First experimental verification of soliton-like pulse-shaping mechanisms in passively mode-locked VECSELs

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate for the first time the detailed experimental verification of this quasi-soliton pulse formation theory in passively mode-locked VECSELs. We show that the achievable pulse duration strongly depends on the group delay dispersion (GDD), and that it is important to provide positive overall intracavity GDD for achieving short pulse durations.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical dispersion; optical pulse shaping; optical solitons; surface emitting lasers; group delay dispersion; intracavity GDD; passively mode-locked VECSEL; pulse formation theory; soliton-like pulse-shaping mechanisms; Bandwidth; Laser modes; Laser theory; Mirrors; Physics; Power generation; Pulse shaping methods; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194824

Filename

5194824