Optically pumped VECSELs: review of technology and progress

M Guina, A Rantamäki… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) are the most versatile laser
sources, combining unique features such as wide spectral coverage, ultrashort pulse …

Wafer‐Fused Optically Pumped VECSELs Emitting in the 1310‐nm and 1550‐nm Wavebands

A Sirbu, N Volet, A Mereuta… - Advances in Optical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
1300‐nm, 1550‐nm, and 1480‐nm wavelength, optically pumped VECSELs based on wafer‐
fused InAlGaAs/InP‐AlGaAs/GaAs gain mirrors with intracavity diamond heat spreaders are …

Monolithic GaInNAsSb/GaAs VECSEL operating at 1550 nm

VM Korpijärvi, EL Kantola, T Leinonen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first monolithic GaAs-based vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL)
operating at 1550 nm is reported. The VECSEL operation is based on a gain mirror which …

Membrane external-cavity surface-emitting laser emitting at 1640 nm

B Jeżewski, A Broda, I Sankowska, A Kuźmicz… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We fabricated and characterized a membrane external-cavity surface-emitting laser
(MECSEL) emitting at 1640 nm. This is the first, to the best of our knowledge, description of …

High-power 1770 nm emission of a membrane external-cavity surface-emitting laser

A Broda, B Jeżewski, M Szymański… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An InGaAlAs/InP membrane external-cavity surface-emitting laser (MECSEL) operating at
1770 nm is reported for the first time. A record high power of 7.7 W is registered at-20° C …

1 W at 785 nm from a frequency-doubled wafer-fused semiconductor disk laser

A Rantamäki, J Rautiainen, J Lyytikäinen, A Sirbu… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an optically pumped semiconductor disk laser operating at 1580 nm with
4.6 W of output power, which represents the highest output power reported from this type of …

Semiconductor Disk Lasers: Recent Advances in Generation of Yellow‐Orange and Mid‐IR Radiation

M Guina, A Härkönen, VM Korpijärvi… - Advances in Optical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We review the recent advances in the development of semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs)
producing yellow‐orange and mid‐IR radiation. In particular, we focus on presenting the …

1.56 µm 1 watt single frequency semiconductor disk laser

A Rantamäki, J Rautiainen, A Sirbu, A Mereuta… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A single frequency wafer-fused semiconductor disk laser at 1.56 µm with 1 watt of output
power and a coherence length over 5 km in fiber is demonstrated. The result represents the …

High performance wafer-fused semiconductor disk lasers emitting in the 1300 nm waveband

A Sirbu, A Rantamäki, EJ Saarinen, V Iakovlev… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report for the first time on the performance of 1300 nm waveband semiconductor disc
lasers (SDLs) with wafer fused gain mirrors that implement intracavity diamond and flip-chip …

750 nm 1.5 W frequency-doubled semiconductor disk laser with a 44 nm tuning range

EJ Saarinen, J Lyytikäinen, S Ranta, A Rantamäki… - Optics Letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate 1.5 W of output power at the wavelength of 750 nm by intracavity frequency
doubling a wafer-fused semiconductor disk laser diode-pumped at 980 nm. An optical-to …