808 nm tapered diode lasers optimised for high output power and nearly diffraction-limited beam quality in pulse mode operation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6456, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jensen, Ole Bjarlin ^a   Klehr, Andreas ^b   Dittmar, Frank ^b   Sumpf, Bernd ^b   Erbert, Götz ^b   Andersen, Peter E ^a   Petersen, Paul Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam quality; High brightness; Pulsed laser; Semiconductor laser; Tapered diode laser

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; POWER CONTROL; THERMAL LOAD; WAVEGUIDES;

DIVERGENCE ANGLE; OPTICAL CAVITY; RESONATOR GEOMETRIES; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 34247483519     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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