10-GHz MIXSEL: A high power integrated ultrafast semiconductor disk laser

Author

Wittwer, V.J. ; Rudin, B. ; Maas, D.J.H.C. ; Hoffmann, M. ; Sieber, O.D. ; Barbarin, Y. ; Golling, M. ; Südmeyer, T. ; Keller, U.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The authors present a 10-GHz mode-locked integrated external cavity surface emitting laser (MIXSEL) with 2.2 W average power in 21 ps pulses, which is to the authors knowledge, higher than any other mode locked semiconductor laser above 10 GHz. The circular output beam had excellent transverse mode quality (M² <; 1.05). The simple straight cavity contains only two intracavity elements, the MIXSEL chip and the external output coupler.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; laser mode locking; optical couplers; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; MIXSEL chip; external output coupler; high power integrated ultrafast semiconductor disk laser; mode locked integrated external cavity surface emitting laser; time 21 ps; transverse mode quality; Cavity resonators; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Measurement by laser beam; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942597

Filename

5942597