Search Results

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Item
    Beam combining scheme for high-power broad-area semiconductor lasers with Lyot-filtered reinjection: Modeling, simulations, and experiments
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2019) Brée, Carsten; Raab, Volker; Montiel-Ponsoda, Joan; Garre-Werner, Guillermo; Staliunas, Kestutis; Bandelow, Uwe; Radziunas, Mindaugas
    A brightness- and power-scalable polarization beam combining scheme for high-power, broadarea semiconductor laser diodes is investigated numerically and experimentally. To achieve the beam combining, we employ Lyot-filtered optical reinjection from an external cavity, which forces lasing of the individual diodes on interleaved frequency combs with overlapping envelopes and enables a high optical coupling efficiency. Unlike conventional spectral beam combining schemes with diffraction gratings, the optical coupling efficiency is insensitive to thermal drifts of laser wavelengths. This scheme can be used for efficient coupling of a large number of laser diodes and paves the way towards using broad-area laser diode arrays for cost-efficient material processing, which requires high-brilliance emission and optical powers in the kW-regime.
  • Item
    Numerical study of coherence of optical feedback in semiconductor laser dynamics
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2019) Radziunas, Mindaugas; Little, Douglas J.; Kane, Deborah M.
    The nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor laser with coherent, as compared to incoherent, delayed optical feedback systems have been discussed and contrasted in prior research literature. Here, we report simulations of how the dynamics change as the coherence of the optical feedback is systematically varied from being coherent to incoherent. An increasing rate of phase disturbance is used to vary the coherence. An edge emitting, 830nm, Fabry Perot semiconductor laser with a long external cavity is simulated. Following this study, consideration of prior and future experimental studies should include evaluation of where on the continuum of partial coherence the delayed optical feedback sits. Partial coherence is a parameter that will affect the dynamics.