Efficient high-power VECSEL generates 20 W continuous-wave radiation in a fundamental transverse mode

B. Rudin,A. Rutz,Deran J. Maas,Aude-Reine Bellancourt,E. Gini,Thomas Südmeyer,Ursula Keller

Efficient high-power VECSEL generates 20 W continuous-wave radiation in a fundamental transverse mode

2009

B. Rudin
A. Rutz
Deran J. Maas
Aude-Reine Bellancourt
E. Gini
Thomas Südmeyer
Ursula Keller

We demonstrate a 960-nm VECSEL generating 20 W continuous-wave output power in TEM00transverse mode. The highly efficient laser has a slope efficiency of 49% and an overall optical-to-optical efficiency of 43%.

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Fiber laser
Radiation
Laser
Tunable laser
Semiconductor laser theory
Electronic engineering
Transverse mode
Injection seeder
Materials science
Optics
Slope efficiency
Optoelectronics
Continuous wave

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