A K KarSummaryAffiliation: Heriot-Watt University Country: UK Publications
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Quantum dot enabled thermal imaging of optofluidic devicesDebaditya Choudhury
SUPA, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Lab Chip 12:2414-20. 2012..We also report on the thermal imaging of locally illuminated microchannels when filled with nano-heating particles such as carbon nanotubes...
Femtosecond laser inscription of optical waveguides in Bismuth ion doped glassN D Psaila
Physics, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland
Opt Express 14:10452-9. 2006..3 x 10(-3) are observed, allowing the fabrication of waveguides nearly mode-matched to telecom fibers. When optically pumped at 980 and 810 nm broadband fluorescence emission centered at 1.3 microm with a FWHM of up to 500 nm is detected...
Multiple rare earth emissions in a multicore tellurite fiber with a single pump wavelengthH T Bookey
Nonlinear Optics Group, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
Opt Express 15:17554-61. 2007..4 microm, 1.5 microm, 1.9 microm and 2.05 microm when pumped at a wavelength of 980 nm. The prospects for multi-band amplifiers and lasers are discussed...
Strain field manipulation in ultrafast laser inscribed BiB3O6 optical waveguides for nonlinear applicationsS J Beecher
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
Opt Lett 36:4548-50. 2011..The waveguide with the optimal mode overlap was used for type I birefringently phase-matched second-harmonic generation of a continuous wave laser source at 1047 nm...
Compact, highly efficient ytterbium doped bismuthate glass waveguide laserR Mary
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Department of Physics, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Opt Lett 37:1691-3. 2012..The simultaneous achievement of low propagation losses and preservation of the fluorescence properties of ytterbium ions is the basis of the outstanding laser performance...
Lasing action at around 1.9 μm from an ultrafast laser inscribed Tm-doped glass waveguideF Fusari
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, J F Allen Physics Research Laboratories, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, Scotland, UK
Opt Lett 36:1566-8. 2011..91 μm. This waveguide laser exhibited a maximum slope efficiency of 6% and a maximum output power of 32 mW when pumped with 620 mW of incident laser power...
Ultrafast laser inscription of near-infrared waveguides in polycrystalline ZnSeJ R MacDonald
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Department of Physics, David Brewster Building, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
Opt Lett 35:4036-8. 2010..55 μm. Propagation losses were characterized at 1.55 μm using the Fabry-Perot technique and found to be 1.07 dB · cm(-1) ± 0.03 dB · cm(-1)...
Shaping ultrafast laser inscribed optical waveguides using a deformable mirrorR R Thomson
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, David Brewster Building, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland
Opt Express 16:12786-93. 2008..5 dB.cm(-1). This technique promises the possibility of combining rapid processing speeds with the ability to vary the waveguide cross section along its length...
Direct laser writing of near-IR step-index buried channel waveguides in rare earth doped YAGA Rodenas
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Opt Lett 36:3395-7. 2011..51 μm wavelength have been preliminarily obtained. Confocal microluminescence mapping reveals that the increased refractive index regions retain the near-IR spectral properties of Er3+ ions in the YAG crystalline matrix...
Ultrafast laser inscription of an integrated photonic lanternR R Thomson
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance SUPA, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Physics Department, David Brewster Building, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland
Opt Express 19:5698-705. 2011..0 dB, assuming the input coupling losses are zero. Such devices have applications in astrophotonics and remote sensing...
