International Journal of Mechanical Engineering

With the continuous development of laser technology, many high-power laser equipment is widely used in national defense and military affairs, manufacturing and processing, set lighting and other fields, and has a very wide range of market prospects. However, many high-power laser devices will produce edge effect when working, resulting in the poor quality of the output beam, which restricts its application in real life. Therefore, the output laser beam is required for beam shaping design to achieve better use effect. The article will start from multiple angles, illustrate the high power laser wide application range and good development prospects, and introduce the current common high power laser and beam shaping system, list their respective advantages and disadvantages, for our high power laser array beam shaping system research to provide certain reference.

high-power laser; laser array; beam shaping