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The Quest For High Power Lasers: Forcing Mutual Coherence In Broad Area Diode Lasers, Jonathan R. Wurtz Apr 2014

The Quest For High Power Lasers: Forcing Mutual Coherence In Broad Area Diode Lasers, Jonathan R. Wurtz

Student Research Projects

This poster explains efforts to improve spatial beam quality of diode array stacks using an external optical feedback system to force coherence of individual diodes.


Forcing Mutual Coherence In Diode Laser Stacks, Jonathan R. Wurtz Jan 2014

Forcing Mutual Coherence In Diode Laser Stacks, Jonathan R. Wurtz

Honors Theses and Capstones

This paper will discuss both theoretical and experimental attempts to improve the spatial beam quality of diode laser stacks using an external optical system. An overview and derivation of the mathematics of both the optical system and diode lasers will be discussed. The experimental setup will be presented, as well as the fundamental theoretical and experimental results that suggest the external optical system used for this thesis fails to improve the beam quality of a diode laser stack.