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Due to the substantial contrast in the output beam quality between the two directions of the semiconductor laser, efficiently coupling the beam directly into the fiber is difficult. In this study, an efficient shaping method based on step multiplexing of misaligned step prisms is proposed and investigated systematically. First, multiple laser stacks eliminate dark areas to improve the beam quality through the full utilization of the transmission and reflection surfaces of the misaligned stepped prisms, which also improves the efficiency of the stepped prisms. It also simultaneously realizes laser wavelength combining based on reflective surface multiplexing without affecting the quality of the beam on the premise of improving the output power. Finally, the whole beam shaping system is completed without using cut-transform-rearranging prisms. The method couples four groups of laser stacks into a single fiber with a fiber diameter of 400 µm and a numerical aperture of 0.22. It can be seen from the computer-simulated model outputs that the final fiber output power can reach 2255.4 W and that the system as a whole has a light-to-light translation rate of 88.1%.
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