Woods, Jonathan, Heath, Daniel J, Daykin, Jake, Chen Sverre, Theo, Keenlyside, Benjamin, Mills, Ben, Sagnes, Isabelle, Beaudoine, Gregoire, Blin, Stephane, Garnache, Arnaud, Tropper, Anne C. and Apostolopoulos, Vasileios (2019) Semiconductor disk laser in bi-frequency operation by laser ablation micromachining of a laser mirror. Optics Express, 27 (16), 22316-22316. (doi:10.1364/OE.27.022316).
Abstract
We present bi-frequency continuous wave oscillation in a semiconductor disk laser through direct writing of loss-inducing patterns onto an intra-cavity high reflector mirror. The laser is a Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser which is optically pumped by up to 1.1 W of 808 nm light from a fibre coupled multi-mode diode laser, and oscillates on two Hermite-Gaussian spatial modes simultaneously, achieving wavelength separations between 0.2 nm and 5 nm around 995 nm. We use a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) enabled laser ablation system to define spatially specific loss regions on a laser mirror by machining away the Bragg layers from the mirror surface. The ablated pattern is comprised of two orthogonal lines with the centermost region undamaged, and is positioned in the laser cavity so as to interact with the lasing mode, thereby promoting the simultaneous oscillation of the fundamental and a higher order spatial mode. We demonstrate bi-frequency oscillation over a range of mask gap sizes and pump powers.
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