• Hannah Foreman's publication list
• Selected Institute of Photonics papers
  A selection from VECSEL work carried out in the Institute of Photonics at Strathclyde, and collaborations with other groups.
• Selected Southampton papers
  Work carried out in the VECSEL group at Southampton, and collaborations with other groups.
• Other Milestones
  Other important results within the VECSEL field, broken down into subsections.
• Popular reading
  Easier reading magazine articles etc.

Hannah Foreman's publication list

• L.G. Morton, H.D. Foreman, J.E. Hastie, M.D. Dawson, E. Riis,
  Actively Stabilised Single-Frequency Red VECSEL,
  In ASSP 2007, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada, Jan 28 - 31 2007
• K. G. Wilcox, F. Rutz, R. Wilk, H. D. Foreman, J. S. Roberts, J. Sigmund, H. L. Hartnagel, M. Koch, A. C. Tropper,
  Terahertz imaging system based on LT-GaAsSb antenna driven by all-semiconductor femtosecond source,
  Electronics Letters 42 (20), 1159-1160 (2006)
• P. Dupriez, C. Finot, A. Malinowski, J. K. Sahu, J. Nilsson, D. J. Richardson, K. G. Wilcox, H. D. Foreman, A. C. Tropper,
  High-power, high repetition rate picosecond and femtosecond sources based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of VECSELs,
  Optics Express 14 (21), 9611-9616 (2006)
• P. Dupriez, A. Malinowski, J.K. Sahu, Y. Jeong, J. Nilsson, D.J. Richardson, H.D. Foreman, K.G. Wilcox, A.C. Tropper, F. Morier-Genoud, U. Keller, J.S. Roberts,
  High power, single-mode picosecond fiber laser based on amplification of a passively mode-locked 1055-nm VECSEL,
  CLEO/QELS06, Long Beach, California, USA, May 2325, 2006
• H.D. Foreman, K.G. Wilcox, A.C. Tropper, P. Dupriez, A. Malinowski, J.K. Sahu, J. Nilsson, D.J. Richardson, F. Morier-Genoud, U. Keller and J.S. Roberts,
  High power femtosecond source based on passively mode-locked 1055-nm VECSEL and Yb-fibre power amplifier,
  In ASSP 2006, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada USA, Jan 29 - Feb 1 2006
• K.G. Wilcox, H.D. Foreman, J.S. Roberts and A.C. Tropper,
  Timing Jitter of a 897-MHz optical pulse train from actively-stabilised passively mode-locked surface-emitting semiconductor laser,
  Electronics Letters 42, 159-160 (2006)
• K.G. Wilcox, H.D. Foreman, A.C. Tropper, J.S. Roberts,
  Timing Jitter Characterisation of a 1.04-micron Passively Mode-Locked VECSEL at an Actively Stabilised Repetition Rate of 897 MHz,
  In, ASSP 2005, Vienna, Austria, 6-9 Febuary, 2005. (Southampton e-Print)
• A.C. Tropper, H.D. Foreman, A. Garnache, K.G. Wilcox, S.H. Hoogland
  Vertical-external-cavity semiconductor lasers,
  J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 37, R75-R85 (2004)

Selected Institute of Photonics papers

• Jennifer E. Hastie, Lynne G. Morton, Alan J. Kemp, Martin D. Dawson, Andrey B. Krysa and John S. Roberts
  Tunable ultraviolet output from an intracavity frequency-doubled red vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser,
  Applied Physics Letters. 89, 061114 (2006).
• A.J. Kemp, G.J. Valentine, J.M. Hopkins, J.E. Hastie, S.A. Smith, S. Calvez, M.D. Dawson, and D. Burns,
  Thermal management in vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers: finite-element analysis of a heatspreader approach ,
  IEEE J. of Quantum Electron. 82, 85 (2006).
• J.E. Hastie, L.G. Morton, S. Calvez, and M.D. Dawson,
  Red microchip VECSEL array,
  Optics express 13, 7209-7214 (2005).
• J.E. Hastie, S. Calvez, M.D. Dawson, T. Leinonen, A. Laakso, J. Lyytikäinen, M. Pessa,
  High power CW red VECSEL with linearly polarized TEM00 output beam,
  Optics express 13, 77-81 (2005).
• S.A. Smith, J.M. Hopkins, J.E. Hastie, D. Burns, S. Calvez, M.D. Dawson, T. Jouhti, J. Kontinnen, and M. Pessa,
  Diamond-microchip GaInNAs vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser operating CW at 1315nm,
  Electron. Lett. 40, 935-937 (2004).
• J.E. Hastie, J.M. Hopkins, C.W. Jeon, S. Calvez, D. Burns, M.D. Dawson, R. Abram, E. Riis, A.I. Ferguson, W.J. Alford, T.D. Raymond, and A.A. Allerman,
  Microchip vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers,
  Electron. Lett. 39, 1324-1326 (2003).
• J.E. Hastie, J.M. Hopkins, S. Calvez, C.W. Jeon, D. Burns, R. Abram, E. Riis, A.I. Ferguson, and M.D. Dawson,
  0.5-W single transverse-mode operation of an 850-nm diode-pumped surface-emitting semiconductor laser,
  IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 15, 894-896 (2003).

Selected University of Southampton Papers

• Ursula Keller and Anne C. Tropper,
  Passively modelocked surface-emitting semiconductor lasers,
  Physics Reports, 429, 67-120, (2006)
• A.C. Tropper and S. Hoogland,
  Review: Extended cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers,
  Progress in Quantum Electronics, 30, 1-43, (2006)
• S. Hoogland, A. Garnache, I. Sagnes, J.S. Roberts, A.C. Tropper,
  10-GHz train of sub-500-fs optical soliton-like pulses from a surface-emitting semiconductor laser,
  IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 17, 267-269 (2005).
• S. Hoogland, A. Garnache, I. Sagnes, B. Paldus, K.J. Weingarten, R. Grange, M. Haiml, R. Paschotta, U. Keller, A.C. Tropper,
  Picosecond pulse generation with 1.5 um passively modelocked surface-emitting semiconductor laser,
  Electronics Letters, 39, 846-847 (2003).
• R. Paschotta, R. Häring, A. Garnache, S. Hoogland, A.C. Tropper, U. Keller,
  Soliton-like pulse-shaping mechanism in passively mode-locked surface-emitting semiconductor lasers,
  Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 75, 445-451 (2002).
• A. Garnache, S. Hoogland, A. C. Tropper, I. Sagnes, G. Saint-Girons, J. S. Roberts,
  Sub-500-fs soliton-like pulse in a passively mode-locked broadband surface-emitting laser with 100 mW average power,
  Applied Physics Letters 80, 3892-3894 (2002).
• S. Hoogland, S. Dhanjal, A.C. Tropper, J.S. Roberts, R. Haring, R. Paschotta, F. Morier-Genoud, U. Keller,
  Passively Mode-Locked Diode-Pumped Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Laser,
  IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 12, 1135-1137 (2000).
• R. Haring, R. Paschotta, F. Morier-Denoud, U. Keller, J.S. Roberts, S. Hoogland, S. Dhanjal, A.C. Tropper,
  Passively mode-locked diode-pumped surface-emitting diode laser
  In, ASSL, Davos, Switzerland, 13-16 Feb, 2000.
• R. Haring, R. Paschotta, F. Morier-Genoud, U. Keller, A. Garnache, U. Oesterle, J.S. Roberts, S. Hoogland, S. Dhanjal, A.C. Tropper,
  Passively mode-locked diode-pumped surface-emitting semiconductor laser,
  In, CLEO 2000, San Francisco, USA, 7-12 May, 2000.

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Other milestones

• Improvements in VECSEL power:
  • L. Fan, J. Hader, M. Schillgalies, M. Fallahi, A.R. Zakharian, J.V. Moloney, R. Bedford, J.T. Murray, S.W. Koch, W. Stolz,
    High-Power Optically Pumped VECSEL Using a Double-Well Resonant Periodic Gain Structure,
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 17, 1764- 1766 (2005).
  • A. Aschwanden, D. Lorenser, H. J. Unold, R. Paschotta, E. Gini, U. Keller,
    2.1-W picosecond passively mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser,
    Optics Letters 30, 272-274 (2005).
  • J.L.A. Chilla, S.D. Butterworth, A. Zeitschel, J.P. Charles, M.K. Reed, L. Spinelli,
    High-power optically pumped semiconductor lasers,
    5332-41, 2004 Photonics West: Solid State Lasers XIII San Jose, CA.
  • J.E. Hastie, J.M. Hopkins, C.W. Jeon, S. Calvez, D. Burns, M.D. Dawson, R. Abram, E. Riis, A.I. Ferguson, W.J. Alford, T.D. Raymond, A.A. Allerman,
    Microchip vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers,
    Electronics Letters 39, 1324-1326 (2003).
  • S. Lutgen, T. Albrecht, P. Brick, W. Reill, J. Luft, W. Späth,
    8-W high-efficiency continuous-wave semiconductor disk laser at 1000 nm,
    Applied Physics Letters 82, 3620-3622 (2003).
  • W.J. Alford, T.D. Raymond, A.A. Allerman,
    High power and good beam quality at 980 nm from a vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser,
    JOSA B 19, 663-666 (2002).
• Electrical Pumping
  • K. Jasim, Q. Zhang, A.V. Nurmikko, E. Ippen, A. Mooradian, G. Carey, W. Ha,
    Picosecond pulse generation from passively modelocked vertical cavity diode laser at up to 15 GHz pulse repetition rate
    Electronics Letters 40, 34-36 (2004).
• Quantum dot SESAM and realising potential to move to higher rep rates.
  • A.-R. Bellancourt, B. Rudin, D.J.H.C. Maas, M. Golling, H.J. Unold, T. Sudmeyer, U. Keller,
    First Demonstration of a Modelocked Integrated External-Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (MIXSEL),
    In CLEO US 2007, Baltimore, USA, CW11.
  • D. Lorenser, H.J. Unold, D.J.H.C. Maas, A. Aschwanden, R. Grange, R. Paschotta, D. Ebling, E. Gini, U. Keller,
    Towards wafer-scale integration of high repetition rate passively mode-locked surface-emitting semiconductor lasers,
    Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 79, 927-932 (2004).
  • A. Garnache, S. Hoogland, A.C. Tropper, J.M. Gerard, V. Thierry-Mieg, J. S. Roberts,
    Pico-second passively mode locked surface-emitting laser with self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot absorber,
    In CLEO Europe 2001, C-PSL163.
• Different wavelengths:

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Popular reading

• A. C. Tropper and S. Hoogland,
  Bright Lights, Tiny Laser,
  SPIE’s oemagazine, March 2004, p21.

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