Hopkins, J.M. and Preston, R.D. and MacLean, A.J. and Calvez, S. and Sun, H. and Ng, J. and Steer, M. and Hopkinson, M. and Burns, D. (2007) High performance 2.2um optically-pumped vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser. Journal of Modern Optics, 54 (12). pp. 1677-1683. ISSN 0950-0340
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We report the operation of an optically-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (OP-VECSEL) oscillating at wavelengths up to 2.2 µm and at output powers greater than 200 mW. This versatile platform provides a broad gain bandwidth, and may be tuned and/or controlled by the addition of elements into the external cavity. Moreover, the nature of the semiconductor structure permits precise engineering of the operating wavelength---not possible with traditional solid state crystalline lasers---and the thin (few microns) pump absorption region, coupled with the external cavity control, permits the mode conversion of a low brightness pump into a high quality TEM00 output.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 8997 |
| Keywords: | fibre optics, optoelectronics, optics, theoretical physics, light, Optics. Light |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Photonics |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2009 13:16 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 12:35 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/8997 |
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