Advanced packaging of high-power slab-coupled optical waveguide laser and amplifier arrays for coherent beam combining
May 16, 2010
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2010 Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 16 May 2010.
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Summary
Individually addressable GaAs-based 9XX-nm Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide (SCOW) laser and amplifier arrays have been demonstrated in a modular 2-D stacked architecture. Approximately 20 W of coherently-combined power was obtained from two optically stacked amplifier modules.