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A 1.5-W frequency-doubled semiconductor disk laser tunable over 40 nm at around 745 nm

Saarinen, Esa J.
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Lyytikainen, Jari
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Ranta, Sanna
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Wilcox, Kg
2016
Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (Vecsels) Vi
Conference on Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI

We report on a semiconductor disk laser emitting 1.5 W of output power at the wavelength of 745 nm via intracavity frequency doubling. The high power level and the >40 nm tuning range make the laser a promising tool for medical treatments that rely on photosensitizing agents and biomarkers in the transmission window of tissue between 700 and 800 nm. The InP-based gain structure of the laser was wafer-fused with a GaAs-based bottom mirror and thermally managed with an intracavity diamond heat spreader. The structure was pumped with commercial low-cost 980 nm laser diode modules. Laser emission at 1490 nm was frequency-doubled with a bismuth borate crystal that was cut for type I critical phase matching. At the maximum output power, we achieved an optical-to-optical efficiency of 8.3% with beam quality parameter M2 below 1.5. The laser wavelength could be tuned with an intracavity birefringent plate from 720 to 764 nm.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2209384
Web of Science ID

WOS:000381884900016

Author(s)
Saarinen, Esa J.
Lyytikainen, Jari
Ranta, Sanna
Rantamaki, Antti
Saarela, Antti
Sirbu, Alexei  
Iakovlev, Vladimir  
Kapon, Eli  
Okhotnikov, Oleg G.
Editors
Wilcox, Kg
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (Vecsels) Vi
ISBN of the book

978-1-62841-969-6

Total of pages

8

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

9734

Start page

97340P

Subjects

Semiconductor disk laser

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Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VECSEL)

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wafer fusion

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frequency doubling

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second harmonic generation

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bismuth borate crystal

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tunable laser

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REVIEWED

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Conference on Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) VI

San Francisco, CA

FEB 15-16, 2016

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October 18, 2016
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