Harmonically mode-locked VECSELs for multi-GHz pulse train generation

doi:10.1364/OE.15.000955

Harmonically mode-locked VECSELs for multi-GHz pulse train generation

Esa J. Saarinen, Antti Härkönen, Robert Herda, Soile Suomalainen, Lasse Orsila, Tommi Hakulinen, Mircea Guina, and Oleg G. Okhotnikov »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 955-964 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.000955

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Abstract

We report on optically-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror. The potential of harmonic mode-locking in producing pulse trains at multigigahertz repetition rates has been explored. The results present first systematic study of multiple pulse formation in passively mode-locked VECSELs.

OCIS Codes
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers

ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: October 16, 2006
Revised Manuscript: December 15, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: January 25, 2007
Published: February 5, 2007

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Esa J. Saarinen, Antti Härkönen, Robert Herda, Soile Suomalainen, Lasse Orsila, Tommi Hakulinen, Mircea Guina, and Oleg G. Okhotnikov, "Harmonically mode-locked VECSELs for multi-GHz pulse train generation," Opt. Express 15, 955-964 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-3-955

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Aschwanden, A.
Bergman, K.
Carey, G.
Collings, B.
Ebling, D.
Garnache, A.
Gini, E.
Grange, R.
Grudinin, A. B.
Ha, W.
Häring, R.
Hoogland, S.
Ippen, E.
Jasim, K.
Keller, U.
Knox, W. H.
Lorenser, D.
Maas, D. J. H. C.
Mollenauer, L. F.
Mooradian, A.
Nathan Kutz, J.
Nurmikko, A. V.
Paschotta, R.
Payne, D. N.
Richardson, D. J.
Roberts, J. S.
Sagnes, I.
Stolen, R. H.
Tropper, A. C.
Unold, H. J.
Zhang, Q.

Appl. Phys. A

D. Lorenser, H. J. Unold, D. J. H. C. Maas, A. Aschwanden, R. Grange, R. Paschotta, D. Ebling, E. Gini, and U. Keller, "Towards wafer-scale integration of high repetition rate passively mode-locked surface emitting semiconductor lasers," Appl. Phys. A 79,927-932 (2004).

Appl. Phys. B.

R. Paschotta, R. Häring, A. Garnache, S. Hoogland, A. C. Tropper, and U. Keller, "Soliton like pulse-shaping in passively mode-locked surface-emitting semiconductor lasers," Appl. Phys. B. 75,445-451 (2002). [CrossRef]

Electron. Lett.

A. B. Grudinin, D. J. Richardson, and D. N. Payne, "Energy quantization in figure eight fibre laser," Electron. Lett. 28,1391-1393 (1992). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

J. Nathan Kutz, B. Collings, K. Bergman, and W. H. Knox, "Stabilized pulse spacing in soliton lasers due to gain depletion and recovery," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 34,1749-1757 (1998). [CrossRef]

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

Q. Zhang, K. Jasim, A. V. Nurmikko, A. Mooradian, G. Carey, W. Ha, and E. Ippen, "Operation of a passively mode-locked extended-cavity surface-emitting diode laser in multi-GHz regime," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 16,885-887 (2004). [CrossRef]
S. Hoogland, A. Garnache, I. Sagnes, J. S. Roberts, and A. C. Tropper, "10-GHz train of sub-500-fs optical soliton-like pulses from a surface-emitting semiconductor laser," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 17,267-269 (2005). [CrossRef]

Opt Lett.

L. F. Mollenauer, and R. H. Stolen, "The soliton laser," Opt Lett. 9, 13-15 (1984). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

A. Aschwanden, D. Lorenser, H. J. Unold, R. Paschotta, E. Gini, and U. Keller, "2.1-W picosecond passively mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser," Opt. Lett. 30,272-274 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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