Optically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor disk lasers with high spatial and spectral homogeneity

Author

Saas, Florian ; Grunwald, Rüdiger ; Griebner, Uwe ; Zeimer, Ute ; Zorn, Martin ; Pittroff, Wolfgang ; Weyers, Markus

Author_Institution

Max-Born-Inst., Berlin

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We discuss carefully characterized semiconductor disk lasers with high spatial and spectral homogeneity, exhibiting 23% conversion efficiency and a 540-mW output power for cw operation. Passive mode-locking with 1.5-ps pulse duration is also demonstrated.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; CW operation; conversion efficiency; efficiency 23 percent; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; passive mode-locking; power 540 mW; spatial homogeneity; spectral homogeneity; surface-emitting semiconductor disk lasers; time 1.5 ps; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical pumping; Optical surface waves; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; (140.3480) Lasers, diode-pumped; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627653

Filename

4627653