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Characterisation of thermal crosstalk-induced wavelength shift in monolithic InP dual DFB lasers PIC
We present a miniaturized external cavity diode laser concept which will be compared with well-known laser systems such as distributed feedback (DFB) lasers. DFB lasers suffer high internal losses due to the overlap of the DFB grating with the optical waveguide. Our concept of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) based lasers are stabilized with a transmission grating, resulting in significantly less losses. Furthermore, the tuning of the diffraction efficiency of the gratings allows the optimization of the output power and the overall tuning range, which is measured to be one order of magnitude larger than what can be achieved with DFBs. It is also important to point out the tuning speed of the MEMS lasers due to the fast nature of the tilting capabilities of the MEMS actuators. Excellent relative intensity noise and narrow linewidth features are present in these laser systems due to the low noise driving electronics for both the diode lasers and the MEMS actuators.
The high output power and the low linewidth will enable a higher sensitivity and resolution for a wide range of applications. The performance of the MEMS laser systems will be presented, being suitable for applications such as Raman spectroscopy or tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) in the wavelength ranges of 780 nm and 920 nm.
The purpose of wavelength-beam combining (WBC) is to improve the output power of a multi-wavelength laser system while maintaining the quality of the combined beam. This technique has been primarily proposed for industrial applications, such as metal cutting and soldering, which require optical peak power between kilowatts and megawatts. In order to replace the bulkier solid-state lasers, we propose to use the WBC technique for photoacoustic (PA) applications, where a multi-wavelength focused beam with optical peak power between hundreds of watts up to several kilowatts is necessary to penetrate deeply into biological tissues. In this work we present an analytical study about the coupling of light beams emitted by diode laser bars at 808 nm, 880 nm, 910 nm, 940 nm, and 980 nm into a < 600-μm core-diameter optical fiber for PA endoscopy. In order to achieve an efficient coupling it is necessary to collimate the beams in both fast and slow axes by means of cylindrical lenses and to use partial reflection mirrors at 45° tilt. We show an example of beam collimation using cylindrical lenses in both fast and slow axes. In a real PA scenario, the resulting beam should have a sufficient peak power to generate significant PA signals from a turbid tissue>.
Design of monolithic integrated Bragg gratings in InGaAsP/InP materials as chirped pulse compressors
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