High Power Diode Lasers Technology and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bachmann, Friedrich (Editor), Loosen, Peter (Editor), Poprawe, Reinhart (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 128
• Subjects: Physics.; Atoms.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Materials science.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.

In a very comprehensive way this book covers all aspects of high power diode laser technology for materials processing. Basics as well as new application oriented results obtained in a government funded national German research project are described in detail. Along the technological chain after a s...

Table of Contents:

• High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Characteristics
• Packaging of Diode Laser Bars
• Incoherent Beam Superposition and Stacking
• Laser Systems Beam Characteristics, Metrology, and Standards
• Diode Laser Systems
• Applications
• Summary and Outlook.