Zhang Jun, Peng Hangyu, Fu Xihong, Liu Yun, Qin Li, Miao Guoqing, Wang Lijun
State Key laboratory of Luminescence and Application, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China.
Opt Express. 2013 Feb 11;21(3):3627-32. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.003627.
An external cavity structure based on the -1st transmission grating is introduced to spectral beam combining a 970 nm diode laser bar. A CW output power of 50.8 W, an electro-optical conversion efficiency of 45%, a spectral beam combining efficiency of 90.2% and a holistic M(2) value of 10.9 are achieved. This shows a way for a diode laser source with several KW power and diffraction-limited beam quality at the same time.