We describe the experimental cw power scaling of optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers OPS-DLs and give a detailed insight into the physical mechanism of this type of high-power surface-emitting semiconductor laser with external cavity. Minimizing the thermal resistance between active region and heat sink enables improved efficiency and gives access to high power and excellent beam quality of OPS-DL at 1000 nm. Results from initial numerical modeling are in good agreement with the experimental data, and show that thermal management is a critical parameter for the temperature-driven power shutoff in such devices. The computations are based on the macroscopic thermal transport, spatially resolved in both the radial and longitudinal directions, and coupled to the carrier density rate equations. A quantitative microscopic approach is used for the quantum-well gain and absorption dependence on wavelength, carrier density, and lattice temperature. The dependence of the computed output power on the substrate thickness and detuning are discussed.
The nonlinear optical response of semiconductor microcavities in the nonpertubative regime is studied in resonant single-beam-transmission and pump-probe experiments. In both cases a pronounced third transmission peak lying spectrally between the two normal modes is observed. A fully quantized theory is essential for the agreement with the experimental observations, demonstrating that quantum fluctuations leading to intraband polarizations are responsible for this effect.
Pump-probe experiments on high-quality In x Ga 1Ϫx As quantum wells are used to investigate the influence of light-hole excitons on the optical Stark effect. For anticircular polarization of pump and probe pulses and a moderate negative detuning of the pump energy, a redshift of the heavy-hole resonance is observed. However, with increasingly negative detuning a transition from this redshift to a blueshift is found. Microscopic calculations that include both heavy holes and light holes reproduce the experimental results. The theoretical analysis shows that the observation of the redshift depends very sensitively on the detuning of the pump pulses and the heavy-hole to light-hole splitting.
The dynamics of the catastrophic optical damage process under continuous wave operation is analyzed in red-emitting high-power diode lasers by means of combined thermal and optical near-field (NF) imaging with cameras. The catastrophic process is revealed as extremely fast (Δt⩽2.3ms) and spatially confined. It is connected with a pronounced impulsive temperature change. Its coincidence with the most intense NF filament is indicative of the critical nature of thermal runaway in the catastrophic process.
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