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

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

doi:10.1117/12.2213703

10 March 2016 Over 10 Watt, collinear blue and green vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

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

Proceedings Volume 9734, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI; 97340R (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213703
Event: SPIE LASE, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

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.

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Michal L. Lukowski, Chris Hessenius, Jason T. Meyer, and Mahmoud Fallahi "Over 10 Watt, collinear blue and green vertical external cavity surface emitting laser", Proc. SPIE 9734, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI, 97340R (10 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213703

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