Publications
Woods, Jonathan, Daykin, Jake, Tong, Amy SK, Lacava, Cosimo, Petropoulos, Periklis, Tropper, Anne, Horak, Peter, Wilkinson, James S and Apostolopoulos, Vasileios (2020) Dataset for "Supercontinuum generation in tantalum pentoxide waveguides for pump wavelengths in the 900 nm to 1500 nm spectral region". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1529 [Dataset]
Woods, Jonathan, Kahle, Hermann, Gray, Alan Ciaran, Daykin, Jake, Tropper, Anne, Gawith, Corin, Guina, Mircea and Apostolopoulos, Vasileios (2021) Dataset for "High power 739 nm VECSELs for future Yb+ ion cooling". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1669 [Dataset]
Woods, Jonathan, Daykin, Jake, Tong, Amy S.K., Lacava, Cosimo, Petropoulos, Periklis, Tropper, Anne, Horak, Peter, Wilkinson, James S and Apostolopoulos, Vasileios (2020) Supercontinuum generation in tantalum pentoxide waveguides for pump wavelengths in the 900 nm to 1500 nm spectral region. Optics Express, 28 (21), 32173-32184. (doi:10.1364/OE.403089).
Woods, Jonathan, Kahle, Hermann, Gray, Alan, Daykin, Jake, Tropper, Anne, Gawith, Corin, Guina, Mircea and Apostolopoulos, Vasileios (2021) High power 739 nm VECSELs for future Yb+ ion cooling. Applied Optics, 60 (3), 676-680. (doi:10.1364/AO.409970).
Woods, Jonathan, Gorecki, Jonathan, Bek, Roman, Richardson, Stephen, Constantine, Daykin, Jake, Hooper, Grace, Branagan-Harris, Emelia, Tropper, Anne, Wilkinson, James, Jetter, Michael, Michler, Peter and Apostolopoulos, Vasileios (2022) Dataset for "Coherent waveguide laser arrays in semiconductor quantum well membranes". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D2216 [Dataset]
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Sai tells us about his physics degree at Southampton, including an astronomy field trip to Tenerife and a year abroad in Boston.
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