Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 4, 041406(2023)
Improving the performance of high-power broad-area lasers by suppressing cavity modes propagating in the lateral dimension
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Jian Fan, Xuyan Zhou, Weiqiao Zhang, Yufei Wang, Hongwei Qu, Aiyi Qi, Wanhua Zheng, "Improving the performance of high-power broad-area lasers by suppressing cavity modes propagating in the lateral dimension," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 041406 (2023)
Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
Received: Oct. 12, 2022
Accepted: Jan. 3, 2023
Published Online: Mar. 10, 2023
The Author Email: Xuyan Zhou (zhouxuyan@semi.ac.cn), Wanhua Zheng (whzheng@semi.ac.cn)