High-brightness semiconductor laser sources for materials processing: stacking, beam shaping, and bars

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 601-614

  Treusch, H G ^a   Ovtchinnikov, A ^a,b   He, X ^a,c   Kanskar, M ^a,b   Mott, J ^a   Yang, S ^a,d  

^a Opto Power Corp   (United States)

^b Lasertel Inc   (United States)

^c Alpha Photonics Inc   (United States)

^d Sycamore Networks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROELECTRONIC PROCESSING; MICROOPTICS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

ASPHERICAL CYLINDER LENSES; BEAM COLLIMATION; BEAM SHAPING; INDUSTRIAL LASER; MATERIALS PROCESSING; MONOLITHIC SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN; POLARIZATION COUPLING; WAVELENGTH COUPLING;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0034217329     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.883374     Document Type: Article

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