Global semiconductor laser market outlook and growth analysis

According to relevant data, the global semiconductor laser pointer market will exceed 7.69 billion U.S. dollars by 2020, with a compound growth rate of 7.1% from 2014 to 2020. Semiconductor lasers have been widely used in many fields, including sensors, optical storage devices, health care, industrial machinery manufacturing, communications, lithography, and national defense. Among them, communication applications…

Ion beam detection laser pointer optical resonator

Researchers have discovered that the performance of micro-optical resonators can be finely measured and adjusted by ion beams. This discovery will help improve the production of holes used in sensing and quantum computing. Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology use lithium ions with a radius of 50 nanometers to induce surface deformations…

Graphical process laser pointer in micro-nano processing

The patterning process of micro-nano processing is mainly divided into two technologies: pattern transfer and direct processing. The pattern transfer technology includes three parts: thin film deposition, pattern imaging, and pattern transfer. The direct processing laser pointer beam etching technology has the ability to write directly, avoiding the multi-step process of pattern transfer, by controlling the focused…

New laser pointer manufacturing process revolutionizes the photovoltaic market

The Solar Energy System Research Institute in Freiburg, Germany has developed a laser pointer-based manufacturing process method that is revolutionizing the photovoltaic market. Mass production of point-contact solar cells was realized for the first time. Millions of batteries with high efficiency levels have entered the market. In the next few decades, one of the main challenges…

Different types of lasers are built on silicon materials

Building a quantum cascade laser on silicon is extremely challenging, mainly due to the strong absorption of SiO2 in the long-wavelength mid-infrared band. “This means that we not only need to build different types of laser pointer on silicon materials, but also different types of silicon waveguides.” The project leader said: “We built SONOI waveguides and used…

Count the latest achievements in the field of laser pointers

In the entire laser industry chain, lasers can be said to be the most technologically-content link, and they are also the basis for all laser pointer applications. It is based on this that the research and development of lasers has always attracted many teams of scientists. With the development of laser materials and the maturity of laser…

What are the advantages of high-brightness multimode fiber laser pointers?

With the development of laser application technology, high-power, high-beam quality laser pointer light sources are required in many fields such as industrial processing, space optical communications, and optoelectronic countermeasures. Generally speaking, the beam quality M2<1.3 is called a single-mode laser, 1.3<M2<2 is a quasi-single-mode laser, and M2>2 is a multi-mode laser. In multi-mode lasers, 2<M2<4 can be…

A major breakthrough in the vertical cavity surface emitting laser pointer

The State Key Laboratory of Optics and Applications (Light-Emitting Chamber) high-power semiconductor laser pointer and their application team have made major breakthroughs in the research on key technologies of high-beam quality and high-power vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers, and their research results won the first prize of Jilin Province Technology Invention in 2015 . Vertical cavity surface emitting…