An overview of laser operation and modelocking of a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL)
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description: VECSEL laser systems are important additions to the family of lasers. They exhibit a combination of desirable lasing features that are usually not simultaneously attainable. These features are high power, diffraction limited beam quality, intra-cavity frequency doubling, tunability, and ultrashort pulses generated from passive mode-locking. In this work, we give a brief overview of the VECSEL structure, previous VECSEL literature, how lasing in a VECSEL works, and how mode locking in a VECSEL works.
abstract: VECSEL laser systems are important additions to the family of lasers. They exhibit a combination of desirable lasing features that are usually not simultaneously attainable. These features are high power, diffraction limited beam quality, intra-cavity frequency doubling, tunability, and ultrashort pulses generated from passive mode-locking. In this work, we give a brief overview of the VECSEL structure, previous VECSEL literature, how lasing in a VECSEL works, and how mode locking in a VECSEL works.
author: Allen, Aaron
language: English
date published: 2012-08-27T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T05:26:35Z
provider: University of New Mexico
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of New Mexico

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