The epitaxial growth conditions and performance of a diode-pumped GaSb-based optically pumped semiconductor disk laser(SDL) emitting near 2.0 μm in an external cavity configuration are reported. The high quality epit...The epitaxial growth conditions and performance of a diode-pumped GaSb-based optically pumped semiconductor disk laser(SDL) emitting near 2.0 μm in an external cavity configuration are reported. The high quality epitaxial structure,grown on Te-doped(001) oriented GaSb substrate by molecular beam epitaxy, consists of a distributed Bragg reflector(DBR), a multi-quantum-well gain region, and a window layer. An intra-cavity SiC heat spreader was attached to the gain chip for effective thermal management. A continuous-wave output power of over 1 W operating at 2.03 μm wavelength operating near room temperature was achieved using a 3% output coupler.展开更多
An optimized setup for fiber optic injection of a kilowatt peak power laser diode stack emitting in the SWIR spectral range is proposed. Starting from a fast axis collimated (FAC) and slow axis collimated (SAC) 15 bar...An optimized setup for fiber optic injection of a kilowatt peak power laser diode stack emitting in the SWIR spectral range is proposed. Starting from a fast axis collimated (FAC) and slow axis collimated (SAC) 15 bars, 19 emitters off the shelf laser diode stack, the beam is transformed using spatial beam combining and polarization coupling. Both techniques integrated in a compact design enable to couple the kilowatt level beam into a standard 600 μm core, 0.22 numerical aperture (NA) multimode optical fiber. An application in the field of long range SWIR laser illuminator for gated viewing is presented. A comparison between two illuminators is realized both based on the same laser diode stack but one using beam parameter product (BPP) reduction and one without. It could be demonstrated that BPP reduction is the best way for efficient, narrow divergence and compact semi-conductor based laser illuminators design and realization. The global laser illuminator efficiency could be improved by 75% for the narrowest divergences thanks to this approach.展开更多
基金supported by the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61790581,61790582,and 61790584)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61435012)the Scientific Instrument Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.YJKYYQ20170032)
文摘The epitaxial growth conditions and performance of a diode-pumped GaSb-based optically pumped semiconductor disk laser(SDL) emitting near 2.0 μm in an external cavity configuration are reported. The high quality epitaxial structure,grown on Te-doped(001) oriented GaSb substrate by molecular beam epitaxy, consists of a distributed Bragg reflector(DBR), a multi-quantum-well gain region, and a window layer. An intra-cavity SiC heat spreader was attached to the gain chip for effective thermal management. A continuous-wave output power of over 1 W operating at 2.03 μm wavelength operating near room temperature was achieved using a 3% output coupler.
文摘An optimized setup for fiber optic injection of a kilowatt peak power laser diode stack emitting in the SWIR spectral range is proposed. Starting from a fast axis collimated (FAC) and slow axis collimated (SAC) 15 bars, 19 emitters off the shelf laser diode stack, the beam is transformed using spatial beam combining and polarization coupling. Both techniques integrated in a compact design enable to couple the kilowatt level beam into a standard 600 μm core, 0.22 numerical aperture (NA) multimode optical fiber. An application in the field of long range SWIR laser illuminator for gated viewing is presented. A comparison between two illuminators is realized both based on the same laser diode stack but one using beam parameter product (BPP) reduction and one without. It could be demonstrated that BPP reduction is the best way for efficient, narrow divergence and compact semi-conductor based laser illuminators design and realization. The global laser illuminator efficiency could be improved by 75% for the narrowest divergences thanks to this approach.
