High-power 1550 nm tapered DBR lasers fabricated using soft UV-nano-imprint lithography

Jukka Viheriälä; Antti T. Aho; Jaakko Mäkelä; Joel Salmi; Heikki Virtanen; Tomi Leinonen; Mihail Dumitrescu; Mircea Guina

doi:10.1117/12.2207423

4 March 2016 High-power 1550 nm tapered DBR lasers fabricated using soft UV-nano-imprint lithography

Jukka Viheriälä, Antti T. Aho, Jaakko Mäkelä, Joel Salmi, Heikki Virtanen, Tomi Leinonen, Mihail Dumitrescu, Mircea Guina

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Proceedings Volume 9733, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications XIV; 97330Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207423
Event: SPIE LASE, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Paper reports the DBR-RWG surface grating design, the fabrication process, and the output characteristics of tapered DBR laser diodes for the applications, like for example LIDAR and range finding, that require eye-safe high-power single-mode coherent light sources. The fabricated regrowth-free DBR AlGaInAs/InP lasers exhibited a CW output power as high as 560 mW in single-mode operation at room temperature. At maximum output power the SMSR was 38 dB, proving the excellent behavior of the surface gratings. The tapered section enabled scaling the maximum CW power at room temperature from 125 mW to 560 mW, by increasing its length from 0.5 mm to 4.0 mm. The paper discusses the limitations and performance variation associated to the power scaling by using the tapered section length as a scaling parameter.

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Jukka Viheriälä, Antti T. Aho, Jaakko Mäkelä, Joel Salmi, Heikki Virtanen, Tomi Leinonen, Mihail Dumitrescu, and Mircea Guina "High-power 1550 nm tapered DBR lasers fabricated using soft UV-nano-imprint lithography", Proc. SPIE 9733, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications XIV, 97330Q (4 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207423

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