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500 W Peak Power Cavity Dumped 2-micron GaSb-Based VECSEL

Optics 2021-10-05 v2

Abstract

A single transverse mode high pulse-energy VECSEL was developed. The GaSb based VECSEL emits at a wavelength of 2.04 microns with a peak power exceeding 500W while maintaining good beam quality. The cavity employs a Pockels cell combined with a low-loss thin film polarizer to selectively dump the intracavity energy into a 10ns pulse. The laser has promise for incoherent LiDAR, materials processing, gas sensing, and nonlinear optics.

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@article{arxiv.2104.06962,
  title  = {500 W Peak Power Cavity Dumped 2-micron GaSb-Based VECSEL},
  author = {Jacob Hoehler and Ricky Gibson and Jennifer Reed and Robert Bedford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06962},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 PAGES, 5 FIGURES

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