High-power, high-brightness wavelength-beam-combined diode arrays

Author

Huang, R.K. ; Chann, B. ; Missaggia, L.J. ; Harris, C.T. ; Liau, Z.L. ; Goyal, A.K. ; Donnelly, J.P. ; Fan, T.Y. ; Sanchez-Rubio, A. ; Turner, G.W.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Lexington, MA

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We have obtained 90 W CW with a 1-cm-wide single-mode 970-nm array, and have wavelength beam combined 50 W quasi-CW and 29 W CW in nearly-diffraction-limited beams, the highest brightness all-diode lasers reported.

Keywords

laser beams; optical couplers; semiconductor laser arrays; waveguide lasers; CW laser; high-power high-brightness all-diode lasers; nearly-diffraction-limited beams; power 29 W; power 50 W; power 90 W; quasiCW laser; single-mode array; size 1 cm; slab coupled optical waveguide laser; wavelength 970 nm; wavelength-beam-combined diode arrays; Diode lasers; Laser beams; Optical arrays; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Power generation; Pump lasers; Semiconductor laser arrays; Waveguide lasers; (140.2010) Diode laser arrays; (140.2020) Diode lasers; (140.3410) Laser resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627603

Filename

4627603