Patent ID: 6124973
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: G02B,H01S

Abstract:
In a device for providing the radiation emitted by several solid-state and/or semiconductor diode lasers and especially by arrays of such lasers, with several lasers and/or arrays, with a specific geometry, whereby the lasers' individual radiation-emitting openings parallel the X-Y plane and their beams radiate parallel to the Z plane of a rectangular coordinate system, with an optical system that defines an area of illumination and includes mutually displaced reflectors, whereby at least one reflector is associated with each laser or array, and whereby the radiation from each laser or array is forwarded to the reflectors and reflected from them, the improvement wherein each laser or array is displaced in relation to its neighboring laser or array parallel to both the X and the Y axes and wherein the reflective surfaces of the reflectors are disposed in planes displaced and/or tilted such that the radiation components they reflect are mutually displaced perpendicular to the propagated radiation, paralleling the Z axis, in relation to the displacement of the radiation-emitting surfaces.