Fiber coupled diode laser source is one of the important applications of diode laser. Aimed at a multi-mode fiber of 105μm core diameter and 0.15 numerical aperture, a fiber coupled diode laser system based on a novel reflected aspherical beam shaping component which combines the beam collimating and re-orienting is designed, and a single polarization model is used to validate the design. The simulation and experiment all show that: the system can couple 16 single emitter diode lasers into the multi-mode fiber of 105μm core diameter and 0.15 numerical aperture. In the principle validate experiment of 8 emitters, when the operation current is 10.5A, the output power can achieve 62W, the brightness is 10MW(cm2·sr), and the E-O efficiency is 52%, separately. In this design, the ratio of the system length and width can be adjusted by changing the offset of the reflected aspherical beam shaping component, so that the system can satisfy different structure demands. Moreover, the novel beam shaping component will effectively conduce to reducing the components amount in the system, which can improve the system integration and reliability. This fiber coupled diode laser can be applied in fiber pumping, material processing and many other areas after being engineered.
Fiber-coupled diode laser pumping source is one of the key components of high-power fiber laser system. Its performance is significant to the output power of fiber laser system. A 1.8kW fiber-coupled diode laser system is designed by using ZEMAX optical design software. The technologies of high-precision beam collimation, spatial multiplexing, polarization multiplexing, beam expanding, focusing and coupling are used to couple the beams of 42 diode laser bars into a fiber with a core diameter of 200μm and NA 0.22. Every beam emit from diode laser bar is single polarization, and its central wavelength is 976nm @ 55W. The desigh result showed the fiber output power could reach 1800W, and the fiber-coupling efficiency was 78%, the brightness was 37MW/(cm2·sr),corresponding. This fiber-coupled system can be used in fiber pumping, material process and many other areas.
A new laser confocal focal-length measurement (LCFM) is proposed for the high-accuracy measurement of lens back focal length. LCFM uses the peak point of confocal response curve to precisely identify the lens focus, and uses the elastic contact between reflector R and the lens last surface to determine the test lens last vertex. The distance between the reflectors on these two positions is then measured by a laser distance interferometer, and then the accurate back focal-length of test lens is obtained. Compared with existing methods, LCFM significantly improves the measurement accuracy and simplifies the system structure by laser confocal technique, and reduces the product development cost. LCFM is especially suitable for the back focal-length measurement of large aperture lens.
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