Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
  • paper CTHM5

High power, high frequency, cw switching using pulsed laser diode arrays

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Conventional PIN diodes are capable of switching high levels of power with minimum loss and distortion. However, to electrically switch these devices requires high voltage switching power supplies. An alternate approach is to utilize high power PIN diodes with integral optical windows activated by high pulse power 2-D laser diode arrays: Rosen et al. have demonstrated hf (2-30-MHz) switches utilizing this concept.1 They reported that the ratio of the time for which the switch remained closed to the time for which the pulsed laser diode array was emitting IR energy was as great as 5 (we will refer to this ratio as the R factor) with bias currents of 3.6 A at 400 V.

© 1990 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
1990 update on high-power diode-array-pumped lasers

George Dube
TuKK2 OSA Annual Meeting (FIO) 1990

CTHN3 High power two-stage Injection locking of laser diode arrays

L. Y. PANG, E. S. KINTZER, and JAMES G. FUJIMOTO
CTHN3 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1990

Integrated Injection locking of high power cw diode laser arrays

J. P. HOHIMER, D. R. MYERS, T. M. BRENNAN, and B. E. HAMMONS
THS2 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1989

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved