High-Power, High-Brightness Al-free Active Region Tapered Lasers at 975 nm with Planar, Fully Gain Guided Geometry
24 September 2006
planar, fully gain guided tapered lasers deliver 1.5 W CW, with M2 = 1.6, T0 = 143 K and a slow axis divergence of only 1.3ð FWHM and 2.4ð at 1/e2.