o   Name/institution/address/email information for Research Group or Principal investigator or person responsible for collecting the data
	Silvia Cante/ Optoelectronics Research Centre/ s.cante@soton.ac.uk
o   Date of data collection (can be a single date, or a range)
	May 2017 - November 2017
o   Information about geographic location of data collection
	University of Southampton, B46
o   Licenses or restrictions placed on the data
	None
o   Links to publications that cite or use the data
	Not published yet -- link will follow if the publications goes through
o   For each filename, a short description of what data it contains
	Nd**VO4_peak_cross_section_vs_T.xlsx : Peak cross section values versus Temperature for the respective sample (NdGdVO4 or NdYVO4)
	Nd**VO4_**_pol_spectra.xlsx : Spectra for several different temperatures for the respective sample and polarisation (samples: NdGdVO4 or NdYVO4, polarisations: pi or sigma)
	Nd**VO4_Wetu_results.xlsx : Wetu (energy transfer upconversion parameter) vs Temperature for the respective sample (NdGdVO4 or NdYVO4)
	Typical_waveforms.xlsx : example of waveforms captured through the oscilloscope
	P_th_data_**at.xlsx : Power threshold versus temperature for a simple linear laser cavity including a 1mm NdYVO4 sample of the respective concentration (0.5at% or 1at%)  
o   For tabular data, definitions of column headings and row labels, data codes (including missing data) and measurement units (or embed those in the tabular file)
	All the necessary information is contained in the files
o   Definitions for codes or symbols used to record missing data
	None
o   Specialized formats or abbreviations used
	None