Download or read book Monolithic Diode Laser Arrays written by Nils W. Carlson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although semiconductor-diode lasers are the most compact, highest gain and most efficient laser sources, difficulties remain in developing structures that will produce high-quality, diffraction-limited output beams. Indeed, only a few designs have emerged with the potential for producing high-power, high-brightness monolithic sources. This book presents and analyzes the results of work performed over the past two decades in the development of such diode-laser arrays.

Download or read book Diode Pumped Micro Laser Arrays written by R. Waarts and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work SDL investigated the operation of 2-D high power micro- laser arrays based on novel monolithic surface-emitting laser diode arrays coupled to Yb:YAG and Er:YSGG micro-laser crystals. The experimental demonstrations include: (1) 200 mW, q-cw single Yb:YAG microlaser; (2) 930 mW cw linear, 12-element Er:YSGG micro-laser; (3) 130 Watt q-cw 2-D surface-emitting laser diode array at 970 nm; and (4) 600 mW, q-cw from an 18-element 3-D Er:YSGG microlaser array. The experiments performed at SDL under this contract demonstrate the suitability of monolithic 2-D laser diode arrays for pumping solids state lasers. In addition, the experiments show the flexibility of the micro-laser concept. Using different pump wavelengths in combination with different micro-lasers a wide output wavelength range from 1 micron to 3 micron is demonstrated. Finally, the micro-laser array is shown to be scalable by exploiting one- and two-dimensional laser diode pump arrays.

Download or read book Diode Laser Arrays written by Dan Botez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough overview of the principles and uses of semiconductor diode laser arrays. Coherent, incoherent, edge- and surface-emitting, horizontal- and vertical-cavity, individually addressed, lattice-matched and strained-layer arrays are all discussed in detail.

Download or read book High Power Laser Diodes and Applications written by Luis Figueroa and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book High power CW Operation of AlGalnP Diode laser Arrays written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tailoring the Emission of Stripe array Diode Lasers with External Cavities to Enable Nonlinear Frequency Conversion written by Andreas Jechow and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge number of applications require coherent radiation in the visible spectral range. Since diode lasers are very compact and efficient light sources, there exists a great interest to cover these applications with diode laser emission. Despite modern band gap engineering not all wavelengths can be accessed with diode laser radiation. Especially in the visible spectral range between 480 nm and 630 nm no emission from diode lasers is available, yet. Nonlinear frequency conversion of near-infrared radiation is a common way to generate coherent emission in the visible spectral range. However, radiation with extraordinary spatial temporal and spectral quality is required to pump frequency conversion. Broad area (BA) diode lasers are reliable high power light sources in the near-infrared spectral range. They belong to the most efficient coherent light sources with electro-optical efficiencies of more than 70%. Standard BA lasers are not suitable as pump lasers for frequency conversion because of their poor beam quality and spectral properties. For this purpose, tapered lasers and diode lasers with Bragg gratings are utilized. However, these new diode laser structures demand for additional manufacturing and assembling steps that makes their processing challenging and expensive. An alternative to BA diode lasers is the stripe-array architecture. The emitting area of a stripe-array diode laser is comparable to a BA device and the manufacturing of these arrays requires only one additional process step. Such a stripe-array consists of several narrow striped emitters realized with close proximity. Due to the overlap of the fields of neighboring emitters or the presence of leaky waves, a strong coupling between the emitters exists. As a consequence, the emission of such an array is characterized by a so called supermode. However, for the free running stripe-array mode competition between several supermodes occurs because of the lack of wavelength stabilization. This leads to power fluctuations, spectral instabilities and poor beam quality. Thus, it was necessary to study the emission properties of those stripe-arrays to find new concepts to realize an external synchronization of the emitters. The aim was to achieve stable longitudinal and transversal single mode operation with high output powers giving a brightness sufficient for efficient nonlinear frequency conversion. For this purpose a comprehensive analysis of the stripe-array devices was done here. The physical effects that are the origin of the emission characteristics were investigated theoretically and experimentally. In this context numerical models could be verified and extended. A good agreement between simulation and experiment was observed. One way to stabilize a specific supermode of an array is to operate it in an external cavity. Based on mathematical simulations and experimental work, it was possible to design novel external cavities to select a specific supermode and stabilize all emitters of the array at the same wavelength. This resulted in stable emission with 1 W output power, a narrow bandwidth in the range of 2 MHz and a very good beam quality with M²<1.5. This is a new level of brightness and brilliance compared to other BA and stripe-array diode laser systems. The emission from this external cavity diode laser (ECDL) satisfied the requirements for nonlinear frequency conversion. Furthermore, a huge improvement to existing concepts was made. In the next step newly available periodically poled crystals were used for second harmonic generation (SHG) in single pass setups. With the stripe-array ECDL as pump source, more than 140 mW of coherent radiation at 488 nm could be generated with a very high opto-optical conversion efficiency. The generated blue light had very good transversal and longitudinal properties and could be used to generate biphotons by parametric down-conversion. This was feasible because of the improvement made with the infrared stripe-array diode lasers due to the development of new physical concepts.

Download or read book High power Near resonant 1 55 micron emitting InGaAsP InP Antiguided Diode Laser Arrays written by Arnab Bhattacharya and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Download or read book High Power Linear Arrays of 1 9 Mum Laser Diodes written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We demonstrated and delivered high-power (>1OW) linear arrays of laser diodes that emit near 1.9 micronmeter. Significant applications include illuminators for night visionp06/00 cameras and new sources for gas sensing of such species as HBr, HCl and H2O. In Phase I we achieved 0.5 W of 300K CW optical power at 1.95 micronmeter with our broadened waveguide (BW)" structure. In Phase II we optimized modifications to our Phase I structure and have produced record power outputs in the 0.8 micronmeter to 1.55 micronmeter spectrum. This novel structure allows the optical mode to spread out and decreases internal losses from free-carrier absorption. Waveguide parameters were adjusted-to permit higher power output at lower threshold and reduced temperature sensitivity. The two-step waveguide active region has lower energy barrier near the quantum wells, which employs "strain- compensated" active regions. Gas source molecular beam epitaxy was to be used to make 1x5 linear arrays of lasers with 200 micronmeter apertures. Packaging innovations allow extended reliable high-power operation with standard user-friendly commercial semiconductor laser packages.

Download or read book Near diffraction limited High power Pulsed and CW Antiguided Semiconductor Laser Arrays written by Haiquan Yang and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book High Power Diode Laser Arrays for Large Scientific Lasers and Inertial Fusion written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frontiers in Guided Wave Optics and Optoelectronics written by Bishnu Pal and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the editor, I feel extremely happy to present to the readers such a rich collection of chapters authored/co-authored by a large number of experts from around the world covering the broad field of guided wave optics and optoelectronics. Most of the chapters are state-of-the-art on respective topics or areas that are emerging. Several authors narrated technological challenges in a lucid manner, which was possible because of individual expertise of the authors in their own subject specialties. I have no doubt that this book will be useful to graduate students, teachers, researchers, and practicing engineers and technologists and that they would love to have it on their book shelves for ready reference at any time.

Download or read book Continuous wave Broadly Tunable Diode Laser Array pumped Mid infrared Cr2 CdSe Laser written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Packaging of High Power Semiconductor Lasers written by Xingsheng Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces high power semiconductor laser packaging design. The challenges of the design and various packaging and testing techniques are detailed by the authors. New technologies and current applications are described in detail.

Download or read book High Power Diode Lasers written by Reinhart Poprawe and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book summarizes the work and the results of a five year government funded research project as well as subsequent research results about high power diode laser systems and their application in the field of materials processing. The entire technology chain, starting from the semiconductor technology, over cooling mounting and assembly, beam shaping and system technology down to the applications in processing of several kinds of materials (metals, polymers) are treated in the book. Theoretical models, a wide field of important parameters and practical hints and tips are provided. The book is the most extensive work on high power diode laser systems and materials processing applications.

Download or read book Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers written by Michael Jetter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers Provides comprehensive coverage of the advancement of vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) emit coherent light from the infrared to the visible spectral range with high power output. Recent years have seen new device developments – such as the mode-locked integrated (MIXSEL) and the membrane external-cavity surface emitting laser (MECSEL) – expand the application of VECSELs to include laser cooling, spectroscopy, telecommunications, biophotonics, and laser-based displays and projectors. In Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: VECSEL Technology and Applications, leading international research groups provide a comprehensive, fully up-to-date account of all fundamental and technological aspects of vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers. This unique book reviews the physics and technology of optically-pumped disk lasers and discusses the latest developments of VECSEL devices in different wavelength ranges. Topics include OP-VECSEL physics, continuous wave (CW) lasers, frequency doubling, carrier dynamics in SESAMs, and characterization of nonlinear lensing in VECSEL gain samples. This authoritative volume: Summarizes new concepts of DBR-free and MECSEL lasers for the first time Covers the mode-locking concept and its application Provides an overview of the emerging concept of self-mode locking Describes the development of next-generation OPS laser products Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: VECSEL Technology and Applications is an invaluable resource for laser specialists, semiconductor physicists, optical industry professionals, spectroscopists, telecommunications engineers and industrial physicists.

Download or read book High Power High Beam Quality Mid infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers written by Jae Ha Ryu and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coherent power scaling of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) for high-power, single-mode continuous-wave (CW) operation has proven to be quite a difficult task - while the device volume could be scaled for higher output power, many other factors such as beam quality and thermal resistance are negatively impacted if the device design is not carefully considered. The main objective of this work has been to develop methods for realizing high continuous-wave (CW) output power QCLs with high beam quality and minimal beam steering. One attractive approach for tackling this problem is the use of resonant leaky-wave-coupled antiguided phase-locked laser arrays. This dissertation focusses on two approaches to achieve high coherent power: 1) one alternate to the resonant leaky-wave-coupled antiguided phase-locked array concept, so called 'reverse-taper'laser; and 2) one combining grating-coupled surface-emitting lasers (GCSELs) with resonant leaky-wave-coupled antiguided phase-locked arrays, where each array element is coupled in both the lateral and longitudinal direction; thus, has a potential for multi-watt -CW surface-emitted output powers with good beam quality and narrow spectral linewidth. The novel geometry reverse-taper QCL device can scale the output power while maintaining good beam quality and beam stability - the tapered region scales the output power, while the emitting facet is located at the narrow-end taper section, which provides mode filtering by suppressing high-order spatial modes. A small degree of collimated-beam centroid movement (