This paper will review and discuss pico-and femtosecond pulse generation from passively
modelocked vertical–external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers (VECSELs). We …

Ultrashort lasers provide an important tool to probe the dynamics of physical systems at very
short time-scales, allowing for improved understanding of the performance of many devices …

Optical nonlinear functions are crucial for various applications in integrated photonics,
including all-optical information processing, photonic neural networks, and on-chip ultrafast …

The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent
decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast …

Exploring emerging materials with enhanced optical nonlinearities at low power levels with
ultrafast response and small footprints is of great interest for information processing …

This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

Ultrafast thin disk laser oscillators achieve the highest average output powers and pulse
energies of any mode-locked laser oscillator technology. The thin disk concept avoids …

Optically pumped passively modelocked semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) provide superior
performance in average output power, a broad range of operation wavelengths, and …

We present for the first time to the best of our knowledge a systematic study of lifetime and
damage of semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) designed for operation in …

We report a versatile way of controlling the unsaturated loss, modulation depth and
saturation fluence of graphene-based saturable absorbers (GSAs), by changing the …