Infrared semiconductor lasers for DIRCM applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7115, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wagner, J ^a   Schulz, N ^a   Rosener B ^a   Rattunde, M ^a   Yang, Q ^a   Fuchs, F ^a   Manz, C ^a   Bronner, W ^a   Mann, C ^a   Kouhler K ^a   Raab, M ^b   Romasev, E ^b   Tholl, H D ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^b Diehl BGT Defence GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM); Infrared semiconductor lasers; Laser beam coupling; Optically pumped semiconductor disk laser (OPSDL); Power scaling; Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VECSEL)

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED INFRARED COUNTERMEASURES (DIRCM); INFRARED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; LASER BEAM COUPLING; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER (OPSDL); POWER-SCALING; VERTICAL-EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VECSEL);

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBER LASERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM THEORY; RADAR COUNTERMEASURES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 62749171725     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.800126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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