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.
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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.”