Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser With Monolithically Integrated Pump Lasers

Author

Illek, Stefan ; Albrecht, Tony ; Brick, Peter ; Lutgen, Stephan ; Pietzonka, Ines ; Furitsch, Michael ; Diehl, Wolfgang ; Luft, Johann ; Streubel, Klaus

Author_Institution

OSRAM Opto Semicond., Regensburg

Volume

19

Issue

24

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1952

Lastpage

1954

Abstract

The monolithic integration of pump lasers and optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers is demonstrated. An innovative contacting scheme for the pump lasers offers high design flexibility and scalability. First devices at 1000 nm generate output powers of 2.5 W in pulsed and 0.65 W in continuous-wave operation.

Keywords

integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical pumping; surface emitting lasers; VECSEL; continuous-wave operation; design flexibility; monolithically integrated pump laser; optically pumped semiconductor disk laser; power 0.65 W; power 2.5 W; semiconductor device fabrication; vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser; wavelength 1000 nm; Integrated optics; Laser excitation; Monolithic integrated circuits; Optical design; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Power generation; Pump lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers; semiconductor device fabrication; vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.909671

Filename

4390063