Development of beam combining of high power high brightness diode lasers

Wang Lijun; Peng Hangyu; Zhang Jun; Qin Li; Tong Cunzhu

doi:10.3788/IRLA201746.0401001

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Wang Lijun, Peng Hangyu, Zhang Jun, Qin Li, Tong Cunzhu. Development of beam combining of high power high brightness diode lasers[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2017, 46(4): 401001-0401001(10). doi: 10.3788/IRLA201746.0401001

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Wang Lijun, Peng Hangyu, Zhang Jun, Qin Li, Tong Cunzhu. Development of beam combining of high power high brightness diode lasers[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2017, 46(4): 401001-0401001(10). doi: 10.3788/IRLA201746.0401001

Development of beam combining of high power high brightness diode lasers

doi: 10.3788/IRLA201746.0401001

Wang Lijun^1,2,
Peng Hangyu^1,2,
Zhang Jun^1,2,
Qin Li^1,2,
Tong Cunzhu^1,2

1.
Changchun Institute of Optics,Fine Mechanics and Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130033,China;
2.
State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications,Changchun 130033,China

Received Date: 2017-03-21
Rev Recd Date: 2017-04-09
Publish Date: 2017-04-25

Abstract

Diode lasers have advantages of high efficiency and compact structure. The low power and poor beam quality of diode lasers limits its application fields. The new developments of diode lasers in power and beam quality were introduced. The new combining techniques and the experimental results of diode lasers were summarized. The high brightness diode laser achievements acquired by CIOMP were also presented.
- diode lasers,
- high power,
- high brightness,
- laser beam combining

References

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[3]	Feit M D, Fleck J A, Jr. Beam nonparaxiality, filament formation, and beam breakup in the self-focusing of optical beams[J]. J Opt Soc Am B, 1988, 5(3):633-640.
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[7]	Crump P, Winterfeldt M, Decker J, et al. Limitations to brightness in high power laser diodes[C]//2015 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015:553-554.
[8]	Crump P, Winterfeldt M, Decker J, et al. Novel approaches to increasing the brightness of broad area lasers[C]//SPIE, 2016, 9767:97671L.
[9]	Alexander Bachmann, Christian Lauer, Michael Furitsch, et al. Recent brightness improvements of 976 nm high power laser bars[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008602.
[10]	Crump P, Erbert G, Wenzel H, et al. Efficient high-power laser diodes[J]. IEEE J Sel Top Quant Electron, 2013, 19(4):1501211.
[11]	Heiko Kissel, Paul Wolf, Alexander Bachmann, et al. Tailored bars at 976 nm for high-brightness fiber-coupled modules[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860B.
[12]	Kanskar M, Bao L, Chen Z, et al. Flared oscillator waveguide diodes(FLOW-Diodes) enable high brightness fiber-coupled modules[C]//The 25th International Semiconductor Laser Conference(ISLC), 2016, WE16.
[13]	Kanskar M, Bao L, Chen Z, et al. Continued improvement in reduced-mode(REM) diodes enable 272 W from 105 m 0.15 NA Beam[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008609.
[14]	Hans-Christoph Eckstein, Uwe Zeitner, Andreas Tnnermann, et al. Numerical simulation and optimization of micro structured high brightness broad area laser diodes[C]//SPIE, 2015, 9382:93821H.
[15]	Martin Winterfeldt, Paul Crump, Steffen Knigge, et al. High beam quality in broad area lasers via suppression of lateral carrier accumulation[J]. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2015, 27(17):1809-1812.
[16]	Feise D, Bl me G, Dittrich H, et al. High-brightness 635 nm tapered diode lasers with optimized index guiding[C]//SPIE, 2010, 7583:75830V.
[17]	S mpf B, Adamiec P, Zorn M, et al. 650 nm tapered lasers with 1 W maxim m output power and nearly diffraction limited beam quality at 500 mW[C]//SPIE, 2008, 6876:68760M.
[18]	S mpf B, Adamiec P, Zorn M, et al. Nearly diffraction-limited tapered lasers at 675 nm with 1-W output power and conversion effi-ciencies above 30%[J]. IEEE Photonics Technol Lett, 2011, 23(4):266-268.
[19]	Erbert G, Fricke J, Hlsewede R, et al. 3 W-high brightness tapered diode lasers at 735 nm based on tensile strained GaAsP-QWs[C]//SPIE, 2003, 4995:29-38.
[20]	Fiebig C, Bl me G, Kaspari C, et al. 12 W high-brightness single-frequency DBR tapered diode laser[J]. Electron Lett, 2008, 44(21):1253-1254.
[21]	S mpf B, Hasler X H, Adamiec P, et al. 12.2 W output power from 1060 nm DBR tapered lasers with narrow spectral line width and nearly diffraction limited beam quality[C]//European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.
[22]	Redmond S M, Creedon K J, Kansky J E. Active coherent beam combining of diode lasers[J]. Opt Lett, 2011, 36(6):999-1001.
[23]	Missaggia L J, Redmond S M, Bratain M A, et al. Advanced packaging of high-power slab-coupled optical waveguide laser and amplifier arrays for coherent beam combining[C]//Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2010:CThX4.
[24]	Huang R K, Channa B, Missaggia L J, et al. Coherently combined diode laser arrays and stacks[C]//CLEO/QELS, 2009:CWF1.
[25]	Redmond S M, Creedon K J, Kansky J E. Active coherent beam combining of diode lasers[J]. Opt Lett, 2011, 36(6):999-1001.
[26]	Gapontsev V, Moshegov N, Berezin I, et al. Highly-efficient high-power pumps for fiber lasers[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008604.
[27]	Hemenway M, Urbanek W, Dawson D, et al. Advances in high-brightness fiber-coupled laser modules for pumping multi-kW CW fiber lasers[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008605.
[28]	Kanskar M, Bao L, Chen Z, et al. Continued improvement in reduced-mode (REM) diodes enable 272 W from 105 m 0.15 NA beam[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008609.
[29]	Kasai Y, Yamagatab Y, Kaifuchi Y, et al. High-brightness and high-efficiency fiber-coupled module for fiber laser pump with advanced laser diode[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008606.
[30]	Yu H, Rossi G, Braglia A, et al. Development of a 300 W 105/0.15 fiber pigtailed diode module for additive manufacturing applications[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860A.
[31]	Xu D, Guo Z J, Zhang T J, et al. 600 W high brightness diode laser pumping source[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008603.
[32]	Kissel H, Wolf P, Bachmann A, et al. Tailored bars at 976 nm for high-brightness fiber-coupled modules[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860B.
[33]	Knning T, Khler B, Wolf P, et al. Optical components for tailoring beam properties of multi-kW diode lasers[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10085:100850G.
[34]	Witte U, Traub M, Meo A D, et al. Compact 35 m fiber coupled diode laser module based on dense wavelength division multiplexing of NBA mini-bars[C]//SPIE, 2017, 9733:97330H.
[35]	Unger A, Uthoff R, Stoiber M, et al. Tailored bar concepts for 10 mm-mrad fiber coupled modules scalable to kW-class direct diode lasers[C]//SPIE, 2015, 9348:934809.
[36]	Witte U, Schneider F, Holly C, et al. kW-class direct diode laser for sheet metal cutting based on commercial pump modules[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008608.
[37]	Heinemann S, Fritsche H, Kruschke B, et al. Compact high brightness diode laser emitting 500 W from a 100 m fiber[C]//SPIE, 2017, 8605:86050Q.
[38]	Fritsche H, Krusche B, Koch R, et al. High brightness, direct diode laser with kW output power[C]//SPIE, 2014, 8965:89650G.
[39]	Hengesbach S, Krauch N, Holly C, et al. High-power dense wavelength division multiplexing of multimode diode laser radiation based on volume Bragg gratings[J]. Opt Lett, 2013, 38(16):3154-3157.
[40]	Daneu V, Sanchez A, Fan T Y, et al. Spectral beam combining of a broad-stripe diode laser array in an external cavity[J]. Opt Lett, 2000, 25(6):405-407.
[41]	Chann B, Huang R K, Missaggia L J, et al. Near-diffraction-limited diode laser arrays by wavelength beam combining[J]. Opt Lett, 2005, 30(16):2104-2106.
[42]	Gopinath J T, Chann B, Fan T Y, et al. 1450-nm high-brightness wavelength-beam combined diode laser array[J]. Opt Express, 2008, 16(13):9405-9410.
[43]	Hecht J. Beam combining cranks up the power[J]. Laser Focus World, 2012, 48(6):41-43.
[44]	Zimer H, Haas M, Ried S, et al. Thin film filter wavelength-locked laser cavity for spectral beam combining of diode laser arrays[C]//2014 IEEE Photonics Conference, 2014:230-231.
[45]	Zimer H, Haas M, Nagel S, et al. Spectrally stabilized and combined diode lasers[C]//2015 IEEE High Power Diode Lasers and Systems Conference(HPD), 2015:31-32.
[46]	Strohmaier S G, Erbert G, Meissner-Schenk A H, et al. kW-class diode laser bars[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860C.
[47]	Rong Jiamin, Xing Enbo, Wang Lijie, et al. Control of lateral divergence in high-power, broad-area photonic crystal lasers[J]. Applied Physics Express, 2016, 9:072104.
[48]	Wang Tao, Tong Cunzhu, Wang Lijie, et al. Injection-insensitive lateral divergence in broad-area diode lasers achieved by spatial current modulation[J]. Applied Physics Express, 2016, 9:112102.

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1. Changchun Institute of Optics,Fine Mechanics and Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130033,China;

2. State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications,Changchun 130033,China

Received Date: 2017-03-21

Rev Recd Date: 2017-04-09

Publish Date: 2017-04-25

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Abstract: Diode lasers have advantages of high efficiency and compact structure. The low power and poor beam quality of diode lasers limits its application fields. The new developments of diode lasers in power and beam quality were introduced. The new combining techniques and the experimental results of diode lasers were summarized. The high brightness diode laser achievements acquired by CIOMP were also presented.

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[1]	Sverdlov B, Pfeiffer H U, Zibik E, et al. Optimization of fiber coupling in ultra-high power pump modules at =980 nm[C]//SPIE, 2013, 8605:860508.
[2]	Agnieszka Pietrzak, Hans Wenzel, Gtz Erbert, et al. High-power laser diodes emitting light above 1100 nm with a small vertical divergence angle of 13[J]. Optics Letters, 2008, 33(19):2188-2190.
[3]	Feit M D, Fleck J A, Jr. Beam nonparaxiality, filament formation, and beam breakup in the self-focusing of optical beams[J]. J Opt Soc Am B, 1988, 5(3):633-640.
[4]	Eliseev P G, Glebov A, Osinski M. Modeling of current crowding accompanying optical filament formation in semiconductor lasers and amplifiers[C]//SPIE, 1997, 2994:580-590.
[5]	Zheng Dai, Rainer Michalzik, Peter Unger, et al. Numerical simulation of broad-area high-power semiconductor laser amplifiers[J]. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1997, 33(12):2240-2254.
[6]	Robert J Lang, David Mehuys, Amos Hardy, et al. Spatial evolution of filaments in broad area diode laser amplifiers[J]. Applied Physics Letters, 1993, 62(11):1209-1211.
[7]	Crump P, Winterfeldt M, Decker J, et al. Limitations to brightness in high power laser diodes[C]//2015 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015:553-554.
[8]	Crump P, Winterfeldt M, Decker J, et al. Novel approaches to increasing the brightness of broad area lasers[C]//SPIE, 2016, 9767:97671L.
[9]	Alexander Bachmann, Christian Lauer, Michael Furitsch, et al. Recent brightness improvements of 976 nm high power laser bars[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008602.
[10]	Crump P, Erbert G, Wenzel H, et al. Efficient high-power laser diodes[J]. IEEE J Sel Top Quant Electron, 2013, 19(4):1501211.
[11]	Heiko Kissel, Paul Wolf, Alexander Bachmann, et al. Tailored bars at 976 nm for high-brightness fiber-coupled modules[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860B.
[12]	Kanskar M, Bao L, Chen Z, et al. Flared oscillator waveguide diodes(FLOW-Diodes) enable high brightness fiber-coupled modules[C]//The 25th International Semiconductor Laser Conference(ISLC), 2016, WE16.
[13]	Kanskar M, Bao L, Chen Z, et al. Continued improvement in reduced-mode(REM) diodes enable 272 W from 105 m 0.15 NA Beam[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008609.
[14]	Hans-Christoph Eckstein, Uwe Zeitner, Andreas Tnnermann, et al. Numerical simulation and optimization of micro structured high brightness broad area laser diodes[C]//SPIE, 2015, 9382:93821H.
[15]	Martin Winterfeldt, Paul Crump, Steffen Knigge, et al. High beam quality in broad area lasers via suppression of lateral carrier accumulation[J]. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2015, 27(17):1809-1812.
[16]	Feise D, Bl me G, Dittrich H, et al. High-brightness 635 nm tapered diode lasers with optimized index guiding[C]//SPIE, 2010, 7583:75830V.
[17]	S mpf B, Adamiec P, Zorn M, et al. 650 nm tapered lasers with 1 W maxim m output power and nearly diffraction limited beam quality at 500 mW[C]//SPIE, 2008, 6876:68760M.
[18]	S mpf B, Adamiec P, Zorn M, et al. Nearly diffraction-limited tapered lasers at 675 nm with 1-W output power and conversion effi-ciencies above 30%[J]. IEEE Photonics Technol Lett, 2011, 23(4):266-268.
[19]	Erbert G, Fricke J, Hlsewede R, et al. 3 W-high brightness tapered diode lasers at 735 nm based on tensile strained GaAsP-QWs[C]//SPIE, 2003, 4995:29-38.
[20]	Fiebig C, Bl me G, Kaspari C, et al. 12 W high-brightness single-frequency DBR tapered diode laser[J]. Electron Lett, 2008, 44(21):1253-1254.
[21]	S mpf B, Hasler X H, Adamiec P, et al. 12.2 W output power from 1060 nm DBR tapered lasers with narrow spectral line width and nearly diffraction limited beam quality[C]//European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009.
[22]	Redmond S M, Creedon K J, Kansky J E. Active coherent beam combining of diode lasers[J]. Opt Lett, 2011, 36(6):999-1001.
[23]	Missaggia L J, Redmond S M, Bratain M A, et al. Advanced packaging of high-power slab-coupled optical waveguide laser and amplifier arrays for coherent beam combining[C]//Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2010:CThX4.
[24]	Huang R K, Channa B, Missaggia L J, et al. Coherently combined diode laser arrays and stacks[C]//CLEO/QELS, 2009:CWF1.
[25]	Redmond S M, Creedon K J, Kansky J E. Active coherent beam combining of diode lasers[J]. Opt Lett, 2011, 36(6):999-1001.
[26]	Gapontsev V, Moshegov N, Berezin I, et al. Highly-efficient high-power pumps for fiber lasers[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008604.
[27]	Hemenway M, Urbanek W, Dawson D, et al. Advances in high-brightness fiber-coupled laser modules for pumping multi-kW CW fiber lasers[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008605.
[28]	Kanskar M, Bao L, Chen Z, et al. Continued improvement in reduced-mode (REM) diodes enable 272 W from 105 m 0.15 NA beam[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008609.
[29]	Kasai Y, Yamagatab Y, Kaifuchi Y, et al. High-brightness and high-efficiency fiber-coupled module for fiber laser pump with advanced laser diode[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008606.
[30]	Yu H, Rossi G, Braglia A, et al. Development of a 300 W 105/0.15 fiber pigtailed diode module for additive manufacturing applications[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860A.
[31]	Xu D, Guo Z J, Zhang T J, et al. 600 W high brightness diode laser pumping source[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008603.
[32]	Kissel H, Wolf P, Bachmann A, et al. Tailored bars at 976 nm for high-brightness fiber-coupled modules[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860B.
[33]	Knning T, Khler B, Wolf P, et al. Optical components for tailoring beam properties of multi-kW diode lasers[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10085:100850G.
[34]	Witte U, Traub M, Meo A D, et al. Compact 35 m fiber coupled diode laser module based on dense wavelength division multiplexing of NBA mini-bars[C]//SPIE, 2017, 9733:97330H.
[35]	Unger A, Uthoff R, Stoiber M, et al. Tailored bar concepts for 10 mm-mrad fiber coupled modules scalable to kW-class direct diode lasers[C]//SPIE, 2015, 9348:934809.
[36]	Witte U, Schneider F, Holly C, et al. kW-class direct diode laser for sheet metal cutting based on commercial pump modules[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:1008608.
[37]	Heinemann S, Fritsche H, Kruschke B, et al. Compact high brightness diode laser emitting 500 W from a 100 m fiber[C]//SPIE, 2017, 8605:86050Q.
[38]	Fritsche H, Krusche B, Koch R, et al. High brightness, direct diode laser with kW output power[C]//SPIE, 2014, 8965:89650G.
[39]	Hengesbach S, Krauch N, Holly C, et al. High-power dense wavelength division multiplexing of multimode diode laser radiation based on volume Bragg gratings[J]. Opt Lett, 2013, 38(16):3154-3157.
[40]	Daneu V, Sanchez A, Fan T Y, et al. Spectral beam combining of a broad-stripe diode laser array in an external cavity[J]. Opt Lett, 2000, 25(6):405-407.
[41]	Chann B, Huang R K, Missaggia L J, et al. Near-diffraction-limited diode laser arrays by wavelength beam combining[J]. Opt Lett, 2005, 30(16):2104-2106.
[42]	Gopinath J T, Chann B, Fan T Y, et al. 1450-nm high-brightness wavelength-beam combined diode laser array[J]. Opt Express, 2008, 16(13):9405-9410.
[43]	Hecht J. Beam combining cranks up the power[J]. Laser Focus World, 2012, 48(6):41-43.
[44]	Zimer H, Haas M, Ried S, et al. Thin film filter wavelength-locked laser cavity for spectral beam combining of diode laser arrays[C]//2014 IEEE Photonics Conference, 2014:230-231.
[45]	Zimer H, Haas M, Nagel S, et al. Spectrally stabilized and combined diode lasers[C]//2015 IEEE High Power Diode Lasers and Systems Conference(HPD), 2015:31-32.
[46]	Strohmaier S G, Erbert G, Meissner-Schenk A H, et al. kW-class diode laser bars[C]//SPIE, 2017, 10086:100860C.
[47]	Rong Jiamin, Xing Enbo, Wang Lijie, et al. Control of lateral divergence in high-power, broad-area photonic crystal lasers[J]. Applied Physics Express, 2016, 9:072104.
[48]	Wang Tao, Tong Cunzhu, Wang Lijie, et al. Injection-insensitive lateral divergence in broad-area diode lasers achieved by spatial current modulation[J]. Applied Physics Express, 2016, 9:112102.

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