Fiber laser packaging
AssigneenLIGHT, Inc.
InventorsMitchell Reynolds, Aaron W. Brown
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Abstract
Packaging for a fiber laser includes a conduit surrounding the fiber laser and a thermally conductive compound filling a gap between the fiber laser and the conduit setting the fiber laser within the conduit. The fiber laser may have a substantially circular first cross section having a first diameter and the conduit may have a substantially circular second cross section having a second diameter larger than the first diameter of the fiber laser. The conduit may have a splice window cut out from a wall of the conduit and optical potting compound may fix a portion of the fiber laser under the splice window.
Claims17
An apparatus, comprising:
- a fiber laser;
- a conduit surrounding the fiber laser;
- at least one splice window cut out from a wall of the conduit;
- and
- an optical potting compound filling a gap between the fiber laser and the conduit setting the fiber laser within the conduit;
- wherein the fiber laser has a power density of greater than 10 kW/mm2;
- wherein a portion of the optical potting compound is used to fix a portion of the fiber laser in the splice window.
A method of packaging a laser fiber for a high power fiber laser application, the method comprising:
- cutting a window into a length of tubing;
- installing a length of the fiber laser within the tubing such that the tubing substantially surrounds the length of fiber laser where the fiber laser is visible through the window;
- applying a thermally conductive compound to a gap between the length of fiber laser and the tubing;
- and
- covering a portion of the fiber laser that that is visible through the window with a portion of the thermally conductive compound.
A packaging system, comprising:
- a laser fiber;
- a hollow tubular conduit substantially surrounding the laser fiber;
- and
- a conductive thermal compound thermally coupling the hollow tubular conduit to the laser fiber;
- wherein the fiber laser has a power density of greater than 10 kW/mm2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.