Optical properties of tapered laser cavities

Author

Snjecki, S. ; Wykes, J. ; Sewell, P. ; Benson, T.M. ; Larkins, E.C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nottingham Univ., UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

58

Abstract

The properties of a tapered semiconductor laser cavity utilised for the generation of a high power, good quality optical beam are investigated. In particular the influence of the straight section width and length as well as the angle and length of the tapered section on the overall performance of the cavity are studied. In order to solve the wave equation, the wide angle beam propagation method has been applied. The computer memory requirements are relaxed by the use of higher order finite difference schemes

Keywords

finite difference methods; laser cavity resonators; light propagation; optical properties; semiconductor lasers; wave equations; average power density; cavity length; cavity performance; computer memory requirements; field distribution; high power optical beam generation; higher order finite difference schemes; optical properties; refractive index contrast; straight section length; straight section width; tapered laser diodes; tapered section angle; tapered semiconductor laser cavity; wave equation solution; wide angle beam propagation method; Laser beams; Laser modes; Optical beams; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Power lasers; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2001. Proceedings of 2001 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cracow

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7096-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2001.934717

Filename

934717