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Influence of nonlinear effects on the characteristics of pulsed high-power broad-area distributed Bragg reflector lasers

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We theoretically analyze the influence of nonlinear effects such as spatial holeburning, two-photon absorption and gain compression on the power–current and beam characteristics of a high-power broad-area distributed Bragg reflector laser with a stripe width of 50 \(\upmu\)m operated in pulsed mode and compare them with simulations of a similar Fabry–Pérot laser. On the one hand, spatial holeburning leads to a higher mean intensity within the cavity for a Fabry–Pérot laser and resulting higher losses in combination with two-photon absorption and gain compression, on the other hand, excitation of higher order lateral modes leads to losses through the Bragg grating. In combination with spatio-temporal power variations resolved by the utilized time-dependent traveling wave model two-photon absorption leads to higher power losses compared to those models using averaged powers.

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This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research contract 13N14026 as part of the EffiLAS/PLuS Project.

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  1. Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Straße 4, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Anissa Zeghuzi, Hans-Jürgen Wünsche, Andreas Klehr, Hans Wenzel & Andrea Knigge

  2. Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Mohrenstraße 39, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Mindaugas Radziunas & Hans-Jürgen Wünsche

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, NUSOD’ 17.

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Zeghuzi, A., Radziunas, M., Wünsche, HJ. et al. Influence of nonlinear effects on the characteristics of pulsed high-power broad-area distributed Bragg reflector lasers. Opt Quant Electron 50, 88 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-017-1297-8

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