READ ME File For 'dataset for High Power Pulsed Thulium Doped Fibre Lasers And Their Applications' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1018 ReadMe Author: Sijing Liang, University of Southampton, ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-9525 This dataset supports the thesis entitled High Power Pulsed Thulium Doped Fibre Lasers And Their Applications AWARDED BY: University of Southampton DATE OF AWARD:29/07/2019 This dataset contains four Excel files, named after chapters. Each file includes all the original experimental data in one chapter. These data are used to generate the figures presented in the thesis. For clarity, data are labelled by figure numbers in the worksheets. Figures are plotted using Matlab. Date of data collection: 01/01/2015 - 01/08/2018 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence Related projects/Funders: EPSRC AirGuide Photonics Programme Grant (Grant EP/P030181/1) Related publication: S. Liang, L. Xu, Q. Fu, Y. Jung, D. P. Shepherd, D. J. Richardson and S. Alam, "295-kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium-doped-fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5-octave supercontinuum extending up to 5 µm," Opt. Express, 26(6), 6490-6498 (2018). L. Xu, S. Liang, Q. Fu, D. P. Shepherd, D. J. Richardson and S.Alam, "Highly efficient frequency doubling and quadrupling of a short-pulsed thulium fiber laser," Appl. Phys. B, 124(4), 59 (2018). L. Xu, Q.Fu, S. Liang, D. P. Shepherd, D. J. Richardson and S. Alam, "Thulium-fiber-laser-pumped, high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared orientation-patterned GaAs optical parametric generator and amplifier," Opt. Lett., 42(19), 4036-4039 (2017). Date that the file was created: July, 2019