摘要:
Embodiments provide a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) that may provide a uniform current density in an active layer using a double current injecting channel. The surface emitting laser device may include a double channel current injection structure for uniformly applying current to an active layer, wherein the double channel current injection structure may include: a first current injection channel, which may allow current to be injected toward a central portion of an aperture, which may be a light beam output region formed in the active layer, and may have a smaller diameter than the aperture: and a second current injection channel, which may allow current to be injected toward an edge of the aperture and may be located around the aperture.
摘要:
A vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) using end pumping in which a pumping beam is recycled using a pumping beam reflection layer to increase pumping beam absorption is provided. The VECSEL includes: an active layer for generating and emitting signal light; an external mirror that is separated from and faces a top surface of the active layer and transmits a first portion of the signal light and reflects a second portion of the signal light to the active layer; a first reflection layer contacting a lower surface of the active layer and reflecting the signal light to the external mirror; a pump laser for emitting the pumping beam toward the lower surface of the active layer to excite the active layer; and a second reflection layer contacting the top surface of the active layer and reflecting a portion of the pumping beam back to the active layer.
摘要:
Provided is a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) including: a bottom DBR mirror formed on a substrate; an RPG layer formed on the bottom DBR layer; a capping layer formed on the RPG mirror; an optical pump irradiating a pump beam onto a surface of the capping layer; and an external cavity mirror installed on an external surface of a stacked layer corresponding to the bottom DBR mirror. The RPG layer includes: a plurality of first barrier layers periodically formed on nodes of a standing wave and formed of a material having a larger energy band gap width than that of the pump beam; and a plurality of gain layers including a plurality of QW layers formed of InGaAs and disposed between the first barrier layers, and a plurality of second barrier layers disposed on upper and lower portions of the QW layers.
摘要:
A vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) using end pumping in which a pumping beam is recycled to increase pumping beam absorption is provided. The VECSEL comprises: an active layer for generating and emitting signal light with a predetermined wavelength; an external mirror separated from and facing a top surface of the active layer and adapted to transmit a first portion of the signal light generated by the active layer and to reflect a second portion of the signal light to the active layer; a pump laser for emitting a pumping beam to excite the active layer toward the top surface of the active layer; and a double band mirror (DBM) positioned beneath the lower surface of the active layer and adapted to reflect both the signal light generated by the active layer and a portion of the pumping beam which is not absorbed in the active layer.
摘要:
Provided is a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) including: a bottom DBR mirror formed on a substrate; an RPG layer formed on the bottom DBR layer; a capping layer formed on the RPG mirror; an optical pump irradiating a pump beam onto a surface of the capping layer; and an external cavity mirror installed on an external surface of a stacked layer corresponding to the bottom DBR mirror. The RPG layer includes: a plurality of first barrier layers periodically formed on nodes of a standing wave and formed of a material having a larger energy band gap width than that of the pump beam; and a plurality of gain layers including a plurality of QW layers formed of InGaAs and disposed between the first barrier layers, and a plurality of second barrier layers disposed on upper and lower portions of the QW layers.
摘要:
A vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) is provided, in which the incident loss of a pumping beam is reduced. The VECSEL device comprising: a transparent substrate; an optical pump radiating a pumping beam onto a first surface of the transparent substrate; a first anti-reflection coating (ARC) layer formed of a first light-transmitting insulating material on a second surface of the transparent substrate to reduce loss of the pumping beam; a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) layer formed on the first ARC layer; a periodic gain layer formed on the DBR layer; and an external cavity mirror facing the periodic gain layer.
摘要:
A vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) using end pumping in which a pumping beam is recycled using a pumping beam reflection layer to increase pumping beam absorption is provided. The VECSEL includes: an active layer for generating and emitting signal light; an external mirror that is separated from and faces a top surface of the active layer and transmits a first portion of the signal light and reflects a second portion of the signal light to the active layer; a first reflection layer contacting a lower surface of the active layer and reflecting the signal light to the external mirror; a pump laser for emitting the pumping beam toward the lower surface of the active layer to excite the active layer; and a second reflection layer contacting the top surface of the active layer and reflecting a portion of the pumping beam back to the active layer.
摘要:
Embodiments provide a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) that may provide a uniform current density in an active layer using a double current injecting channel. The surface emitting laser device may include a double channel current injection structure for uniformly applying current to an active layer, wherein the double channel current injection structure may include: a first current injection channel, which may allow current to be injected toward a central portion of an aperture, which may be a light beam output region formed in the active layer, and may have a smaller diameter than the aperture: and a second current injection channel, which may allow current to be injected toward an edge of the aperture and may be located around the aperture.
摘要:
An improved VECSEL device is provided in which the gain of each of the quantum well layers can be increased in a periodic gain structure. A vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) device comprising: a substrate; a bottom DBR mirror formed on the substrate; a multiple quantum well layer formed on the bottom DBR mirror and comprising: a plurality of quantum well layers; first and second strain compensation layers sequentially formed above and below each of the quantum well layers to gradually relieve the strain of the quantum well layers; a capping layer formed on the multiple quantum well layer; an optical pump radiating a pump beam to the surface of the capping layer; and an external cavity mirror separated from and facing the bottom DBR mirror.
摘要:
Provided is a vertical cavity external surface emitting laser (VECSEL) apparatus in which incidence loss of a pumping beam can be reduced. The VECSEL apparatus includes: a laser chip including: an anti-reflection coating (ARC) layer to which a pumping beam is incident; a low Herpin Index distributed Bragg reflector (LHI-DBR) having a LHI stack structure; and a periodic gain layer that is formed on the LHI-DBR and generates laser light by being excited by the pumping beam; and an external cavity mirror that is installed outside the laser chip and faces the periodic gain layer and constitutes a laser cavity with the LHI-DBR.