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 …

A decade of astrocombs: recent advances in frequency combs for astronomy

RA McCracken, JM Charsley, DT Reid - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A new regime of precision radial-velocity measurements in the search for Earth-like
exoplanets is being facilitated by high-resolution spectrographs calibrated by laser …

Dual-comb modelocked laser

SM Link, A Klenner, M Mangold, CA Zaugg… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
In this paper we present the first semiconductor disk laser (SDL) emitting simultaneously two
collinearly overlapping cross-polarized gigahertz modelocked pulse trains with different …

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 …

Black phosphorus polycarbonate polymer composite for pulsed fibre lasers

D Li, AEDR Castillo, H Jussila, G Ye, Z Ren, J Bai… - Applied Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Recently, the re-discovered black phosphorus (BP) has been extensively investigated for
both electronic and photonic applications. However, the intrinsic instability of BP caused by …

Frequency comb offset detection using supercontinuum generation in silicon nitride waveguides

AS Mayer, A Klenner, AR Johnson, K Luke… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present the first direct carrier-envelope-offset (CEO) frequency detection of a
modelocked laser based on supercontinuum generation (SCG) in a CMOS-compatible …

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 …

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 …

Self-mode-locking semiconductor disk laser

M Gaafar, P Richter, H Keskin, C Möller… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
The development of mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers received striking attention in
the last 14 years and there is still a vast potential of such pulsed lasers to be explored and …