Self-mode-locked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser

Arash Rahimi-Iman; Mahmoud Gaafar; Christoph Möller; Max Vaupel; Fan Zhang; Dalia Al-Nakdali; Ksenia A. Fedorova; Wolfgang Stolz; Edik U. Rafailov; Martin Koch

doi:10.1117/12.2216469

10 March 2016 Self-mode-locked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser

Arash Rahimi-Iman, Mahmoud Gaafar, Christoph Möller, Max Vaupel, Fan Zhang, Dalia Al-Nakdali, Ksenia A. Fedorova, Wolfgang Stolz, Edik U. Rafailov, Martin Koch

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Proceedings Volume 9734, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI; 97340M (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216469
Event: SPIE LASE, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Ultrashort laser pulses from vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) have been receiving much attention in the semiconductor laser community since the first demonstration of sub-ps-pulsed devices more than a decade ago. Originally relying on semiconductor saturable-absorber mirrors for pulse formation, mode-locked operation has not only become accessible by using a variety of saturable absorbers, but also by using a saturable-absorber-free technique referred to as self-mode-locking (SML). Here, we highlight achievements in the field of SML-VECSELs with quantum-well and quantum-dot gain chips, and study the influence of a few VECSEL parameters on the assumed nonlinear lensing behavior in the system.

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Arash Rahimi-Iman, Mahmoud Gaafar, Christoph Möller, Max Vaupel, Fan Zhang, Dalia Al-Nakdali, Ksenia A. Fedorova, Wolfgang Stolz, Edik U. Rafailov, and Martin Koch "Self-mode-locked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser", Proc. SPIE 9734, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI, 97340M (10 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216469

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