Long-Term Aging and Quick Stress Testing of 980-nm Single-Spatial Mode Lasers

Single-spatial mode lasers emitting at 980 nm are studied during continuous-wave long-term operation and ultra-high power short-term operation (stress-test) up to 13.5 W. We find that both tests eventually activate the same degradation mechanism, namely internal catastrophic optical damage. In the c...

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