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I have slowly been learning as much as I can about combining methods and planning my own quad. After days of planning, weeks of waiting for parts to arrive, and hours of aligning I can finally say I have finished my first multi-diode combiner.
It uses:
2 lpc-826 for ~475mW of 660nm
2 HL6385DG for ~250mW of 642nm
1 waveplate in a Thorlabs rotational mount
4 Optima lenses
Overall dimension is 4 x 4.5 inches
90% of the components are from Dave from photonlexicon. He is awesome.
The most difficult and unexpected challenge was the near-field alignment. Oddly the beams weren't all at the same hight so I used varying layers of kapton tape to compensate.
I will try to get some beam size measurements and divergence calculations done tonight.
It uses:
2 lpc-826 for ~475mW of 660nm
2 HL6385DG for ~250mW of 642nm
1 waveplate in a Thorlabs rotational mount
4 Optima lenses
Overall dimension is 4 x 4.5 inches
90% of the components are from Dave from photonlexicon. He is awesome.
The most difficult and unexpected challenge was the near-field alignment. Oddly the beams weren't all at the same hight so I used varying layers of kapton tape to compensate.
I will try to get some beam size measurements and divergence calculations done tonight.
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