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Effective suppression of beam divergence for a high-power laser diode bar by an external-cavity technique

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Abstract

We describe effective suppression of beam divergence for a high-power laser diode bar by use of an external-cavity technique. Nineteen off-axis external-cavity laser diodes of the high-power laser diode are formed by feedback with a stripe mirror. At three times the threshold current, the diverging angle 1/e2 of the external-cavity laser diode bar is reduced to 1.5° from 6.6° (free running) with 14.1-W peak output power and 70.4% of the radiated power of the free-running state without the external cavity. This technique effectively improves the beam quality of the high-power laser diode bar.

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