High power laser diodes at 14xx nm wavelength range for industrial and medical applications

Jarkko Telkkälä; Julien Boucart; Martin Krejci; Trevor Crum; Norbert Lichtenstein

doi:10.1117/12.2037771

7 March 2014 High power laser diodes at 14xx nm wavelength range for industrial and medical applications

Jarkko Telkkälä, Julien Boucart, Martin Krejci, Trevor Crum, Norbert Lichtenstein

Proceedings Volume 8965, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications XII; 896510 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2037771
Event: SPIE LASE, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report on the development of the latest generation of high power laser diodes at 14xx nm wavelength range suitable for industrial applications such as plastics welding and medical applications including acne treatment, skin rejuvenation and surgery. The paper presents the newest chip generation developed at II-VI Laser Enterprise, increasing the output power and the power conversion efficiency while retaining the reliability of the initial design. At an emission wavelength around 1440 nm we applied the improved design to a variety of assemblies exhibiting maximum power values as high as 7 W for broad-area single emitters. For 1 cm wide bars on conductive coolers and for bars on active micro channel coolers we have obtained 50 W and 72 W in continuous wave (cw) operation respectively. The maximum power measured for a 1 cm bar operated with 50 μs pulse width and 0.01% duty cycle was 184 W, demonstrating the potential of the chip design for optimized cooling. Power conversion efficiency values as high as 50% for a single emitter device and over 40% for mounted bars have been demonstrated, reducing the required power budget to operate the devices. Both active and conductive bar assembly configurations show polarization purity greater than 98%. Life testing has been conducted at 95 A, 50% duty cycle and 0.5 Hz hard pulsed operation for bars which were soldered to conductive copper CS mounts using our hard solder technology. The results after 5500 h, or 10 million “on-off” cycles show stable operation.

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Jarkko Telkkälä, Julien Boucart, Martin Krejci, Trevor Crum, and Norbert Lichtenstein "High power laser diodes at 14xx nm wavelength range for industrial and medical applications", Proc. SPIE 8965, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications XII, 896510 (7 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2037771

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