Novel solid state / fiber / diode lasers and applications (2)

[ALPS10-01(Invited)] Short-pulse High-power Photonic-crystal Surface-emitting Lasers

*Takuya Inoue¹, Ryohei Morita¹, Masahiro Yoshida¹, Menaka De Zoysa¹, Kenji Ishizaki¹, Susumu Noda¹ (1. Kyoto University)

We review our recent demonstration of short-pulse high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers based on introduction of saturable absorbers and self-evolving photonic crystals. We realize short-pulse generation with 200-W-class peak powers and 30-ps-class pulse widths.