Temperature-Stabilized and Widely Tunable Vertical External Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser With a Simple Line Cavity

We designed and demonstrated a temperature-stable, wide-tuned, high-power Vertical External Cavity Surface-emitting Laser (VECSEL) with a simple linear cavity. The quantum well is optimized by using the commercial PICS3D software to obtain wide gain and good thermal performance. The curve of BF has also been optimized, and a birefringent filter (BF) with a thickness of 1mm is selected as the tuning element. Then, we obtained a continuously adjustable range cover from 1044.5 nm to 1092.1 nm, 8 W of output power, and temperature-stable VECSEL, which verifies the feasibility of the design. Based on the experimental results, we concluded that the gain intensity corresponding to the tuning range should be at least greater than 163 e
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before the growth process ensures a wide tuning range. For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, we designed and obtained the tuning result of VECSEL in the linear cavity, and this is of great significance to the design of VECSEL with wide-tuning, high-power, and good temperature stability.