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 …

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 …

Gigahertz self-referenceable frequency comb from a semiconductor disk laser

CA Zaugg, A Klenner, M Mangold, AS Mayer… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present a 1.75-GHz self-referenceable frequency comb from a vertical external-cavity
surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) passively modelocked with a semiconductor saturable …

Sub-300-femtosecond operation from a MIXSEL

M Mangold, M Golling, E Gini, BW Tilma, U Keller - Optics Express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Peak power scaling of semiconductor disk lasers is important for many applications, but their
complex pulse formation mechanism requires a rigorous pulse characterization to confirm …

Optimizing the Cavity-Arm Ratio of V-Shaped Semiconductor Disk Lasers

S Meinecke, K Lüdge - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
Passively mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers have received tremendous attention from
both science and industry. Their relatively inexpensive production combined with excellent …

Control and generation of localized pulses in passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers

M Marconi, J Javaloyes, P Camelin… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show experimentally and theoretically that localized pulses can be generated from an
electrically biased 200 μm multitransverse-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. The …

Recent progress in high power ultrafast MIXSELs

CGE Alfieri, D Waldburger, SM Link… - Vertical External …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The modelocked integrated external-cavity surface emitting laser (MIXSEL) is the most
compact technology of ultrafast semiconductor disk laser, combining in the same epitaxial …

Commercial mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers

W Lubeigt, B Bialkowski, J Lin… - … Lasers (Vecsels) Vii, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In recent years, M Squared Lasers have successfully commercialized a range of mode-
locked vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs) operating between 920 …

Spectrally resolved pulse evolution in a mode-locked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser from lasing onset measurements

AP Turnbull, CR Head, EA Shaw… - Vertical External …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a study of the transient onset of lasing and ultrashort pulse formation in a 1-μm
InGaAs/GaAs quantum well (QW) vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) …