HIGH POWER LASER DIODE ARRAY COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE HIGH POWER DIODE LASER, AND LASER LIGHT SOURCE COMPRISING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high power laser diode array. SOLUTION: A high power laser diode array includes: at least one of high power laser diodes (40a-40c) comprising a plurality of laser light emitters for emitting output laser beams; and a slow axis beam shaping means for collimating the output laser beams in a fast axis direction (y; y') and for collimating or focusing the output laser beams in a slow axis direction (x; x'). The laser light emitters are displaced relative to each other in the fast axis direction, or the fast axis direction and the slow axis direction by equidistant spacing, respectively. Optical means are arranged adjacently to each other in a seamless manner in one dimension or in two dimensions in a far field of all laser light emitters with an optical fill factor of about 100%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT