A compact, narrow-band, and low-noise 800-mW laser source at 980 nm

Tomas Pliska; Nicolai Matuschek; Joerg Troger; Berthold Schmidt; Stefan Mohrdiek; Christoph Harder

doi:10.1117/12.590307

1 April 2005 A compact, narrow-band, and low-noise 800-mW laser source at 980 nm

Tomas Pliska, Nicolai Matuschek, Joerg Troger, Berthold Schmidt, Stefan Mohrdiek, Christoph Harder

Proceedings Volume 5738, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers IV; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.590307
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We report on the development of a new cost-effective, small form-factor laser source at a wavelength of 980 nm. The laser module is based on proven technology commonly used for pump laser modules deployed in fiber amplifiers of telecommunication networks. The package uses a state-of-the-art 14-pin butterfly housing with a footprint of 30x15 mm² with a Fabry-Perot AlGaAs-InGaAs pump laser diode mounted inside having an anti-reflection coating on its front facet. The light is coupled into a single-mode polarization-maintaining fiber with a mode-field diameter of 6.6 micrometer. The spectral properties of the source are defined by a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) that provides feedback in a narrow reflection band. The laser back facet and the FBG form a long resonant cavity of 1.7 m length in which laser light with a low coherence length of a few cm is generated. This configuration with the laser being operated in the coherence-collapse regime has the advantage of being robust against variations in the optical path, thus enabling stable and mode-hop free emission. The laser module has the following properties: a continuous-wave fiber output power exceeding 800 mW, a spectral bandwidth of less than 50 pm, a root-mean square power variation of less than 0.2 % from DC to 2 MHz over the entire power operating range, and a polarization extinction ratio of more than 20 dB. This is a compact, low noise, high power source for frequency conversion with nonlinear optical materials, such as blue light generation.

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Tomas Pliska, Nicolai Matuschek, Joerg Troger, Berthold Schmidt, Stefan Mohrdiek, and Christoph Harder "A compact, narrow-band, and low-noise 800-mW laser source at 980 nm", Proc. SPIE 5738, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers IV, (1 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.590307

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