大功率激光器在工业与国防等领域有着广泛的应用,是现代激光材料加工、激光再制造、国防安全领域中必不可少的核心组件。随着激光技术的发展,大功率激光器的性能也在不断提高,许多新型激光器相继问世。相比于传统的灯抽运激光器,半导体激光器具有体积小、效率高、质量轻、寿命长、成本低等诸多优点,在国民经济的许多方面起着越来越重要的作用。随着大功率半导体激光器的不断发展,由其抽运的全固态和非全固态激光器的发展也十分迅速。综述了半导体激光器以及全固态和非全固态半导体抽运激光器的历史和进展,并就提升大功率半导体激光器各方面性能做了相关介绍,分析评述了大功率激光器的发展趋势,并展望了大功率激光器在未来智能制造中的应用前景。
High power lasers are widely used in the various areas such as industry and defense.They are essential components of modern laser in material processing,laser remanufacturing and defense security. With the development of laser technology,high power lasers have made much progress.Many new types of lasers are appeared in recent years.Compared with the traditional lamp pumped lasers,the semiconductor lasers play a more and more important role in the development of economy because of smaller sizes,higher efficiency,less weight,longer lifespan and lower cost.The characteristics and development of semiconductor lasers and all solid-state or not all solid-state semiconductor pumped by semiconductor lasers are summarized in details.The improvements on performance of high power semiconductor lasers,the development trend of high power laser diode and applications in intelligent manufacturing technology in the future are also discussed.