Water-cooled hard-soldered kilowatt laser diode arrays operating at high duty cycle

Genady Klumel; Yoram Karni; Jacob Oppenhaim; Yuri Berk; Moshe Shamay; Renana Tessler; Shalom Cohen; Shlomo Risemberg

doi:10.1117/12.848924

4 May 2010 Water-cooled hard-soldered kilowatt laser diode arrays operating at high duty cycle

Genady Klumel, Yoram Karni, Jacob Oppenhaim, Yuri Berk, Moshe Shamay, Renana Tessler, Shalom Cohen, Shlomo Risemberg

Proceedings Volume 7686, Laser Technology for Defense and Security VI; 76860K (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848924
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

High brightness laser diode arrays are increasingly found in defense applications either as efficient optical pumps or as direct energy sources. In many instances, duty cycles of 10- 20 % are required, together with precise optical collimation. System requirements are not always compatible with the use of microchannel based cooling, notwithstanding their remarkable efficiency. Simpler but effective solutions, which will not involve high fluid pressure drops as well as deionized water, are needed. The designer is faced with a number of challenges: effective heat removal, minimization of the built- in and operational stresses as well as precise and accurate fast axis collimation. In this article, we report on a novel laser diode array which includes an integral tap water cooling system. Robustness is achieved by all around hard solder bonding of passivated 940nm laser bars. Far field mapping of the beam, after accurate fast axis collimation will be presented. It will be shown that the design of water cooling channels , proper selection of package materials, careful design of fatigue sensitive parts and active collimation technique allow for long life time and reliability, while not compromising the laser diode array efficiency, optical power density ,brightness and compactness. Main performance characteristics are 150W/bar peak optical power, 10% duty cycle and more than 50% wall plug efficiency with less than 1° fast axis divergence. Lifetime of 0.5 Gshots with less than 10% power degradation has been proved. Additionally, the devices have successfully survived harsh environmental conditions such as thermal cycling of the coolant temperature and mechanical shocks.

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Genady Klumel, Yoram Karni, Jacob Oppenhaim, Yuri Berk, Moshe Shamay, Renana Tessler, Shalom Cohen, and Shlomo Risemberg "Water-cooled hard-soldered kilowatt laser diode arrays operating at high duty cycle", Proc. SPIE 7686, Laser Technology for Defense and Security VI, 76860K (4 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848924

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