1.5-um Tapered-Gain-Region Lasers with High-CW Output Powers
October 1, 1998
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IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1998, pp. 1377-1379.
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Summary
High-power diode lasers consisting of a ridge-waveguide section coupled to a tapered region have been fabricated in 1.5um InGaAsP-InP multiple-quantum-well material. Self-focusing at high current densities and high-intensity input into the taper section has been identified as a fundamental problem in these devices that has to be dealt with. To date, continuous-wave output powers>1 W with=80% of the power in the near-diffraction-limited central lobe of the far field have been obtained through a judicious choice of device parameters.