Patent ID: 7586963
Filing Date: 2009-09-08
Classification: H01S

Abstract:
1. A diode laser assembly comprising: a stepped cooling block, said stepped cooling block comprising a first cooling block section and an adjacent second cooling block section, wherein each of said first and second cooling block sections includes a plurality of stepped mounting surfaces of increasing height relative to a plane corresponding to a lowermost portion of a cooling block bottom surface, wherein adjacent stepped mounting surfaces of said first and second cooling block sections are non-coplanar with said stepped mounting surfaces of said first cooling block section positioned lower than said adjacent stepped mounting surfaces of said second cooling block section; a plurality of diode laser subassemblies, wherein each of said diode laser subassemblies is comprised of: means for mounting each of said plurality of diode laser subassemblies onto corresponding stepped mounting surfaces of said plurality of stepped mounting surfaces of said first cooling block section of said stepped cooling block, wherein each output beam from said plurality of diode laser subassemblies is displaced relative to an adjacent output beam.