Surface-emitting unstable-resonator lasers with integrated diffractive beam-forming elements
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 9 (12) , 1570-1572
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.643264
Abstract
Grating-coupled surface-emitting semiconductor lasers have been integrated with focusing and spot array generating diffractive beam-forming elements. The lasers have an unstable resonator producing a 160-/spl mu/m-wide single spatial mode. The area of the outcoupler element is 160 /spl mu/m/spl times/240 /spl mu/m. For an outcoupler focusing at 500 /spl mu/m above the surface the spot size is 9 /spl mu/m/spl times/17 /spl mu/m The spot size is primarily limited by aberrations in the wavefront of the guided mode.Keywords
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