Novel transverse micro-stack semiconductor laser bars are put forward to improve the output optical power of semiconductor laser bars at low injection current. More importantly, the novel laser bars have a coupled lar...Novel transverse micro-stack semiconductor laser bars are put forward to improve the output optical power of semiconductor laser bars at low injection current. More importantly, the novel laser bars have a coupled large optical cavity, which can overcome the problem of catastrophic optical damage and improve light beam quality due to the coherently coupled emitting along the transverse direction. The micro-stack tunnel regeneration tri-active region laser structure was grown by metal organic chemical vapour deposition. For a weakly coupled uncoated device, the optical power exceeds 60 W under 50 A driving current and the slope efficiency reaches 1.55 W/A. Further experiments show that the perpendicular divergence of 23° is achieved from transverse strongly coupled devices.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Programme of China under Grant No 2006CB604902, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 60506012.
文摘Novel transverse micro-stack semiconductor laser bars are put forward to improve the output optical power of semiconductor laser bars at low injection current. More importantly, the novel laser bars have a coupled large optical cavity, which can overcome the problem of catastrophic optical damage and improve light beam quality due to the coherently coupled emitting along the transverse direction. The micro-stack tunnel regeneration tri-active region laser structure was grown by metal organic chemical vapour deposition. For a weakly coupled uncoated device, the optical power exceeds 60 W under 50 A driving current and the slope efficiency reaches 1.55 W/A. Further experiments show that the perpendicular divergence of 23° is achieved from transverse strongly coupled devices.
