4.35 kW peak power femtosecond pulse mode-locked VECSEL for supercontinuum generation

Keith G. Wilcox; Anne C. Tropper; Harvey E. Beere; David A. Ritchie; Bernardette Kunert; Bernd Heinen; Wolfgang Stolz

doi:10.1364/OE.21.001599

4.35 kW peak power femtosecond pulse mode-locked VECSEL for supercontinuum generation

Keith G. Wilcox
, Anne C. Tropper
, Harvey E. Beere
, David A. Ritchie
, Bernardette Kunert
, Bernd Heinen
, Wolfgang Stolz

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Abstract

We report a passively mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) producing 400 fs pulses with 4.35 kW peak power. The average output power was 3.3 W and the VECSEL had a repetition rate of 1.67 GHz at a center wavelength of 1013 nm. A near-antiresonant, substrate-removed, 10 quantum well (QW) gain structure designed to enable femtosecond pulse operation is used. A SESAM which uses fast carrier recombination at the semiconductor surface and the optical Stark effect enables passive mode-locking. When 1 W of the VECSEL output is launched into a 2 m long photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a 2.2 mu m core, a supercontinuum spanning 175 nm, with average power 0.5 W is produced. (C)2013 Optical Society of America

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1599-1605
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	21
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.001599
Publication status	Published - 28 Jan 2013

Keywords

FS PULSES
COMB
SURFACE-EMITTING LASER
SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER
OUTPUT POWER

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4.35 kW peak power femtosecond pulse mode-locked VECSEL for supercontinuum generation

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