Ultrashort optical pulses 0.46 psec in duration with over 70 W of peak power are generated from an all-semiconductor laser-diode system. These results represent to our knowledge both the shortest and most-intense optical pulses generated from an all-semiconductor laser system.

A methodology for treating the semiconductor laser as a current-controlled oscillator in an optical phase-lock loop is presented. The formalism is applied to phase demodulation of optical beams, reduction of phase noise by self-homodyning, and phase locking of a semiconductor laser array.

Past research efforts have attempted to demonstrate semiconductor lasers with reduced levels of phase noise, approaching noise levels typically observed in highly coherent solid state lasers. In this work, detailed phase noise measurements have been performed on an expanded-mode, external cavity semiconductor laser with a longer cavity length and much higher output power than similar commercial...

PURPOSE It has been reported that low-level semiconductor diode lasers could enhance the wound healing process. The periodontal ligament is crucial for maintaining the tooth and surrounding tissues in periodontal wound healing. While low-level semiconductor diode lasers have been used in low-level laser therapy, there have been few reports on their effects on periodontal ligament fibroblasts (P...

Chaos is a fundamental property that possesses nonlinearity and a sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Because of the nonlinearity in a chaotic system it becomes very difficult to make accurate predictions about the system over a given time interval. Weather forecasting is an example of how chaos theory effects the accuracy of predictions over a given time interval. Through analyzing a w...

Recently, an urgent requirement of ultraviolet (UV) semiconductor laser with lower cost and higher performance has motivated our intensive research in zinc oxide (ZnO) material owing to its wide direct band gap and large exciton binding energy. Here, we demonstrate for the first time continuous-wave laser in electrically-pumped hollow polygonal microcavities based on epitaxial ZnO/MgO-core/shel...

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To enhance lasers’ power and improve their performance, a model wasapplied for the waveguide design of 400 nm InGaN/InGaN semiconductor laser, whichis much easier to implement. The conventional and new laser structures weretheoretically investigated using simulation software PICS3D, which self-consistentlycombines 3D simulation of carrier transport, self-heating, and opt...