READ ME File For Dataset for Advanced mirror shapes for mode enhancement in plano-concave cavities

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3719 

Date that the file was created: October 2025

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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ReadMe Author: William James Hughes, University of Southampton, ORCID: 0000-0002-7254-3464

Date of data collection: Numerical data produced throughout 2025

Information about geographic location of data collection: Calculations performed in the University Southampton, both in office and HPC cluster Iridis 5 

Related projects:
Work funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Hub for Quantum Computing and Simulation (EP/T001062/1) and Hub for Quantum Computing via Integrated and Interconnected Implementations (EP/Z53318X/1).

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC-BY

Recommended citation for the data: DOI 10.5258/SOTON/D3719

This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS: William James Hughes and Peter Horak
TITLE: Advanced mirror shapes for mode enhancement in plano-concave cavities
JOURNAL: In submission
PAPER DOI IF KNOWN:

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: None

Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: None


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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This dataset contains:
The data plotted on the non-schematic figures in the manuscript, specifically figures 1-4. Each figures is addressed in a separate subfolder that contains the data (.h5 file) and a readme (.txt) file. Each figure readme contains two sections. The 'Data fields' section describes what the fields stored in the .h5 file mean. The 'Figure plots' section details where each data field features in the final figure, and how they are plotted. The .h5 and readme file for each figure is separate


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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Data was generated numerically using the mode mixing method (see DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043814 for early paper). The calculations were performed on a desktop in the University of Southampton, and on the Iridis 5 HPC cluster

Methods for processing the data: Data processing was performed using bespoke code in the programming language of Python. The library matplotlib was used to produce the plots in the manuscripts that use the data in this dataset

Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: The data should be interpretable by any software that can read .h5 files. The data was generated using Python (3.12.9)

People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: William James Hughes was responsible for the collection, processing, and analysis of the data, as well as the preparation of this dataset