Actively mode-locked semiconductor disk laser using vertical cavity modulator

Author

Rautiainen, Jussi ; Rantamaki, Antti ; Tavast, Miki ; Okhotnikov, Oleg G.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2013

fDate

12-16 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Short pulse operation in semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) is regularly achieved by passive mode-locking using semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors [1, 2]. Mode-locking using active techniques is generally prevented by the high losses induced by the standard waveguide-type modulators that cannot be adopted by the disk laser cavity due to the relatively low single-pass gain. Here we report an actively mode-locked SDL using a low-loss vertical cavity modulator (VCM).

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical losses; optical modulation; quantum well lasers; actively mode-locked semiconductor disk laser; disk laser cavity; low-loss vertical cavity modulator; passive mode-locking; semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; short pulse operation; single-pass gain; standard waveguide-type modulators; Cavity resonators; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laser mode locking; Modulation; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0593-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800747

Filename

6800747