Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: VECSEL Technology and Applications

Provides comprehensive coverage of the advancement of vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) emit coherent light from the infrared to the visible spectral range with high power output. Recent years have seen new device developments – such as the mode-locked integrated (MIXSEL) and the membrane external-cavity surface emitting laser (MECSEL) – expand the application of VECSELs to include laser cooling, spectroscopy, telecommunications, biophotonics, and laser-based displays and projectors.

In Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: VECSEL Technology and Applications, leading international research groups provide a comprehensive, fully up-to-date account of all fundamental and technological aspects of vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers. This unique book reviews the physics and technology of optically-pumped disk lasers and discusses the latest developments of VECSEL devices in different wavelength ranges. Topics include OP-VECSEL physics, continuous wave (CW) lasers, frequency doubling, carrier dynamics in SESAMs, and characterization of nonlinear lensing in VECSEL gain samples. This authoritative volume:

• Summarizes new concepts of DBR-free and MECSEL lasers for the first time
• Covers the mode-locking concept and its application
• Provides an overview of the emerging concept of self-mode locking
• Describes the development of next-generation OPS laser products

Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: VECSEL Technology and Applications is an invaluable resource for laser specialists, semiconductor physicists, optical industry professionals, spectroscopists, telecommunications engineers and industrial physicists.

Michael Jetter is Leader of the Epitaxy and Laser Group, Institute for Semiconductor Optics and Functional Interfaces, University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is expert in III-V semiconductor epitaxy and semiconductor lasers.

Peter Michler is Professor and Head of the Institute for Semiconductor Optics and Functional Interfaces, University of Stuttgart, Germany. His research concentrates on quantum dots, non-classical light sources and semiconductor lasers, semiconductor based quantum optics and photonic quantum technologies.