Title :
Injection locking of a broad area laser diode by use of holographic four-wave mixing in a photorefractive polymer
Author :
van Voorst, P.D. ; Offerhaus, H.L. ; de Wit, M.R. ; Tay, S. ; Thomas, J. ; Peyghambarian, N. ; Boiler, K.-J.
Author_Institution :
Twente Univ., Enschede
Abstract :
We report on holographic injection locking using a novel photorefractive polymer introducing a new method to improve the beam quality of a broad area laser diode.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; multiwave mixing; photorefractive materials; polymers; semiconductor lasers; beam quality; broad area laser diode; holographic four-wave mixing; holographic injection locking; photorefractive polymer; Diode lasers; Four-wave mixing; Holographic optical components; Holography; Injection-locked oscillators; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Photorefractive materials;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453173
