High-brightness tapered semiconductor laser oscillators and amplifiers with low-modal gain epilayer-structures

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 654-656

  Mikulla, M ^b   Chazan, P ^b   Schmitt, A ^b   Morgott, S ^b   Wetzel, A ^b   Walther, M ^b   Kiefer, R ^b   Pletschen, W ^b   Braunstein, J ^b   Weimann, G ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam filamentation; High brightness; High power optical amplifiers; High power semiconductor lasers; Low modal gain

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; GAIN CONTROL; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

BEAM FILAMENTATIONS; LOW MODAL GAIN EPILAYER STRUCTURES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032069347     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.669231     Document Type: Article

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