The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program is a military undertaking with huge implications for the commercial laser market. This article presents SHED's goal to increase the efficiency of semiconductor pump lasers to 80% from current state of the art of 50%, and to maximize their coupling to high-power solid-state lasers. If this goal is achieved - or even if it is partially achieved - it will make many of today's lasers obsolete and will usher in a new generation of smaller, more efficient and more powerful commercial lasers.


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    Titel :

    Military project aims to improve diode laser efficiency


    Beteiligte:
    Hitz, B. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Photonics Spectra ; 39 , 1 ; 89


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005


    Format / Umfang :

    1 Seite



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch