4.35 kW peak power femtosecond pulse mode-locked VECSEL for supercontinuum generation
4.35 kW peak power femtosecond pulse mode-locked VECSEL for supercontinuum generation
We report a passively mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) producing 400 fs pulses with 4.35 kW peak power. The average output power was 3.3 W and the VECSEL had a repetition rate of 1.67 GHz at a center wavelength of 1013 nm. A near-antiresonant, substrate-removed, 10 quantum well (QW) gain structure designed to enable femtosecond pulse operation is used. A SESAM which uses fast carrier recombination at the semiconductor surface and the optical Stark effect enables passive mode-locking. When 1 W of the VECSEL output is launched into a 2 m long photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a 2.2 µm core, a supercontinuum spanning 175 nm, with average power 0.5 W is produced.
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Wilcox, K.G.
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28 January 2013
Wilcox, K.G.
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Kunert, B.
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Heinen, B.
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Stolz, W.
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Wilcox, K.G., Tropper, A.C., Beere, H.E., Ritchie, D.A., Kunert, B., Heinen, B. and Stolz, W.
(2013)
4.35 kW peak power femtosecond pulse mode-locked VECSEL for supercontinuum generation.
Optics Express, 21 (2), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.21.001599).
Abstract
We report a passively mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) producing 400 fs pulses with 4.35 kW peak power. The average output power was 3.3 W and the VECSEL had a repetition rate of 1.67 GHz at a center wavelength of 1013 nm. A near-antiresonant, substrate-removed, 10 quantum well (QW) gain structure designed to enable femtosecond pulse operation is used. A SESAM which uses fast carrier recombination at the semiconductor surface and the optical Stark effect enables passive mode-locking. When 1 W of the VECSEL output is launched into a 2 m long photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a 2.2 µm core, a supercontinuum spanning 175 nm, with average power 0.5 W is produced.
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