Understanding laser beam brightness: A review and new prospective in material processing

P Shukla, J Lawrence, Y Zhang - Optics & Laser Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper details the importance of brightness in relation to laser beams. The 'brightness' of
lasers is a term that is generally not given much attention in laser applications or in any …

High-brightness spectral beam combining of diode laser array stack in an external cavity

H Meng, T Sun, H Tan, J Yu, W Du, F Tian, J Li… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the spectral beam combining of a diode laser stack, which contains three
970nm Mini-Bars along the fast-axis direction, in an external cavity. At the pump current of …

Spectral beam combining of a 980 nm tapered diode laser bar

D Vijayakumar, OB Jensen, R Ostendorf… - Optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate spectral beam combining of a 980 nm tapered diode laser bar. The
combined beam from 12 tapered emitters on the bar yielded an output power of 9.3 W at 30 …

Coherent beam combining of high power broad-area laser diode array with a closed-V-shape external Talbot cavity

B Liu, Y Liu, Y Braiman - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We have coherently combined a high-power broad-area laser diode array by using a
feedback loop closed off-axis external Talbot cavity. The off-axis feedback from two gratings …

Stripe-array diode-laser in an off-axis external cavity: Theory and experiment

A Jechow, M Lichtner, R Menzel, M Radziunas… - Optics …, 2009 - opg.optica.org
Stripe-array diode lasers naturally operate in an anti-phase supermode. This produces a
sharp double lobe far field at angles±α depending on the period of the array. In this paper a …

Power scaling of nonlinear frequency converted tapered diode lasers for biophotonics

OB Jensen, AK Hansen, A Müller… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Diode lasers have proven to be versatile light sources for a wide range of applications.
Nonlinear frequency conversion of high brightness diode lasers has recently resulted in …

High-brightness diode lasers obtained via off-axis spectral beam combining with selective feedback

F Sun, S Shu, Y Zhao, G Hou, H Lu, X Zhang… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We proposed a modified off-axis spectral beam combining method, based on the concept of
selective feedback. A high reflectivity mirror with a fixed width was used to select and couple …

Going beyond the beam quality limit of spectral beam combining of diode lasers in a V-shaped external cavity

Y Zhao, F Sun, C Tong, S Shu, G Hou, H Lu… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A novel spectral beam combining (SBC) approach based on off-axis feedback in a V-shaped
external cavity (VSBC) was proposed and demonstrated. A highly reflecting mirror was used …

[PDF][PDF] 半导体激光器光栅外腔光谱合束技术研究进展

孟慧成, 谭昊, 李建民, 卢飞, 田飞, 高松信… - Laser & …, 2015 - researching.cn
摘要半导体激光器由于受波导结构和芯片封装等因素的限制, 其快慢轴方向上的光束质量差距较
大, 主要用作抽运源, 即被当成亮度转换器使用, 很难作为高亮度光源直接应用 …

Efficiency and threshold characteristics of spectrally beam combined high-power diode lasers

F Sun, S Shu, G Hou, L Wang, J Zhang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The efficiency, threshold characteristics, and the stability of spectral beam combining (SBC)
of diode laser array had been studied based on different output couplers (OC). It was found …