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 …

Pulse repetition rate scaling from 5 to 100 GHz with a high-power semiconductor disk laser

M Mangold, CA Zaugg, SM Link, M Golling… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Gain-guided soliton: Scaling repetition rate of passively modelocked Yb-doped fiber lasers to 12.5 GHz

W Wang, W Lin, H Cheng, Y Zhou, T Qiao, Y Liu… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Fundamental repetition rates of 3.1 GHz, 7.0 GHz, and 12.5 GHz in passively modelocked
Yb-doped fiber lasers are demonstrated. To the best of our knowledge, the fundamental …

Experimentally verified pulse formation model for high-power femtosecond VECSELs

OD Sieber, M Hoffmann, VJ Wittwer, M Mangold… - Applied Physics B, 2013 - Springer
Optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (OP-VECSELs), passively
modelocked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), have generated the …

Optical efficiency and gain dynamics of modelocked semiconductor disk lasers

CGE Alfieri, D Waldburger, SM Link, E Gini… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Compact optically pumped passively modelocked semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) based
on active quantum wells (QWs) such as vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers …

High average output power from a backside-cooled 2-µm InGaSb VECSEL with full gain characterization

M Gaulke, J Heidrich, B Özgür Alaydin, M Golling… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We compare the gain and continuous wave lasing properties of two InGaSb-based vertical
external cavity surface emitting lasers (InGaSb VECSEL) with different heat management …

Femtosecond pulses from a modelocked integrated external-cavity surface emitting laser (MIXSEL)

M Mangold, VJ Wittwer, CA Zaugg, SM Link… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Novel surface-emitting optically pumped semiconductor lasers have demonstrated> 1 W
modelocked and> 100 W continuous wave (cw) average output power. The modelocked …