High-Power RT CW Operation of an OP-VECSEL at 1.56 μm with Hybrid Metallic-Metamorphic Mirrors

Author

Tourrenc, J.P. ; Bouchoule, S. ; Khadour, A. ; Decobert, J. ; Miard, A. ; Harmand, J.C. ; Oudar, J.L.

Author_Institution

CNRS, Marcoussis

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate for the first time high output power, low pump power threshold density, room-temperature (RT), continuous-wave (CW) operation of an optically-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (OP-VECSEL) operating at 1.56 μm with an hybrid metal-metamorphic GaAs/AlAs mirror. We believe the maximum monomode TEM₀₀ output power could be significantly increased with both an optimized overlap between the pump and external cavity mode diameters and a more powerful pump.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; GaAs-AlAs; OP-VECSEL; continuous-wave operation; external cavity mode; high-power RT CW operation; hybrid metallic-metamorphic mirrors; monomode output power; optically-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers; temperature 293 K to 298 K; wavelength 1.56 μm; Gallium arsenide; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Mirrors; Optical pumping; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0930-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385914

Filename

4385914