Power scaling of quantum cascade lasers via multiemitter beam combining

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Hugger, Stefan ^a   Aidam, Rolf ^a   Bronner, Wolfgang ^a   Fuchs, Frank ^a   Lösch, Rainer ^a   Yang, Quankui ^a   Wagner, Joachim ^a   Romasew, Eugen ^b   Raab, Michael ^b   Tholl, Hans D ^b   Höfer, Bernd ^c   Matthes, Andre L ^c  

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

^b Diehl BGT Defence ^*  (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

coupling efficiency; external cavity; microlens array; power scaling; quantum cascade lasers; spectral beam combining

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EXTERNAL CAVITY; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; POWER SCALING; SPECTRAL BEAMS;

ARRAY PROCESSING; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 79953884667     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3498766     Document Type: Article

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