Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) are the most versatile laser
sources, combining unique features such as wide spectral coverage, ultrashort pulse …

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

With the increasing development of advanced technologies and new materials, recent
trends in laser processing-assisted two-dimensional (2D) functional materials have gained …

This paper will review the recent advances in the field of ultrashort pulse generation from
optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (OP-VECSELs). In this …

Within the last two decades, vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) have
attracted rising interest from both industry and science. They have proven to be versatile …

The development of mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers received striking attention in
the last 14 years and there is still a vast potential of such pulsed lasers to be explored and …

Self-mode-locking has become an emerging path to the generation of ultrashort pulses with
vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers. In our work, a strong Kerr nonlinearity that is …

Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, an exceptionally inventive scientist who made important
contributions to nonlinear optics, optical refrigeration and laser science, passed away in July …

We report on a single-frequency semiconductor disk laser which generates 23.6 W output
power in continuous wave operation, at a wavelength of 1013 nm. The high output power is …

The first reports in 1997 of vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL), also
known as optically pumped semiconductor disk laser (SDL), attracted a lot of attention in the …