High-power distributed Bragg reflector ridge-waveguide diode laser with very small spectral linewidth

K. Paschke, S. Spießberger, C. Kaspari, D. Feise, C. Fiebig, G. Blume, H. Wenzel, A. Wicht, and G. Erbert

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Strasse 4, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

Published in:
Opt. Lett., vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 402-404 (2010).
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Abstract:
We manufactured and investigated distributed Bragg reflector ridge-waveguide diode lasers having sixthorder surface gratings and an emission wavelength around 974 nm. The single-mode output power of the lasers with a total length of 4 mm exceeded 1 W. A very small spectral linewidth of 1.4 MHz (3 dB) consisting of a Lorentzian part of 146 kHz and a Gaussian part of 1308 MHz was measured using a self-delayed heterodyne measurement technique.

OCIS codes:
140.2020, 140.5960, 250.5960

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