Phase-locked laser arrays revisited

Author

Botez, Dan ; Mawst, Luke J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

11/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Over the past decade major breakthroughs have occurred, both in theory and experiment, that have allowed phase-locked arrays of semiconductor laser diodes to meet their promise of reliable, high-continuous-wave (CW) power (≅0.5 W) operation in diffraction-limited beams as well as multiwatt (5-10 W) near-diffraction-limited peak-pulsed-power operation. In this review the authors describe a corrected picture for the array modes, arrays of antiguides and the concept of resonant leaky-wave coupling, and relevant recent results

Keywords

integrated optics; laser modes; reviews; semiconductor laser arrays; waveguide lasers; 0.5 W; 5 to 10 W; antiguides; array modes; continuous-wave operation; diffraction-limited beams; high CW power operation; multiwatt peak-pulsed-power operation; near-diffraction-limited operation; phase-locked laser arrays; resonant leaky-wave coupling; semiconductor laser diodes; Diffraction; Diode lasers; Laser beams; Laser theory; Optical arrays; Phased arrays; Reliability theory; Resonance; Semiconductor device reliability; Semiconductor laser arrays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Devices Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

8755-3996

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/101.544448

Filename

544448