High-brightness fiber-coupled diode module using dense wavelength beam combining technology based on single emitter for material processing and fiber amplifier pumping

Hao Yu; Shaoyang Tan; Huadong Pan; Shujuan Sun; Pengyuan Lin; Huan Hu; Jun Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2608686

4 March 2022 High-brightness fiber-coupled diode module using dense wavelength beam combining technology based on single emitter for material processing and fiber amplifier pumping

Hao Yu, Shaoyang Tan, Huadong Pan, Shujuan Sun, Pengyuan Lin, Huan Hu, Jun Wang

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Proceedings Volume 11983, High-Power Diode Laser Technology XX; 119830A (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608686
Event: SPIE LASE, 2022, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Fiber-coupled diode modules have various applications in material processing and fiber laser pumping because of their high efficiency and high reliability. Commercial fiber-coupled diode modules using spatial beam combining and polarization beam combining cannot be employed in high-brightness applications, for example metal cutting, which demands a laser power exceeding 1 kW with a BPP of a few mm*mrad. Dense wavelength beam combining (DWBC) technology showed the possibility of further scaling-up the output power of fiber-coupled diode modules while maintaining the same beam quality that allows for fiber-coupled diode modules to be used in high-brightness applications. The efficiency, reliability, and brightness of fiber-coupled diode modules can be improved by using single emitters instead of laser diode bars as power sources in DWBC. Two types of high-brightness 100 µm/0.22 NA 2 kW fiber-coupled diode modules employing single-emitter-based DWBC technology, which have a wavelength range from 953 to 991 nm with 50% efficiency and a narrower wavelength range with 48% efficiency respectively, were developed for material processing and Raman fiber amplifier pumping. Furthermore, we combined 15 high-brightness 100 μm/0.22 NA 1.4 kW fiber-coupled diode modules into a 600 μm/0.22 NA fiber, achieving more than 22 kW at the output.

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Hao Yu, Shaoyang Tan, Huadong Pan, Shujuan Sun, Pengyuan Lin, Huan Hu, and Jun Wang "High-brightness fiber-coupled diode module using dense wavelength beam combining technology based on single emitter for material processing and fiber amplifier pumping", Proc. SPIE 11983, High-Power Diode Laser Technology XX, 119830A (4 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608686

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