Apollo Instruments has developed a highly efficient and unique coupling technology for the realization of high power, high brightness laser diodes. As a result, these fiber-coupled or collimated laser devices provide unprecedented beam quality, high power and the highest brightness, performance and reliability. The fully demonstrated, advanced beam shaping technology is the core of the high brightness and high power laser. With the genius arrangement of optics, brightness over 4MW/cm² sr¹ can be obtained. It enables diode lasers to be used, for the first time, as a direct source for high speed steel cutting.

High brightness and high power are critical for many applications such as solid-state lasers, including fiber lasers. With high- brightness diode lasers, the beam will be more intense at the focal point. The coupling technology was a breakthrough because such brightness from a fiber-coupled semiconductor laser has been thought impossible to realize. It is expected

that the availability of high-brightness collimated and fiber-coupled laser diodes and systems will enable many applications and technologies.
 
A brief review of the technology developed at Apollo Instruments can be found in the December 2001 issue of Laser Focus World. To download as a .pdf file click [here].