Volume Bragg grating external-cavity designs for coherent emission of an array of tapered diode lasers

David Pabœuf (1) , Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin (1) , Nicolas Michel (2) , Michel Calligaro (3) , Michel Krakowski (2) , Patrick Georges (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
2 III-V Lab - Alcatel-Thalès III-V lab
3 Thales Research and Technology [Palaiseau]

We report spatial brightness improvement of diode laser arrays in different extended-cavity setups, which take benefit of the narrow spectral bandwidth of volume Bragg gratings to lock the emission spectrum.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]; Optics / Photonic

David Pabœuf, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin, Nicolas Michel, Michel Calligaro, Michel Krakowski, et al.. Volume Bragg grating external-cavity designs for coherent emission of an array of tapered diode lasers. EOS Topical Meeting on Lasers, Sep 2009, Capri, Italy. ⟨hal-00534765⟩