10-W peak power from a gain-switched picosecond all-semiconductor laser

Reto Haring; Thorsten Schmitt; Aude-Reine Bellancourt; Frank Lison; Kristian Lauritsen; Rainer Erdmann; Wilhelm Kaenders

doi:10.1117/12.591479

27 April 2005 10-W peak power from a gain-switched picosecond all-semiconductor laser

Reto Haring, Thorsten Schmitt, Aude-Reine Bellancourt, Frank Lison, Kristian Lauritsen, Rainer Erdmann, Wilhelm Kaenders

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Proceedings Volume 5707, Solid State Lasers XIV: Technology and Devices; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.591479
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Gain-switching of laser diodes might be the most convenient way to generate picosecond laser pulses. The outstanding features of gain-switched laser diodes are a rich choice of wavelength and an easy synchronization to an external trigger source. To broaden the field of applications we pushed the peak power to the 10 W level while maintaining the essential characteristics of the laser source. In a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) configuration a tapered amplifier is used to increase the output from 10 mW to 160 mW average power. Second harmonic generation is demonstrated in a single pass setup, which results in 6.5 mW average power at 532 nm with a repetition rate of 80 MHz.

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Reto Haring, Thorsten Schmitt, Aude-Reine Bellancourt, Frank Lison, Kristian Lauritsen, Rainer Erdmann, and Wilhelm Kaenders "10-W peak power from a gain-switched picosecond all-semiconductor laser", Proc. SPIE 5707, Solid State Lasers XIV: Technology and Devices, (27 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.591479

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