• Brandon Morioka

    Product Manager, Coherent

    Brandon Morioka is a Product Manager at Coherent (Santa Clara, CA).

    FIGURE 1. In an optically pumped semiconductor laser, a diode array pumps the front surface of the semiconductor chip. The chip's output is coupled into an external cavity, which enables intracavity doubling or tripling of the fundamental output.
    Marco Arrigoni
    Sept. 28, 2009
    The advent of stand-alone 532 nm optically pumped semiconductor lasers delivering 2 and 5 W provides an attractive new option for pumping Ti:sapphire-based femtosecond systems...