Publications

Publishable Documents

Publishable Executive Summary (Period 1) View document (pdf)
Plan for using and disseminating the knowledge (Period 1) View document (pdf)

Publishable Executive Summary (Period 2) View document (pdf)
Plan for using and disseminating the knowledge (Period 2) View document (pdf)

Final executive summary View document (pdf)
Dissemination and use plan View document (pdf)

Public Reports

D1.5 Widely-tunable pulsed Tm-doped fibre MOPA [View document (pdf)]
D1.6 Widely-tunable pulsed Tm-doped fibre Master-Oscillator Power-Amplifier (MOPA) [View document (pdf)]
D1.7 Tuneable continuous-wave Tm-doped fibre Master-Oscillator Power-Amplifier (MOPA) [View document (pdf)]
D3.3 Power, beam quality & spectral properties of DFG [View document (pdf)]

D5.1 Project presentation and website [View document (pdf)]
D5.4 Report on raising public participation and awareness [View document (pdf)]

The Most Recent Publications

"High-power linearly-polarized single-frequency thulium-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier"
L. Pearson, J. W. Kim, Z. Zhang, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen and W. A. Clarkson
Opt. Express (accepted for puplication)

"A widely tunable cw mid-infrared spectrometer based on difference frequency generation in orientation-patterned GaAs"
P. Geiser, S. Vasilyev, A. Bohman, Z. Zhang, A. Nevsky, S. Schiller, M. Ibsen, A. Clarkson, A. Grisard, D. Faye, E. Lallier, P. Kaspersen
LMD3, LACSEA 2010, San Diego, USA

"High power two-micron fibre source: Recent progress and future prosepcts"
W. A. Clarkson, L. Pearson, Z. Zhang, J. W. Kim, D. Y. Shen, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen
EOS Topical Meeting on Lasers 2009, Capri, Italy

"Quasi-Phase Matched Gallium Arsenide for Mid-Infrared Applications"
E. Lallier, D. Faye, A. Grisard, B. Gerard
MICS 2009, Trouville, France

"High power two-micron fiber lasers"
W. A. Clarkson, L. Pearson, Z. Zhang, J. W. Kim, D. Y. Shen, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen
MICS 2009, Trouville, France

"Single-frequency Tm-doped fiber DBR laser at 1943 nm"
Z. Zhang, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, W. A. Clarkson, M. Ibsen
CLEO/Europe EQEC 2009, Munich, Germany

"High-power single-frequency Thulium-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier at 1943nm"
L. Pearson, J. W. Kim, Z. Zhang, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen, W. A. Clarkson
CLEO/IQEC 2009, Baltimore, 2009

"High power Thulium-doped fiber distributed-feedback laser at 1943 nm"
Z. Zhang, D. Y. Shen, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, W. A. Clarkson, M. Ibsen
Opt. Lett. 2008 Vol.33 (18) pp.2059-2061

"High power thulium-doped fiber lasers" (Invited Paper)
W. A. Clarkson, L. Pearson, Z. Zhang, J. W. Kim, D. Y. Shen, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen
OFC 2009, San Diego, USA

"Development of broadly tunable cw narrowband mid-IR laser source for molecular spectroscopy"
S. Vasilyev, S. Schiller, A. Nevsky, A. Grisard, D. Faye, E. Lallier, Z. Zhang, M. Ibsen, A. Clarkson, P. Kaspersen, A. Bohman, P. Geiser
DPG AMOP meeting 2009, Hamburg, Germany

"Cathodoluminescence Study of orientation patterned OP-GaAs crystals for mid IR laser sources"
H. Angulo, L.F. Sanz, M. Avella, J. Jimenez, D. Faye, A. Grisard, E. Lallier, B. Gerard
HeTech 2008, Venice, Italy

"Distribution of point defects in Orientation-Patterned GaAs crystals a cathodoluminescence study"
D. Faye, A. Grisard and E. Lallier, B. Gerard, M. Avella, J. Jimenez
Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 151115 (2008)

"QPM-GaAs for Mid-Infrared applications"
E. Lallier, D. Faye, A. Grisard, B. Gerard
EPS-QEOD 08, Paris, France

"Growth and characterization of orientation-patterned gallium arsenide with low optical losses for quasi-phase matched nonlinear frequency conversion in the mid-infrared"
A. Grisard, D. Faye, E.Lallier, B. Gerard, M. Avella, J. Jimenez
ICPS 08, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"Thick Orientation-Patterned GaAs (OP-GaAs) for Mid-Infrared Laser Sources"
D. Faye, E. Lallier A. Grisard, B. Gerard
ICCG 07, Salt Lake City, USA

"A broadly tunable single-frequency cw mid-infrared source with mW output based on difference frequency generation in orientation-patterned GaAs."
Sergey Vasilyev, Stephan Schiller, Alexander Nevsky, Arnaud Grisard, David Faye, Eric Lallier, Z. Zhang, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen, W. A. Clarkson.
Optics Letters Vol 33, No13. (2008).

"Tunable mid-IR CW narrowband laser source for molecular spectroscopy"
Sergey Vasilyev, Alexander Nevsky, Stephan Schiller, Arnaud Grisard, Eric Lallier, David Faye.
DPG Frühjahrstagung, Darmstadt, Germany, 2008
View poster (pdf)

"Broadly tunable sub-mW CW Narrowband mid-IR Laser Source for Molecular Spectroscopy"
S. Vasilyev, S. Schiller, A. Nevsky, A. Grisard, D. Faye, E. Lallier, Z. Zhang, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen, W.A. Clarkson.
Workshop on Modern Applications of Trapped Ions, Les Houches, France, 2008

"Broadly tunable sub-mW CW Narrowband mid-IR Laser Source for Molecular Spectroscopy"
S. Vasilyev, S. Schiller, A. Nevsky, A. Grisard, D. Faye, E. Lallier, Z. Zhang, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen, W.A. Clarkson.
The 20th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008

"Thulium-Doped Distributed-Feedback Fiber Laser with >0.3 W Output at 1935 nm"
D.Y. Shen, Z. Thang, A.J. Boyland, J.K. Sahu, W.A. Clarkson, M. Ibsen
Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides (BGPP) OSA Topical Meeting, 2007
Link to Conference Homepage.

"Development of a mid-IR CW Narrowband 5 - 15 µm Tunable Laser Source for Molecular Spectroscopy"
S. Vasilyev, A. Nevsky, S.Schiller, A. Grisard, E. Lallier, D. Faye, D.Y. Shen, Z. Zhang, A.J. Boyland, J.K. Sahu, W.A. Clarkson and M. Ibsen
The Twentieth Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, Dijon, France, September 3-7, 2007.
Link to Workshop Homepage.

Development of the mid-IR CW narrowband 5 - 15 µm tunable laser source for molecular spectroscopy
S. Vasilyev, A. Nevsky, S. Schiller
DPG Frühjahrstagung, Düsseldorf, 2007

"New developments in laser spectroscopy at Norsk Elektro Optikk A/S"
Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research (FLAIR 07)
P. Kaspersen
Link to Conference Homepage

Before the beginning of the project, the VILLAGE partners have been publishing numerous papers on related subjects. Some of the most relevant are listed below:

TRT publications:

1. E. Lallier et al., “ Efficient Second-harmonic generation of a CO2 laser with a quasi-phase- matched GaAs crystal ”, Optics Letters, Vol. 23, n°19, pp. 1511-1513, October 1st 1998.
2. E. Lallier et al., “ Infrared difference frequency generation with quasi-phase-matched GaAs ”, Electron. Lett., Vol. 34, n° 16, pp1609-1610, August 6 1998.
3. O. Levi et al., “ Mid-Infrared generation by difference-frequency mixing in orientation- patterned GaAs ”, CLEO, Post-Deadline paper CPD21, Baltimore, 2001.
4. D. Faye et al., “HVPE-based orientation-patterned GaAs : added-value for non-linear applications”, Symposium Z6.6, MRS Fall Meeting 2003 (Boston).
5. K. L. Vodopyanov et al., “Optical parametric oscillation in quasi-phase-matched GaAs”, Opt. Lett. 29, 1912-1914 (2004).

NEO publications:

HHUD publications:

1. R. Al-Tahtamouni, K. Bencheikh, R. Storz, K. Schneider, M. Lang, J. Mlynek, S. Schiller, “Long-term stable operation and frequency stabilization of a doubly resonant parametric oscillator” , Appl. Phys. B 66, 733-9 (1998)
2. K. Schneider, S. Schiller, J. Mlynek, P. Kramper, “Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillator”, United States Patent, Patent Number 5,999,547 (7.12.1999); European Patent EP 0857997 (Feb. 3, 1998)
3. U. Strössner, J.-P. Meyn, R. Wallenstein, P.Urenski, A. Arie, G. Rosenman, J. Mlynek, S. Schiller, A. Peters, “Single-frequency continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator system with an ultrawide tuning range of 550 to 2830 nm”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 1419-1424 (2002).
4. A. Popp, , F. Müller F. Kühnemann, S. Schiller, ”Transportable, highly sensitive photoacoustic spectrometer based on a continuous-wave dual-cavity optical parametric oscillator”, Opt. Express 11, 2820-2825 (2003).
5. G. von Basum, D. Halmer, P. Hering, and M. Mürtz, S. Schiller, F. Müller, A. Popp, and F. Kühnemann, “Parts per trillion sensitivity for ethane in air with an OPO cavity leak-out spectrometer”, Optics Letters 29, 797-9 (2004).
6. F. Müller, A. Popp, F. Kühnemann, G. v. Basum, D. Halmer, P. Hering, M. Mürtz, S. Schiller, Long-term frequency stability and linewidth properties of continuous-wave pump- resonant optical parametric oscillators, Appl. Phys. B 80, 307 (2005)
7. S. Schiller, “Optical Parametric Devices (Continuous Wave)”, Encyclopedia of Modern Optics, edited by Robert D. Guenther, Duncan G. Steel and Leopold Bayvel (Elsevier, Oxford), ISBN 0-12-227600-0, Vol. 4, p. 51-61 (2004).

ORC publications:

1. R. A. Hayward, W. A. Clarkson, P. W. Turner, J. Nilsson, A. B. Grudinin and D. C. Hanna, “Efficient cladding-pumped Tm-doped silica fibre laser with high power single-mode output at two microns,” Electron. Lett., vol.36, (2000), p.711-712.
2. W. A. Clarkson, N. P. Barnes, P. W. Turner, J. Nilsson and D. C. Hanna, “High-power cladding-pumped Tm-doped silica fibre laser with wavelength tuning from 1860nm-2090nm,” Opt. Lett., vol.27, (2002), p.1989-1991.
3. M. Ibsen, S.Y. Set, C.S. Goh and K. Kikuchi, ‘Broad-band continuously tunable all-fibre DFBlasers, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 21–23, Jan 2002.
4. L. B. Fu, M. Ibsen, J. K. Sahu, J. N. Jang, S. U. Alam, J. Nilsson, D. J. Richardson, D. N. Payne, C. Codemard, S. Goncharov, I. Zalevsky, and A. B. Grudinin, “ fibre-DFB laser array pumped with a single 1-W CW Yb- fibre laser,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 15, pp. 655–657, May 2003.
5. Y. Jeong, J.K.Sahu, D.N.Payne, J.Nilsson, ‘Ytterbium-doped large-core fibre laser with 1.36 kW continuous-wave output power’, Optics Express 2004 Vol.12(25) pp.6088-6092.
6. L. B. Fu, M. Ibsen, D. J. Richardson and D. N. Payne, ‘977nm all-fibre DFB laser’, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 16, pp. 2442–2444, November 2004.
7. J. Nilsson, W. A. Clarkson, R. Selvas, S.-U. Alam and A. B. Grudinin, “High-power wavelength-tunable cladding-pumped rare-earth-doped silica fibre lasers,” Optical fibre Technology, vol.10, (2004), p.5-30, (Invited paper).

UVA publications:

VILLAGE (Versatile Infrared Laser source for Low-cost Analysis of Gas Emissions) is a research project supported by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies priority of the Sixth Framework Program (FP6).