Sumowanie wiązek generowanych przez jednowymiarowe matryce laserów półprzewodnikowych

• Autorzy: Mroziewicz B.

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DOI

10.15199/13.2015.8.11

Warianty tytułu

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Beam combining of one-dimensional semiconductor laser arrays

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

PL

Parametrem decydującym o przydatności laserów półprzewodnikowych w wielu nowoczesnych zastosowaniach technicznych lub medycznych jest luminancja wiązki fal emitowanej przez te lasery. Ze względu na różnego rodzaju ograniczenia konstrukcyjne, pojedyncze krawędziowe lasery półprzewodnikowe osiągnęły już jednak niemal maksymalną sprawność i moc wyjściową, a generowana przez nie wiązka charakteryzuje się asymetrycznym przekrojem i znaczną rozbieżnością. Rozwiązaniem staje się zatem stosowanie zbioru laserów tworzących matryce a następnie sumowanie emitowanych przez nie wiązek. Proces takiego sumowania (ang. Beam-combining) jest złożony ze względu na interferencję fal o różnych długościach, fazach i kierunkach propagacji, wymaga zatem synchronizacji. Zagadnienia te, a w szczególności metody sumowania koherentnego i niekoherentnego wiązek emitowanych przez jednowymiarowe matryce zwane linijkami laserowymi stanowią temat niniejszego artykułu. Jego ramy zostały ograniczone do opisania zagadnień kluczowych, lecz bogaty spis literatury powinien umożliwić zainteresowanym czytelnikom uzupełnienie aktualnego stanu wiedzy i techniki w tej dziedzinie.

EN

The parameter that is of particular interest for those who want to apply semiconductor lasers in modern technical or medical applications is luminance of the beam they emit. Numerous construction limitations have already almost restricted further improvements in the efficiency and output power of the individual devices. What’s more, their beam is usually asymmetrical in the cross-section and strongly divergent. Therefore a solution is sought through beam-combining of the laser arrays. The latter is complicated by wave interference that are of different length, phase and direction of propagation. These problems and in particular methods of coherent and non-coherent synchronization of the beams emitted by one-dimensional laser arrays are the subject of the present paper. Its scope has been restricted to some selected topics but a reach bibliography should be helpful for those who find the problems interesting.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

półprzewodnikowe linijki laserowe; sumowanie wiązek; synchronizacja; luminancja

EN

semiconductor laser arrays; beam combining; synchronization; luminance

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT
• Czasopismo: Elektronika : konstrukcje, technologie, zastosowania
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: Vol. 56, nr 8
• Strony: 38--47
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 67 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Mroziewicz B.

• Instytut Technologii Elektronowej, Warszawa

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