High-power high-brightness ridge-waveguide tapered diode lasers at 940 nm

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4648, Issue , 2002, Pages 75-81

  Kelemen, Márc T ^a   Rinner, Franz ^a   Rogg, Joseph ^a   Wiedmann, Nicolas ^a   Kiefer, Rudolf ^a   Walther, Martin ^a   Mikulla, Michael ^a   Weimann, Günter ^a  

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

Author keywords

AlGaAs InGaAs; High brightness; High power; Laser diodes; Lifetime; Semiconductor; Tapered laser diode

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; FIBER LASERS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0036029464     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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