Optically pumped VECSELs: review of technology and progress

M Guina, A Rantamäki… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) are the most versatile laser
sources, combining unique features such as wide spectral coverage, ultrashort pulse …

Recent advances in ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers

BW Tilma, M Mangold, CA Zaugg, SM Link… - Light: Science & …, 2015 - nature.com
The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent
decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast …

High-power 100 fs semiconductor disk lasers

D Waldburger, SM Link, M Mangold, CGE Alfieri, E Gini… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Optically pumped passively modelocked semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) provide superior
performance in average output power, a broad range of operation wavelengths, and …

Ultrafast and widely tuneable vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser, mode-locked by a graphene-integrated distributed Bragg reflector

CA Zaugg, Z Sun, VJ Wittwer, D Popa, S Milana… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We report a versatile way of controlling the unsaturated loss, modulation depth and
saturation fluence of graphene-based saturable absorbers (GSAs), by changing the …

Measurement and correction of in vivo sample aberrations employing a nonlinear guide-star in two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy

R Aviles-Espinosa, J Andilla… - Biomedical optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that sample induced aberrations can be measured in a nonlinear
microscope. This uses the fact that two-photon excited fluorescence naturally produces a …

Mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers

MA Gaafar, A Rahimi-Iman, KA Fedorova… - Advances in optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
This paper will review the recent advances in the field of ultrashort pulse generation from
optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (OP-VECSELs). In this …

Nonlinear nanomedecine: harmonic nanoparticles toward targeted diagnosis and therapy

L Bonacina - Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2013 - ACS Publications
Harmonic nanoparticles were first introduced in 2006 as biomarkers for nonlinear imaging.
This review provides a general explanation of the physical mechanism at the basis of this …

SESAM‐free mode‐locked semiconductor disk laser

L Kornaszewski, G Maker, GPA Malcolm… - Laser & Photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental demonstration of semiconductor saturable absorber‐free mode‐locked
optically pumped semiconductor disk laser is presented. The origin of pulsed operation is …

Recent advances in VECSELs

A Rahimi-Iman - Journal of Optics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Within the last two decades, vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) have
attracted rising interest from both industry and science. They have proven to be versatile …

Multiphoton in vivo imaging with a femtosecond semiconductor disk laser

FF Voigt, F Emaury, P Bethge, D Waldburger… - Biomedical optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We use an ultrafast diode-pumped semiconductor disk laser (SDL) to demonstrate several
applications in multiphoton microscopy. The ultrafast SDL is based on an optically pumped …