Laser diodes formed on a common substrate with layers of suitable thickness and refractive indices produce output beams that are coherently coupled. A phase mask can be situated to produce phase differences in one or more of the output beams to produce a common wavefront phase. The phase-corrected beams propagate with reduced angular divergence than conventional lasers that are not coherently coupled, and the coherently coupled laser diodes can provide higher beam brightness, enhanced beam parameter product, and superior power coupled into doped fibers in fiber lasers.

A method of forming a build in a powder bed includes providing a first diode laser fiber array and a second diode laser fiber array, emitting a plurality of laser beams from selected fibers of the second diode laser fiber array onto the powder bed, corresponding to a pattern of a layer of the build, simultaneously melting powder in the powder bed corresponding to the pattern of the layer of the build, scanning a first diode laser fiber array along an outer boundary of the powder bed and emitting a plurality of laser beams from selected fibers of the first diode laser fiber array and simultaneously melting powder in the powder bed corresponding to the outer boundary of the layer of the build to contour the layer of the build. An apparatus for forming a build in a powder bed including a first diode laser fiber array and a second diode laser fiber array is also disclosed. The first diode laser fiber array configured to contour the layer of the build.

A light emitting device includes a base, a lid portion, a plurality of semiconductor laser elements, and a collimate lens. The lid portion is fixed to the base to define a hermetically sealed space by the lid portion and the base. The semiconductor laser elements are provided in the hermetically sealed space. The collimate lens has a non-lens portion fixed to the lid portion, and a plurality of lens portions connected and aligned along one direction and surrounded by the non-lens portion when viewed from a light extracting surface side of the collimate lens.

A light emitting device includes: one or more semiconductor laser elements; one or more light-reflecting parts, each having a light-reflecting surface configured to reflect laser light emitted from a corresponding one of the one or more semiconductor laser elements; and a fluorescent part having a light-receiving surface configured to be irradiated with the laser light reflected at the light-reflecting surface of each of the one or more light-reflecting parts. An irradiated region is formed on the light-reflecting surface when the light-reflecting surface is irradiated with the laser light, the irradiated region including a first end and a second end opposite the first end.

A multi-junction laser-diode module includes (a) a multi-junction laser diode having a plurality of laser junctions stacked in a vertical dimension parallel to the fast-axes of the laser beams emitted by the laser junctions, (b) a fast-axis cylindrical lens collimating each laser beam in the fast axis, whereby the laser beams emerge from the fast-axis cylindrical lens with mutually nonparallel propagation directions, (c) a transmissive beam-deflecting element that deflects the laser beams in the fast-axis dimension after the fast-axis cylindrical lens to make their propagation directions parallel, and (d) a slow-axis cylindrical lens configured to collimate each laser beam in the slow axis. The transmissive beam-deflecting element corrects for the propagation-direction discrepancy between the laser beams, in the fast-axis dimension, caused by fast-axis collimation. The multi-junction laser-diode module can thereby produce a laser beam bundle suitable for high-brightness fiber-coupling.

A system includes at least one laser configured to produce laser light and an optical element configured to produce shaped light responsive to receiving the laser light. The system also includes an optical phase modulator (OPM) optically coupled to the optical element, the OPM configured to modulate the shaped light to produce modulated light, where the optical element is configured to reduce a point spread function of the modulated light in a far field.

In various embodiments, laser resonator modules produce output beams via manipulation of input beams on opposite sides of the module. The input beams are emitted by one or more beam emitters that may be cooled using a liquid coolant cavity. The liquid coolant cavity may be isolated from optical elements utilized to manipulate the input beams, at least in part, by an isolation wall protruding from the base plate of the resonator module.

The disclosed diode laser packages include a carrier having an optics-mounting surface to which first and second sets of collimating and turning optics are mounted. The carrier includes a heatsink receptacle medially located between the first and second sets. A cooling plenum has a diode-mounting surface and includes heatsink material disposed in the heatsink receptacle. The cooling plenum further has an inlet, an outlet, and a coolant passageway defined between the inlet and the outlet. The coolant passageway is sized to receive the heatsink material disposed in heatsink receptacle. Multiple semiconductor laser diode devices are each mounted atop the diode-mounting surface and positioned for bidirectional emission toward the first and second sets of collimating and turning optics. The multiple semiconductor laser diode devices are thermally coupled to the heatsink material through which coolant is deliverable by the coolant passageway.

A light emitting device includes: a semiconductor laser element configured to emit light in a first direction; a light-reflecting part having a light-reflecting surface; and a base member including: a recess, an upper surface surrounding the recess, and a first wiring part and a second wiring part provided on the upper surface. The semiconductor laser element and the light-reflecting part are located in the recess, the light-reflecting part positioned separated from the semiconductor laser element in the first direction in a top view. The first wiring part and the second wiring part are disposed at a position separated from the semiconductor laser element in a direction opposite to the first direction, the first wiring part and the second wiring part being arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

A surface-emitting laser including a cladding layer, an active region, a first grating, a plurality of second gratings, a first electrode, and a second electrode is provided. The active region is disposed on the cladding layer. The first grating is disposed on the active region. The second gratings are disposed on the active region and separately distributed among the first grating. A diffraction order of the first grating is different from a diffraction order of the second gratings. The first electrode is electrically connected to the cladding layer. The second electrode covers at least the first grating.