Provided is a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) including: a bottom DBR mirror formed on a substrate; an RPG layer formed on the bottom DBR layer; a capping layer formed on the RPG mirror; an optical pump irradiating a pump beam onto a surface of the capping layer; and an external cavity mirror installed on an external surface of a stacked layer corresponding to the bottom DBR mirror. The RPG layer includes: a plurality of first barrier layers periodically formed on nodes of a standing wave and formed of a material having a larger energy band gap width than that of the pump beam; and a plurality of gain layers including a plurality of QW layers formed of InGaAs and disposed between the first barrier layers, and a plurality of second barrier layers disposed on upper and lower portions of the QW layers.