Journal Papers

2007

1. A. J. Kemp, J.-M. Hopkins, A. J. Maclean, N. Schulz, M. Rattunde, J. Wagner, and D. Burns, “Thermal Management in 2.3μm Semiconductor Disk Lasers: a Finite Element Analysis,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, in press, 2007.
   
   
2. A. J. Maclean, A. J. Kemp, S. Calvez, J.-Y. Kim, T. Kim, M. D. Dawson and D. Burns, “Continuous Tuning and Efficient Intracavity Second-Harmonic Generation in a Semiconductor Disk Laser with an Intracavity Diamond Heatspreader,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, in press, 2007.
   
   
3. A. J. Kemp , A. J. Maclean, J.-M. Hopkins, J. E. Hastie, S. Calvez, M. D. Dawson and D. Burns, “Thermal management in disc lasers: doped-dielectric and semiconductor laser gain media in thin-disc and microchip formats,” Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 54, pp. 1669-1676, 2007.
   
   
4. N. Hempler, J.-M. Hopkins, A. J. Kemp, N. Schulz, M. Rattunde, J. Wagner, M. D. Dawson, and David Burns, “Pulsed pumping of semiconductor disk lasers,” Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 3247-3256, 2007.
   
   
   2006
   
5. F. van Loon, A. J. Kemp, A. J. Maclean, S. Calvez, J.-M. Hopkins, J. E. Hastie, M. D. Dawson, D. Burns, “Intracavity heatspreaders in lasers: the effects of birefringence,” Optics Express, vol. 14, pp. 9250-9260, 2006.
   
   
6. J. E. Hastie, L. G. Morton, A. J. Kemp, M. D. Dawson, A. B. Krysa, and J. S. Roberts, "Tunable ultraviolet output from an intracavity frequency-doubled red vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 89, pp. 061114, 2006.
   
   
7. A. J. Kemp , A. J. Maclean, J. E. Hastie, S. A. Smith, J.-M. Hopkins, S. Calvez, G. J. Valentine, M. D. Dawson, and D. Burns, “Thermal lensing, thermal management and transverse mode control in microchip VECSELs” Applied Physics B – Lasers and Optics, vol. 83, pp. 189-194, 2006.
   
   
8. J.-M. Hopkins, S. Calvez, A. J. Kemp, J. E. Hastie, S. A. Smith, A. J. Maclean, D. Burns and M. D. Dawson “High-power vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers” Physica Status Solidi (c), vol. 3, pp. 380-385, 2006
   
   
   
   2005
   
   
9. A. McWilliam, A. A. Lagatsky, C. G. Leburn, P. Fischer, C. T. A. Brown, G. J. Valentine, A. J. Kemp, S. Calvez, D. Burns, M. D. Dawson, M. Pessa, and W. Sibbett, “Low-Loss GaInNAs Saturable Bragg Reflector for Mode-Locking of a Femtosecond Cr 4+:Forsterite-Laser” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17, pp. 2292-2294, 2005.
   
   
10. A. J. Kemp , G. J. Valentine, and D. Burns, “Nd:GdVO 4 in face-cooled geometries: thin-disk and high-power microchip lasers,” Trends in Optics and Photonics, vol. 98, 2005.
    
    
11. A. McWilliam, A. A. Lagatsky, C. G. Leburn, P. Fischer, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, G. J. Valentine, A. J. Kemp, S. Calvez, D. Burns, and M. D. Dawson, “Low-loss GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector for femtosecond modelocking of a Cr 4+:Forsterite laser,” Trends in Optics and Photonics, vol. 98, 2005.
    
    
12. A. J. Kemp , G. J. Valentine, J.-M. Hopkins, J. E. Hastie, S. A. Smith, S. Calvez, M. D. Dawson, and D. Burns, “Thermal Management in Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: Finite-Element Analysis of a Heatspreader Approach,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 41, pp. 148-155, 2005.
    
    
13. B. Stormont, A. J. Kemp, I. G. Cormack, B. Agate, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, and R. Szipocs, “Broad tunability from a compact, low-threshold Cr:LiSAF laser incorporating an improved birefringent filter design and multiple cavity Gires-Tournois interferometer mirrors,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 22, pp1236-1243, 2005..
    
    
14. T. K. Lake , A. J. Kemp, G. J. Friel, and B. D. Sinclair, “Compact and efficient single frequency Nd:YVO 4 laser with variable longitudinal mode discrimination,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17, pp. 417-419, 2005.
    
    
    2004
    
    
15. A. J. Kemp , G. J. Valentine, and D. Burns, “Progress towards high power, high brightness neodymium-based thin-disk lasers,” Progress in Quantum Electronics, vol. 28, pp. 305-344, 2004
    
    
    2002
    
    
16. B. Agate, B. Stormont, A. J. Kemp, C. T. A. Brown, U. Keller, and W. Sibbett, “Simplified cavity designs for efficient and compact femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers,” Optics Communications, vol. 205, pp. 207-213, 2002.
    
    
17. J.-M. Hopkins, G. J. Valentine, B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, U. Keller, and W. Sibbett, “Highly Compact and Efficient Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Lasers,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 38, pp. 360-368, 2002.
    
    
18. B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, C. T. A. Brown, and W. Sibbett, “Efficient, high repetition-rate femtosecond blue source using a compact Cr:LiSAF laser,” Optics Express, vol. 10, pp. 824-831, 2002.
    
    
19. F. Druon, G. J. Valentine, S. Chenais, P. Raybaut, F. Balembois, P. Georges, A. Brun, A. J. Kemp, D. J. L. Birkin, W. Sibbett, S. Mohr, D. Kopf, D. Burns, A. Courjaud, C. Honninger, F. Salin, R. Gaume, A. Aron, G. Aka, B. Viana, C. Clerc, and H. Bernas, “Diode-pumped femtosecond oscillators using ultra-broad-band Yb- doped crystals and modelocked using low-temperature grown or ion-implanted saturable-absorber mirrors,” European Physical Journal-Applied Physics, vol. 20, pp. 177-182, 2002.
    
    
    2001
    
    
20. A. J. Kemp , B. Stormont, B. Agate, C. T. A. Brown, U. Keller, and W. Sibbett, “Gigahertz repetition-rate from a directly diode-pumped femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser,” Electronics Letters, vol. 37, pp. 1457-1458, 2001.
    
    
    2000
    
    
21. A. J. Kemp , G. J. Friel, T. K. Lake, R. S. Conroy, and B. D. Sinclair, “Polarization effects, birefringent filtering, and single-frequency operation in lasers containing a birefringent gain crystal,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 36, pp. 228-235, 2000.
    
    
22. G. J. Friel, A. J. Kemp, T. K. Lake, and B. D. Sinclair, “Compact and efficient Nd:YVO 4 laser that generates a tunable single-frequency green output,” Applied Optics, vol. 39, pp. 4333-4337, 2000.
    
    
23. G. J. Valentine, A. J. Kemp, D. J. L. Birkin, D. Burns, F. Balembois, P. Georges, H. Bernas, A. Aron, G. Aka, W. Sibbett, A. Brun, M. D. Dawson, and E. Bente, “Femtosecond Yb:YCOB laser pumped by narrow-stripe laser diode and passively modelocked using ion implanted saturable-absorber mirror,” Electronics Letters, vol. 36, pp. 1621-1623, 2000.
    
    
    1999
    
    
24. A. J. Kemp , R. S. Conroy, G. J. Friel, and B. D. Sinclair, “Guiding effects in Nd:YVO 4 microchip lasers operating well above threshold,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 35, pp. 675-681, 1999.
    
    
    1998
    
    
25. R. S. Conroy, T. K. Lake, G. J. Friel, A. J. Kemp, and B. D. Sinclair, “Self-Q-switched Nd:YVO 4 microchip lasers,” Optics Letters, vol. 23, pp. 457-459, 1998.
    
    
26. G. J. Friel, R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, B. D. Sinclair, and J. M. Ley, “Q-switching of a diode-pumped Nd:YVO 4 laser using a quadrupole electro-optic deflector,” Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics, vol. 67, pp. 267-270, 1998.
    
    
27. G. M. Gibson, R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, B. D. Sinclair, M. J. Padgett, and M. H. Dunn, “Microchip laser-pumped continuous-wave doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator,” Optics Letters, vol. 23, pp. 517-518, 1998.
    
    
    1997
    
    
28. R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, G. J. Friel, and B. D. Sinclair, “Microchip Nd:vanadate lasers at 1342 and 671 nm,” Optics Letters, vol. 22, pp. 1781-1783, 1997
    

Conference Papers

2007

1. M. Rattunde, N. Schultz, C. Ritzenthaler, B. Rösener, C. Manz, K. Köhler, J. Wagner, J.-M. Hopkins, A. J. Kemp, A. J. Maclean, M. D. Dawson, and D. Burns, “High-power, high brightness, tuneable GaSb-based VECSEL at 2.Xμm (Invited),” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics – Europe, Munich, 2007.
   
   
2. A. J. Maclean, A. J. Kemp, J.-Y. Kim, K.-S. Kim, T. Kim, M. D. Dawson and D. Burns, “Factors affecting tunable second harmonic generation in a semiconductor disk laser with an intracavity diamond heatspreader,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics – Europe, Munich, 2007.
   
   
3. P. Millar, A. J. Kemp, F. van Loon, A. J. Maclean and D. Burns, “Synthetic diamond as an intracavity heatspreader in compact solid-state lasers,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics – Europe, Munich, 2007.
   
   
4. J.-M. Hopkins, N. Hempler, A. J. Maclean, A. J. Kemp, M. D. Dawson, E. Riis, N. Schulz, M. Rattunde, C. Manz, K. Köhler, J. Wagner and D. Burns, “High performance, GaSb-based, optically-pumped semiconductor disk lasers (Invited),” presented at 8th International Conference on Mid-Infrared Optoelectronics: Materials and Devices, Bad Ischl, Austria, 2007.
   
   
5. N. Hempler, J.-M. Hopkins, A. J. Kemp, M. D. Dawson, D. Burns, N. Schulz, M. Rattunde and J. Wagner, “Pulsed-pumping of a 2.3μm InGaAsSb semiconductor disk laser,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, Baltimore, 2007.
   
   
6. S. Calvez, S. Giet, A. J. Kemp, J. E. Hastie, M. D. Dawson, J. Kontinnen, T. Jouhti and M. Pessa, “Tunable red laser emission from an intracavity frequency-doubled GaInNAs VECSEL,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, Baltimore, 2007.
   
   
   2006
   
   
7. A. J. Maclean, A. J. Kemp, K. S. Kim, J. Y. Kim, T. Kim and D. Burns “High power intracavity second harmonic generation in Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers at 1060 nm,” presented at Photon 06, Manchester, 2006.
   
   
8. A. J. Kemp , A. J. Maclean, J.-M. Hopkins, J. E. Hastie, S. Calvez, M. D. Dawson, D. Burns, “Thermal management in disk lasers: doped-dielectric and semiconductor laser gain media in thin-disk and microchip formats,” presented at Photon 06, Manchester, 2006
   
   
9. A. J. Maclean, A. J. Kemp, J.-M. Hopkins, J. E. Hastie, S. Giet, S. Calvez, M. D. Dawson, D. Burns, J.-Y. Kim, K.-S. Kim, T. Kim, “An Analysis of Power Scaling and Thermal Management in a 1060nm VECSEL with a Diamond Heatspreader”, presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Long Beach, 2006.
   
   
10. J. E. Hastie, L. G. Morton, A. J. Kemp, M. D. Dawson, A. B. Krysa, and J. S. Roberts, “High power ultraviolet VECSEL through intracavity frequency doubling in BBO,” International Semiconductor Conference, Hawaii, 2006.
    
    
    2005
    
    
11. S. A. Smith, S. Calvez, J.-M. Hopkins, J. E. Hastie, A. J. Kemp, D. Burns, M. D. Dawson, T. Jouhti, J. Konttinen and M. Pessa, “ Polarisation and modal characteristics of a 1.3µm diamond-microchip GaInNAs vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics – Europe, Munich, 2005.
    
    
12. A. J. Kemp , G. J. Valentine, D. Burns, “Nd:GdVO 4 in face-cooled geometries: thin-disk and high-power microchip lasers,” presented at Advanced Solid-State Photonics, Vienna, 2005
    
    
13. A. J. Kemp , J. E. Hastie, S. A. Smith, J.-M. Hopkins, S. Calvez, G. J. Valentine, M. D. Dawson, D. Burns “Heatspreader-based thermal management in VECSELs: thermal lensing in microchip devices,” presented at Advanced Solid-State Photonics, Vienna, 2005
    
    
14. A. McWilliam, C. G. Leburn, A. A. Lagatsky, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, G. J. Valentine, A. J. Kemp, S. Calvez, D. Burns, M. D. Dawson, J. Kontinnen, T. Jouhti and M. Pessa, “Femtosecond Cr:Forsterite laser modelocked with a GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector,” presented at Advanced Solid-State Photonics, Vienna, 2005.
    
    
    2004
    
    
15. S. A. Smith, J.-M. Hopkins, J. E. Hastie, S. Calvez, A. J. Kemp, D. Burns, M. D. Dawson, T. Jouhti, J. Konttinen and M. Pessa, “A diamond-microchip GaInNAs VECSEL operating at 1315nm,” presented at the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, 2004.
    
    
    2003
    
    
16. B. Stormont, I. G. Cormack, A. J. Kemp, B. Agate, C. T. A. Brown, R. Szipocs and W. Sibbett, “Tuning of compact femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers using a novel birefringent filter design” presented at Advanced Solid-State Photonics, San Antonio, 2003.
    
    
17. B. Stormont, I. G. Cormack, A. J. Kemp, M. Mazilu, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett, "High repetition rate femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers based on four element cavities," presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, 2003.
    
    
    2002
    
    
18. B. Stormont, A. J. Kemp, M. Mazilu, C. T. A. Brown, W. J. Wadsworth, J. C. Knight, and P. St.J. Russell, and W. Sibbett, "Wavelength dependence of induced nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibre," presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Long Beach, 2002
    
    
19. B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, C. T. A. Brown, U. Keller and W. Sibbett, “Efficient, High-Repetition Rate, Blue Source using a Compact Cr:LiSAF Laser,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Long Beach, 2002.
    
    
20. B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, D. J. Birkin, E. U. Rafailov, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, P. Battle, T. Fry and D. Mohatt, “ Compact and Highly Efficient Blue Light Sources: Bulk and Waveguide Approaches to the Single Pass Frequency Doubling of Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Lasers,” presented at Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow, 2002.
    
    
21. B. Stormont, B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett and R. Szipocs, “Tunable and Compact Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Lasers: Single Prism and Prismless Approaches,” presented at Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow, 2002.
    
    
    2001
    
    
22. B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, J.-M. Hopkins, W. Sibbett, U. Keller, and D. Burns, “Highly Compact femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Lasers,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, 2001.
    
    
23. T. K. Lake, A. J. Kemp, and B. D. Sinclair, “The Effect of Gain Crystal Temperature on a Miniature Single Frequency Nd:YVO 4 Laser,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, 2001.
    
    
24. B. Stormont, B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, C. T. A. Brown and W. Sibbett, “Gigahertz Repetition-Rate from a Directly Diode Pumped Femtosecond Laser, ” presented at Quantum Electronics and Photonics – 15 , Glasgow, 2001.
    
    
25. B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, J.-M. Hopkins and W. Sibbett, “ Highly-Compact, Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Lasers: Prismless and Single-Prism Dispersion Compensation” Quantum Electronics and Photonics - 15 , Glasgow, 2001.
    
    
26. B. Agate, A. J. Kemp, B. Stormont, J.-M. Hopkins, U. Keller and W. Sibbett “ Integral Dispersion Compensation in a Compact Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Laser: A Novel Route Towards Miniaturisation,” Quantum Electronics and Photonics - 15 , Glasgow, 2001.
    
    
    2000
    
    
27. T. K. Lake, A. J. Kemp, G. J. Friel, and B. D. Sinclair, “Comparison between Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO 4 as gain media for a single frequency micro-laser,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Francisco, 2000.
    
    
28. G. J. Valentine, A. J. Kemp, D. Burns, F. Balembois, P. Georges, H. Bernas, A. Aron, G. Aka, W. Sibbett, and A. Brun, “Application of an Ion Implanted Semiconductor Saturable-Absorber Mirror to Initiate Modelocking of a Femtosecond, Low-Threshold Yb:YCOB Laser,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Europe, Nice, 2000
    
    
    1999
    
    
29. A. J. Kemp , R. S. Conroy, T. K. Lake, G. J. Friel, B. D. Sinclair, "Guiding effects in microchip lasers at pump powers well above threshold," presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, 1999
    
    
30. H. D. Summers, J. M. Preston, A. J. Kemp, B. D. Sinclair, and J. S. Roberts, “Microchip Laser with Surface-Emitting Laser Diode Pump,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, 1999.
    
    
31. T. K. Lake, A. J. Kemp, G. J. Friel, and B. D. Sinclair, “Single frequency lasers in the near infrared,” presented at Quantum Electronics 14, Manchester, 1999.
    
    
    1998
    
    
32. R. S. Conroy, T. K. Lake, G. J. Friel, A. J. Kemp, and B. D. Sinclair, “Self-Q-switched Nd:YVO 4 microchip lasers,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Francisco, 1998.
    
    
33. R. S. Conroy, A. M. Malyarevich, A. J. Kemp, G. J. Friel, V. P. Mikhailov, and B. D. Sinclair, “V:YAG as passive Q-switch at 1342 nm and 1064 nm,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Francisco, 1998.
    
    
34. G. J. Friel, R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, B. D. Sinclair, and J. M. Ley, “Q-switching of a diode-pumped Nd:YVO 4 laser using a quadrupole electro-optic deflector,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Francisco, 1998.
    
    
35. G. M. Gibson, R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, B. D. Sinclair, M. J. Padgett, and M. H. Dunn, “Microchip laser-pumped cw doubly resonant OPO,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Francisco, 1998.
    
    
36. A. J. Kemp , R. S. Conroy, G. J. Friel, and B. D. Sinclair, “Guiding Effects in Nd:YVO 4 Microchip Lasers,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Europe, Glasgow, 1998.
    
    
    1997
    
    
37. R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, B. D. Sinclair, and N. MacKinnon, “Comparison of 671 / 1342 nm generation with 532 / 1064 nm in Nd:YVO 4 microchip lasers,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, 1997.
    
    
38. R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, G. J. Friel, N. MacKinnon, D. G. Matthews, and B. D. Sinclair, “Red, Green and Blue Intra-Cavity Doubled Microchip Lasers,” presented at Quantum Electronics 13, Cardiff, 1997.
    
    
39. R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, G. J. Friel, N. MacKinnon, D. G. Matthews, and B. D. Sinclair, “Red, Green and Blue Microchip Lasers,” presented at Quantum Electronics 13, Cardiff, 1997.
    
    
40. R. S. Conroy, E. A. Marks, G. J. Friel, A. J. Kemp, and B. D. Sinclair, “Passively Q-Switched Nd:YVO 4 Microchip Lasers,” presented at Quantum Electronics 13, Cardiff, 1997.
    
    
41. G. J. Friel, J. M. Ley, R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, and B. D. Sinclair, “Novel Q-switching of a Microchip Laser using a Quadrapole Deflector,” presented at Quantum Electronics 13, Cardiff, 1997.
    
    
42. A. J. Kemp , R. S. Conroy, G. J. Friel, and B. D. Sinclair, “Polarization eigenmodes of a Nd:YVO 4 / KTP intracavity frequency-doubled microchip laser,” presented at Quantum Electronics 13, Cardiff, 1997.
    
    
    1996
    
    
43. R. S. Conroy, A. J. Kemp, D. G. Matthews, and B. D. Sinclair, “Gain Guiding and Thermal Guiding in diode-pumped Nd:YVO 4 Microchip Lasers,” presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Anaheim, 1996.