By: Steve Rummel, Gary Herrit, Alan Hedges
II-VI Infrared
One of the problems that high power fiber, direct-diode, and disk laser users experience is thermal lensing of their beam delivery optics and debris windows. This is placing increased demands on the optics used in 1 micron laser beam delivery systems. Direct-diode lasers, meanwhile, continue to show improved beam quality and may eventually be used for industrial metal cutting applications, placing increased demands on the optics used in these lasers.