America, pp. 150-151.

Sun, H.D. and Valentine, G.J. and Macaluso, R. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Jouhti, T. and Pessa, M. (2002) Low-loss 1.3um GaInNAs saturable bragg reflector for high-power picosecond neodymium lasers. Optics Letters, 27 (23). pp. 2124-2126. ISSN 0146-9592

Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2002) Optimization of an optically pumped 1.3um GaInNAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 14 (2). pp. 131-133. ISSN 1041-1135

Lubeigt, W. and Burns, D. and Valentine, G.J. and Girkin, J.M.; (2002) Transverse mode control of an all-solid-state laser using an intracavity adaptive-optic mirror. In: Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, United States of America, pp. 290-291. ISBN 1557527067

Calvez, S. and Hopkins, J.M. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2001) 1.3um optically-pumped surface-emitting lasers. In: Symposium on current trends in semiconductor physics and optoelectronic technologies, 2001-11-16 - 2001-11-17.

Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2001) Efficient optically pumped 1.3um GaInNAs VCSELs. In: European Workshop on Gallium Arsenide-Based Lasers at 1300 nm, 2001-09-16 - 2001-09-19.

Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (2001) Optimised design of optically-pumped 1.3um VCSELs. In: Quantum Electronics and Photonics 15, 2001-09-03 - 2001-09-06.

Vysniauskas, G. and Hetterich, M. and Macaluso, R. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Bente, E.A.J.M. and Egorov, A.Y. and Riechert, H. (2001) GaInNAs VCSEL structure as a mode-locking element for 1.3µm nd:YVO4 laser. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01, 2001-05-06 - 2001-05-11.

Valentine, G.J. and Burns, D. and Bente, E.A.J.M. (2001) Development of high average power, all-solid-state, passively modelocked neodymium-based lasers. In: Quantum Electronics and Photonics 15, 2001-09-03 - 2001-09-06. (Unpublished)

Valentine, Gareth and Burns, David and Bente, Erwin; Thienpont, H. and Berghmans, F. and Danckaert, J. and Desmet, L., eds. (2001) Investigation into diode pumped modelocked ND based laser oscillators for the CLIC photoinjector system. In: Proceedings IEEE/LEOS Annual Symposium. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel. ISBN 9054872470

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)

Graf, T. and McConnell, G. and Ferguson, A.I. and Bente, E. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. (1999) Synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillation in periodically poled lithium niobate with 1-W average output power. Applied Optics, 38 (15). pp. 3324-3328. ISSN 1559-128X

Valentine, G.J. and Hopkins, J.M. and LozaAlvarez, P. and Kennedy, G.T. and Sibbett, W. and Burns, D. and Valster, A. (1997) Ultralow-pump-threshold, femtosecond CR31+:LiSrAlF6 laser pumped by a single narrow-stripe AlGaInP laser diode. Optics Letters, 22 (21). pp. 1639-1641. ISSN 0146-9592