Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: Vecsel Technology and Applications

ISBN-13: 9783527413621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 416 str.

Michael Jetter;Peter Michler

Opis

In this ready reference leading research groups from Europe and the USA share their inside knowledge on all fundamental and technological aspects of vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs). Following a brief review of the physics and technology behind optically and electrically pumped disk lasers, the authors go on to discuss new developments of these devices in the different wavelength ranges. In addition, the novel concepts of DBR-free and MECSEL lasers are summarized for the first time in book form. The final part deals with the mode-locking concept and its realization up to the description of frequency-comb generation. The book concludes with an overview of the MIXEL concept and the emerging idea of self-mode locking. A unique handbook for laser specialists, physicists in industry and semiconductor physicists, those working in the optical industry, spectroscopists, and telecommunications engineers.

Spis treści

Physics and Technology of OP-VECSELsVECSELs in the Wavelength Range 1.18-1.55 µm 2-3 µm VECSELs: High Power and Single Frequency OperationHighly Coherent Single-Frequency Tunable VECSELsTerahertz Metasurface Quantum Cascade VECSELs DBR-Free Optically Pumped Semiconductor Disk Lasers Optically Pumped Red-Emitting AlGaInP-VECSELs and the MECSEL Concept Mode-Locked Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Ultrafast Non-Equilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Laser Mode-Locking Mode-Locked AlGaInP-VECSEL for the Red and UV Spectral Range Colliding Pulse Mode-Locked VECSEL Self-Mode-Locked Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

O autorze

Michael Jetter is Leader of the Epitaxy and Laser Group, Institute for Semiconductor Optics and Functional Interfaces, University of Stuttgart, Germany.Peter Michler is Professor and Head of the Institute for Semiconductor Optics and Functional Interfaces, University of Stuttgart, Germany.