High-power optically pumped VECSEL using a double-well resonant periodic gain structure

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1764-1766

  Fan, Li ^a   Hader, Jörg ^a   Schillgalies, Marc ^a   Fallahi, Mahmoud ^a   Zakharian, Aramais R ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a   Bedford, Robert ^b   Murray, James T ^c   Koch, Stephan W ^d   Stolz, Wolfgang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARETÉ ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Double quantum well; High power laser; InGaAs; Optical pumping; Resonant periodic gain (RPG); Semiconductor laser; Vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL)

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; HIGH POWER LASERS; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; LASER MODES; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DOUBLE-QUANTUM-WELL; PERIODIC GAIN STRUCTURE; RESONANT PERIODIC GAIN (RPG); VERTICAL-EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VECSEL);

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 27144526972     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.853536     Document Type: Article

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