Experimental Investigation of Limits to Slow Axis Beam Quality in High Power Broad Area Diode Lasers
M. Winterfeldt, P. Crump, H. Wenzel, G. Erbert and G. Tränkle
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IEEE 24th Int. Semiconductor Laser Conf. (ISLC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Sep 7-10 (2014).
Abstract:
An experimental study of factors limiting lateral beam parameter product (BPP) in broad area lasers is presented. BPP is an approximately linear function of self-heating, whose dependence on design, process and packaging effects is investigated.
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Straße 4, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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