Fully utilizing high power diode lasers by synergizing diode laser light sources and beam shaping micro-optics

Yingmin Fan; Jingwei Wang; Lei Cai; Thomas Mitra; Dirk Hauschild; Chung-En Zah; Xingsheng Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2293612

20 February 2018 Fully utilizing high power diode lasers by synergizing diode laser light sources and beam shaping micro-optics

Yingmin Fan, Jingwei Wang, Lei Cai, Thomas Mitra, Dirk Hauschild, Chung-En Zah, Xingsheng Liu

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Proceedings Volume 10513, Components and Packaging for Laser Systems IV; 105130H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293612
Event: SPIE LASE, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

High power diode lasers (HPDLs) offer the highest wall-plug efficiency, highest specific power (power-to-weight ratio), arguably the lowest cost and highest reliability among all laser types. However, the poor beam quality of commercially HPDLs is the main bottleneck limiting their direct applications requiring high brightness at least in one dimension. In order to expand the applications of HPDLs, beam shaping and optical design are essential. In this work, we report the recent progresses on maximizing applications of HPDLs by synergizing diode laser light source and beam shaping micro-optics. Successful examples of matching of diode laser light sources and beam shaping micro-optics driving new applications are presented.

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Yingmin Fan, Jingwei Wang, Lei Cai, Thomas Mitra, Dirk Hauschild, Chung-En Zah, and Xingsheng Liu "Fully utilizing high power diode lasers by synergizing diode laser light sources and beam shaping micro-optics", Proc. SPIE 10513, Components and Packaging for Laser Systems IV, 105130H (20 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293612

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