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Lasers and Light Sources: High-Power Diode Lasers

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Increased power and reliability have attracted commercial attention, but high-volume price reductions will steal business.

Detlev Wolft, Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH

During the last several years, high-power diode lasers based on bars have developed rapidly both in optical output and in lifetime. In only five years, the typical output from a single commercially available diode laser jumped from 20 to 50 W continuous wave (CW), and typical expected lifetimes increased from 1000 to 10,000 h. This amounts to a factor of 25 performance increase for commercially available high-power diode lasers. The diode laser is starting to become a third tool next to CO2 and solid-state lasers. Its major advantages are its high efficiency, which reduces cooling...Read full article

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