Volume Bragg semiconductor lasers with near diffraction limited divergence

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6216, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Venus, George ^a   Glebov, Leonid ^a   Rotar, Vasile ^a   Smirnov, Vadim ^b   Crump, Paul ^c   Farmer, Jason ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OptiGrate Corp   (United States)

^c NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction limited divergence; Semiconductor lasers; Volume Bragg gratings

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED DIVERGENCE; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS; WAVE VECTORS;

BRAGG CELLS; DIAPHRAGMS; DIFFRACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE EFFECTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33747366316     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.666193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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