Over 10 Watt, collinear blue and green vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

Michal L. Lukowski, Chris Hessenius, Jason T. Meyer, Mahmoud Fallahi

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Abstract

A high power, two color, collinear, blue and green vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) is demonstrated. Two different InGaAs/GaAs VECSEL chips operating with gain centers near 970 nm and 1070 nm are used to make two separate V-folded laser cavities. Two critically phase-matched intracavity lithium triborate nonlinear crystals are used to generate blue and green outputs which are then combined in a polarizing beam splitter. This results in a single beam which contains over 10 watts of combined blue and green output power. This concept can be expanded upon by adding a red output for the creation of a high power, white laser source.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationVertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI
EditorsKeith G. Wilcox
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781628419696
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventVertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Feb 15 2016Feb 16 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9734
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Other

OtherVertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period2/15/162/16/16

Keywords

  • VECSEL
  • high power nonlinear conversion
  • second harmonic generation

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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