Listed in date order: please scroll down for conference papers.

Refereed journal papers

Enhanced spectral histology in the colon using high-magnification benchtop FTIR imaging
Jayakrupakar Nallala, Gavin Rhys Lloyd, Michael Hermes, Neil Shepherd, Nick Stone
Vibrational Spectroscopy 91, p. 83-91 (Jul-2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vibspec.2016.08.013

 

Increased mid-infrared supercontinuum bandwidth and average power by tapering large-mode-area chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers
Christian Rosenberg Petersen, Rasmus D. Engelsholm, Christos Markos, Laurent Brilland, Céline Caillaud, Johann Trolès, and Ole Bang
Optics Express 25, p. 15336-15347 (Jun-2017)
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.015336

 

Multimodal registration of optical microscopic and infrared spectroscopic images from different tissue sections: An application to colon cancer
Francisco Peñaranda, Valery Naranjo, Rafael Verdú-Monedero, Gavin R. Lloyd, Jayakrupakar Nallala, Nicholas Stone
Digital Signal Processing 68 p. 1-15 (Sep-2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsp.2017.04.014

 

Promising emission behavior in Pr3+ / In selenide-chalcogenide-glass small-core step index fiber (SIF)
Sakr, Hesham; Tang, Zhuoqi; Furniss, David; Sojka, Lukasz; Sujecki, Slawomir; Benson, Trevor M.; Seddon, Angela B.
Optical Materials 67, p. 98-107 (May-2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2017.03.034

 

Mid-infrared emission in Tb3+-doped selenide glass fiber
L. Sojka, Z. Tang, D. Furniss, H. Sakr, Y. Fang, E. Beres-Pawlik, T. M. Benson, A. B. Seddon, and S. Sujecki
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 34, p. A70-A79 (Mar-2017)
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.34.000A70

 

Numerical and experimental investigation of mid-infrared laser action in resonantly pumped Pr3+ doped chalcogenide fibre
L. Sójka, Z. Tang, D. Furniss, H. Sakr, E. Bereś-Pawlik, A. B. Seddon, T. M. Benson, S. Sujecki
Optical and Quantum Electronics 49, p. 21 (Jan-2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11082-016-0827-0

 

Simple and efficient method of lines based algorithm for modeling of erbium doped Q-switched fluoride fiber lasers
Sujecki, Slawomir
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 33 p. 2288-2295 (Nov-2016)
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.33.002288

 

Refractive index and dispersion control of ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides in gallium lanthanum sulphide for near and mid-infrared applications
Giorgos Demetriou, Jean-Philippe Bérubé, Réal Vallée, Younès Messaddeq, Christian R. Petersen, Deepak Jain, Ole Bang, Chris Craig, Daniel W. Hewak, and Ajoy K Kar
Optics Express 24, p. 6350-6358 (Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.006350

 

Multimode supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide glass fibres
Irnis Kubat and Ole Bang
Optics Express 24, p. 2513-2526 (Feb-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.002513

 

Spectral-temporal composition matters when cascading supercontinua into the mid-infrared
Christian Rosenberg Petersen, Peter M. Moselund, Christian Petersen, Uffe Møller, and Ole Bang
Optics Express 24, p. 749-758 (Jan-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.000749

 

High-resolution FTIR imaging of colon tissues for elucidation of individual cellular and histopathological features
Jayakrupakar Nallala, Gavin Rhys Lloyd, Neil Shepherd and Nick Stone
Analyst 141, p. 630-639 (Nov-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5AN01871D

 

Low loss Ge-As-Se chalcogenide glass fiber, fabricated using extruded preform, for mid-infrared photonics
Zhuoqi Tang, Vladimir S. Shiryaev, David Furniss, Lukasz Sojka, Slawomir Sujecki, Trevor M. Benson, Angela B. Seddon, and Mikhail F. Churbanov
Optical Materials Express 5, p. 1722-1737 (Aug-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OME.5.001722

 

Method for Identification of Spectral Targets in Discrete Frequency Infrared Spectroscopy for Clinical Diagnostics
Gavin Rhys Lloyd and Nicholas Stone
Applied Spectroscopy 69, p. 1066-1073 (Aug-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1366/14-07677

 

OFT sectorization approach to analysis of optical scattering in mercurous chloride single crystals
Petr Pata, Milos Klima, Jan Bednar, Petr Janout, Cestmir Barta, Radek Hasal, Luca Maresi, and Semen Grabarnik
Optics Express 23, p. 21509-21526 (Aug-2015)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.021509

 

Theoretical study of population inversion in active doped MIR chalcogenide glass fibre lasers (invited)
S. Sujecki, A. Oladeji, A. Phillips, A. B. Seddon, T. M. Benson, H. Sakr, Z. Tang, E. Barney, D. Furniss, Ł. Sójka, E. Bereś-Pawlik, K. Scholle, S. Lamrini and P. Furberg
Optical Quantum Electronics 47, p. 1389–1395 (Jun-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11082-014-0086-x

 

Acousto-Optic Tunable Filters (AOTFs) Optimised for Operation in the 2-4μm region
J D Ward, S Valle, C Pannell and N P Johnson
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 619, p. 012054 (Jun-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/619/1/012054

 

Design of erbium doped double clad ZBLAN fibre laser
A Oladeji, A Phillips, S Lamrini, K. Scholle, P Fuhrberg, A B Seddon, T M Benson and S Sujecki
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 619, p. 012044 (Jun-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/619/1/012044

 

Mid infrared hyper-spectral imaging with bright super continuum source and fast acousto-optic tuneable filter for cytological applications
Mark Farries, Jon Ward, Stefano Valle, Gary Stephens, Peter Moselund, Koen van der Zanden and Bruce Napier
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 619, p. 012032 (Jun-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/619/1/012032

 

High Image Quality Type-II Superlattice Detector for 3.3 μm Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds
Hedda Malm, Anders Gamfeldt, Rickard Marcks von Würtemberg, Dan Lantz, Carl Asplund, Henk Martijn
Infrared Physics & Technology 70, p. 34-39 (May-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2014.11.013

 

Mid-infrared photoluminescence in small-core fiber of praseodymium-ion doped selenide-based chalcogenide glass
Zhuoqi Tang, David Furniss, Michael Fay, Hesham Sakr, Lukasz Sójka, Nigel Neate, Nicola Weston, Slawomir Sujecki, Trevor M. Benson, and Angela B. Seddon
Optical Materials Express 5, p. 870-886 (Apr-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OME.5.000870

 

Evaluation of different tissue de-paraffinization procedures for infrared spectral imaging
Jayakrupakar Nallala, Gavin Rhys Lloyd and Nicholas Stone
Analyst 140, p. 2369-2375 (Feb-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4an02122c

 

Multi-milliwatt mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a suspended core chalcogenide fiber
Uffe Møller, Yi Yu, Irnis Kubat, Christian R. Petersen, Xin Gai, Laurent Brilland, David Méchin, Celine Caillaud, Johann Troles, Barry Luther-Davies, and Ole Bang
Optics Express 23, p. 3282-3291 (Feb-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.003282

 

Acousto-Optic Tunable Filters for Imaging Applications in the 2-4 um with Low RF Drive Power
S. Valle, J.D. Ward, C. Pannell, N.P. Johnson
Acta Physica Polonica 127 p.58-59 (Jan-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.12693/APhysPolA.127.58

 

Infrared micro-spectroscopy for cyto-pathological classification of esophageal cells
Douglas Townsend, Miloš Miljković, Benjamin Bird, Kathleen Lenau, Oliver Old, Max Almond, Catherine Kendall, Gavin Lloyd, Neil Shepherd, Hugh Barr, Nick Stone and Max Diem
Analyst 140, p. 2215-2223 (Dec-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4AN01884B

 

Supercontinua: Entering the mid-infrared (Review of MINERVA work)
Günter Steinmeyer and Julia S. Skibina
Nature Photonics 8, p. 814 (Oct-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.254

 

Reaching the mid-infrared (MINERVA named as “Research Highlight”)
Maria Maragkou
Nature Photonics 8, p. 746 (Oct-14)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.231

 

Mid-infrared supercontinuum covering the 1.4–13.3 μm molecular fingerprint region using ultra-high NA chalcogenide step-index fibre
Christian Rosenberg Petersen, Uffe Møller, Irnis Kubat, Binbin Zhou, Sune Dupont, Jacob Ramsay, Trevor Benson, Slawomir Sujecki, Nabil Abdel-Moneim, Zhuoqi Tang, David Furniss, Angela Seddon & Ole Bang
Nature Photonics 8, p. 830 (Sep-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.213

 

Superior photoluminescence (PL) of Pr³⁺-In, compared to Pr³⁺-Ga, selenide-chalcogenide bulk glasses and PL of optically-clad fiber
H. Sakr, D. Furniss, Z. Tang, L. Sojka, N. A. Moneim, E. Barney, S. Sujecki, T. M. Benson, and A. B. Seddon
Optics Express 22, p. 21236 (Sep-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.021236

 

Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber with integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilms
Christos Markos, Irnis Kubat & Ole Bang
Scientific Reports 4, Article number: 6057 (Aug-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06057

 

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation to 12.5μm in large NA chalcogenide step-index fibres pumped at 4.5μm
Irnis Kubat, Christian S. Agger, Uffe Møller, Angela B. Seddon, Zhuoqi Tang, Slawomir Sujecki, Trevor M. Benson, David Furniss, Samir Lamrini, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Bruce Napier, Mark Farries, Jon Ward, Peter M. Moselund and Ole Bang
Optics Express 22, p. 19169-19182 (Aug-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.019169

 

Refractive index dispersion of chalcogenide glasses for ultra-high numerical-aperture fiber for mid-infrared supercontinuum generation
Harshana G Dantanarayana, Nabil Abdel-Moneim, Zhuoqi Tang, Lukasz Sojka, Slawomir Sujecki, David Furniss, Angela B Seddon, Irnis Kubat, Ole Bang, Trevor M Benson
Optical Materials Express 4, p. 1444 (Jul-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OME.4.001444

 

An Efficient Algorithm for Steady State Analysis of Fibre Lasers Operating under Cascade Pumping Scheme
S. Sujecki
Journal of Electronics And Telecommunications 60, p. 143–149 (Jun-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eletel-2014-0017

 

Broadband, mid-infrared emission from Pr3+ doped GeAsGaSe chalcogenide fiber, optically clad
L. Sójka, Z. Tang, D. Furniss, H. Sakr, A. Oladeji, E. Bereś-Pawlik, H. Dantanarayana, E. Faber, A.B. Seddon, T.M. Benson, S. Sujecki,
Optical Materials 36, p 1076–1082 (Apr-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2014.01.038

 

Thulium pumped mid-infrared 0.9–9μm supercontinuum generation in concatenated fluoride and chalcogenide glass fibers
Irnis Kubat, Christian Rosenberg Petersen, Uffe Visbech Møller, Angela Seddon, Trevor Benson, Laurent Brilland, David Méchin, Peter M. Moselund and Ole Bang
Optics Express 22, p. 3959-3967 (Feb-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.003959

 

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation to 4.5  μm in uniform and tapered ZBLAN step-index fibers by direct pumping at 1064 or 1550  nm
Irnis Kubat, Christian S. Agger, Peter Morten Moselund and Ole Bang
JOSA B, 30, p. 2743-2757 (Oct-2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.30.002743

 

Numerical investigation of mid-infrared emission from Pr (3+) doped GeAsGaSe fibre
Ayodele Oladeji, Lukasz Sojka, Zhuoqi Tang, David Furniss, Andrew Phillips, Angela Seddon, Trevor Benson and Slawomir Sujecki
J Optical and Quantum Electronics 46, p. 593-602 (Sep-2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11082-013-9776-z

 

Mid-infrared (IR) – A hot topic: The potential for using mid-IR light for non-invasive early detection of skin cancer in vivo
Seddon, Angela B.
Phys. Status Solidi B 250, p. 1020–1027 (May-2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssb.201248524

 

 

Conference papers, posters and presentations

Nonlinear Optics 2017
17-21 Jul-2017; Hawaii, USA
Towards High Average Power 12 µm Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Sources
Christian R. Petersen, Ole Bang, Angela B. Seddon, and Laurent Brilland
https://doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2017.NTu3A.1

 

CLEO Europe
25-29 Jun-2017; Munich, Germany
Towards Rapid high-resolution mid-IR imaging for molecular spectral histopathological diagnosis of oesophageal cancers
M. Hermes, J. Nallala, L. Huot, S. Junaid, J. Tomko, P. Tidemand-Lichtenberg, C. Pedersen and N. Stone
Paper JSIII-2.6 TUE

Mid-infrared spectroscopy in skin cancer cell type identification
Juergen Schneckenburger
Poster ES3A.36

 

GOMD 2017
Annual Meeting of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society
21-26 May-2017; Hawaii, USA
Progress in mid-infrared fiber lasers [Invited paper]
A. B. Seddon; Z. Tang; D. Furniss; L. Sojka; S. Sujecki; E. Barney; T. Benson
GOMD-S3-017-2017

 

CLEO 2017
16-19 May-2017; San Jose, USA
Efficient Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation in Tapered Large Mode Area Chalcogenide Photonic Crystal Fibers
Christian R. Petersen, Rasmus E. Dybbro, Christos Markos, Laurent Brilland, Johann Troles, and Ole Bang
Paper STh1K.5
https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.STh1K.5

 

MIRSENS 4
15-17 May-2017; Wroclaw, Poland
Peter Moselund & Laurent Huot
Mid-infrared supercontinuum – A maturing technology
Paper Tu04

 

CLEO 2017
13-18 May-2017; San Jose, CA, USA
Christian Petersen [Invited paper]
Improved Mid-IR Supercontinuum Power Generation by Tapering Chalcogenide Photonic Crystal Fibers
Paper S&I 11 #5

 

CLIRCON 2017
02-05 Apr-2017; Manchester, UK
Jayakrupakar Nallala, Gavin Lloyd, Neil Shepherd, Nick Stone
Advances in colon cancer diagnosis using FTIR and Supercontinuum based discrete frequency infrared spectroscopic imaging

 

Photonics West 2017
27-Jan to 01-Feb-2017; San Francisco, USA
Performance of mid infrared spectroscopy in skin cancer cell type identification
Lena Kastl; Björn Kemper; Gavin R. Lloyd; Jayakrupakar Nallala; Nick Stone; Valery Naranjo; Francesco Penaranda; Jürgen Schnekenburger
Proc. SPIE 10060, Optical Biopsy XV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 1006006 (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2253314

Fast hyper-spectral imaging of cytological samples in the mid-infrared wavelength region
Mark Farries; Jon Ward; Ian Lindsay; Jayakrupakar Nallala; Peter Moselund
Proc. SPIE 10060, Optical Biopsy XV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 100600Y (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2250811

 

Frontiers in Optics 2016
20-Oct-2016; New York City; USA

Mid-Infrared Photonics in Healthcare 
Angela Seddon [Invited]
Frontiers in Optics 2016 OSA Technical Digest paper FTh4A.4 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2016.FTh4A.4

Generation and Applications of High Average Power Mid-IR Supercontinuum in Chalcogenide Fibres
Christian Rosenberg Petersen [Invited]
Frontiers in Optics 2016 OSA Technical Digest paper FTh4A.2 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2016.FTh4A.2

 

SPIE S&D 2016
SPIE Security & Defence Conference SD107: Emerging Imaging and Sensing Technologies
26-29 Sep-2016; Edinburgh, UK
Mid-infrared (MIR) Photonics: MIR fibre-optics for chemical and biomedical, sensing and imaging
AB Seddon [Invited]
Proc. SPIE 9992, Emerging Imaging and Sensing Technologies, 999206 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2242488

 

EUSIPCO 2016
29-Aug to 02-Sep-2016; Budapest, Hungary
Multivariate Classification of Fourier Transform IR Hyperspectral Images of Skin Cancer Cells
Francisco Penaranda, Valery Naranjo, Lena Kastl, Bjorn Kemper, Gavin Lloyd, Jayakrupakar Nallala, Nicholas Stone and Jurgen Schnekenburger
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EUSIPCO.2016.7760464

 

ISNOG 2016 
Int. Symp. on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses
21-26 Aug-2016; Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Mid-Infrared Photonics: A Hot Topic!
Angela Seddon [Plenary Lecture]

Studies of various praeseodymium additives doped chalcogenide Se-based fibres
Z. Tang, L. Sojka, D. Furniss, H. Sakr, E.Barney, S. Sujecki, T.M. Benson and A.B. Seddon
Paper V-1 O-4

 

ICTON 2016
18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
10-14 Jul-2016; Trento, Italy
True mid-infrared Pr3+ absorption cross-section in a selenide-chalcogenide host-glass [Invited]
A. B. Seddon, D. Furniss, Z. Q. Tang, Ł. Sojka, T. M. Benson, R. Caspary, and S. Sujecki
Paper Th.B6.1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550709

Characterising refractive index dispersion in chalcogenide glasses
Y. Fang, Ł Sojka, D. Jayasuriya, D. Furniss, Z. Q. Tang, C. Markos, S. Sujecki, A. B. Seddon, and T. M. Benson
Paper We.D6.1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550618 

Numerical modelling of lanthanide-ion doped fibre lasers operating within mid-infrared wavelength region [Invited]
Ł. Sójka, D. Furniss, Z. Tang, H. Sakr, E. Barney, T.M. Benson, A.B. Seddon, S. Sujecki, K. Scholle, S. Lamrini, and P. Fuhrberg
Paper Th.A6.4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550681

 

SPEC 2016
26-30 Jun-2016; Montreal, Canada

Probing disease specific changes in breast calcification composition with various spectroscopic tools 
Nick Stone
Paper O4-5

Investigating conventional and high-magnification Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic imaging for pathological
discrimination of colon tissues
J. Nallala, G. Lloyd, N. Shepherd, N. Stone
Poster 1-51

Rapid infrared mapping for highly accurate automated histology in Barretts oesophagus
O. Old, G. Lloyd, K. Nallala, M. Isabelle, C. Kendall, N. Shepherd, A. Shore, H. Barr, N. Stone
Poster P1-61

Multicentre infrared round robin: same samples, same diagnostic outcome?
C. Hughes, H. Byrne, R. Goodacre, A. Henderson, M. Isabelle, N. Jayakrupakar, C. Kendall, G. Lloyd, D. Perez-Guaita, M. Pilling, N. Stone, B. Wood, M. Baker, P. Gardner
Poster P1-54

Infrared spectroscopy for classification of esophageal cell samples
G. Lloyd, M. Isabelle, D. Townsend, M. Diem, C. Kendall, N. Shepherd, A., Shore, H. Barr, N. Stone
Poster P1-30

Developments in infrared spectroscopy of colorectal pathology. Towards an understanding of the biochemical changes occurring in dysplasia
O. Old, R. Griggs, J. Wood, G. Lloyd, M. Isabelle, N. Shepherd, T. Cook, N. Krupakar, H. Barr, N. Stone, C. Kendall
Poster 1-47

 

ICOOPMA 2016
7th International Conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications
13-17 Jun-2016; Montreal, Canada
Progress towards ­mid-infrared (MIR) supercontinuum lasers for biomedical application and the MIR optical biopsy [Invited paper]
Angela Seddon

 

Photonics West 2016
13-18 Feb-2016; San Francisco, USA
There were two dedicated MINERVA sessions in the conference Optical Biopsy XIV (9703)

Towards the Mid-Infrared Optical Biopsy: MINERVA-I
Chair: Bruce Napier

Towards the Mid-Infrared Optical Biopsy
Angela B. Seddon et al.
Proc. SPIE 9703, 970302 (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2211584

Identification of GI cancers utilising rapid mid-infrared spectral imaging
Jayakrupakar Nallala, Gavin R. Lloyd, Catherine Kendall, Neil A. Shepherd, Hugh Barr, Nick Stone
Proc. SPIE 9703, 970303 (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2209363

Towards supercontinuum-driven hyperspectral microscopy in the mid-infrared
I. D. Lindsay et al.
Proc. SPIE 9703, 970304 (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2210836

A two-step framework for the registration of HE stained and FTIR images
Francisco Peñaranda, Valery Naranjo, Rafaél Verdú, Gavin R. Lloyd, Jayakrupakar Nallala, Nick Stone
Proc. SPIE 9703, 970305 (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2208869

Investigating the effect of pixel size of high spatial resolution FTIR imaging for detection of colorectal cancer
G. R. Lloyd, J. Nallala, N. Stone
Proc. SPIE 9703, 970306 (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2210844

Potential of mid IR spectroscopy in the rapid label free identification of skin malignancies
Lena Kastl, Björn Kemper, Gavin R. Lloyd, Jayakrupakar Nallala, Nick Stone, Valery Naranjo, Francisco Penaranda, Jürgen Schnekenburger
Proc. SPIE 9703, 970307 (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2208897

Towards the Mid-Infrared Optical Biopsy: MINERVA-II
Chair: Angela Seddon

Ge-Sb-Se glass fiber-optics for in-vivo mid-infrared optical biopsy
H. Parnell, J. H. Butterworth, H. Sakr, Z. Tang, D. Furniss, T. M. Benson, C. Scotchford, A. B. Seddon
Proc. SPIE 9703, 970309 (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2209044

Mid-IR supercontinuum generation beyond 7 μm using a silica-fluoride-chalcogenide fiber cascade
Christian R. Petersen, Peter M. Moselund, Christian Petersen, Uffe Møller, Ole Bang
Proc. SPIE 9703, 97030A (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2209253

All-fiber mid-IR supercontinuum: a powerful new tool for IR-spectroscopy
Peter M. Moselund, Laurent Huot, Chris D. Brooks
Proc. SPIE 9703, 97030B (07-Mar-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2213129

IOP Optical Group Meeting: Optics in Clinical Practice III
16-Dec-2015; Nottingham, UK
High Resolution FTIR Imaging of Human Colon Polyp Sections
Gavin Lloyd

Components and Packaging for Laser Systems II (9730)
Mid-IR fused fiber couplers
G. Stevens and T. Woodbridge
Proc. SPIE 9730, 973007 (22-Apr-2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2203450

 

SCIX 2015
27-Sep to 02-Oct-2015; Providence RI, USA
Histopathological characterization of biological tissues using high-resolution infrared spectroscopic imaging
Jayakrupakar Nallala, Gavin Lloyd, Neil Shepherd, Nicholas Stone
Biomedical and Bioanalytical Posters #02

 

IRDG 210
210th meeting of the Infrared and Raman Discussion Group
27-Aug-2015; Exeter, UK
Chemometric analysis of FTIR images for the identification of colorectal polyp cancer [Invited]
Gavin Lloyd

NLO 2015
OSA Nonlinear Optics 2015
26-31 Jul-2015; Hawaii, USA
Mid infrared supercontinuum generation from chalcogenide glass waveguides and fibers
B. Luther-Davies, Y. Yu, B. Zhang, X. Gai, C. Zhai, S. Qi, W. Guo, Z. Yang, R. Wang, D. Choi, S. Madden, U. Moller, I. Kubat, C. Petersen, L. Brilland, D. M’echin, C. Caillaud, J. Troles, and O. Bang
Nonlinear Optics OSA Technical Digest (online) paper NTu1A.4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2015.NTu1A.4

Christos Markos, Irnis Kubat, and Ole Bang
Nonlinear Kerr effect in a hybrid polymer/chalcogenide photonic crystal fiber
Nonlinear Optics OSA Technical Digest (online) paper NW4A.22
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2015.NW4A.22 

 

IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting 2015
13-15 Jul-2015; Nassau, Bahamas
Mid-infrared fiberoptic devices and systems for in vivo medical diagnostics and surgery
A. Seddon
ISBN: 978-1-4799-7467-2; p. 232-233
INSPEC Accession Number: 15439499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2015.7248283

 

ICTON 2015
17th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
5-9 Jul-2015; Budapest, Hungary
Numerical modelling of erbium (III) doped Q-switched fibre lasers
Sujecki, S.; Oladeji, A. ; Benson, T.M. ; Seddon, A.B. ; Scholle, K. ; Lamrini, S. ; Fuhrberg, P.
INSPEC Accession Number: 15399068
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193548

 

ISLA workshop
26-Jun-2015; Munich, Germany
2 µm lasers as pump sources to the mid-IR
Lasse Leick

 

CLEO Europe 2015
2015 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics – European Quantum Electronics Conference
21-25 Jun-2015; Munich, Germany
High-Energy Q-switched Er:ZBLAN Fibre Laser at 2.79 um
S. Lamrini, K. Scholle, M. Schäfer, J. Ward, M. Francis, M. Farries, S. Sujecki, T. Benson, A. Seddon, A. Oladeji, B. Napier, and P. Fuhrberg
ISBN: 978-1-4673-7475-0; paper CJ-7.2, (OSA 2015)

 

GOMD-DGG 2015
Glass & Optical Materials Division and Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft Joint Annual Meeting 2015
17-21 May-2015; Miami, USA
Entering the mid-infrared with supercontinuum generated in chalcogenide fibers [Invited]
U. Møller, C. Petersen, I. Kubat, O. Bang
GOMD-S4-045-2015

 

CLEO 2015
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2015
10-15 May-2015; San Jose, USA
Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation Spanning More Than 11 μm in a Chalcogenide Step-Index Fiber
Christian R. Petersen, Uffe Møller, Irnis Kubat, Binbin Zhou, Sune Dupont, Jacob Ramsay, Trevor Benson, Slawomir Sujecki, Nabil Abdel-Moneim, Zhuoqi Tang, David Furniss, Angela Seddon, and Ole Bang
ISBN: 978-1-55752-968-8; CLEO: 2015, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper SF2D.7.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.SF2D.7

Two-Octave Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation in As-Se Suspended Core Fibers
Uffe Møller, Christian R. Petersen, Irnis Kubat, Yi Yu, Xin Gai, Laurent Brilland, David Méchin, Celine Caillaud, Johann Troles, Barry Luther-Davies, and Ole Bang
ISBN: 978-1-55752-968-8; CLEO: 2015, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper SW1L.7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.SW1L.7

 

CLIRSPEC 2015
20-22 Apr-2015; Exeter, UK
High-resolution infrared spectral imaging for characterization of colon histo-pathological features
Krupakar Nallala

 

MIRSENS 3
International workshop on opportunities and challenges in mid-infrared laser-based gas sensing
05-07 Mar-2015; Wuertzburg, Germany
Progress in Mid-IR Supercontinuum
Peter Moselund, Chris Brooks, Lasse Leick
Paper ThO5

 

Photonics West 2015
07-12 Feb-2015; San Francisco
Acousto-optic tunable filter for imaging application with high performance in the IR region
S. Valle ; J. Ward ; C. Pannell and N. P. Johnson
Proc. SPIE 9359, Optical Components and Materials XII, 93590E (March 16, 2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2077610

 

Standardized cell samples for midIR technology development
Lena Kastl ; Christina E. Rommel ; Björn Kemper ; Jürgen Schnekenburger
Proc. SPIE 9315, Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies VIII, 931507 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2080251

 

ICPRAM 2015
4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods 2015
10-12 Jan-2015; Lisbon, Portugal
MINERVA Project, mid- To near Infrared Spectroscopy for Improved Medical Diagnostics
Valery Naranjo, Francisco Peñaranda et al.
ISBN: 978-989-758-095-6 p. 53-69 (Jan-2015)

Biosignals 2015
8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing
12-15 Jan-2015; Lisbon, Portugal
New Spectral Representation and Dissimilarity Measures Assessment for FTIR-spectra Using Unsupervised Classification
Francisco Peñaranda, Fernando Lopez-Mir, Valery Naranjo, Jesús Angulo, Lena Kastl, Jürgen Schnekenburger
ISBN: 978-989-758-069-7 p. 172-177 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005188001720177

 

ICIP 2014
IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing 2014
27-30 Oct-2014; Paris, France 
Probability density function of object contours using regional regularized stochastic watershed
Lopez-Mir, F. ; Naranjo, V. ; Morales, S. ; Angulo, J.
INSPEC No. 14884226 p4762-4766

 

NUSOD 2014
14th Int. Conf. on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices
01-04 Sep-2014; Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Modelling and Design of MIR Chalcogenide Glass Fibre Lasers
Sujecki, S.; Oladeji, A. ; Sojka, L. ; Phillips, A. ; Seddon, A.B. ; Benson, T.M. ; Sakr, H. ; Tang, Z. ; Furniss, D. ; Scholle, K. ; Lamrini, S. ; Furberg, P.
ISBN 978-1-4799-3681-6 p 111-112

 

ISNOG 2014
International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses
24-28 Aug-2014; Jeju, South Korea
Towards mid-infrared lasers: first rare-earth-ion-doped selenide-based, chalcogenide glass, step-index fiber with a small core
Z. Tang, D. Furniss, M. Fay, H. Sakr, L. Sójka, S. Sujecki, T.M. Benson, A.B. Seddon
Paper C1-4, 05-1022

Mid-infrared photonics for early cancer diagnosis
A.B. Seddon
Paper D3-1, 08-1002

 

SPIE Optics + Photonics 2014
19-21 Aug-2014; San Diego, USA
Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide step index fibers pumped at 2.9 and 4.5 um
Irnis Kubat, Uffe Møller, Angela B. Seddon, Zhuoqi Tang, Slawomir Sujecki, Trevor M. Benson, Samir Lamrini, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Bruce Napier, Mark Farries, Jon D. Ward, Peter M. Moselund, Ole Bang
Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications VIII [9200-28]

 

SPEC 2014
17-22 Aug-2014; Krakow, Poland
Infrared micro-spectroscopy for cyto-pathological classification of esophageal cells
Douglas Townsend, Miloš Miljković, Benjamin Bird, Kathleen Lenau, Oliver Old, Max Almond, Catherine Kendall, Gavin Lloyd, Neil Shepherd, Hugh Barr, Nick Stone and Max Diem
[Subsequently published as journal paper; also listed above.]
Analyst 140, p. 2215-2223 (Dec-2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4AN01884B

 

ICOOPMA 2014
Sixth Int. Conf. on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications
27-Jul to 01-Aug-2014; Leeds, UK
Mid-infrared photonics for early cancer diagnosis
Angela Seddon

Comparison of gallium and indium containing, praseodymium-doped, selenide chalcogenide glass
David Furniss

Progress in Infrared Spectral Imaging of Human Cells and Tissues
Krupakar Nallala

Three further papers were also published as journal papers (also listed above):

Acousto-Optic Tunable Filters (AOTFs) Optimised for Operation in the 2-4μm region
J D Ward, S Valle, C Pannell and N P Johnson
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 619, p. 012054 (Jun-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/619/1/012054

Design of erbium doped double clad ZBLAN fibre laser
A Oladeji, A Phillips, S Lamrini, K. Scholle, P Fuhrberg, A B Seddon, T M Benson and S Sujecki
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 619, p. 012044 (Jun-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/619/1/012044

Mid infrared hyper-spectral imaging with bright super continuum source and fast acousto-optic tuneable filter for cytological applications
Mark Farries, Jon Ward, Stefano Valle, Gary Stephens, Peter Moselund, Koen van der Zanden and Bruce Napier
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 619, p. 012032 (Jun-2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/619/1/012032

 

Nonlinear Photonics
Barcelona, Spain; 27-31 Jul-2014
High Average Power Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation in a Suspended Core Chalcogenide Fiber
Uffe Møller, Yi Yu, Christian R. Petersen, Irnis Kubat, David Mechin, Laurent Brilland, Johann Troles, Barry Luther-Davies, and Ole Bang
ISBN: 978-1-55752-820-9; Joint Poster Session I (JM5A)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BGPP.2014.JM5A.54

 

ICTON 2014
Graz, Austria ; 06-10 Jul-2014 
Mid-infrared photonics for early cancer diagnosis 
Angela Seddon
16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks; INSPEC Accession Number:14526364, p. 1-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876433
Development of praseodymium-doped, selenide chalcogenide glass, step-index fibre towards mid-infrared fibre lasers
D. Furniss, H. Sakr, Z. Tang, L. Sojka, S. Sujecki, E. Barney, T.M. Benson, A.B. Seddon
16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks; INSPEC Accession Number: 14526568, p. 1-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876432

 

CLEO 2014
San Jose, USA; 08-13 Jun-2014
Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in concatenated fluoride and chalcogenide glass fibers covering more than three octaves
Irnis Kubat, Christian Rosenberg Petersen, Uffe Møller, Angela Seddon, Trevor Benson, Laurent Brilland, David Mechin, Peter Moselund, and Ole Bang
ISBN: 978-1-55752-999-2; Supercontinuum Generation (STh3N)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2014.STh3N.1

 

Biomedical and Health Informatics 2014
Valencia, Spain; 01-04 Jun-2014
Stained and infrared image registration as first step for cancer detection
Naranjo, V.; Villanueva, E.; Lloyd, G.R.; Stone, N.; Lopez-Mir, F.; Alcaniz, M.
IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2014 , p.420,423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864392

 

Photonics West 2014 
San Francisco, USA; 02-06 Feb-2014 
Towards mid-infrared fiber-lasers: rare earth ion doped, indium-containing, selenide bulk glasses and fiber  
H. Sakr ; Z. Tang ; D. Furniss ; L. Sojka ; N. A. Moneim ; E. Barney ; S. Sujecki ; T. M. Benson ; A. B. Seddon
Proc. SPIE 8938, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIV, p. 89380V
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2039405

Towards mid-infrared supercontinuum generation: Ge-Sb-Se mid-infrared step-index small-core optical fiber
J. H. Butterworth ; D. Jayasuriya ; Q. Q. Li ; D. Furniss ; N. A. Moneim ; E. Barney ; S. Sujecki ; T. M. Benson ; J. S. Sanghera ; A. B. Seddon
Proc. SPIE 8938, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIV, p. 89380W
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2039357

 

15th Conference on Optical Fibers and Their Applications
Białystok, Poland; 29-Jan to 01-Feb-2014
Supercontinuum generation from ultraviolet to mid-infrared (Invited paper)
U. Møller, S.T. Sørensen, C.R. Pedersen, I. Kubat, P.M. Moselund, O. Bang

 

Advanced Solid State Lasers
Paris, France; 27-Oct to 01-Nov-2013
Highly Stable, All-fiber, High Power ZBLAN Supercontinuum Source Reaching 4.75 µm used for Nanosecond mid-IR Spectroscopy
Peter Moselund, Christian Petersen, Lasse Leick, Jeppe Seidelin Dam, Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg, and Christian Pedersen
ISBN: 978-1-55752-982-4; Postdeadline Papers (JTh5A)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ASSL.2013.JTh5A.9

 

Lasers, Optics and Photonics 2013
San Antonio, USA; 07-09 Oct-2013
High quantum efficiency medium wavelength infrared InAs/GaSb/AlSb focal plane arrays with bulk- limited dark current
H. Malm, D. Lantz, R. Marcks von Wurtemberg, C. Asplund, J. Alverbro and H. Martijn

 

1st International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Complexity in Optical Fibers 
Como, Italy; 16-18 Sep-2013 
Optimized ZBLAN fiber for efficient and broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum generation through direct pumping at 1550nm 
Irnis Kubat, Christian Agger, Peter M Moselund, Ole Bang

 

Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications (WSOF 2013)
Sigtuna, Sweden; 28-30 Aug-2013
Development of Low Loss Robust Soft-glass Fiber Splices
Gary Stevens and Toby Woodbridge
ISBN: 978-1-55752-984-8; Poster Session I (W3)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/WSOF.2013.W3.21

 

Nonlinear Optics
Hawaii, USA; July 21-26, 2013
Numerical demonstration of 3-12µm supercontinuum generation in large-core step-index chalcogenide fibers pumped at 4.5µm
Christian Agger, Irnis Kubat, Uffe Møller, Peter M. Moselund, Christian Petersen, Bruce Napier, Angela Seddon, Slawomir Sujecki, Trevor Benson, Mark Farries, Jon Ward, Samir Lamrini, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, and Ole Bang
ISBN: 978-1-55752-977-0; NW4A
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2013.NW4A.09

 

CLEO Europe 2013
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics; Munich, Germany; 12-16 May-2013
Intensity Noise of Normal-Pumped Picosecond Supercontinuum Generation
U. Møller and O. Bang
Paper CD_P_48; ISBN: 978-1-4799-0594-2

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in tapered ZBLAN fiber with a standard Erbium mode-locked fiber laser
Kubat, I; Agger, C.; Moselund, P.M.; Bang, O.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800933

 

SPIE Defence, Security and Sensing 2013
Baltimore, USA; 29-Apr to 03-May-2013
High-performance MWIR type-II superlattice detectors
Henk Martijn ; Carl Asplund ; Rickard Marcks von Würtemberg ; Hedda Malm
Proc. SPIE 8704, Infrared Technology and Applications XXXIX, p. 87040Z (11-Jun-2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2016602

 

Photonics West 2013
San Francisco, USA; 02-07 Feb-2013
New horizons for supercontinuum light sources: from UV to mid-IR
Carsten L. Thomsen ; Frederik D. Nielsen ; Jeppe Johansen ; Christian Pedersen ; Peter M. Moselund ; Uffe Møller ; Simon T. Sørensen ; Casper Larsen ; Ole Bang
Proc. SPIE 8637, Complex Light and Optical Forces VII, p. 86370T (05-Mar-2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2008860