High-power optically pumped semiconductor laser at 1040 nm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 661-663

  Wang, Tsuei Lian ^a   Kaneda, Yushi ^a   Yarborough, J M ^a   Hader, Jörg ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a   Chernikov, Alexej ^b   Chatterjee, Sangam ^b   Koch, Stephan W ^b   Kunert, Bernardette ^b   Stolz, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Micro cavity resonance; Optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL); Power scaling

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EFFECTIVE GAIN; HIGH-POWER; MULTIMODE OUTPUT; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; POWER-SCALING; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

LASERS; MICROCAVITIES; PUMPING (LASER); RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 77950994021     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2043731     Document Type: Article

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