Advances in commercial, mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers

Nils Hempler; Walter Lubeigt; Bartlomiej Bialkowski; Craig J. Hamilton; Gareth T. Maker; Graeme P. A. Malcolm

doi:10.1117/12.2211099

10 March 2016 Advances in commercial, mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers

Nils Hempler, Walter Lubeigt, Bartlomiej Bialkowski, Craig J. Hamilton, Gareth T. Maker, Graeme P. A. Malcolm

Proceedings Volume 9734, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI; 97340X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211099
Event: SPIE LASE, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In launching the Dragonfly, M Squared Lasers has successfully commercialized recent advances in mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting laser technologies operating between 920 nm – 1050 nm. This paper will describe the latest advances in the development of a new generation of Dragonfly lasers. The improved system has been engineered to utilise low-cost semiconductor gain media and integrated diode pumping, whilst exhibiting minimal footprint, diffraction limited beam quality and low intrinsic noise. Early experiments have resulted in pulses with 540mW of average output power and 150fs of duration at 200MHz pulse repetition frequency.

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Nils Hempler, Walter Lubeigt, Bartlomiej Bialkowski, Craig J. Hamilton, Gareth T. Maker, and Graeme P. A. Malcolm "Advances in commercial, mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers", Proc. SPIE 9734, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI, 97340X (10 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211099

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