II-VI launches high-power collimated laser bars and collimated semi-framed stacks for direct-diode and DPSS lasers

Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA has introduced high-power laser bars and semi-framed stacks mounted with micro-optic collimator lenses, offering customers very cost-effective modular assemblies that have high performance and reliability and can be easily integrated into direct diode lasers and diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers.

Direct diode and DPSS lasers are increasingly used for a wide range of materials processing, biomedical, and defense applications, due to their compact form factor, high power short-pulsed operation, and availability over a broad range of wavelengths from near-infrared to ultraviolet. The performance, quality, reliability, and cost of these systems are highly dependent on those of their semiconductor laser sub-assemblies. II-VI now combines its high power laser bars and new simplified semi-framed stack structures with fully automated optical alignment processes to deliver modular assemblies at optimal cost.

“Our laser bars feature a proprietary hard solder technology that withstands high power pulsed operation with field-proven reliability,” said Chris Koeppen, vice president of II-VI Industrial Laser Group. “We now efficiently deliver optimal custom designs by leveraging the automated assembly processes in our direct diode manufacturing lines. These processes enable a variety of micro-optics, such as collimator lenses and volume Bragg gratings, to be cost-effectively mounted and precisely aligned to a broad range of customer-defined stack geometries.”

In related news, II-VI will exhibit at Laser World of Photonics, Munich, June 24–27, 2019, Hall A2, Booth #117. From ultraviolet to the far-infrared, II-VI’s laser optics will be on display along with new products for fiber lasers and some of the most advanced laser heads and beam delivery solutions on the market, says the firm. II-VI will also show products from epitaxial wafers to semiconductor lasers that will enable exciting new features such as 3D sensing in the next generation of consumer electronics.

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