Design and characterisation of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers

In this thesis I present my work on improving the design of semiconductor gain and saturable absorber structures towards the goal of a Watt-level, sub-200 fs mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (ML-VECSEL). The performance of MLVECSELs has increased significantly in recent ye...

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Main Author: Turnbull, Andrew
Other Authors: Tropper, Anne
Published: University of Southampton 2015
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.667509