Delay-Differential-Equation Modeling of Mode-Locked Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers in Different Cavity Configurations

A simple, versatile model for the dynamics of electrically and optically pumped vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers, which are mode locked by a semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror, is presented. The difference between the laser operation in the linear and folded cavity, as well as the potential for a colliding pulse operation, are studied.

Publication year:2019

Keywords:vertical-external-cavity; surface-emitting lasers; mode locking; SESAM; frequency combs

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