Recent developments for BAR and BASE: Setting the trends

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6876, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lichtenstein, Norbert ^a   Krejci, Martin ^a   Manz, Yvonne ^a   Boucart, Julien ^a   Valk, Bernd ^a   Müller, Jürgen ^a   Button, Chris ^a   Weiß, Stefan ^a   Pawlik, Susanne ^a   Sverdlov, Boris ^a  

^a Bookham Switzerland AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AlGaAs; AuSn; Brightness; Fiber coupling; High power; Pump laser; Reliability; Semiconductor laser diode

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; TECHNOLOGY; VEGETATION;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (140.3500) LASERS; BEAM TRANSFORMATION; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); FIBER COUPLED; FIBER COUPLINGS; FILLING FACTORS; HIGH POWERS; HIGH-BRIGHTNESS (HB); HIGHLY EFFICIENT; LIFE TESTING; POWER LEVELING; STRIPE WIDTH;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44949148109     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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