Abstract

We explain a technique that extracts both the structure and the modal weights of spatial modes of lasers by analyzing the spatial coherence of the beam. This is the first time, to our knowledge, that an experimental method is being used to measure arbitrary forms of the spatial modes. We applied this method to an edge-emitting Fabry–Perot semiconductor laser with a stripe width of 5 µm and extracted fundamental and first-order lateral modes with relative power weights of 96.2% and 3.8%. There was a single transverse mode.

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