DocumentCode
1320744
Title
Active multimode interferometer laser diode demonstrated via 1.48 μm high power application
Author
Hamamoto, Kiichi ; Gini, E. ; Holtmann, C. ; Melchior, H. ; Sasaki, T.
Author_Institution
Opto-Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan
Volume
36
Issue
2
fYear
2000
fDate
1/20/2000 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
138
Lastpage
139
Abstract
An active multimode interferometer (MMI) laser diode (LD) concept is presented. It has been verified via a 1.48 μm high power application. The active MMI-LDs, having a larger pumping area compared to that of regular single-stripe LDs with the same length, showed no significant degradation in slope efficiency and up to 50 mW power improvement resulting in 170 mW saturated output power
Keywords
light interferometers; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; 1.48 micrometre; 170 mW; active multimode interferometer laser diode; high power application; power improvement; pumping area; saturated output power; slope efficiency;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20000176
Filename
833144
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