Quasi-3-D simulation of high-brightness tapered lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 463-472

  Borruel, Luis ^a   Sujecki, Slawomir ^b   Moreno, Pablo ^a   Wykes, James ^b   Krakowski, Michel ^c   Sumpf, Bernd ^d   Sewell, Phillip ^b   Auzanneau, Sophie Charlotte ^c   Wenzel, Hans ^d   Rodríguez, Daniel ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^b   Larkins, Eric C ^b   Esquivias, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^d FBIH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam quality; Filamentation; High brightness lasers; Laser modeling; Tapered lasers

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

OPTICAL MODELS; TAPERED LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 2442630444     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.826424     Document Type: Article

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