Conductively cooled 1 kWQCW diode laser stacks enabling simple fiber coupling

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 206-214

  Pittroff, Wolfgang ^a   Erbert, Goetz ^a   Eppich, Bernd ^a   Fiebig, Christian ^a   Vogel, Klaus ^a   Traenkle, Guenther ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling; Laser excitation; Optical fiber coupling; Pulsed lasers; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

BAR DESIGNS; BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION; CONDUCTIVELY COOLED; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DIODE LASER STACK; FAR FIELD; FAST AXIS; FIBER COUPLINGS; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LAYER STACKS; LOW DIVERGENCE; STACK ASSEMBLY; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WORKING DISTANCES;

FIBERS; LASER EXCITATION; LASERS; LENSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 77949571171     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2009.2033120     Document Type: Article

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