Deutsche Forschungsanstalt Fuer Luft- Und Raumfahrt E.v.

Deutsche Forschungs- Und Versuchsanstalt Fur Luft- Und Raumfahrt E.v.

Universitaet Stuttgart Institut Fuer Strahlwerkzeuge

Universitaet Stuttgart Institut Fur Strahlwerkzeuge

Universitaet Stuttgart Institut Fuer Strahlwerkqeuge

Helmut Huegel

Hans Opower

Adolf Giesen

Uwe Brauch

Friedrich Dausinger

Eberhard Wildermuth

In order to improve a laser system comprising several laser radiation sources, each of which generates laser radiation which is coupled into a first end of a respective optical single-mode fiber, wherein all optical single-mode fibers form a fiber bundle and have second ends lying at a fiber bundle end, the laser radiation exiting from the second ends and thereby forming a total laser radiation field, and further comprising an optical transformation means which transforms the total laser radiation field onto an object, such that a focal point with a highest possible power per area and per solid angle can be generated therewith, it is proposed that the optical transformation means comprise a collimating element which collimates the laser radiation exiting divergently from each individual second end of the single-mode fibers and forms a collimated radiation bundle therefrom, and that the optical transformation means comprise a focusing element which images the collimated radiation bundle as a whole onto a focal point.

Laser system

In order to improve a semiconductor laser system with a plurality of semiconductor laser units comprising a laser oscillator, laser radiation exiting from each of these units, a light-conducting fiber associated with each semiconductor laser unit, a coupling element for coupling the laser radiation exiting from the respective semiconductor laser unit into the respective light-conducting fiber, and a fiber bundle comprising the fibers as light conductor system, a total laser radiation formed by the sum of the coherent laser radiation generated by the respective semiconductor laser units exiting from one end of the fiber bundle, this total laser radiation illuminating a target surface on an object to be irradiated during laser activity of all the semiconductor laser units, such that complex irradiation tasks can be performed with this system in a simple and as effective a manner as possible it is suggested that a control be provided for controlling the power of each individual semiconductor laser unit in a defined manner, and that an irradiation of different surface elements of the target surface with an intensity individually definable for each surface element be specifiable to the control.

Power-controlled, fractal laser system

Phase-controlled, fractal laser system

In order to so improve an aerodynamic window device for a laser which isolates the laser cavity pressure and comprises a jet nozzle and a diffuser arranged opposite the jet nozzle for generating a free jet extending from the jet nozzle to the diffuser and covering an exit aperture, that variable setting of the pressure level in the laser cavity is possible, it is proposed that a side wall (80) of the diffuser (72) which faces away from the laser cavity (34) be adjustable, at least in sections thereof, relative to a free jet direction (68).

Aerodynamic window device

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Sindelfingen, Germany

Helmut Huegel