Publications

2024

J. Siliprandi, D. G. MacLachlan, C. A. Ross, T. Sharma, L. Labadie, K. Madhav, A. Nayak, A. Dinkelaker, M. Roth, N. Scott, V. Du Foresto, R. R. Thomson, and A. Benoit, "A Fiber-Connectorized Ultrafast-Laser-Inscribed K-Band Integrated Optics Beam Combiner for the CHARA Telescope Array," Applied Optics 81 2024

C. S. Tye, K. Ehrlich, A. D. M. Green, R. K. Henderson, and M. G. Tanner, "Photon counting fibre optic distributed temperature sensing with a CMOS SPAD array," Optics Express 324 2024

C. A. Ross, K. Harrington, R. Mears, J. M. Stone, T. A. Birks, and R. R. Thomson, "Axi-Stack: a method for manufacturing freeform air-silica optical fibre," Optics Express 321 2024

B. Sun, S. Moser, A. Jesacher, P. S. Salter, R. R. Thomson, M. J. Booth, "Fast, Precise, High Contrast Laser Writing for Photonic Chips with Phase Aberrations," Laser and Photonics Reviews 2300702 2024

C. Santos Garcia, M. Larcheveque, S. O'Sullivan, M. Van Waerebeke, R. R. Thomson, A. Repetti, J.-C. Pesquet, "A Primal-Dual Data-Driven Method for Computational Optical Imaging with a Photonic Lantern," PNAS Nexus 34 2024

2023

P. Roldán-Varona, C. A. Ross, L. Rodríguez-Cobo, J. M. López-Higuera, E. Gaughan, K. Dhaliwal, M. G. Tanner, R. R. Thomson, and H. E. Parker, "Selective plane illumination optical endomicroscopy with polymer imaging fibers," APL Photonics 81 2023

K. Ehrlich, C. A. Ross, R. J. Beck, J. D. Shepard, and R. R. Thomson, "A miniature fiber optic ablation probe manufactured via ultrafast laser inscription and selective chemical etching," APL Photonics 8076109 2023

H. E. Parker and R. R. Thomson, "Shining a light on infections: Combining physics and biology to solve a big problem," Frontiers for Young Minds 111011554 2023

N. C. Jenkins, K. Ehrlich, A. Kufcsák, S. Yerolatsitis, S. Fernandes, I. Young, K. Hamilton, H. A. C. Wood, T. Quinn, V. Young, A. R. Akram, J. M. Stone, R. R. Thomson, K. Finlayson, K. Dhaliwal, and S. Seth, "Computational fluorescence suppression in shifted excitation Raman spectroscopy," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 708 2023

2022

H. E. Parker, S. Sengupta, A. V. Harish, R. R. G. Soares, H. N. Joensson, W. Margulis, A. Russom, F. Laurell, "A Lab-in-a-Fiber optofluidic device using droplet microfluidics and laser-induced fluorescence for virus detection," Scientific Reports 123539 2022

S. R. McArthur, R. R. Thomson and C. A. Ross, "Investigating focus elongation using a spatial light modulator for high-throughput ultrafast-laser-induced selective etching in fused silica," Optics Express 3011 2022

E. P. McShane, H. K. Chandrasekharan, A. Kufcsák, N. Finayson, A. T. Erdogan, R. K. Henderson, K. Dhaliwal, R. R. Thomson, and M. G. Tanner, "High resolution TCSPC imaging of diffuse light with a one-dimensional SPAD array scanning system," Optics Express 3015 2022

S. R. McArthur, D. G. MacLachlan, A. Benoit, R. R. Thomson and C. A. Ross, "Ultrafast laser inscription of efficient volume Bragg gratings deep in fused silica using active wavefront shaping," Optics Express Material 129 2022

H. A. C. Wood, K. Ehrlich, S. Yerolatsitis, A. Kufcsák, T. M. Quinn, S. Fernandes, D. Norberg, N. C. Jenkins, V. Young, I. Young, K. Hamilton, S. Seth, A. Akram, R. R. Thomson, K. Finlayson, K. Dhaliwal, J. M. Stone, "Tri-mode optical biopsy probe with fluorescence endomicroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy," Journal of Biophotonics e202200141 2022

T. Y. Cosgun, A. Dzipalski, C. A. Ross, R. R. Thomson, M. Kingston, S. Brooks, W. N. MacPherson, "Miniaturised gap sensor using fibre optic Fabry-Pérot interferometry for structural health monitoring," Optics Express 3024 2022

2021

A. Benoît, S. Yerolatsitis, K. Harrington, T. A. Birks and R. R. Thomson, "Focal-ratio degradation (FRD) mitigation in a multimode fibre link using mode-selective photonic lanterns," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 5022 2021

S. Yerolatsitis, A. Kufcsák, K. Ehrlich, H. A. C. Wood, S. Fernandes, T. Quinn, V. Young, I. Young, K. Hamilton, A. R. Akram, R. R. Thomson, K. Finlayson, K. Dhaliwal, J. M. Stone, "Sub millimetre flexible fibre probe for background and fluorescence free Raman spectroscopy," Journal of Biophotonics e202000488 2021

H. K. Chandrasekharan, E. P. McShane, K. Dhaliwal, R. R. Thomson, and M. G. Tanner, "Ultrafast laser ablation of a multicore polymer optical fiber for multipoint light emission," Optics Express 2913 2021

A. N. Dinkelaker, A. Rahman, J. Bland-Hawthorn, F. Cantalloube, S. Ellis, P. Feautrier, M. Ireland, L. Labadie, and R. R. Thomson, "Astrophotonics: introduction to the feature issue," Applied Optics 6019 2021

A. Benoît, F. A. Pike, T. Sharma, D. MacLachlan, A. Dinkelaker, A. Nayak, K. Madhav, M. Roth, L. Labadie, E. Pedretti, T. Ten Brummelaar, N. Scott, V. Coudé du Foresto, and R. R. Thomson, "Ultrafast laser inscription of asymmetric integrated waveguide 3 dB couplers for astronomical K-band interferometry at the CHARA array," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 389 2021

2020

C. A. Ross, D. G. MacLachlan, B. J. E. Smith, R. J. Beck, J. D. Shephard, N. Weston, and R. R. Thomson, "A miniature fibre-optic Raman probe fabricated by Ultrafast Laser-Assisted Etching," Micromachines 11185 2020

J. Long, H. E. Parker, K. Ehrlich, M. G. Tanner, K. Dhaliwal, and B. Mills, "Frugal filtering optical lenses for point-of-care diagnostics," Biomedical Optics Express 114 2020

C. W. Duncan, M. J. Hartmann, R. R. Thomson, and P. Öhberg, "Synthetic mean-field interactions in photonic lattices," The European Physical Journal D 745 2020

V. Kamaljith, M. G. Tanner, H. A. C. Wood, K. Harrington, D. Choudhury, M. Bradley, And R. R. Thomson, "Ultrafast-laser-ablation-assisted spatially selective attachment of fluorescent sensors onto optical fibers," Optics Letters 4510 2020

H. K. Chandrasekharan, K. Ehrlich, M. G. Tanner, D. M. Haynes, S. Mukherjee, T. A. Birks, and R. R. Thomson, "Observing mode-dependent wavelength-to-time mapping in few-mode fibers using a single-photon detector array," APL Photonics 56 2020

F. A. Pike, A. Benoît, D. G. MacLachlan, R. J. Harris, I. Gris-Sánchez, D. Lee, T. A. Birks and R. R. Thomson, "Modal noise mitigation for high-presicion spectroscopy using photonic reformatter," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4973 2020

H. K. Chandrasekharan, E. P. McShane, K. Dhaliwal, M. G. Tanner, and R. R. Thomson, "Ultrafast-laser ablation of polymer multicore fibers enhances biomedical sensing," Laser Focus World 2020

C. C. Novo, D. Choudhury, B. Siwicki R. R. Thomson, and J. D. Shepard, "Femtosecond laser machining of hollow-core negative curvature fibres," Optics Express 2817 2020

B. Mills, A. Megia Fernandez, D. Norberg, S. Duncan, A. Marshall, A. R. Akram, T. Quinn, I. Young, A. M. Bruce, E. Scholefield, G. O. S. Williams, N. Krstajić, T. R. Choudhary, H. E. Parker, M. G. Tanner, K. Harrington, H. AC Wood, T. A. Birks, J. C Knight, C. Haslett, K. Dhaliwal, M. Bradley, M. Ucuncu, and J. M. Stone, "Molecular detection of Gram-positive bacteria in the human lung through an optical fiber-based endoscope," European Journal of Nuclear Medecine and Molecular Imaging 11 2020

S. Fernandes, G. Williams, E. Williams, K. Ehrlich, J. Stone, N. Finlayson, M. Bradley, R. R. Thomson, A. R. Akram, K. Dhaliwal, "Solitary pulmonary nodule imaging approaches and the role of optical fibre-based technologies," European Respiratory Journal 572002537 2020

D. Choudhury, D. K. McNicholl, A. Repetti, I. Gris-Sánchez, S. Li, D. B. Philips, G. Whyte, T. A. Birks, Y. Niaux, and R. R. Thomson, "Computational optical imaging with a photonic lantern," Nature Communications 115217 2020

J. Gong, M. G. Tanner, S. Venkateswaran, J. M. Stone, Y. Zhang, and M. Bradley, "A hydrogel-based optical fibre fluorescent pH sensor for observing lung tumor tissue acidity," Analytica Chimica Acta 1134136 2020

K. Ehrlich, T. R. Choudhary, M. Ucuncu, A. Megia-Fernandez, K. Harrington, H. AC Wood, F. Yu, D. Choudhury, K. Dhaliwal, M. Bradley, and M. G. Tanner, "Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Fluorescence Quenching in Optical Fibre-Based pH Sensors," Sensors 2021 2020

R. J. Beck, I. Bitharas, D. P. Hand, T. Maisey, A. J. Moore, M. Shires, R. R. Thomson, N. P. West, D. G. Jayne, J. D. Shephard, "Dynamics of picosecond laser ablation for surgical treatment of colorectal cancer," Scientific Reports 1020261 2020

H. E. Parker, A. Perperidis, J. M. Stone, K. Dhaliwal, and M. G. Tanner, "Core crosstalk in ordered imaging fibre bundles," Optics Letters 4523 2020

S. Y. Haffert, R. J. Harris, A. Zanutta, F. A. Pike, A. Bianco, E. Redaelli, A. Benoit, D. G. MacLachlane, C. A. Ross,I. Gris-Sánchez, M. D. Trappen, Y. Xu, M. Blaicher, P. Maier, G. Riva, B. Sinquin, C. Kulcsár, N. Ali Bharmal, E. Gendron, L. Staykov, T. J. Morris, S. Barboza, N. Muench, L. Bardou, L. Prengere, H.-F. Raynaud, P. Hottinger, T. Anagnos, J. Osborn, C. Koos, R. R. Thomson, T. A. Birks, I. A.G. Snellen, and Christoph U. Keller, "Diffraction-limited integral-field spectroscopy for extreme adaptiveoptics systems with the Multi-Core fiber-fed Integral-Field Unit," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 64 2020

2019

H. E. Parker, J. M. Stone, A. D. L. Marshall, T. R. Choudary, R. R. Thomson, K. Dhaliwal, and M. G. Tanner, "Fiber-based spectral ratio endomicroscopy for contrast enhancement of bacterial imaging and pulmonary autofluorescence," Biomedical Optics Express 104 2019

E. Pedretti, M. G. Tanner, T. R. Choudhary, N. Krstajić, A. Megia-Fernandez, R. K. Henderson, M. Bradley, R. R. Thomson, J. M. Girkin, K. Dhaliwal, and P. A. Dalgarno, "High-speed dual color fluorescence lifetime endomicroscopy for highly-multiplexed pulmonary diagnostic applications and detection of labeled bacteria," Biomedical Optics Express 101 2019

T. R. Choudhary, M. G. Tanner, A. Megia-Fernandez, K. Harrington, H. A. Wood, A. Marshall, P. Zhu, S. V. Chankeshwara, D. Choudhury, G. Monro, M. Ucuncu, F. Yu, R. R. Duncan, R. R. Thomson, K. Dhaliwal, and M. Bradley, "High fidelity fibre-based physiological sensing deep in tissue," Scientific Report 91 2019

J. Gong, S. Venkateswaran, M. G. Tanner, J. M. Stone, M. Bradley, "Polymer Microarrays for the Discovery and Optimization of Robust Optical-Fiber-Based pH Sensors," ACS Combinatorial Science 215 2019

S. Yerolatsitis, F. Yu, S. McAughtrie, M. G. Tanner, H. Fleming, J. M. Stone, C. J. Campbell, T. A. Birks, J. C. Knight, "Ultra-low background Raman sensing using a negative-curvature fibre and no distal optics," Journal of Biophotonics 123 2019

2018

C. Cantillano, S. Mukherjee, L. Morales-Inostroza, B. Real, G. Cáceres-Aracena, C. Hermann-Avigliano, R. R. Thomson, and R. A. Vicencio, "Observation of localized ground and excited orbitals in graphene photonic ribbons," New Journal of Physics 20033028 2018

L. Labadie, S. Minardi, G. Martiń, and R. R. Thomson, "Progress towards instrument miniaturisation for mid-IR long baseline interferometry," Experimental Astronomy 463 2018

Th. Anagnos, R. J. Harris, M. K. Corrigan, A. P. Reeves, M. J. Townson, D. G. MacLachlan, R. R. Thomson, T. J. Morris, C. Schwab, and A. Quirrenbach, "Simulation and optimisation of an astrophotonic reformatter," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4784 2018

S. Mukherjee, Marco Di Liberto, P. Öhberg, Robert R. Thomson, and Nathan Goldman, "Experimental Observation of Aharonov-Bohm Cages in Photonic Lattices," Physical Review Letters 1217 2018

C. A. Ross, D. G. MacLachlan, D. Choudhury, and R. R. Thomson, "Optimisation of ultrafast laser assisted etching in fused silica," Optics Express 2619 2018

H. L. Butcher, D. G. MacLachlan, D. Lee, R. R. Thomson, and D. Weidmann, "Ultrafast laser-incribed mid-infrared evanescent field diirectional couplers in GeAsSe chalcogenide glass," OSA Continuum 11 2018

S. Mukherjee, H. K. Chandrasekharan, P. Öhberg, N. Goldman, and R. R. Thomson, "State-recycling and time-resolved imaging in topological photonic lattices," Nature Communications 94209 2018

H. Fleming, S. McAughtrie, B. Mills, M. G. Tanner, A. Marks, C. J. Campbell, "Dual purpose fibre - SERS pH sensing and bacterial analysis," The Analyst 14324 2018

2017

D. Choudhury, M. G. Tanner, S. McAughtrie, F. Yu, B. Mills, T. R. Choudhary, S. Seth, T. H. Craven, J. M. Stone, I. K. Mati, C. J. Campbell, M. Bradley, C. K. I. Williams, K. Dhaliwal, T. A. Birks, and R. R. Thomson, "Endoscopic sensing of alveolar pH," Biomedical Optics Express 81 2017

S. Mukherjee, A. Spracklen, M. Valiente, E. Andersson, P. Öhberg, N. Goldman, and R. R. Thomson, "Dissipatively coupled waveguide networks for coherent diffusive photonics," Nature Communications 813918 2017

H. K. Chandrasekharan, F. Izdebski, I. Gris-Sánchez, N. Krstajic, R. Walker, H. L. Bridle, P. A. Dalgarno, W. N. MacPherson, R. K. Henderson, T. A. Birks, and R. R. Thomson, "Multiplexed single-mode wavelength-to-time mapping of multimode light," Nature Communications 814080 2017

J. Tepper, L. Labadie, R. Diener, S. Minardi, J.-U. Pott, R. R. Thomson, and S. Nolte, "Integrated optics prototype beam combiner for long baseline interferometry in the L and M bands," Astronomy & Astrophysics 602A66 2017

A. Perperidis, H. E. Parker, A. Karam-Eldaly, Y. Altmann, K. Dhaliwal, R. R. Thomson, M. G. Tanner, and S. McLaughlin, "Characterization and modelling of inter-core coupling in coherent fiber bundles," Optics Express 2510 2017

G. E. Madden, D. Choudhury, W. N. MacPherson, and R. R. Thomson, "Development of low-loss mid-infrared ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides," Optical Engineering 567 2017

J. J. Bryant, R. R. Thomson, and M. J. Withford, "Focus issue introduction: recent advances in astrophotonics," Optics Express 2517 2017

R. M. Carter, M. Troughton, J. Chen, I. Elder, R. R. Thomson, M. J. Daniel Esser, R. A. Lamb, and D. P. Hand, "Towards industrial ultrafast laser microwelding: SiO₂ and BK7 to aluminum alloy," Applied Optics 5616 2017

M. G. Tanner, T. R. Choudhary, T. H. Craven, B. Mills, M. Bradley, R. K. Henderson, K. Dhaliwal, and R. R. Thomson, "Ballistic and snake photon imaging for locating optical endomicroscopy fibres," Biomedical Optics Express 89 2017

K. Ehrlich, A. Kufcsák, S. McAughtrie, H. Fleming, N. Krstajic, C. J. Campbell, R. K. Henderson, K. Dhaliwal, R. R. Thomson, and M. G. Tanner, "pH sensing through a single optical fibre using SERS and CMOS SPAD line arrays," Optics Express 2525 2017

S. Mukherjee, and R. R. Thomson, "Observation of robust flat-band localization in driven photonic rhombic lattices," Optics Letters 4212 2017

S. Mukherjee, D. Mogilevtsev, G. Ya. Slepyan, T. H. Doherty, R. R. Thomson, and N. Korolkova, "Dissipatively coupled waveguide networks for coherent diffusive photonics," Nature Communications 81909 2017

H. L. Butcher, D. Lee, R. Brownsword, D. G. MacLachlan, R. R. Thomson, and D. Weidmann, "Ultrafast laser-inscribed mid-infrared transmission gratings in IG2 modelling and high-resolution spectral characterization ," Optics Express 81 2017

2016

D. G. MacLachlan, R. J. Harris, D. Choudhury, R. Simmonds. P. S. Salter, M. J. Booth, J. R. Allington-Smith, and R. R. Thomson, "Development of integrated mode reformatting components for diffraction-limited spectroscopy," Optics Letters 411 2016

D. T. Reid, C. M. Heyl, R. R. Thomson, R. Trebino, G. Steinmeyer, H. H. Fielding, R. Holzwarth, Z. Zhang, P. Del'Haye, and T. Südmeyer, "Roadmap on ultrafast optics," Journal of Optics 189 2016

D. G. MacLachlan, R. J. Harris, I. Gris-Sánchez, T. J. Morris, D. Choudhury, E. Gendron, A. G. Basden, I. Spaleniak, A. Arriola, T. A. Birks, J. R. Allington-Smith, and R. R. Thomson, "Efficient photonic reformatting of celestial light for diffraction-limited spectroscopy," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4644 2016

Y. Bellouard, A. Champion, B. McMillen, S. Mukherjee, R. R. Thomson, C. Pépin, P. Gillet, and Y. Cheng, "Stress-state manipulation in fused silica via femtosecond laser irradiation," Optica 312 2016

S. Mukherjee, M. Valiente, N. Goldman, A. Spracklen, E. Andersson, P. Öhberg, and R. R. Thomson, "Observation of pair tunneling and coherent destruction of tunneling in arrays of optical waveguides," Physical Review A 945 2016

2015

G. Gariepy, N. Krstajić, R. Henderson, C. Li, R. R. Thomson, G. S. Buller, B. Heshmat, R. Raskar, J. Leach, and D. Faccio, "Single-photon sensitive light-in-fight imaging," Nature Communications 66021 2015

J. Martínez, A. Ródenas, T. Fernandez, J. R. Vázquez de Aldana, R. R. Thomson, M. Aguiló, A. K. Kar, J. Solis, and F. Díaz, "3D laser-written silica glass step-index high-contrast waveguides for the 3.5µm mid-infrared range," Optics Letters 4024 2015

R. J. Harris, D. G. MacLachlan, D. Choudhury, T. J. Morris, E. Gendron, A. G. Basden, G. Brown, J. R. Allington-Smith, and R. R. Thomson, "Photonic spatial reformatting of stellar light for diffraction-limited spectroscopy," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4501 2015

S. Mukherjee, A. Spracklen, D. Choudhury, N. Goldman, P. Öhberg, E. Andersson, and R. R. Thomson, "Observation of localized flat-band state in a photonic Lieb lattice," Physical Review Letters 11424 2015

A. Boccolini, E. Favilla, M. Tonelli, B. S. Richards, and R. R. Thomson, "Highly efficient upconversion in Er³⁺ doped BaY₂F₈ single crystals: dependence of quantum yield on excitation wavelength and thickness," Optics Express 2315 2015

J. Chen, R. M. Carter, R. R. Thomson, and D. P. Hand, "Avoiding the requirement for pre-existing optical contact during picosecond laser glass-to-glass welding," Optics Express 2321 2015

T. A. Birks, I. Gris-Sánchez, S. Yerolatsitis, S. G. Leon-Saval, and R. R. Thomson, "The photonic lantern," Advances in Optics and Photonics 72 2015

S. Mukherjee, A. Spracklen, D. Choudhury, N. Goldman, P. Öhberg, E. Andersson, and R. R. Thomson, "Modulation-assisted tunneling in laser-fabricated photonic Wannier-Stark ladders," New Journal of Physics 17115002 2015

A. Arriola, D. Choudhury, and R. R. Thomson, "Modulation-assisted tunneling in laser-fabricated photonic Wannier-Stark ladders," Journal of optics 1712 2015

S. Mukherjee, and R. R. Thomson, "Observation of localized flat-band modes in a quasi-one-dimensional photonic rhombic lattice," Optics Letters 4023 2015

2014

R. M. Carter, J. Chen, J. D. Shephard, R. R. Thomson, and D. P. Hand, "Picosecond laser welding of similar and dissimilar materials," Applied Optics 5319 2014

A. Arriola, S. Mukherjee, D. Choudhury, L. Labadie, and R. R. Thomson, "Ultrafast laser inscription of mid-IR directional couplers for stellar interferometry," Optics Letters 3916 2014

2013

R. R. Thomson, C. Leburn, and D. T. Reid, "Ultrafast nonlinear optics," Springer Edition Scottish Graduate Series 2013

R. Mary, G. Brown, S. J. Beecher, R. R. Thomson, D. Popa, Z. Sun, F. Torrisi, T. Hasan, S. Milana, F. Bonaccorso, A. C. Ferrari, and A. K. Kar, "Evanescent-wave coupled right angled buried waveguide: Applications in carbon nanotube mode-locking," Applied Physics Letters 10322 2013

D. G. MacLachlan, R. R. Thomson, C. R. Cunningham, and D. Lee, "Mid-infrared volume phase gratings manufactured using Ultrafast Laser Inscription," Optical Materials Express 310 2013

2012

J. E. McCarthy, H. T. Bookey, N. D. Psaila, R. R. Thomson, and A. K. Kar, "Mid-infrared spectral broadening in an ultrafast laser inscribed gallium lanthanum sulphide waveguide," Optics Express 22 2012

A. Ródenas, G. Martin, B. Arezki, N. Psaila, G. Jose, A. Jha, L. Labadie, P. Kern, A. K. Kar, and R. R. Thomson, "Three-dimensional mid-infrared photonic circuits in chalcogenide glass," Optics Letters 373 2012

G. Brown, R. R. Thomson, A. K. Kar, N. D. Psaila, and H. T. Bookey, "Ultrafast laser inscription of Bragg-grating waveguides using the multiscan technique," Optics Letters 374 2012

S. Ghosh, N. D. Psaila, R. R. Thomson, B. P. Pal, R. K. Varshney, and A. K. Kar, "Ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide lattice in glass for direct observation of transverse localization of light," Applied Physics Letters 10010 2012

R. Mary, S. J. Beecher, G. Brown, R. R. Thomson, D. Jaque, S. Ohara, and A. K. Kar, "Compact, highly efficient ytterbium doped bismuthate glass waveguide laser," Optics Letters 3710 2012

R. R. Thomson, R. J. Harris, T. A. Birks, G. Brown, J. Allington-Smith, and J. Bland-Hawthorn, "Ultrafast laser inscription of a 121-waveguide fan-out for astrophotonics," Optics Letters 3712 2012

Y. Feng, P. A. Dalgarno, D. Lee, Y. Yang, R. R. Thomson, and A. H. Greenaway, "Chromatically-corrected, high-efficiency, multi-colour, multi-plane 3D imaging," Optics Express 2018 2012

S. J. Beecher, R. R. Thomson, B. P. Pal, and A. K. Kar, "Single Stage Ultrafast Laser Inscription of a Side-Polished Fiber-like Waveguide Sensor," IEEE Sensors Journal 125 2012

2011

R. R. Thomson, T. A. Birks, S. G. Leon-Saval, A. K. Kar, and J. Bland-Hawthorn, "Ultrafast laser inscription of an integrated photonic lantern," Optics Express 196 2011

F. B. Bain, W. F. Silva, A. A. Lagatsky, R. R. Thomson, N. D. Psaila, A. K. Kar, W. Sibbett, D. Jaque and C. T. A. Brown, "Microspectroscopy of ultrafast laser inscribed channel waveguides in Yb:tungstate crystals," Applied Physics Letters 989 2011

S. J. Beecher, R. R. Thomson, D. T. Reid, N. D. Psaila, M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, and A. K. Kar, "Strain field manipulation in ultrafast laser inscribed BiB₃O₆ optical waveguides for nonlinear applications," Optics Letters 3623 2011

F. Fusari, R. R. Thomson, G. Jose, F. M. Bain, A. A. Lagatsky, N. D. Psaila, A. K. Kar, A. Jha, W. Sibbett, and C. T. A. Brown, "Lasing action at around 1.9µm from an ultrafast laser inscribed Tm-doped glass waveguide," Optics Letters 369 2011

R. R. Thomson, N. D. Psaila, H. T. Bookey, D. T. Reid, A. K. Kar, "Controlling the Cross-section of Ultrafast Laser Inscribed Optical Waveguides," Springer Edition Femtosecond Laser Micromachining 2011

2010

D. Jaque, N. D. Psaila, R. R. Thomson, F. Chen, L. M. Maestro, A. Ródenas, D. T. Reid, and A. K. Kar, "Ultrafast laser inscription of bistable and reversible waveguides in strontium barium niobate crystals," Applied Physics Letters 9619 2010

E. Ramsay, R. R. Thomson, N. D. Psaila, A. K. Kar, and D. T. Reid, "Laser Action From an Ultrafast Laser Inscribed Nd-Doped Silicate Glass Waveguide," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2211 2010

R. R. Thomson, N. D. Psaila, S. J. Beecher, and A. K. Kar, "Ultrafast laser inscription of a high-gain Er-doped bismuthate glass waveguide amplifier ," Optics Express 1812 2010

S. J. Beecher, R. R. Thomson, N. D. Psaila, Z. Sun, T. Hasan, A. G. Rozhin, A. C. Ferrari, and A. K. Kar, "320fs pulse generation from an ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide laser mode-locked by a nanotube saturable absorber," Applied Physics Letters 9711 2010

Y. Tan, A. Ródenas, F. Chen, R. R. Thomson, A. K. Kar, D. Jaque, and Q. Lu, "70% slope efficiency from an ultrafast laser-written NdGdVO₄ channel waveguide laser," Optics Express 1824 2010

J. R. Macdonald, R. R. Thomson, S. J. Beecher, N. D. Psaila, H. T. Bookey, and A. K. Kar, "Ultrafast laser inscription of near-infrared waveguides in polycrystalline ZnSe," Optics Letters 3523 2010