33 W continuous output power semiconductor disk laser emitting at 1275 nm

We demonstrate a semiconductor disk laser emitting at 1275nm, employing a wafer fused AlInGaAs/InP-AlAs/GaAs gain mirror. A built-in Au-reflector was used to reflect the pump light not absorbed in a single pass through the gain chip active region. The laser exhibited an output power of 33 W for a pu...

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Published in:Optics express Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 7008 - 7013
Main Authors: Leinonen, Tomi, Iakovlev, Vladimir, Sirbu, Alexei, Kapon, Eli, Guina, Mircea
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 20-03-2017
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Summary:We demonstrate a semiconductor disk laser emitting at 1275nm, employing a wafer fused AlInGaAs/InP-AlAs/GaAs gain mirror. A built-in Au-reflector was used to reflect the pump light not absorbed in a single pass through the gain chip active region. The laser exhibited an output power of 33 W for a pump spot with a diameter of 0.86 mm, an output coupler of 2.5%, and a heat-sink temperature of -5°C. When the temperature of the heat-sink was increased to 15 °C, the maximum output power reached a value of ~24 W. The study reveals that the wafer fused gain mirrors have a high optical quality and good uniformity enabling scaling of the maximum emitted power with the diameter of the pump spot, i.e. at least up to the 1 mm diameter.
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ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.25.007008