High-brightness fiber-coupling schemes for diode laser bars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5876, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Schreiber, Peter ^a   Hoefer, Bernd ^a   Dannberg, Peter ^a   Zeitner, Uwe D ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diode laser; Fiber coupling; High brightness; Laser diode array; Micro optics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROLENSES; MICROOPTICS; RAY TRACING;

FIBER-COUPLING; HIGH-BRIGHTNESS; LASER DIODE ARRAY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 29244454319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.616955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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