Laser diodes are mounted on one or more of the edge surfaces of a triangularly shaped header with the light emitting surfaces of the laser diodes all facing in substantially the same direction. A plurality of triangular headers can be mounted on a supporting base with an edge surface of each of the headers abutting an edge surface of an adjoining header and the light emitting surfaces of each of the diodes facing in substantially the same direction.

There is provided a semiconductor laser device which allows a stem body and a heat radiation block to be integrally fabricated even in small-size packages and which is low in price. Portions of leads 3A, 3B protruding on a reference surface side are placed on one side surface side of the heat radiation block 2 on which the semiconductor laser chip is mounted. Further, a cover 6 made of resin which is opened on the beam-output side of the semiconductor laser chip 4 is fixed to the heat radiation ...

A solid crystal laser emission device with an emission crystal and a gas discharge tube in a pumping cavity provided with a cooling circuit for cooling both emission crystal and discharge tube. The crystal and discharge cooling circuit is provided at least with a thermal conductor in contact with the crystal and with the discharge tube, each thermal conductor being further in contact with at least a dissipating wall of the pumping cavity. The crystal cooling circuit is provided with a set of thr...

A semiconductor laser device includes a package having a front surface, a rear surface and an outer peripheral surface; a semiconductor laser element and a light receiving element provided on the front surface; a plurality of leads arranged in spaced relation on the front surface as extending outward from the package; and an optical element supported above the front surface with its optical axis perpendicular to the front surface for guiding a laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser elem...

A method and apparatus for laser diode bar assembly. A stacked array embodiment provides for efficient cooling of the diode bars and electrical connection between diode bars while maximizing alignment of the diode bars. The spacers are connected to a conductive surface on a heat spreader. In the stacked array, one or more diode bars are alternated in series with two or more conductive spacers, with a series circuit provided from diode bar to diode bar. The spacers hold the diodes spaced apart fr...

A monolithic, electrically-insulating substrate that contains a series of notched grooves is fabricated. The substrate is then metalized so that only the top surface and one wall adjacent to the notch are metalized. Within the grooves is located a laser bar, an electrically-conductive ribbon or contact bar and an elastomer which secures/registers the laser bar and ribbon (or contact bar) firmly along the wall of the groove that is adjacent to the notch. The invention includes several embodiments...

A cooling system for use in with a transmissive optical element of a high average power laser (HAP). The system includes at least one optically transmissive element (TOC) that is held by a differential pressure in thermal contact with a heat sink assembly. In one embodiment, the heat sink assembly includes an optically transparent heat conductor (THC) attached to at least one face of the TOC. A vacuum formed between adjacent faces of the TOC and THC urges the facing planar surfaces into thermal ...

A laser diode package (10) according to the present invention is tolerant of short-circuit and open-circuit failures. The laser diode package (10) includes a laser diode bar (12), a forward-biased diode (14), a heat sink (18), and a lid (16) which may have fusible links (86). The laser diode bar (12) and the forward-biased diode (14) are electrically connected in parallel between the heat sink (18) and the lid (16). The emitting region of the laser diode bar (12) is aligned to emit radiation awa...

A side-pumped solid laser employs diode array pumping to produce a near-diffraction-limited output beam in at least one dimension of the output beam, while maintaining high efficiency operation. Conversion efficiency is enhanced by orientation of a nonlinear crystal for enhanced beam quality along one axis, while improved beam quality is obtained in the other dimension by increasing absorption of the diode light within the laser crystal, reducing the crystal width, and/or a multi-pass reflector ...

A laser unit includes a semiconductor laser tip mounted on a substrate of a material such as Si, a monitoring photodiode, and a laser driving integrated circuit, all of which are fixed to a base member of a material, such as metal, by soldering or the like. Further, a collimator lens is fixed to the base member by using, for example, ultraviolet ray hardening resin. The base member is provided with a step or slope portion, or a cut-away portion, formed at its laser-light-emission end, whereby th...