Longitudinal scaling of VECSEL output power maintaining narrow linewidth

Yushi Kaneda, Dustin Mitten, Michael Hart, Stephen H. Warner, Jussi Pekka Penttinen, Mircea Guina

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Abstract

Output power of VECSELs had been scaled by lateral scaling to tens of watts and beyond. Longitudinal scaling, employing multiple VECSEL devices in a single resonator, has the potential to scale up the power as well. However, some of the devices need to be placed at a fold of the resonator and inherently suffers from the spectral instability. The standing wave pattern created at a fold of a standing wave cavity exhibits that of 4-wave interference, and the resulting pattern shows high contrast modulation in the plane of the quantum well. The phase of that modulation depends on the phase relationship between the forward and backward beams, which differs for different longitudinal modes. This results in a situation similar to the special hole burning effect in solid-state lasers in which case the standing wave pattern is in the longitudinal direction. Because of the resonant periodic gain structure, VECSELs do not suffer from spatial hole burning if the device is placed at the end of the standing-wave cavity and single-frequency operation can be obtained relatively simply. This no longer holds when the VECSEL device is placed at the fold of a standing wave cavity. Twisted-mode configuration addresses this and allows narrow-linewidth or single-frequency operation of multidevice VECSELs. By having forward and backward modes in oppositely rotating circular polarization, the standing wave pattern does not show modulation in the planes of quantum wells, recovering the advantage of resonant periodic gain.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationVertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) X
EditorsJennifer E. Hastie
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510632899
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
EventVertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) X 2020 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Feb 4 2020Feb 5 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume11263

Conference

ConferenceVertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) X 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period2/4/202/5/20

Keywords

  • Twisted-mode
  • VECSEL

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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