Abstract
We report on femtosecond operation of a broadband diode-pumped external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser, passively mode locked with a fast quantum–well Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror grown at 735 °C. We obtained 477 fs pulses at 1.21 GHz. The average output power is 100 mW at 1040 nm, the pulse peak power 152 W, with ∼1 W of 830 nm pump. The rf spectrum shows a linewidth <50 kHz at the noise level (−65 dB). We believe that the group-delay dispersion is compensated by the negative self-phase modulation in the absorber structure, leading to soliton-like mode locking. This system requires no additional technological step after the growth of the structures.
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