Abstract
Recent improvements in design and development have significantly increased the relevance of high-power, broad-area laser diodes and laser diode bars in the market for industrial, high-brightness materials processing applications, like welding, soldering and cutting. Here, we present, experimentally [1] and, for the first time, in direct simulations [2], a polarization beam combining scheme, which maintains the linear polarization of the individual sources, and, unlike common wavelength multiplexing schemes, is insensitive to spectral drifts caused by variations of temperature or injection current. In our setup, two laser diodes are operated with optical reinjection from a common external cavity containing a Lyot spectral filter; cf. the setup shown in Fig. 1a). Our time-domain direct numerical simulations take into account both, the lateral, and longitudinal dimensions of the laser emitters [3].
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