Two-dimensional beam shaping and homogenization of high power laser diode stack with rectangular waveguide

Abstract

In this paper, the research work of two-dimensional beam shaping and homogenization of high power laser diode (LD) stack by a rectangular waveguide is presented. Both the theoretical simulation and experiment results have shown that the diode stack beam can be shaped into a uniform square spot with a dimension of 10 mm × 10 mm and the non-uniformity less than 5% along both directions of slow axis and fast axis, the shaped beam has a uniform pumping depth over 10 mm, which is well to be used for a rectangular laser medium end pumping.

Keywords

beam shaping / high power laser diode (LD) stack / laser end pumping

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