Beam quality improvement of broad area laser diode with external cavity feedback

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4913, Issue , 2002, Pages 126-130

  Ge, Jianhong ^a   Hermerschmidt, Andreas ^b   Chen, Jun ^a   Hong, Zhi ^a   Eichler, H J ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broad area laser diode; External cavity; Feedback

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOCUSING; LASER BEAMS; LASER RESONATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS;

BEAM QUALITY; BROAD AREA LASER DIODE; EXTERNAL CAVITY FEEDBACK;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0141691446     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.482216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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