Journal of Modern Optics, Taylor & Francis, 1993/40/4/637-645
Abstract
A breadboard for beam shaping of high-power laser diode arrays (LDAs) has been realized. The coherent beams are added with the aid of a continuous surface-relief fan-in element. It results in a nearly symmetric single lobed beam of collimated light with maximum conversion efficiency. The theoretical efficiency is determined to be 96•7%. Experimentally, one third of the total power is now in the central peak.
