Monolithic Diode-Laser Arrays

✍ Scribed by Dr. Nils W. Carlson (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 404
• Series: Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics 33
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last two decades, the search for a compact, high-power semiconductor source has produced many designs and concepts for monolithic diode-laser arrays and optical amplifiers. However, only a few design approaches have emerged with the potential for producing high-power, high-brightness monolithic sources. Although semiconductor-diode lasers are the most compact, highest gain and most efficient laser sources, challenges remain in developing structures that will produce high-quality, diffraction-limited output beams. This book presents and analyzes the results of work performed over the last twenty years in the development of high-brightness diode-laser arrays.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Introduction and Background....Pages 1-30
Fundamentals of High-Power Operation....Pages 31-81
Spatial and Spectral Mode Discrimination....Pages 83-124
Theoretical Models for Monolithic Diode-Laser Arrays....Pages 125-169
Gain-Guided Diode-Laser Oscillators....Pages 171-195
Index-Guided Diode-Laser Array Oscillators....Pages 197-232
Surface-Emitting Diode-Laser Arrays....Pages 233-283
Master-Oscillator Power-Amplifier Diode Lasers....Pages 285-338
Back Matter....Pages 339-396

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics;Quantum Optics;Optical and Electronic Materials;Complexity;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices