Narrow Stripe Broad Area Lasers With High Order Distributed Feedback Surface Gratings
J. Decker, P. Crump, J. Fricke, A. Maaßdorf, G. Erbert, and G. Tränkle
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IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 829-832 (2014).
Abstract:
GaAs-based narrow-stripe broad-area lasers with integrated surface gratings are shown to operate with high power and efficiency, low beam parameter product (BPP), and narrow spectra. These distributed feedback lasers are constructed using a surface-etched, 80th-order grating, leading to spectral width Δλ95% <0.7 nm (95% power) and wavelength ∼970 nm. Optical output powers (>6 W) and power conversion efficiencies (>50%) comparable with devices without grating are enabled by a small coupling coefficient, κL ∼ 0.3, consistent with coupled mode theory calculations. The lasers were constructed with a stripe width of 30 µm, enabling BPP <1.8 mm mrad up to 6-W output power, improved over devices without gratings, that show BPP >2.2 mm mrad. We attribute the improvement to spatial filtering of higher order lateral modes by the narrow surface grating. Such devices are attractive sources for use in spectral beam combination systems for material processing.
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Straße 4, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
Index Terms:
High power, high efficiency, narrow stripe, broad area lasers, distributed feedback laser, surface gratings, high beam quality.
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