In this paper, the light source is fiber coupled semiconductor laser. The lens system is used to image the image of the fiber end face on the heated object, and the focusing range is 6.5-70mm. Then the trajectory is optimized in the non-sequential mode of ZEMAX. The system uses five lenses and uses a cam structure to achieve zoom. A laser homogenizing zoom system with adjustable spot size in the continuous range of 12mm-151mm at a distance of 1.5m was designed, and the mechanical structure was designed. The system structure is simple, and the uniformity can reach more than 86% in all spot size ranges
Blue semiconductor lasers have broad application prospects in fields such as material processing, underwater communication, and ocean exploration due to their unique wavelength advantages. At present, the power of blue light single tube LDs is relatively low. By using incoherent laser beam combining technology and fiber coupling technology, multiple blue light LDs can be synthesized into a high-power and high uniformity laser, meeting a wider range of application needs. This article designs a 100W level blue light LD fiber coupling module, which uses 32 single tubes with a power of 5W LDs. Through spatial and polarization beam combining design, it is focused and coupled into 105 μm/NA0.22 optical fiber. After simulation with Zemax software, a 138.7 W high brightness blue laser was obtained, with a fiber coupling efficiency of 91.48%. A dual axial flow fan air-cooled heat dissipation structure has been designed. After simulation with Ansys Icepak software, the maximum temperature of the laser module is 35.1 °C, and it can continuously output light for operation.
Compact air-cooling all-solid-state lasers are important in laser distance measurement, laser remote sensing detection, and scientific research. A compact 808nm LD-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser with a compact air-cooling heat dissipation structure is designed, and the temperature field under high and low temperature operating conditions is simulated. The results indicate that the proposed structure is capable of meeting the heat dissipation requirements during the operation of the laser within an ambient temperature range of -10°C to 40°C. The temperatures of the Nd:YVO4 crystal and the pump source are maintained at 20°C-25°C, ensuring stable operation.
In this paper, a fiber-coupled module based on a TO-can green LD single-tube light source is designed. The module adopts the fast and slow axis collimation method, to obtain the fast and slow axis beam quality close to the near-circular collimated light, LD hexagonal stacking mode arrangement, the design of the reflecting prisms with parallel flat plate and light wedge beam shrinking device for the beam of the spatial density row, effectively reducing the "dead zone", so as to take full advantage of the optical fiber numerical aperture to improve the output brightness of the fiber coupling. The output brightness of the fiber coupling is improved. The simulation verifies that 19 green LDs with a power of 1.65W are coupled into a fiber with a numerical aperture of 0.22 and a core diameter of 50μm, with an output power of 30.08W, a fiber coupling efficiency of 97.63%, a corresponding luminance of 10.08MW/(cm2·Sr), and a total optical-optical transmission efficiency of the system of 95.95%.
In this paper, a small air-cooled, heat-dissipating VCSEL end-face pumped disc laser is designed, which is end-face pumped with Nd: YVO4 crystal in VCSEL arrays. The pump source and gain medium are mounted on the same heat sink, and the water-cooled and air-cooled heat dissipation systems are compared and simulated by ANSYS and Flow Simulation software, respectively, which verifies the feasibility of the air-cooled heat dissipation model; an aspherical lens is designed to complete the collimation of the VCSEL array by ZEMAX, and the dispersion angle of the X and Y directions after the collimation is 0.47°; A parabolic reflecting focusing mirror is designed to collect the collimated beams, and the size of the focused spot is 1.52mm×1.52mm. The heat sink is optimised by flow simulation, and the best heat dissipation effect is obtained with the parameters of fin thickness of 2mm, fin height of 37mm and fin spacing of 3mm. The overall design of the air-cooled, heat-sink VCSEL-pumped disc laser is carried out by Soilworks, and the overall dimensions of the laser are 120mm×90mm×90mm (length×width×height) (of which the length of the heat-sink system is 40mm).
This manuscript designs a compact LD single emitter end-pumped 1319 nm vortex laser. In order to compress the divergence angle and meet the requirements of compact design, a fast-axis and slow-axis integrated collimating lens was designed, with X and Y divergence angles of 1.87° and 0.99° after collimation. On this basis, a hollow pump beam was obtained by using a plano-convex lens and an axicon-lens. By simulating the pump beam at different angles of the axicon-lens, an ideal hollow pump light was obtained by using an axicon-lens with a cone angle of 20°. A bonded crystal of Nd: YAG and V: YAG was used, which utilizes selective dielectric coatings on the crystal end facets to suppress laser oscillation at 1064 nm and 1338 nm, and 1319 nm laser can be obtained. Subsequently, the heat dissipation structure for the pump module and the bonded crystal module was designed and the feasibility of the heat dissipation model was verified through ANSYS simulation.
In this paper, hydrophilicity after nanosecond pulsed laser cleaning of lubricating oil on the surface of DC04 steel was investigated. Influencing parameters of temperature field distribution and ablation depth on laser cleaned steel surface were simulated by using COMSOL Multiphysics software; The results show that when the average laser power is 50 W, the ablation depth of the steel surface gradually increases with the decrease of the laser scanning speed, and the increase of the ablation depth leads to the decrease of the contact angle of the steel surface. Subsequently, an experimental study of nanosecond pulsed laser cleaning of DC04 steel surfaces was carried out. The results show that the contact angle of the steel surface shows a tendency of decreasing and then increasing with the increase of the laser scanning speed. When the average laser power was 50W, the scanning pitch was 0.03mm and the scanning speed was 500mm/s, the lubricant on the steel surface was cleaned and had the best hydrophilicity on the surface. The static contact angle of the steel surface changed from the original 84° to 18°.
1319nm lasers have important applications in optical communication, LIDAR, laser display, laser medical, etc. In applications such as LIDAR, reliable operation over a wide temperature range is a key indicator of the laser. Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers are new pump sources for all-solid-state lasers because of their narrow linewidth, small temperature drift coefficient, and two-dimensional expansion. In this paper, we report an 808nm VCSEL end-pumped Nd:YAG 1319nm Q-switched laser that can operate stably over a wide temperature range, The whole laser is dissipated by natural conduction cooling, the VCSEL array is collimated by a two-dimensional micro lens array for beam shaping, and Nd:YAG is used as the dielectric crystal to obtain a 1319nm laser output with a maximum single pulse energy of 2.8mJ and a beam quality of M2⪅1.5 by passive Q-switching.
The smile effect, which happens when various light-emitting units convert vertical offsets into angular offsets following fast-axis alignment, is an unavoidable part of the packaging process for diode laser arrays and has a detrimental influence on the feedback locking of external cavity diode lasers. The external cavity spectral beam combining system without output coupler, which employs the 0th order diffracted light with low grating energy to enable feedback locking of the light-emitting unit, is particularly severely impacted by the grin effect. The external cavity spectral beam combining system without output coupler uses three different types of corrective structures to simulate and explain the grin effect in various ways. The results show that while also ensuring adequate feedback and better combined beam quality, the double - separated fast-axis collimator can significantly correct the smile effect-induced beam shift. However, some light-emitting units' output beams cannot be corrected for the S-shaped smile effect with complex position offset changes. The fast-axis telescope system can effectively offset the inadequate feedback brought on by the various types of grin effect, but it is unable to enhance the beam quality of the combined beam spot, which degrades as the degree of smile effect increases. The combination of double-separated fast-axis collimator and fast-axis telescope system can complement each other to ensure sufficient feedback for different forms of smile effect to achieve stable wavelength locking and better beam quality of the combined spot.
Small size, high-brightness fiber-coupled laser modules have always been the ultimate goal that all researchers are pursuing. A high-brightness 525 nm wavelength fiber-coupled system is designed and evaluated. Based on a multichip 2D green laser diode array, fast-axis collimators are set inside the light source, and a beam shaping system that can rearrange the beam and improve the beam quality in both axes is designed. The simulation results indicate that 24 single emitters are coupled into a 50μm / 0.15 NA optical fiber successfully and the output power is 22.55 W. The brightness of 16.25 MW / ( cm2 · sr ) is calculated with fiber coupling efficiency is 97%.
In this paper, an integrated semiconductor disc laser is designed with the integrated design of the laser source, optical system and heat sink system. The 808 nm VCSEL array is used as the pump source and the Nd:YVO4 crystal is used as the gain medium. The pump source and the gain medium are placed on the same substrate, and both of them share a common cooling system. The collimating optical system of the VCSEL array and the reflective focusing optical system are designed using ZEMAX software, and the focusing spot radius is 1.3 mm, which matches with the theoretical calculation of the crystal pump spot size. The feasibility of integrating the pump source and gain medium in a same cooling system is analyzed using Flow Simulation and ANSYS software, and an air-cooled thermal system is designed by comparing the thermal simulation results of the water-cooling method for verification. Realization of opticalmechanical thermal integration design.
This paper proposes a multi-stage cooling system based on TEC (Thermo Electric Cooler), vapor chamber, heat sink and fan for the high power compact laser diode in the high temperature and mobility environment. Using Flow Simulation and ANSYS software, the temperature field and thermal stress of the multi-stage cooling system under steady state are discussed respectively, and the multi-stage cooling system model is optimized according to the two simulation results and the physical test is carried out. The results show that the designed cooling system can achieve a continuous and stable output of more than 70W from the laser at both room temperature of 20°C and high temperature of 55°C.
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