High-power laser beam transmitter including depolarizer
Provided is a high-power laser beam transmitter including a depolarizer. The present invention includes a high-power laser generator that generates a high-power laser beam, a beam transmitter that delivers, to an optical fiber, the laser beam emitted from the high-power laser generator, and the optical fiber disposed at the output end of the beam transmitter to receive the laser beam, wherein the beam transmitter includes a plurality of lenses and a depolarizer including a plurality of depolarizers respectively disposed between the plurality of lenses. By disposing the depolarizer and thus reducing the constructive interference occurring when the high-power laser beam is incident on the optical fiber, damage to the optical fiber due to high instantaneous output may be attenuated.
1 . A high-power laser beam transmitter including a depolarizer, comprising:
a high-power laser generator generating a high-power laser beam;
a beam transmission unit transmitting a laser beam emitted from the high-power laser generator to an optical fiber; and
the optical fiber disposed at an output end of the beam transmission unit and receiving a laser beam,
wherein the beam transmission unit is composed of a plurality of lenses and a plurality of depolarizers respectively disposed between the plurality of lenses, and
wherein the plurality of lenses are composed of a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens, and
the plurality of depolarizers are composed of a first depolarizer and a second depolarizer, the first depolarizer is disposed between the first lens and the second lens, and the second depolarizer is disposed between the second lens and a third lens.
2 . The high-power laser beam transmitter of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of depolarizers have the same shape and the same width and height.
3 . The high-power laser beam transmitter of claim 1 , wherein a side receiving a laser beam of the first lens is a concave surface and the other side thereof is flat surface, a side receiving a laser beam of the second lens is a flat surface and the other side thereof is a convex surface, and the third lens is composed of a plurality of lens cell arrays.
4 . The high-power laser beam transmitter of claim 1 , wherein an angle difference of exit patterns of the plurality of depolarizers is generated in accordance with the number of the depolarizers that are disposed.