High-power vertical-cavity surface-emitting arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6876, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Seurin, Jean Francois ^a   Ghosh, Chuni L ^a   Khalfin, Viktor ^a   Miglo, Aleksandr ^a   Xu, Guoyang ^a   Wynn, James D ^a   Pradhan, Prachi ^a   D'Asaro, L Arthur ^a  

^a Princeton Optronics   (United States)

Author keywords

2D array; Brightness; High efficiency; High energy; High power; Pumping; Reliability; Semiconductor lasers; Solid state laser; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MICROFLUIDICS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; SURFACES; TECHNOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

CONTINUOUS WAVE (C.W.); HIGH POWERS; OUTPUT POWER LEVELS; POWER DENSITY (PD); VERTICAL CAVITIES; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (VCSELS);

LASERS;

EID: 44949245838     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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