On-chip coherent combining of angled-grating diode lasers toward bar-scale single-mode lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6375-6384

  Zhao, Yunsong ^a   Zhu, Lin ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LASER MODES;

BRAGG DIFFRACTION; BROAD-AREA LASERS; COHERENT COMBINING; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HIGH-POWER; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; INP; INTEGRATED LASER; LASER BAR; MODAL CONTROL; MULTIPLE MODES; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OUTPUT BEAM; SINGLE EMITTER; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SINGLE-MODE LASERS; STRONG COUPLING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; REFRACTOMETRY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84858966377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006375     Document Type: Article

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