D. Feise, W. John, F. Bugge, C. Fiebig, G. Blume, and K. Paschke

Published in:

Opt. Express, vol. 20, no 21, pp. 23374-23382 (2012).

Abstract:

A red-emitting tapered diode laser with a monolithically integrated distributed Bragg reflector grating is presented. The device is able to emit up to 1 W of spectrally stabilized optical output power at 5°C. Depending on the period of the tenth order surface grating the emission wavelengths of these devices from the same gain material are 635 nm, 637 nm, and 639 nm. The emission is as narrow as 9 pm (FWHM) at 637.6 nm. The lateral beam quality is M²(1/e²) = 1.2. Therefore, these devices simplify techniques such as wavelength multiplexing and fiber coupling dedicating them as light sources for µ-Raman spectroscopy, absolute distance interferometry, and holographic imaging.

OCIS codes:

(140.2020) Diode lasers; (140.7300) Visible lasers’ (230.1480) Bragg reflectors; (140.3298) Laser beam combining.

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