Femtosecond VECSELs with up to 1 W average output power

Author

Hoffmann, M. ; Sieber, O.D. ; Wittwer, V.J. ; Pallmann, W.P. ; Krestnikov, I.L. ; Mikhrin, S.S. ; Livshits, D.A. ; Golling, M. ; Barbarin, Y. ; Südmeyer, T. ; Keller, U.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Here we report on record-high average output power of a femtosecond VECSEL (1 W, 784 fs) and present the first detailed study of femtosecond VECSELs modelocked by fast QD-SESAMs. We investigate the modelocking performance both for VECSELs with QD and QW gain structures. Based on our previous work on the influence of GDD on the pulse duration.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; quantum dot lasers; quantum well lasers; surface emitting lasers; QD-SESAM; femtosecond VECSEL; laser output power; modelocking performance; power 1 W; quantum dot gain structures; quantum well gain structures; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; Laser mode locking; Power generation; Power lasers; Quantum dot lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942595

Filename

5942595