After the invention of lasers, in the past 50 years progress made in laser-based display technology has been very promising, with commercial products awaiting release to the mass market. Compact laser systems, such as edge-emitting diodes, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, and optically pumped semiconductor lasers, are suitable candidates for laser-based displays. Laser speckle is an important concern, as it degrades image quality. Typically, one or multiple speckle reduction techniques are employed in laser displays to reduce speckle contrast. Likewise, laser safety issues need to be carefully evaluated in designing laser displays under different usage scenarios. Laser beam shaping using refractive and diffractive components is an integral part of laser displays, and the requirements depend on the source specifications, modulation technique, and the scanning method being employed in the display. A variety of laser-based displays have been reported, and many products such as pico projectors and laser televisions are commercially available already.

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Laser-based displays: a review

Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) are the most versatile laser sources, combining unique features such as wide spectral coverage, ultrashort pulse operation, low noise properties, high output power, high brightness and compact form-factor. This paper reviews the recent technological developments of VECSELs in connection with the new milestones that continue to pave the way towards their use in numerous applications. Significant attention is devoted to the fabrication of VECSEL gain mirrors in challenging wavelength regions, especially at the yellow and red wavelengths. The reviewed fabrication approaches address wafer-bonded VECSEL structures as well as the use of hybrid mirror structures. Moreover, a comprehensive summary of VECSEL characterization methods is presented; the discussion covers different stages of VECSEL development and different operation regimes, pointing out specific characterization techniques for each of them. Finally, several emerging applications are discussed, with emphasis on the unique application objectives that VECSELs render possible, for example in atom and molecular physics, dermatology and spectroscopy.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/aa7bfd/pdf

Optically pumped VECSELs: review of technology and progress

The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast laser sources in the picosecond and femtosecond domains has driven this technology toward commercial products. Frequency metrology and biomedical applications would benefit from sub-200-femtosecond pulse durations with peak powers in the kilowatt range. The aim of this review is to briefly describe the market potential and give an overview of the current status of mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers. Particular focus is placed on the ongoing efforts to achieve shorter pulses with higher peak powers. As small, ultrashort-pulse lasers with high peak powers, semiconductor thin-disk lasers hold promise for spectroscopy, metrology and imaging. Bauke Tilma and co-workers from ETH Zurich review recent progress in developing such lasers for these applications. They report how the latest designs of external-cavity disk lasers that are passively mode locked using a saturable absorber now offer repetition rates of up to 100 gigahertz, pulse durations of shorter than 200 femtoseconds and peak powers in the kilowatt range. The compact design, excellent noise performance and customizable emission wavelength of such sources make them highly attractive for a variety of applications. Future research into the materials providing the optical gain and saturable absorption in such lasers is likely to further improve their efficiency, reliability and thermal stability.

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Recent advances in ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers

Recent developments in semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) generating visible or ultraviolet light are reviewed. After an introduction on potential applications, we discuss how the combination of vertical-emitting semiconductor GaAs-based structures and intra-cavity nonlinear conversion techniques can be successfully exploited to uniquely meet demands for continuous-wave radiation in the visible and ultraviolet spectral range. To do so, an overview of the device operating princi- ples and performance is presented highlighting the underlying material considerations, semiconductor structural designs, thermal management techniques and suitable cavity configurations. This summary is completed by a presentation of new developments in the field, with a particular focus on the trends towards miniaturization.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lpor.200810042

Semiconductor disk lasers for the generation of visible and ultraviolet radiation

A review on the recent developments in the field of long-wavelength (A > 1.2 μm) high-brightness optically-pumped semiconductor disk lasers (OPSDLs) is presented. As thermal effects have such a crucial impact on the laser performance particular emphasis is given to modelling the thermal behaviour and optimisation of the heat-sinking. Selected OPSDL devices, realized in different III-V and IV-VI semiconductor material systems, with corresponding emission wavelengths between 1.2 μm and 5.3 μm are presented. Specific applications in this broad spectral range are addressed and methods to obtain high output power are discussed in terms of the underlying material properties and device operating principles.

High-brightness long-wavelength semiconductor disk lasers

The authors report on the development and demonstration of the high power operation of optically end-pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting laser devices emitting at 532 and 460nm. 2.7W green and 1.4W blue output powers were achieved with a good beam quality by intracavity frequency doubling with second harmonic generation crystal. High efficiency and good beam quality are attributed to the enhanced thermal management by the diamond heat spreader directly bonded to the gain region and effective optical pumping by placing the pump laser diode behind the laser structure.

End-pumped green and blue vertical external cavity surface emitting laser devices

We report a high-power fundamental transverse mode operation of an optically pumped 920-nm vertical-external- cavity surface-emitting laser. The effects of the gain related structural parameters on the laser performance are investigated. Based on the optimization of the gain structure and the thermal management, a maximum pump-limited output power of 12 W in a TEM00 mode with a slope efficiency of 58% (input power of 24 W) was achieved at room temperature.

920-nm Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With a Slope Efficiency of 58% at Room Temperature

We report on the demonstration of highly efficient blue lasers based on intracavity frequency doubling vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs). By optimizing the number of InGaAs quantum wells and employing Al0.3Ga0.7As carrier blocking layers in resonant periodic gain structures, we observed the pump-power-limited output power of 4.5W at 920nm for an InGaAs∕GaAs quantum well VECSEL. With a frequency doubling LiB3O5 crystal inside the cavity, 1.9W continuous-wave 460nm blue output was demonstrated. Power conversion efficiencies (=output power∕pump input power) of 22.5% and 9.5% are realized for λ∼920nm and λ∼460nm, respectively.

Efficient blue lasers based on gain structure optimizing of vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser with second harmonic generation

Provided is a VECSEL capable of achieving an excellent efficiency of a SHG crystal and being manufactured in a compact size. The VECSEL includes a laser chip, an external mirror, an SHG crystal, a lens element, and a wavelength selective mirror. The laser chip generates a first wavelength light, and the external mirror is spaced from the laser chip to face the front side of the laser chip. The SHG crystal is located between the external mirror and the laser chip to double the frequency of the first wavelength light to make a second wavelength light. The lens element is located between the SHG crystal and the laser chip to allow the first wavelength light generated from the laser chip to converge at the SHG crystal, and the wavelength selective mirror is located between the SHG crystal and the lens element to transmit the first wavelength light and reflect the second wavelength light to the external mirror.

Vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

We report an improved optical pumping efficiency in a vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) by employing the double-band mirror (DBM), which acts as a pump beam reflector as well as a cavity mirror. The optical pumping efficiency of a VECSEL with the DBM was increased by 23%, as compared to one with the conventional distributed Bragg reflector. It was found that the use of the DBM was more effective in the VECSEL with the shorter absorption layer thickness.

Enhancement of Pumping Efficiency in a Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

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