Improved Beam Quality of Coherently Combined Angled-Grating Broad-Area Lasers

We improve the beam quality and performance of coherently combined angled-grating broad-area lasers through current/gain confinement. We show that the nonuniform current/gain distribution in our previous lasers excites the second-order Bragg mode and degrades the beam quality. Ion implantation is us...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yunsong Zhao, Lin Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2013-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6458974/