半导体激光共孔径合成技术研究进展

Review of Developments in Semiconductor Laser Beam Combining Technology

半导体激光功率的提升对于国防安全、激光通信、激光探测/传感、激光照明、医疗美容等领域有着重要的意义。半导体激光共孔径合成技术可以在保证光束质量的情况下大幅提升输出功率,近年来得到了广泛的关注。半导体激光共孔径光谱合成和半导体激光共孔径相干合成是两种典型的半导体激光共孔径合成技术手段,多家国内外机构在这两种技术上一再取得突破。本文综述了上述半导体激光共孔径合成技术的发展,并对该技术的发展前景进行了展望。

The power improvement of semiconductor lasers is of great significance to several fields,including those of national security,laser communication,laser detection/sensing,laser lighting,medical treatment.As the semiconductor laser beam combining technology can considerably improve the output power while ensuring the beam quality,it has attracted wide attention in recent years.Spectral beam combining(SBC) and coherent beam combining(CBC) are two typical semiconductor beam combining technologies,and many institutions have made breakthroughs in relevant research.In this paper,the development of these semiconductor laser beam combining technologies is reviewed and their prospect is discussed.