Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers for Optical LAN.

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers

The goal of this project was to increase the power of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and to convert their wavelength into the blue/ultraviolet and the infrared for sensing applications. We have increased the power to the multi-watt level and have generated several milliwatts of blue light using optical pumping. Electrical pump has been less successful, but we have identified the proble...

Optical Injection Locking of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers by

Novel vertical - cavity surface - emitting lasers

are maintained. If the etching depth is equal to an integral number of half-wavelengths, uniformly high reflectivity across the active L. Fan, M.C. Wu, H.C. Lee and P. Grodzinski . mesa is achieved. The top electrodes which simultaneously pump the phase-shifted and non-phase-shifted region are then deposited by evaporation and lift-off processes. Fig. 2 shows the scanning electron micrograph (S...

Cavity solitons in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers.

We investigate a control of the motion of localized structures (LSs) of light by means of delay feedback in the transverse section of a broad area nonlinear optical system. The delayed feedback is found to induce a spontaneous motion of a solitary LS that is stationary and stable in the absence of feedback. We focus our analysis on an experimentally relevant system, namely the vertical-cavity s...

Intra-cavity cryogenic optical refrigeration using high power vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs).

A 7% Yb:YLF crystal is laser cooled to 131 ± 1 K from room temperature by placing it inside the external cavity of a high power InGaAs/GaAs VECSEL operating at 1020 nm with 0.15 nm linewidth. This is the lowest temperature achieved in the intracavity geometry to date and presents major progress towards realizing an all-solid-state compact optical cryocooler.