Laser diode stack beam shaping by reflective two-wedge-angle prism arrays

Guoxing Zheng; Chunlei Du; Chongxi Zhou; Chunyan Zheng

doi:10.1117/1.1883240

1 April 2005 Laser diode stack beam shaping by reflective two-wedge-angle prism arrays

Guoxing Zheng, Chunlei Du, Chongxi Zhou, Chunyan Zheng

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 4, 044203 (April 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1883240

Abstract

An innovative beam-shaping method for laser diode stacking is presented by employing a pair of reflective two-wedge-angle prism arrays. Each subprism with two variable wedge angles is designed for deflecting the partial emission from different bars to the dead spaces of the stack, according to the configuration of the real laser diode (LD) stack and the requirement of the system. The formula to determine the parameters of each subprism is deduced by way of geometrical analysis. A beam-shaping system for stack laser diodes with three bars is designed and simulated, and the results show that the stack laser beam is well transformed into a required distribution efficiently.

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Guoxing Zheng, Chunlei Du, Chongxi Zhou, and Chunyan Zheng "Laser diode stack beam shaping by reflective two-wedge-angle prism arrays," Optical Engineering 44(4), 044203 (1 April 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1883240

Published: 1 April 2005

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