Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) are the most versatile laser
sources, combining unique features such as wide spectral coverage, ultrashort pulse …

The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent
decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast …

This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

In this paper we present the first semiconductor disk laser (SDL) emitting simultaneously two
collinearly overlapping cross-polarized gigahertz modelocked pulse trains with different …

The high-power semiconductor laser studied here is a modelocked integrated external-
cavity surface emitting laser (MIXSEL), which combines the gain of vertical-external-cavity …

Dual-comb lasers are a new class of ultrafast lasers that enable fast, accurate and sensitive
measurements without any mechanical delay lines. Here, we demonstrate a 2-µm laser …

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 …

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 …

We present the detailed growth and characterization of novel GaSb-based semiconductor
saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) operating in the 2–2.4 µm spectral range. These …

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 …