High brightness laser bar to be unveiled
Bookham will unveil a very high brightness laser diode bar at LASER World of Photonics 2007 in Munich later this month. The bar has a power output of 80W – up to four times the brightness of a typical 10mm bar. With a bar smile of less than 1µm – a record for a hard-soldered device – the product is designed for efficient beam shaping and should enhance the performance of direct diode and fibre delivery systems.
Berthold Schmidt, Bookham’s director of product marketing for high power lasers, said: “Designed for efficient beam shaping, and with a wall-plug efficiency of more than 60%, our high power laser diode portfolio enables more reliable, smaller, less expensive and more flexible designs for direct diode systems and fibre lasers.”
