Operation of an optical in-well-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser

Wei Zhang; Thorsten Ackemann; Stephen McGinily; Marc Schmid; Erling Riis; Allister I Ferguson

doi:10.1364/ao.45.007729

Operation of an optical in-well-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser

Appl Opt. 2006 Oct 10;45(29):7729-35. doi: 10.1364/ao.45.007729.

Authors

Wei Zhang¹, Thorsten Ackemann, Stephen McGinily, Marc Schmid, Erling Riis, Allister I Ferguson

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. wei.zhang.100@strath.ac.uk

PMID: 17068611
DOI: 10.1364/ao.45.007729

Abstract

We report the operation of an optical in-well-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser. The laser delivers 1 W at 855 nm and is pumped with a cost-effective fiber-coupled laser diode emitting at 806 nm. The laser modal gain is examined and ways of optimizing the system are investigated and discussed.