Femtosecond high-power quantum dot vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8108-8116

  Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Sieber, Oliver D ^a   Wittwer, Valentin J ^a   Krestnikov, Igor L ^b   Livshits, Daniil A ^b   Barbarin, Yohan ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INNOLUME GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP DELAY; INDIUM ARSENIDE; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

ABSORPTION RECOVERY; CAVITY MODE; CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS; FEMTOSECONDS; FLAT GROUP DELAY; FS PULSE; GAIN STRUCTURES; HIGH-POWER; INAS QUANTUM DOTS; MODE-LOCKED; OPERATION WAVELENGTH; OPTICALLY PUMPED; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE FORMATION; QUANTUM DOT; REPETITION RATE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SELF-STARTING; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SPECTRAL GAIN; STANDARD DESIGN; THIN DISK; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 79955442877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008108     Document Type: Article

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