Abstract: A method for producing high optical power density. Laser beams emitted from a plurality of laser bars are combined by spatial multiplexing to become substantially parallel with an optical axis. Each single laser bar includes one or more diode lasers. The slow axes of adjacent diode lasers of the single laser bar are substantially parallel with each other and the adjacent diode lasers emitting substantially to the same direction. The laser bars are arranged in two or more sectors around the optical axis. The width of the effective light-emitting near-field of at least one of the laser bars is less than 2.5 millimeters in the direction of the slow axis of the diode lasers of the at least one laser bar.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and laser device for producing a high optical power density by forming laser bars (LB) of diode lasers (E) in a manner that in a single laser bar (LB) the slow axes (x) of adjacent diode lasers (E) are positioned relative to each other in the same line and said diode lasers (E) emit substantially to the same direction (z), and radiation emitted by said plurality of laser bar (LB) is further collected to a combined and bright beam that is parallel with the optical axis (A). In accordance with the invention the laser bars (LB) are arranged in sectors relative to the optical axis (A) to an axial symmetrical structure in a manner that the direction of beams leaving from different sectors is turned (DE) in order to combine said beams. Preferred embodiments of the invention enable combination of efficient sector-by-sector radiation of laser bars (LB) using spatial, polarisation and/or wavelength multiplexing.

Abstract: A method for coupling several non-radial light sources to a light guide having an input end, where the light guide has, in a cross-section perpendicular to the direction of propagation of light, an at least partly curved form, and the light sources are coupled on the edge region at the input end of the light guide.