J. Sebastian, G. Beister, F. Bugge, F. Buhrandt¹, G. Erbert, H.G. Hänsel¹, R. Hülsewede, A. Knauer, W. Pittroff, R. Staske, M. Schröder¹, H. Wenzel, M. Weyers, G. Tränkle

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IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 334-339 (2001).

Abstract:

AlGaAs-based large optical cavity (LOC) laser diodes (LDs) emitting at 808 nm using a tensile-strained GaAsP quantum-well (QW) were developed. LDs with 1-µm-LOC and 2 µm-LOC structure show a very high continuous wave (CW) output power (8.9 W), a good wall-plug efficiency (50%) and a low degradation rate (10^-5 h^-1). The power-current characteristics of broad area LDs with the 1-µm-LOC structure having a higher aluminium content in the waveguide layer exhibit a higher temperature stability. The 2-µm-LOC diode lasers with a lower aluminium content and thinner cladding layers has a slightly smaller vertical far-field divergence and a smaller series resistance. The 2-µm-LOC structure was used in laser bars. They have a filling factor of 28% and exhibit a maximum output power of 148 W with a good beam quality of 7.8° × 39° (full-width 1/e²-power) at 70 W.

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