Over the last two decades, the search for a compact, high-power semiconductor source has produced many designs and concepts for monolithic diode-laser arrays and optical amplifiers. However, only a few design approaches have emerged with the potential for producing high-power, high-brightness monolithic sources. Although semiconductor-diode lasers are the most compact, highest gain and most efficient laser sources, challenges remain in developing structures that will produce high-quality, diffraction-limited output beams. This book presents and analyzes the results of work performed over the last twenty years in the development of high-brightness diode-laser arrays.
This volume focuses on chronological development, applications, and physics of monolithic semiconductor diode- laser arrays, in a unified manner interesting for scientists and engineers from all areas of laser physics (not only semiconductor laser physicists).
Nils W. Carlson
diffraction laser semiconductor
"The many figures and references make this an excellent review of the field. I recommend this book not only to researchers in the field of optoelectronics, but also in laser science." - Optics and Photonics News
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