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  • 2006 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions to solid-state lasers and fiber lasers, particularly in techniques for scaling their power and brightness.

Overview

W.A. Clarkson is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and has a significant research footprint spanning engineering, medicine, and physics and astronomy. Their work focuses primarily on electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, physiology, cell biology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Muscle Metabolism and Nutrition
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Solid State Laser Technologies
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics

W.A. Clarkson has published extensively in various academic venues. These include:

  • Circulation
  • Optics Letters
  • Applied Physics B
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • EPJ Web of Conferences

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Nested-ring doping for highly efficient 1907 nm short-wavelength cladding-pumped thulium fiber lasers," 2020, Optics Letters
  • "Actively Q switched radially polarized Ho:YAG laser with an intra-cavity laser-written S-waveplate," 2022, Optics Letters
  • "Simple method for determining quantum efficiency and background propagation loss in thulium-doped fibres," 2023, Applied Physics B
  • "Radially polarized 33 W emission from a double-pass Ho:YAG thin-slab amplifier," 2022, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • "Monolithic highly efficient 272 W nested-ring structured-core thulium fiber laser at 1940 nm," 2025, Optics Letters

Clarkson's frequent co-authors include:

  • Jacob L. Barber
  • Mark A. Sarzynski
  • Claude Bouchard
  • P. C. Shardlow
  • Jeremy Robbins

In recognition of their contributions to their field, W.A. Clarkson was named an OSA Fellow in 2006. This award specifically cited pioneering contributions to solid-state lasers and fiber lasers, with a particular focus on techniques for scaling their power and brightness.

Best Publications

  • High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives [Invited]

    D. J. Richardson;J. Nilsson;W. A. Clarkson

  • High power fiber lasers

    J. Nilsson;J.K. Sahu;Y. Jeong;V.N. Philippov

  • Two-mirror beam-shaping technique for high-power diode bars

    W.A. Clarkson;D.C. Hanna

  • Thermal effects and their mitigation in end-pumped solid-state lasers

    W A Clarkson

  • High-energy, high-power ytterbium-doped Q-switched fiber laser

    J A Alvarez-Chavez;H L Offerhaus;J Nilsson;P W Turner

  • Energy-transfer upconversion and thermal lensing in high-power end-pumped Nd:YLF laser crystals

    P.J. Hardman;W.A. Clarkson;G.J. Friel;M. Pollnau

  • Upconversion-induced heat generation and thermal lensing in Nd:YLF and Nd:YAG

    Markus Pollnau;P.J. Hardman;M.A. Kern;W.A. Clarkson

  • Characteristics of Q-switched cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber lasers with different high-energy fiber designs

    C.C. Ranaud;H.L. Offerhaus;J.A. Alvarez-Chavez;C.J. Nilsson

  • High-power cladding-pumped Tm-doped silica fiber laser with wavelength tuning from 1860 to 2090 nm

    W. A. Clarkson;N. P. Barnes;P. W. Turner;J. Nilsson

  • Highly efficient in-band pumped Er:YAG laser with 60 W of output at 1645 nm

    D. Y. Shen;J. K. Sahu;W. A. Clarkson

  • High-power wavelength-tunable cladding-pumped rare-earth-doped silica fiber lasers

    J. Nilsson;W.A. Clarkson;R. Selvas;J.K. Sahu

  • Compact diode-pumped passively Q-switched tunable Er-Yb double-clad fiber laser.

    M. Laroche;A. M. Chardon;J. Nilsson;D. P. Shepherd

  • Apparatus for providing optical radiation

    William Andrew Clarkson;David Neil Payne;Malcolm Paul Varnham;Mikhail Nicholaos Zervas

  • High-power and tunable operation of erbium-ytterbium Co-doped cladding-pumped fiber lasers

    J. Nilsson;S.-U. Alam;J.A. Alvarez-Chavez;P.W. Turner

  • Generation of high-power blue light in periodically poled LiNbO 3

    G.W. Ross;M. Pollnau;P.G.R. Smith;W.A. Clarkson

  • Power scaling strategy for longitudinally diode-pumped Tm:YLF lasers

    S. So;J.I. Mackenzie;D.P. Shepherd;W.A. Clarkson

  • Efficient Ho:YAG laser pumped by a cladding-pumped tunable Tm:silica-fibre laser

    D.Y. Shen;A. Abdolvand;L.J. Cooper;W.A. Clarkson

  • 49 mW of cw blue light generated by first-order quasi-phase-matched frequency doubling of a diode-pumped 946-nm Nd:YAG laser.

    V. Pruneri;R. Koch;P.G. Kazansky;W.A. Clarkson

  • 230 mW of blue light from a thulium-doped upconversion fiber laser

    R. Paschotta;N. Moore;W.A. Clarkson;A.C. Tropper

  • High-power widely tunable Tm:fibre lasers pumped by an Er,Yb co-doped fibre laser at 1.6 mum.

    D.Y. Shen;Jayanta Sahu;W.A. Clarkson

  • Efficient cladding-pumped Tm-doped silica fibre laser with high power singlemode output at 2 /spl mu/m

    R.A. Hayward;W.A. Clarkson;P.W. Turner;J. Nilsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jayanta K. Sahu
Jayanta K. Sahu University of Southampton
Johan Nilsson
Johan Nilsson University of Southampton
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Morten Ibsen
Morten Ibsen University of Southampton
Peter G. Kazansky
Peter G. Kazansky University of Southampton
Anne C. Tropper
Anne C. Tropper University of Southampton
Markus Pollnau
Markus Pollnau University of Surrey
Yongmin Jung
Yongmin Jung University of Southampton
David N. Payne
David N. Payne University of Southampton
Cyril C. Renaud
Cyril C. Renaud University College London

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