• DocumentCode
    3688082
  • Title

    The Influence of differential modal gain on the filamentary behavior of broad area diode lasers

  • Author

    M. Winterfeldt;P. Crump;S. Knigge;A. Maassdorf;G. Erbert;G. Trankle

  • Author_Institution
    Ferdinand-Braun-Inst., Leibniz-Inst. fur Hochstfrequenztechnik, Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    567
  • Lastpage
    568
  • Abstract
    High power diode lasers with low modal gain (~4 cm-1), predicted to operate with very low filamentation, are shown to operate with near-field modulation depth half that of reference devices (~12 cm-1). However, beam quality is unaffected.
  • Keywords
    "Laser beams","Modulation","Measurement by laser beam","Structural beams","Current measurement","Molecular beam epitaxial growth","Length measurement"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323515
  • Filename
    7323515