Self-injection locking of an extraordinarily wide broad-area diode laser with a 1000-µm-wide emitter
Optics Letters, Vol. 30, Issue 10, pp. 1147-1149 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.30.001147
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Abstract
The experimental results of self-injection locking of an antireflection-coated broad-area diode laser with a 1000-µm-wide emitting area are presented. To our knowledge, it is the broadest single-element diode laser that has been used in an external-feedback cavity until now. Usually, wide diode lasers suffer from filamentation, which leads to poor spatial beam quality. We show, however, that the beam quality of the diode laser is improved significantly when we use asymmetric self-injection locking. An output power of 2.05 W is obtained with a beam quality factor M² of 2.7. The self-injection locking technique improves the beam quality by a factor of 107. By comparing the results with those obtained with an ordinarily coated diode laser with a 1000-µm-wide emitter we show that antireflection coating on the front facet is decisive for this improvement in the beam quality.
© 2005 Optical Society of America
OCIS Codes
(070.6110) Fourier optics and signal processing : Spatial filtering
(140.0140) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers and laser optics
(140.2020) Lasers and laser optics : Diode lasers
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
Citation
Mingjun Chi, Birgitte Thestrup, and Paul Michael Petersen, "Self-injection locking of an extraordinarily wide broad-area diode laser with a 1000-µm-wide emitter," Opt. Lett. 30, 1147-1149 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-30-10-1147
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