Beam shaping design for coupling high power diode laser stack to fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2927-2930

  Ghasemi, Seyed Hamed ^a   Hantehzadeh, Mohammad Reza ^a   Sabbaghzadeh, Jamshid ^b   Dorranian, Davoud ^a   Lafooti, Majid ^b   Vatani, Vahid ^b   Rezaei Nasirabad, Reza ^b   Hemmati, Atefeh ^a   Amidian, Ali Asghar ^b   Alavian, Seyed Ali ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN NATIONAL CENTER FOR LASER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; LASER BEAM WELDING; LASER MIRRORS; MIRRORS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

BEAM SHAPING SYSTEMS; BEAM SHAPING TECHNIQUE; BEAM SYMMETRY; CORE DIAMETERS; COST PRODUCTION; HIGH POWER DIODE LASER; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; POWER DENSITIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER;

LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 79959412890     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002927     Document Type: Article

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