Enabling an all-guided-wave mid-IR laser source

F. Kenneth Hopkins; Darnell E. Diggs

doi:10.1117/12.929853

15 October 2012 Enabling an all-guided-wave mid-IR laser source

Proceedings Volume 8519, Nanophotonics and Macrophotonics for Space Environments VI; 851908 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.929853
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

An all guided-wave multi-spectral laser source emitting watts to tens-of-watts of mid-infrared power would impact a broad range of airborne and space applications. As compared with a free-space solid-state laser source, a guided-wave design, composed of coupled lasing and nonlinear optical components, offers potential advantages in size, weight, efficiency, and mechanical robustness while retaining high beam quality for single-mode designs. New material options under development by the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) enable new approaches to achieving such a source.

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F. Kenneth Hopkins and Darnell E. Diggs "Enabling an all-guided-wave mid-IR laser source", Proc. SPIE 8519, Nanophotonics and Macrophotonics for Space Environments VI, 851908 (15 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.929853

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