학술논문

High-power optically pumped VECSEL using a double-well resonant periodic gain structure
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. 17(9):1764-1766 Sep, 2005
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical pumping
Resonance
Periodic structures
Pump lasers
Quantum well lasers
Surface emitting lasers
Optical design
Optical device fabrication
Laser excitation
Optical surface waves
Double-quantum-well
high-power laser
InGaAs
optical pumping
resonant periodic gain (RPG)
semiconductor laser
vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL)
Language
ISSN
1041-1135
1941-0174
Abstract
We present the design and fabrication of an optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers with double-well resonant periodic gain structure. Each double-well consists of two 4-nm-thick InGaAs strained quantum wells. The double-well provides optimum overlap between the quantum wells and the antinodes of the standing wave of laser signal at high-power and high-temperature operation. The structure is more tolerant to variation of the growth, processing, and operating temperature for maintaining high modal gain. For a 230-μm diameter pump spot, over 4-W continuous-wave output with a slope efficiency of 39% is demonstrated at 30/spl deg/C without thermal rollover.