• Lei Cai

    Senior Optical Design Engineer, Focuslight Technologies

    Lei Cai is Senior Optical Design Engineer at Focuslight Technologies (Xi’an, China).        

    FIGURE 1. Laser beam uniformity affects lapping in the cladding process.
    Lasers & Sources

    High-power, low-SMILE vertical stack diode laser bars enable better laser cladding

    Weiyi Gu
    Jan. 27, 2021
    A low near-field nonlinearity (low-SMILE), 32-bar diode stack produces a 6 kW uniform flat-top beam for cladding applications.