85.7 MHz repetition rate mode-locked semiconductor disk laser: Fundamental and soliton bound states

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 25526-25531

  Butkus, M ^a   Viktorov, E A ^b,c   Erneux, T ^b   Hamilton, C J ^d   Maker, G ^d   Malcolm, G P A ^d   Rafailov, E U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d M SQUARED LASERS LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

CARRIER RELAXATION; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LOW REPETITION RATE; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASERS; PHASEAMPLITUDE COUPLINGS (PAC); REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; SPACE COMMUNICATIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84886392065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.025526     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. A. H. Quarterman, K. G. Wilcox, V. Apostolopoulos, Z. Mihoubi, S. P. Elsmere, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and A. Tropper, "A passively mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser emitting 60-fs pulses," Nat. Photonics 3(12), 729-731 (2009).
2. M. Scheller, T. L. Wang, B. Kunert, W. Stolz, S. W. Koch, and J. V. Moloney, "Passively modelocked VECSEL emitting 682 fs pulses with 5.1W of average output power," Electron. Lett. 48(10), 588-589 (2012).
3. E. J. Saarinen, A. Rantamaki, A. Chamorovskiy, and O. G. Okhotnikov, "200 GHz 1 W semiconductor disc laser emitting 800 fs pulses," Electron. Lett. 48(21), 1355-1356 (2012).
4. Lukaz Kornaszewski, Nils Hempler, Craig J. Hamilton, Gareth T. Maker, and G. P. A. Malcolm, "Advances in mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers," Proc. SPIE 8606, San Francisco, USA(2013).
5. L. Kornaszewski, G. Maker, G. P. A. Malcolm, M. Butkus, E. U. Rafailov, and C. J. Hamilton, "SESAMfree mode-locked semiconductor disk laser," Laser Photon. Rev. 6(6), L20-L23 (2012).
6. K. G. Wilcox, A. H. Quarterman, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, and A. C. Tropper, "Repetition-frequencytunable mode-locked surface emitting semiconductor laser between 2.78 and 7.87 GHz," Opt. Express 19(23), 23453-23459 (2011).
7. Y. C. Chen, P. Wang, J. J. Coleman, D. P. Bour, K. K. Lee, and R. G. Waters, "Carrier recombination rates in strained-layer InGaAs-GaAsquantum- wells," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 27(6), 1451-1455 (1991).
8. J. E. Ehrlich, D. T. Neilson, A. C. Walker, G. T. Kennedy, R. S. Grant, W. Sibbett, and M. Hopkinson, "Carrier lifetimes in MBE and MOCVD InGaAs quantum-wells," Semicond. Sci. Technol. 8(2), 307-309 (1993).
9. V. L. Kalashnikov, E. Podivilov, A. Chernykh, S. Naumov, A. Fernandez, R. Graf, and A. Apolonski, "Approaching the microjoule frontier with femtosecond laser oscillators: theory and comparison with experiment," New J. Phys. 7, 217 (2005).
10. R. Aviles-Espinosa, G. Filippidis, C. Hamilton, G. Malcolm, K. J. Weingarten, T. Südmeyer, Y. Barbarin, U. Keller, S. I. C. O. Santos, D. Artigas, and P. Loza-Alvarez, "Compact ultrafast semiconductor disk laser: targeting GFP based nonlinear applications in living organisms," Biomed. Opt. Express 2(4), 739-747 (2011).
11. K. G. Wilcox, A. C. Tropper, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, B. Kunert, B. Heinen, and W. Stolz, "4.35 kW peak power femtosecond pulse mode-locked VECSEL for supercontinuum generation," Opt. Express 21(2), 1599-1605 (2013).
12. E. U. Rafailov, S. J. White, A. A. Lagatsky, A. Miller, W. Sibbett, D. A. Livshits, A. E. Zhukov, and V. M. Ustinov, "Fast quantum-dot saturable absorber for passive mode-locking of solid-state lasers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 16(11), 2439-2441 (2004).
13. D. J. Maas, A. R. Bellancourt, M. Hoffmann, B. Rudin, Y. Barbarin, M. Golling, T. Südmeyer, and U. Keller, "Growth parameter optimization for fast quantum dot SESAMs," Opt. Express 16(23), 18646-18656 (2008).
14. A. A. Lagatsky, C. G. Leburn, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, S. A. Zolotovskaya, and E. U. Rafailov, "Ultrashort-pulse lasers passively mode locked by quantum-dot-based saturable absorbers," Prog. Quantum Electron. 34(1), 1-45 (2010).
15. K. G. Wilcox, M. Butkus, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, A. Tropper, and E. U. Rafailov, "Subpicosecond quantum dot saturable absorber mode-locked semiconductor disk laser," Appl. Phys. Lett. 94(25), 251105 (2009).
16. T. Piwonski, J. Pulka, E. A. Viktorov, G. Huyet, and J. Houlihan, "Refractive index dynamics of quantum dot based waveguide electroabsorbers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 97(5), 051107 (2010).
17. E. J. Saarinen, A. Härkönen, R. Herda, S. Suomalainen, L. Orsila, T. Hakulinen, M. Guina, and O. G. Okhotnikov, "Harmonically mode-locked VECSELs for multi-GHz pulse train generation," Opt. Express 15(3), 955-964 (2007).
18. R. Paschotta, R. Haring, A. Garnache, S. Hoogland, A. C. Tropper, and U. Keller, "Soliton-like pulseshaping mechanism in passively mode-locked surface-emitting semiconductor lasers," Appl. Phys. B. 75(4-5), 445-451 (2002).
19. B. A. Malomed, "Bound solitons in the nonlinear Schrödinger- Ginzburg-Landau equation," Phys. Rev. A 44(10), 6954-6957 (1991).
20. V. V. Afanasjev, B. A. Malomed, and P. L. Chu, "Stability of bound states of pulses in the Ginzburg-Landau equations," Phys. Rev. E Stat. Phys. Plasmas Fluids Relat. Interdiscip. Topics 56(5), 6020-6025 (1997).
21. Y. Gong, P. Shum, T. Hiang, Q. Cheng, Q. Wen, D. Tang, "Bound soliton pulses in passively mode-locked fiber laser," Opt. Commun. 200(1-6), 389-399 (2001).
22. P. Grelu and N. Akhmediev, "Dissipative solitons for mode-locked lasers," Nat. Photonics 6(2), 84-92 (2012).
23. C. H. Henry, "Theory of the linewidth of semiconductor-lasers," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 18(2), 259-264 (1982).
24. A. G. Vladimirov and D. Turaev, "Model for passive mode locking in semiconductor lasers," Phys. Rev. A 72(3), 033808 (2005).