High-brilliance diode lasers for industrial applications: BRIDLE

A consortium from five European countries has joined forces in a research project to achieve improvements in high-power direct diode laser systems. BRIDLE makes use of a modular, scalable and compatible approach, employing advanced technologies and beam combination architectures, leading to a diode laser source that delivers more than 2 kW output power from a Ø100 µm, NA<0.15 optical fibre with a power conversion efficiency of more than 40 per cent.
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Source: www.electrooptics.com, 02.01.2013