High-power laser diode beam combiner

Daniel M. Brown

doi:10.1117/1.1619412

1 November 2003 High-power laser diode beam combiner

Daniel M. Brown

Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, Issue 11, (November 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1619412

An innovative method of optically combining the multiple emitters of high-power stripe laser diodes is presented. A multibeam integrator approach is used along with a means of optically rotating the emitters by 90 deg. The 90-deg rotation allows better balancing of the optical invariants in the slow and fast axis directions, making it easier to "circularize" the image for coupling into fibers or increasing the irradiance for laser machining applications.

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Daniel M. Brown "High-power laser diode beam combiner," Optical Engineering 42(11), (1 November 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1619412

Published: 1 November 2003

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