Distributed Bragg reflector

High-power tapered diode lasers utilizing monolithic gratings

Published in: SPIE OPTO 2025 Authors: Luukas Kuusela, Timo Aho, Riina Ulkuniemi, Mika Mähönen, Jussi Hämelahti, Andreas Schramm, Soile Talmila, Jarkko Liimatainen, Pekko Sipilä, Petteri Uusimaa Semiconductor lasers are small and robust devices with low power consumption and good reliability. They can be produced in a wafer scale process yielding up to thousands of devices and a large span of wavelengths can be covered

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High-power DBR lasers at elevated operation temperature

Published in: SPIE OPTO 2025 Authors: Luukas Kuusela, Timo Aho, Riina Ulkuniemi, Mika Mähönen, Jussi Hämelahti, Andreas Schramm, Soile Talmila, Jarkko Liimatainen, Pekko Sipilä, Petteri Uusimaa Various commercial fieldable sensing applications require compact, robust, and stable single-frequency laser sources. Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers enable single-frequency operation without an external cavity and alignmentsensitive components. This makes them the solution of choice for compact and

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Recent advances in visible AlGaInP laser diodes

Published in: SPIE OPTO 2025 Authors: R. Ulkuniemi, A. Schramm, S. Talmila, M. Mähönen, L. Kuusela, T. Aho, J. Hämelahti, V. Vilokkinen, P. Sipilä, P. Uusimaa Visible red laser diodes are mostly based on AlGaInP material systems, grown on GaAs. The challenges in manufacturing of the diodes are found in thermal behavior, facet stability, and doping, which must be solved for reaching the best

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