High-power high-brightness ridge-waveguide tapered diode lasers at 14xx nm

Senta Kallenbach; Marc T. Kelemen; Rolf Aidam; Rainer Losch; Gudrun Kaufel; Michael Mikulla; Guenter Weimann

doi:10.1117/12.588514

1 April 2005 High-power high-brightness ridge-waveguide tapered diode lasers at 14xx nm

Senta Kallenbach, Marc T. Kelemen, Rolf Aidam, Rainer Losch, Gudrun Kaufel, Michael Mikulla, Guenter Weimann

Proceedings Volume 5738, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers IV; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.588514
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

High-power spatially single-mode diode lasers at 1.4 - 1.5 μm wavelength are of interest as pump lasers for Raman and rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers as well as for material processing and for Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) at eye-safe wavelengths. A cost-efficient way to realize high-power high-brightness devices is the tapered resonator concept. We demonstrate InGaAsP/InP based diode lasers with compressively strained quantum wells and wavelengths around 1480 nm which were grown by solid source MBE. From broad area lasers with variations in quantum well number and waveguide layer thickness, parameters for the logarithmic gain model are deduced. With their implementation in 2-dimensional BPM simulations, an optimized resonator geometry is derived. Devices employ a 500 μm ridge section followed by a 2000 μm taper section with 6° angle. Continuous-wave (cw) output powers reach more than 1.5 W. Beam quality is characterized in terms of near field and far field distribution, M², and astigmatism. An excellent agreement is found between measurement and simulation. For narrow-linewidth operation, devices are provided with anti-reflection coatings on both facets and spectrally stabilized with an external grating. We achieve 0.7 W single mode power and a side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of 42 dB. Reliability is tested in terms of facet stability and lifetime. Pulsed measurements reveal a power stability up to more than 5 MW/cm². From cw aging tests at 1 W output power, lifetimes of about 6,000 h are extrapolated.

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Senta Kallenbach, Marc T. Kelemen, Rolf Aidam, Rainer Losch, Gudrun Kaufel, Michael Mikulla, and Guenter Weimann "High-power high-brightness ridge-waveguide tapered diode lasers at 14xx nm", Proc. SPIE 5738, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers IV, (1 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.588514

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