High-Power Diode Lasers: Fundamentals, Technology, Applications: With Contributions by Numerous Experts

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Methods of design and fabrication of high-power diode lasers using proven semiconductor technologies are presented in a comprehensive fashion making this book an invaluable source of information for all scientists and engineers designing laser systems and applying the laser as a reliable and economic tool in a multitude of environments. It summarizes the prerequisites to set up state-of-the-art high-power diode-laser sources and how to use them in various applications. The available information, until now scattered worldwide in the scientific and technical literature, has been collected and compiled by the authors to give a complete overview of the principles of high-power diode lasers and design aspects for achieving high optical output power at high efficiency, low threshold current density, high reliability, and for reducing production costs. Special features are the development of high-brightness diode lasers for application in direct materials processing, technologies of alloying single lasers and laser bars to sophisticated heat sinks and direct applications of high-power diode-laser systems with coherent and incoherent beam combining and also new concepts for diode-pumped solid-state lasers such as the fiber laser and the disc laser which become feasible through diode pumping. Introduction to Power Diode Lasers....Pages 1-54 Dynamics of High-Power Diode Lasers....Pages 55-81 Epitaxy of High-Power Diode Laser Structures....Pages 83-120 GaAs Substrates for High-Power Diode Lasers....Pages 121-171 High-Power Broad-Area Diode Lasers and Laser Bars....Pages 173-223 Properties and Frequency Conversion of High-Brightness Diode-Laser Systems....Pages 225-263 Tapered High-Power, High-Brightness Diode Lasers: Design and Performance....Pages 265-288 Cooling and Packaging of High-Power Diode Lasers....Pages 289-301 High-Power Diode Lasers for Direct Applications....Pages 303-368 New Concepts for Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers....Pages 369-408