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

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 …

A quantum-well vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser in combination with a quantum-
well SESAM is used, to generate femtosecond pulses. The passively modelocked VECSEL …

We report on the first femtosecond vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL)
exceeding 1 W of average output power. The VECSEL is optically pumped, based on self …

Optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (OP-VECSELs), passively
modelocked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), have generated the …

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 …

Novel surface-emitting optically pumped semiconductor lasers have demonstrated> 1 W
modelocked and> 100 W continuous wave (cw) average output power. The modelocked …

We present the first full gain characterization of two vertical external cavity surface emitting
laser (VECSEL) gain chips with similar designs operating in the 960-nm wavelength regime …

The first reports in 1997 of vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL), also
known as optically pumped semiconductor disk laser (SDL), attracted a lot of attention in the …

Microscopic many-body theory is employed to analyze the mode-locking dynamics of a
vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser with a saturable absorber. The quantum wells …