Ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators: a success story for the last 20 years with no end in sight

U Keller - Applied Physics B, 2010 - Springer
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 …

Recent advances in ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers

BW Tilma, M Mangold, CA Zaugg, SM Link… - Light: Science & …, 2015 - nature.com
The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent
decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast …

Gigahertz semiconductor laser at a center wavelength of 2 µm in single and dual-comb operation

M Gaulke, J Heidrich, N Huwyler, M Schuchter… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Dual-comb lasers are a new class of ultrafast lasers that enable fast, accurate and sensitive
measurements without any mechanical delay lines. Here, we demonstrate a 2-µm laser …

High-power MIXSEL: an integrated ultrafast semiconductor laser with 6.4 W average power

B Rudin, VJ Wittwer, DJHC Maas, M Hoffmann… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
High-power ultrafast lasers are important for numerous industrial and scientific applications.
Current multi-watt systems, however, are based on relatively complex laser concepts, for …

Pulse repetition rate scaling from 5 to 100 GHz with a high-power semiconductor disk laser

M Mangold, CA Zaugg, SM Link, M Golling… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
The high-power semiconductor laser studied here is a modelocked integrated external-
cavity surface emitting laser (MIXSEL), which combines the gain of vertical-external-cavity …

Femtosecond high-power quantum dot vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

M Hoffmann, OD Sieber, VJ Wittwer, IL Krestnikov… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report on the first femtosecond vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL)
exceeding 1 W of average output power. The VECSEL is optically pumped, based on self …

Temperature resistant fast InxGa1−xAs / GaAs quantum dot saturable absorber for the epitaxial integration into semiconductor surface emitting lasers

T Finke, J Nürnberg, V Sichkovskyi, M Golling… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum-dot-based semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) with fast response
times were developed by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Using quantum dots (QDs) in the …

Picosecond passively mode-locked GaSb-based semiconductor disk laser operating at 2μm

A Härkönen, J Paajaste, S Suomalainen, JP Alanko… - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We report on a passively mode-locked optically pumped GaSb-based semiconductor disk
laser producing stable picosecond optical pulses at a 1.95 μm wavelength. The gain mirror …

Quantum dot selective area intermixing for broadband light sources

KJ Zhou, Q Jiang, ZY Zhang, SM Chen, HY Liu… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report a comparison of different cap** materials on the intermixing of modulation p-
doped InAs/In (Ga) As quantum dots (QD). QD materials with different caps are shown to …

Electrically pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers suitable for passive modelocking

Y Barbarin, M Hoffmann, WP Pallmann… - IEEE Journal of …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modelocked optically pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs)
have generated up to 6.4-W average power, which is higher than for any other …