Passively mode-locked diode-pumped surface-emitting diode laser
Passively mode-locked diode-pumped surface-emitting diode laser
We demonstrate to our knowledge the first passively mode-locked surface-emitting semiconductor laser. We used a 3-W high-brightness diode laser as pump source and a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM [1,2]) as modelocker. The laser generates two stably mode-locked output beams with 11 mW average power each, 26ps pulse duration, and a repetition rate of 4.4 GHz. In contrast to edge-emitting semiconductor optically pumped semiconductor vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers [OPS-VECSELs) allow one to scale up the mode area in order to generate a high average power and high pulse energies, while the external cavity enforces a diffraction-limited output. A diffraction-limited output with >0.5 W in cw operation has been demonstrated for a similar kind of device [3]. Thus our concept promises to be scalable to much higher average and peak powers than can be obtained from electrically pumped surface-emitting mode-locked diode lasers or from edge emitting
diode lasers. Only synchronously pumped surface emitting semiconductor lasers have generated pulses with high average power and pulse energy, but these require a powerful pulsed pump source [4]. Compared to mode-locked laser based on ion-doped crystals or glasses. mode-locked semiconductor lasers can generate high repetition rate (multi-GHz) pulse trains without Q-switching instabilities [5]. Their broad amplification bandwidth is sufficient for pulse durations in the femtosecond regime.
Häring, R.
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Paschotta, R.
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Morier-Genoud, F.
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Keller, U.
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Hoogland, S.
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Morier-Genoud, F.
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Keller, U.
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Roberts, J.S.
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Hoogland, S.
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Dhanjal, S.
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Häring, R., Paschotta, R., Morier-Genoud, F., Keller, U., Roberts, J.S., Hoogland, S., Dhanjal, S. and Tropper, A.C.
(2000)
Passively mode-locked diode-pumped surface-emitting diode laser.
ASSL, Davos, Switzerland.
13 - 16 Feb 2000.
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Abstract
We demonstrate to our knowledge the first passively mode-locked surface-emitting semiconductor laser. We used a 3-W high-brightness diode laser as pump source and a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM [1,2]) as modelocker. The laser generates two stably mode-locked output beams with 11 mW average power each, 26ps pulse duration, and a repetition rate of 4.4 GHz. In contrast to edge-emitting semiconductor optically pumped semiconductor vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers [OPS-VECSELs) allow one to scale up the mode area in order to generate a high average power and high pulse energies, while the external cavity enforces a diffraction-limited output. A diffraction-limited output with >0.5 W in cw operation has been demonstrated for a similar kind of device [3]. Thus our concept promises to be scalable to much higher average and peak powers than can be obtained from electrically pumped surface-emitting mode-locked diode lasers or from edge emitting
diode lasers. Only synchronously pumped surface emitting semiconductor lasers have generated pulses with high average power and pulse energy, but these require a powerful pulsed pump source [4]. Compared to mode-locked laser based on ion-doped crystals or glasses. mode-locked semiconductor lasers can generate high repetition rate (multi-GHz) pulse trains without Q-switching instabilities [5]. Their broad amplification bandwidth is sufficient for pulse durations in the femtosecond regime.
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Published date: 2000
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ASSL, Davos, Switzerland, 2000-02-13 - 2000-02-16
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R. Häring
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R. Paschotta
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F. Morier-Genoud
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U. Keller
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J.S. Roberts
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S. Hoogland
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S. Dhanjal
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A.C. Tropper
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