High Peak Power Femtosecond Pulse Passively Mode-Locked Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

We report a passively mode-locked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) producing 335-fs near-transform-limited pulses at a repetition rate of 1 GHz with an average output power of 120 mW at a center wavelength of 999 nm. The VECSEL was optically pumped with a power of 1.85 W at a...

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Published inIEEE photonics technology letters Vol. 22; no. 14; pp. 1021 - 1023
Main Authors Wilcox, Keith G, Quarterman, Adrian H, Beere, Harvey, Ritchie, David A, Tropper, Anne C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 15.07.2010
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Laser mode locking
Mode-locked
Optical pulses
Optical surface waves
optically pumped
Power generation
Power lasers
Pump lasers
semiconductor laser
Surface emitting lasers
Surface waves
Ultrafast optics
Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL)
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Summary:We report a passively mode-locked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) producing 335-fs near-transform-limited pulses at a repetition rate of 1 GHz with an average output power of 120 mW at a center wavelength of 999 nm. The VECSEL was optically pumped with a power of 1.85 W at a wavelength of 830 nm. The peak power of the output pulses was 315 W.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2010.2049015