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spontaneous mode-locked operation in vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser with
gigahertz oscillation. Opt. Lett. 36, 4581–4583 (2011)
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SESAM-free mode-locked semiconductor disk laser. Laser Photon. Rev. 6, L20–L23 (2012)
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Exploring ultrafast negative Kerr effect for mode-locking vertical external-cavity surfaceemitting lasers. Opt. Express 21, 28801–28808 (2013)
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Koch, Harmonic self-mode-locking of optically pumped semiconductor disc laser. Electron.
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A. Rahimi-Iman, E.U. Rafailov, M. Koch, Self-mode-locked quantum-dot vertical-externalcavity surface-emitting laser. Opt. Lett. 39, 4623–4626 (2014)
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External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: VECSEL Technology and Applications, 2nd edn.,
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index of a pumped semiconductor disk laser gain medium. Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 011105
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Wilcox, Nonlinear lensing in an unpumped antiresonant semiconductor disk laser gain structure. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 28(13), 1395–1398 (2016)
21. A.H. Quarterman, S. Mirkhanov, C.J.C. Smyth, K.G. Wilcox, Measurements of nonlinear
lensing in a semiconductor disk laser gain sample under optical pumping and using a resonant
femtosecond probe laser. Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 121113 (2016)
22. C. Kriso, S. Kress, T. Munshi, M. Grossmann, R. Bek, M. Jetter, P. Michler, W. Stolz, M.
Koch, A. Rahimi-Iman, Microcavity-enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in a vertical-external-cavity
surface-emitting laser. Opt. Express 27, 11914–11929 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.
011914
23. C. Kriso, S. Kress, T. Munshi, M. Grossmann, R. Bek, M. Jetter, P. Michler, W. Stolz, M.
Koch, A. Rahimi-Iman, Wavelength and pump-power dependent nonlinear refraction and
absorption in a semiconductor disk laser. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 32, 85–88 (2020).
Published online, 2019