• DocumentCode
    3094864
  • Title

    Factors influencing the brightness and beam quality of tapered laser diodes and bars

  • Author

    Lim, J.J. ; Bull, S. ; Kaunga-Nyirenda, S. ; Sujecki, S. ; Larkins, E.C. ; Hasler, K. -H ; Fricke, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Electr. Syst. & Opt., Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    35
  • Lastpage
    36
  • Abstract
    This paper examines some of the factors affecting the brightness of high-power tapered lasers, including bleaching of the ridge waveguide and mismatch between the taper and the beam diffraction angle, which excite high-order modes.
  • Keywords
    brightness; laser beams; laser modes; light diffraction; optical saturable absorption; quantum well lasers; ridge waveguides; waveguide lasers; beam diffraction angle; beam quality; bleaching; brightness; high-order modes; high-power tapered laser bars; ridge waveguide; tapered laser diodes; Brightness; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laser beams; Laser modes; Optical diffraction; Optical waveguides; Waveguide lasers; high-brightness tapered laser diode; simulation;
  • 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.2012.6280736
  • Filename
    6280736
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3094864