50 W passively cooled, fiber coupled diode laser at 976 nm for pumping fiber lasers using 100 μm fiber bundles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6876, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wessling, C ^a   Hengesbach, St ^a   Geiger, J ^a   Dolkemeyer, J ^a   Traub, M ^a   Hoffmann, D ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diode laser; Fiber coupling; Fiber laser pumps; Passively cooled heatsink

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIODES; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PUMPING (LASER); TECHNOLOGY; VEGETATION;

(140.3500) LASERS; (ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; BEAM SHAPING; BEAM TRANSFORMATION; DIODE BARS; DIODE LASER ARRAY (DLA); DIODE LASER BAR; DIODE LASERS; DRIVING FORCES; EMITTER ARRAYS; FIBER BUNDLES; FIBER COUPLINGS; FIBER-COUPLED DIODE LASERS; FILLING FACTORS; HIGH FILLING FACTOR; HIGH POWERS; HIGH-BRIGHTNESS (HB); HIGH-DENSITY; HORIZONTAL DIRECTION; LASER DIODE (LD); LOW DENSITY; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL STACK; POWER EFFICIENCIES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; PUMP WAVELENGTHS; SLOW AXIS; VERTICAL DIRECTIONS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44949120631     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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