Improvement of the lateral-mode discrimination of broad-area diode lasers with a profiled reflectivity output facet

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 30, 1996, Pages 5955-5959

  Stryckman, Damien ^a   Rousseau, Guy ^a   D’auteuil, Marc ^a   McCarthy, Nathalie ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Broad area diode laser; Lateral mode discrimination; Profiled reflectivity facet

Indexed keywords

COATED MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER MODES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; OXIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BROAD AREA LASERS; FILM THICKNESS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION; LASER GAIN; LATERAL MODE DISCRIMINATION; PROFILED REFLECTIVITY FACET;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030261272     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.005955     Document Type: Article

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