READ ME File For 'Ultra-short wavelength operation of thulium doped fiber amplifiers and lasers' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1062 ReadMe Author: Shaoxiang Chen, University of Southampton [OPTIONAL add ORCID ID] This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS: Shaoxiang Chen, Yongmin Jung, Shaif-ul Alam, David J. Richardson, Raghuraman Sidharthan, Daryl Ho, Seongwoo Yoo and Jae M. O. Daniel TITLE: Ultra-short wavelength operation of thulium doped fiber amplifiers and lasers JOURNAL: Optics Express PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: This dataset contains: The raw data for individual figures The figures are as follows: Fig. 2 (a) Measured doping concentration of a representative fabricated Ge/Tm co-doped fiber, (b) the normalized absorption cross-section of the Al/Tm co-doped fiber and our in-house fabricated Ge/Tm co-doped fiber, respectively. Fig. 3 (a) Normalized emission cross-sections for Al/Tm co-doped fiber and in-house fabricated Ge/Tm co-doped fiber, respectively, and (b) the calculated normalized gain coefficient of Ge/Tm co-doped fiber at different population inversion levels. Fig. 4 (a) Schematic of a short-wavelength TDFA, TLS: tunable laser source, (b) gain and NF performances of the TDFA, and (c) amplified spectra for saturated signals, measured with 0.1 nm OSA resolution. Fig. 5 (b) output power of the tunable TDFL at different lasing wavelengths, (c) output spectra of the tunable TDFL (measured with 0.1 nm OSA resolution) and (d) slope efficiency at 1660 nm at port 1. Date of data collection: Jan. 2019 Information about geographic location of data collection: Licence: Related projects: This work was supported by the UK EPSRC funded Airguide Photonics Programme Grant (EP/P030181/1) and by Academic Research Fund Tier 1, Ministry of Education (Singapore). Date that the file was created: Nov. 2019