WHITE, JK,MCINERNEY, JG,MOLONEY, JV;

1995

January

Electronic Letters

FORMATION OF SHARPLY PEAKED SIDELOBES IN LARGE-APERTURE SINGLE-PASS SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER AMPLIFIERS

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SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

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Single-pass semiconductor laser amplifiers are shown theoretically to exhibit sharply peaked lobes ('bat ears') at the edges of the near-field output. We discuss the mechanism for their formation and show that it is qualitatively different from spontaneous filamentation in homogeneous media.