Beam Quality Factor Analysis for Coherently-Coupled Vertically-Emitting Laser Arrays

Date

2018-09

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IEEE

Abstract

We report on a method for determining the beam quality factor (M 2 ) for all or selected lobes of coherently-coupled vertically-emitting laser arrays, such as on-wafer photonic crystal vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (PhC VCSEL) arrays.

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Keywords

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, Laser beams, Arrays, Cavity resonators, Q-factor, Couplings

Citation

J. J. Raftery, J. B. Groen and K. A. Ingold, "Beam Quality Factor Analysis for Coherently-Coupled Vertically-Emitting Laser Arrays," 2018 IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2018, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/ISLC.2018.8516234.