Tapered Laser
Scheme
The tapered laser consists of a single-mode RW section and a section with a taper structure for amplifying the light. Both sections set up an instable resonator. It is possible to connect both sections separatly.
- Principle of a Tapered Laser
Applications
- Material processing like welding and soldering
- Pumping of solid state lasers
- Medical applications
- Pumping of up-conversion fiber lasers
Wavelength
630 nm to 1150 nm
Chip technology
- Semiconductor layers by MOVPE
- Combination of RW and BA laser technology
Mounting
- Open heat sink (C-mount)
- Conduction cooled packaging (CCP)
Typical data
- Output power up to several Watts [Poster, pdf]
- Excellent beam quality (M2 < 2 @ 5 W)
- Narrow spectral FWHM