Non-Linear Lensing in an Unpumped Antiresonant Semiconductor Disk Laser Gain Structure

TY - JOUR

T1 - Non-Linear Lensing in an Unpumped Antiresonant Semiconductor Disk Laser Gain Structure

AU - Shaw, Ed A.

AU - Quarterman, Adrian H.

AU - Turnbull, Andrew P.

AU - Chen Sverre, Theo

AU - Head, C. Robin

AU - Tropper, Anne C.

AU - Wilcox, Keith G.

N1 - This work was supported in part by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under Grant EP/J017043/2 and in part by U.K. Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors and Metrology Grant EP/M013294/1.

PY - 2016/7/1

Y1 - 2016/7/1

N2 - We characterize the nonlinear lens in an antiresonant 11 quantum well InGaAs/GaAsP semiconductor disk laser gain structure designed for operation at 1035 nm using a reflection-type z-scan technique. We probe at a wavelength of 1035 nm and with a sub-picosecond pulse duration. The measured n2 was within the range of −5.6 × 10−13 cm2/W < n2 < −3.1 × 10−13 cm2/W.

AB - We characterize the nonlinear lens in an antiresonant 11 quantum well InGaAs/GaAsP semiconductor disk laser gain structure designed for operation at 1035 nm using a reflection-type z-scan technique. We probe at a wavelength of 1035 nm and with a sub-picosecond pulse duration. The measured n2 was within the range of −5.6 × 10−13 cm2/W < n2 < −3.1 × 10−13 cm2/W.

KW - Semiconductor lasers

KW - quantum well lasers

KW - Nonlinear optics

KW - Ultrafast optics

U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2016.2543302

DO - 10.1109/LPT.2016.2543302

M3 - Article

SN - 1041-1135

VL - 28

SP - 1395

EP - 1398

JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

IS - 13

ER -