Recent advances in the development of yellow-orange GaInNAs-based semiconductor disk lasers

We review recent results concerning the development of dilute nitride based semiconductor disk lasers. We have demonstrated over 7.4 W of output power at the second harmonic wavelength (around 590 nm) using a β-BBO crystal. Over 10 W has been demonstrated at ~1.2 μm, and multi-watt output power has been achieved at 589 nm with narrow linewidth (δν < 20 MHz).

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