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    Improvement of output beam quality in broad area lasers with off-axis feedback
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2011) Lichtner, Mark; Tronciu, Vasile; Vladimirov, Andrej G.
    We report a method to improve the beam quality of broad area lasers by using a V-shaped external cavity formed by two off-axis feedback mirrors that allow to select a single transverse mode with the intensity modulated in the transverse direction. We find that in the case when one of the two feedback mirrors is absent a spontaneous formation of self-induced transverse population grating leading to a reduction of the lasing threshold is observed. Most favorable conditions for stabilization of single transverse supermode and creation of a high power and high brightness plane wave traveling in the extended cavity are obtained for equal re ectivities of the two external reflectors.
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    Tunable semiconductor ring laser with filtered optical feedback: Traveling wave description and experimental validation
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Radziunas, Mindaugas; Khoder, Mulham; Tronciu, Vasile; Danckaert, Jan; Verschaffelt, Guy
    We study experimentally and theoretically a semiconductor ring laser with four filtering channels providing filtered delayed optical feedback. To describe and analyze the wavelength selection and tuning in this device, we exploit the traveling-wave model determining the evolution of optical fields and carrier density along the ring cavity and filtering branches. The numerical results agree with the experimental observations: we can reproduce the wavelength tuning, the multiple wavelength emission, and the wavelength switching speed measured in these devices. The traveling-wave model allows us to study in detail the effect of the different laser parameters and can be useful for designing the future devices.
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    Amplifications of picosecond laser pulses in tapered semiconductor amplifiers : numerical simulations versus experiments
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2011) Tronciu, Vasile; Schwertfeger, Sven; Radziunas, Mindaugas; Klehr, Andreas; Bandelow, Uwe; Wenzel, Hans
    We apply a travelling wave model to the simulation of the amplification of laser pulses generated by Q-switched or mode-locked distributed-Bragg reflector lasers. The power amplifier monolithically integrates a ridge-waveguide section acting as pre-amplifier and a flared gain-region amplifier. The diffraction limited and spectral-narrow band pulses injected in to the pre-amplifier have durations between 10 ps and 100 ps and a peak power of typical 1 W. After the amplifier, the pulses reach a peak power of several tens of Watts preserving the spatial, spectral and temporal properties of the input pulse. We report results obtained by a numerical solution of the travelling-wave equations and compare them with experimental investigations. The peak powers obtained experimentally are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions. The performance of the power amplifier is evaluated by considering the dependence of the pulse energy as a function of different device and material parameters.