Five watt continuous-wave AlGaAs laser diodes

G. L. Harnagel, D.R. Scifresl, H. Kung, David Welch, P.S. Cross, R. D. Burnham

Electronics Letters · 1986 · 23 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Laser diodes producing continuous-wave output power levels up to 5.4 W at room temperature have been fabricated and tested. These monolithic arrays of 100 to 140 stripes with a total active width of 1 mm have achieved a total power conversion efficiency of up to 36%.

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