Applications
- Pumping of solid state, fiber and alkali-gas lasers (e.g. space applications and high-energy-class solid state systems)
- Direct material processing (e.g. sources for spectral beam combined systems)
- Free-space communications
- Printing
- Medical technology
Chip technology
- Semiconductor layers by means of MOVPE
- Monolithic gratings via surface etch technology or two step-epitaxial techniques
- Contact windows by
- projection lithography
- implantation and isolating layers
- deposition of metalization
- Thinning
- Scribing, breaking and cleaving
- Facet coating and passivation for extremely long lifetimes
Assembly
- Hard, gold-tin soldered packaging
- Conduction cooled package (CCP)
- Expansion matched submounts
- Additional FAC lenses (fast axis collimator) and external gratings possible
Typical data
- NIR-Range:
- laser bars with output power up to 1000 W CW, up to 1500 W QCW on passive heat sinks, up to 2000 W QCW when tested at 203 K [publication] [publication] [publication]
- laser bars with narrow vertical far field for low loss, smile-insensitive external spectral stabilization [publication]
- laser bars with high efficiencies of > 70 % from 808 nm – 980 nm [publication][publication]
- high-brightness grating-stabilized mini-bars tailored for spectral beam combination applications [publication]
- high duty cycle, long resonator QCW laser bars for future high-energy systems [publication]
- efficient high-power bars of single-mode emitters for dense wavelength multiplexing (DWM) application [publication]
- Red spectral range (650 nm): Output power up to 10 W CW on passive heat sinks [publication]