• DocumentCode
    3095930
  • Title

    Diagnosing and addressing the limitations to lateral far field angle in high power broad-area diode lasers

  • Author

    Crump, P. ; Böldicke, S. ; Schultz, C.M. ; Ekhteraei, H. ; Wenzel, H. ; Erbert, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Ferdinand-Braun-Inst. (Leibniz-Inst. fur Hochstfrequenztech.), Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    63
  • Lastpage
    64
  • Abstract
    We show experimentally that thermal lensing largely determines the lateral mode properties of broad-area lasers. However, additional broadening is observed at high powers, which will limit how effectively mode-filtering techniques can improve beam quality.
  • Keywords
    optical filters; semiconductor lasers; thermal lensing; high power broad-area diode lasers; lateral far field angle; lateral mode properties; mode-filtering; thermal lensing; Laser beams; Laser modes; Lenses; Measurement by laser beam; Power lasers; Thermal lensing; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1526-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280787
  • Filename
    6280787
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3095930