The Hippo 532-14
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 24, 2009 – Newport Corp.'s Spectra-Physics Lasers Division has announced the Hippo 532-14, a new addition to its Hippo family of Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) industrial lasers. The device provides 14 W of 532-nm output at 100 kHz with a short pulse width of <30ns. Used for solar thin-film scribing applications, it is suitable for high-speed multibeam scribing of P2 and P3 layers in thin-film a-Si and CdTe photovoltaic structures. Scribe speeds in excess of 12 m per second have been...
Newport Spectra-Physics GmbH, Photonics Solutions Div.