Efficient gallium-arsenide disk laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 869-875

  Beyertt, Svent Simon ^a,b   Brauch, Uwe ^a   Demaria, Frank ^c   Dhidah, Nacef ^c   Giesen, Adolf ^a,d   Kübler, Thomas ^a,e   Lorch, Steffen ^a   Rinaldi, Fernando ^a   Unger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b JENOPTIK Laserdiode GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e ZF Lenksysteme GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dielectric coating; Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR); Gallium arsenide (GaAs); In well pumping, optical pumping; Quantum well (QW); Resonant pumping; Semiconductor disk laser; Vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL)

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC COATING; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR); GALLIUM ARSENIDE (GAAS); IN-WELL PUMPING, OPTICAL PUMPING; QUANTUM WELL (QW); RESONANT PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; VERTICAL EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VECSEL);

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BRAGG CELLS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBER LASERS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; WELL PUMPS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 42949121421     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.904074     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. A. Giesen, H. Hügel, A. Voss, K. Wittig, U. Brauch, and H. Opower, "Scalable concept for diode-pumped high-power solid-state lasers," Appl. Phys. B, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 365-372, May 1994.
2. A. Giesen and J. Speiser, "15 years of work on thin disk lasers - Results and scaling laws," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 598-609, May/Jun. 2007.
3. 00 beams," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 1063-1065, Aug. 1997.
4. J. Chilla, S. Butterworth, A. Zeitschel, J. Charles, A. Caprara, M. Reed, and L. Spinelli, "High power optically pumped semiconductor lasers," in Proc. SPIE, Solid State Lasers XIII: Technol. Devices 2004, vol. 5332, pp. 143-150.
5. 00 beams," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 561-573, May/Jun. 1999.
6. J. E. Hastie, J. M. Hopkins, S. Calvez, C. W. Jeon, D. Burns, R. Abram, E. Riis, A. I. Ferguson, and M. D. Dawson, "0.5-W single transverse-mode operation of an 850-nm diode-pumped surface-emitting semiconductor laser," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 894-896, Jul. 2003.
7. W. Zhang, T. Ackemann, S. McGinily, M. Schmid, E. Riis, and A. I. Ferguson, "Operation of an optical in-well-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser," Appl. Opt., vol. 45, no. 29, pp. 7729-7735, Oct. 2006.
8. A. C. Tropper and S. Hoogland, "Extended cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers," Prog. Quantum Electron., vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1-43, Jan. 2006.
9. I. Schnitzer, E. Yablonovitch, C. Caneau, and T. J. Gmitter, "Ultrahigh spontaneous emission quantum efficiency, 99.7% internally and 72% externally, from AIGaAs-GaAs-AlGaAs double heterostructures," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 131-133, Jan. 1993.
10. R. Jäger,M. Grabherr, C. Jung, R. Michalzik, G. Reiner, B. Weigl, and K. J. Ebeling, "57% wallplug efficiency oxide-confined 850 nm wavelength GaAs VCSELs," Electron. Lett., vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 330-331, Feb. 1997.
11. S.-S. Beyertt, T. Kübler, U. Brauch, A. Giesen, E. Gerster, F. Rinaldi, and P. Unger, "Semiconductor thin-disk laser - Comparison of spacer and quantum-well pumping," OSA Trends Opt. Photon. Ser., vol. 98, pp. 294-298, 2005.
12. M. Larionov, K. Schuhmann, J. Speiser, C. Stolzenburg, and A. Giesen, "Nonlinear decay of the excited state in Yb:YAG," OSA Trends Opt. Photon. Ser., vol. 98, pp. 18-23, 2005.
13. S. S. Beyertt, M. Zorn, T. Kübler, H. Wenzel, M. Weyers, A. Giesen, G. Tränkle, and U. Brauch, "Optical in-well pumping of a semiconductor disk laser with high optical efficiency," IEEE J. Quantum Electron, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 1439-1449, Dec. 2005.
14. M. Schmid, S. Benchabane, F. Torabi-Gourdarzi, R. Abram, A. I. Ferguson, and E. Riis, "Optical in-well pumping of a vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser," Appl. Phys. Lett, vol. 84, no. 24, pp. 4860-4862, Jun. 2004.
15. N. Schulz, M. Rattunde, C. Ritzenthaler, B. Rösener, C. Manz, K. Köhler, J. Wagner, and U. Brauch, "Resonant optical in-well pumping of an (AlGaIn)(AsSb)-based vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser emitting at 2.35 μm," Appl. Phys. Lett, to be published.