TY - JOUR
T1 - Coupling of parallel-cavity laser arrays with high-contrast-reflectivity mirrors
AU - Hardy, Amos
AU - Kapon, Eli
AU - Weitman, Gilad
PY - 1998/9
Y1 - 1998/9
N2 - A coupled-mode formulation is presented for parallel cavities of a laser array. The interaction between neighboring elements is via diffraction resulting from perturbation of the boundary conditions. Each highreflectivity cavity mirror is surrounded by a much-lower-reflectivity background, which, for practical purposes, is considered to be zero. The formulation applies both to ordinary laser arrays and to vertical-cavity laser arrays with high-contrast laterally patterned mirrors. Some examples are considered and compared against exact numerical calculations.
AB - A coupled-mode formulation is presented for parallel cavities of a laser array. The interaction between neighboring elements is via diffraction resulting from perturbation of the boundary conditions. Each highreflectivity cavity mirror is surrounded by a much-lower-reflectivity background, which, for practical purposes, is considered to be zero. The formulation applies both to ordinary laser arrays and to vertical-cavity laser arrays with high-contrast laterally patterned mirrors. Some examples are considered and compared against exact numerical calculations.
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U2 - 10.1364/JOSAA.15.002412
DO - 10.1364/JOSAA.15.002412
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AN - SCOPUS:11644258435
SN - 1084-7529
VL - 15
SP - 2412
EP - 2424
JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
IS - 9
ER -