Article Abstracts | April 2007
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Telecom Meets Visible Lasers
A new way has been discovered to build visible-wavelength solid-state lasers, primarily for use in biotechnology applications.
by Vincent Issier, Marc von Gunten, Thomas Kraft, William Minford and Andre Wong, JDSU Corp.
The telecom industry demands extreme reliability in lasers and photonic components, so very mature assembly and packaging techniques have evolved to meet these demands over the years. Integration of these techniques from the telecom industry has now allowed us to design low-power, visible-wavelength solid-state lasers. To our knowledge, this is the first instance of telecom packaging technology’s being integrated into commercial visible lasers.
The new design is driven by the market for low-power continuous-wave visible lasers. The dominant application for these lasers is biotechnology instruments that use laser-induced fluorescence and light-scattering techniques. Smaller market segments exist in graphics and in imaging and semiconductor front-end instrument applications...
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