Current challenges in software solutions for mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics

This work was in part supported by the PRIME-XS project, grant agreement number 262067, funded by the European Union seventh Framework Programme; The Netherlands Proteomics Centre, embedded in The Netherlands Genomics Initiative; The Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre; and the Centre for Biomedical Genetics (to S.C., B.B. and A.J.R.H); by NIH grants NCRR RR001614 and RR019934 (to the UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility, director: A.L. Burlingame, P.B.); and by grants from the MRC, CR-UK, BBSRC and Barts and the London Charity (to P.C.

PbS-doped phosphate glasses saturable absorbers for 1.3&956;m neodymium lasers

Saturable absorber Q switching of the cw diode-pumped Nd3+ :KGd(WO4)(2) and Nd3+:YVO4 lasers at 1.3 mum with PbS Quantum Dots (QDs) doped phosphate glass is demonstrated and compared. Q-switched pulses of minimum 110 ns in duration and maximum average output power of 14 mW were obtained. The bleaching decay time of the PbS-doped samples was measured and found to decrease with QDs size decreasing due to enhancement of the quantum confinement effect for smaller QDs.</p