READ ME File For 'Dataset for support of thesis 'Development of Short-wave Infrared Fibre Lasers''

Dataset DOI:10.5258/SOTON/D1946

Copyright: CC-BY

EPSRC award reference: 1921199

ReadMe Author: Mark Burns, University of Southampton [orcid.org/0000-0003-2039-6025]

This dataset supports the publication:
Mark Burns (2021) ``Development of Short-wave Infrared Fibre Lasers'', University of Southampton, 
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, PhD Thesis

Associated publications:

M. Burns, P. Shardlow, T. Jefferson-Brain, P. Barua, J. Sahu, W. Clarkson, '47 W Continuous-wave 1726~nm thulium fiber laser core-pumped by an erbium fiber laser,' Optics Letters,  vol. 44, no. 21, pp. 5230-5233, 2019.

M. Burns, P. Shardlow, W. Clarkson, 'Widely-tunable operation of a thulium doped fiber laser between 1654~nm and 2025~nm', CJ-7.4, CLEO Europe, 2021.

M Burns, P. Shardlow, P. Barua, T Jefferson-Brain, J. Sahu, W. Clarkson, '47~W 1726~nm operation of a thulium fiber laser pumped in-band by an erbium-only fiber laser', 112600G, SPIE Photonics West, LASE,  2020.

M. Burns, P. Shardlow, P. Barua, T. Jefferson-Brain, J. Sahu, W. Clarkson, 'Thulium-doped Fibre Laser with 25 W Single-mode Output at 1726 nm', CJ\_1\_2, CLEO Europe, 2019.
	
M. Burns, P. Shardlow, P. Barua, T. Jefferson-Brain, J. Sahu, W. Clarkson, 'High power 1726nm operation of a thulium fiber laser pumped in-band by an erbium-only fiber laser', 108970O, Photonics West, 2019.


This dataset contains:

Slope efficiencies and M2 for the key results presented in the thesis, raw data supporting the measurement of aluminium reflectivity, fibre design data
such as refractive index profiles and bend loss values determined in Optifiber, and data supporting the fabrication of a CMS


Date of data collection: 2016-2020

Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K.

Date that the dataset was created: September, 2021