Pu Zhanga, Dae-Suk Kimb, and Bongtae Han b
a State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710119, China
b CALCE, Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Abstract:
A novel method is proposed to predict the spectral power distributions (SPDs) of individual emitters in a highpower
laser diode (LD) array. The proposed method deconvolutes the SPD of an LD array by taking into account
the thermal cross-talk effect as well as the current competition effect. A complete analytical expression to deconvolute
the SPD of an LD array is described. The expression contains four key parameters that are to be measured
experimentally: (1) the normalized SPD of the central emitter, (2) the temperature coefficient of wavelength, (3)
the current competition constant, and (4) the maximum power of the center emitter. The method is implemented
with a commercial water-cooled high-power LD array. The SPD of the LD array predicted from the SPDs of
individual emitters are compared with the experimentally measured SPD of the LD array. The results show
excellent agreement in both shape and magnitude, which corroborates the validity of the proposed
method.