Abstract
Ultrafast optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs), such as vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs [1]) or modelocked integrated external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (MIXSELs [2]), are compact high-power gigahertz lasers with excellent beam quality. Applications such as frequency comb stabilization demand a sub-200-fs pulse duration combined with high pulse peak power. While the highest SDL peak power is currently 4.35 kW in 400-fs pulses [3], shorter 107-fs pulses are generated at 3 mW of average output power only [4]. Here we present a high-power sub-150-fs SESAM-modelocked VECSEL with 100 mW average output power at 1.8 GHz repetition rate, resulting in >320 W of peak power. Moreover we present the shortest pulses (255 fs) from a MIXSEL at high 180 mW average output power and 3.3 GHz repetition rate.
© 2015 IEEE
PDF ArticleMore Like This
D. Waldburger, M. Mangold, S. M. Link, M. Golling, E. Gini, B. W. Tilma, and U. Keller
SM3F.2 CLEO: Science and Innovations (CLEO:S&I) 2015
C. G. E. Alfieri, D. Waldburger, S. M. Link, E. Gini, M. Mangold, B. W. Tilma, M. Golling, and U. Keller
ATh4A.1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 2015
D. Waldburger, C. G. E. Alfieri, S. M. Link, E. Gini, M. Golling, and U. Keller
CB_8_1 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2017