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SLD Laser has introduced an ultra-compact, high-power, high-brightness, fiber-coupled blue laser modules for materials processing applications. At Laser World of Photonics, the company demonstrated the high performance blue laser module technology along with its award winning UL and IEC safety certified high luminance LaserLight-SMD and LaserLight-Fiber products.

SLD’s blue laser light modules feature up to 12 times the absorption, processing quality and speed compared to infrared laser technology. This technology produces superior results in copper, aluminum, stainless steel, as well as other metals such as nickel, gold, titanium, and silver that are commonly used for plating, other thin metal processes and 3D printing.

The blue laser light output is also highly absorptive in non-metals and organics, and therefore is ideal for marking, engraving, and cutting of these materials. Moreover, for biomedical applications, SLD’s blue laser light exhibits more than ten times absorption in blood hemoglobin and melanin in skin than infrared lasers, enabling next generation solutions in dermatology and surgery.

SLD’s blue laser module technology is ultra-compact, with a form factor roughly the size of a credit card, and delivers over 20 watts from a 100 micron transport fiber. The technology is modular and can be power scaled and aggregated with optical fibers into higher power systems to deliver hundreds of watts from high brightness delivery fibers less than 600 microns diameter. The blue laser modules feature the company’s proprietary and patented Semipolar GaN laser diode technology, with highly efficient and reliable operation to enable system integrators and application development teams to configure solutions for a wide variety of applications, and get to market quickly.

In addition to the high power blue laser module technology, SLD also showcased its LaserLight product line at Laser World of Photonics. The company had recently initiated production of the award winning UL and IEC safety certified LaserLight-SMD and LaserLight-Fiber products, including the recently demonstrated fiber-coupled SMD and SkyBeam, the world’s first 12,000 lumen LaserLight spotlight for outdoor lighting applications based on the SMD. SLD’s LaserLight products won top prize, the Technical Innovation Award, at LightFair International event held in Philadelphia, PA.

SLD entered production for its first LaserLight product lines into the automotive and specialty lighting markets, delivering up to 10 times higher visibility and safety than can be achieved with LEDs, and replacing older legacy lighting that contains mercury. LaserLight products serve a myriad of applications such as automotive headlights, portable handheld flashlights, drones, off-road light bars, and professional applications in search and rescue, marine, avionics, architecture, and entertainment.

Click here to view more news from the Laser World of Photonics 2019 event held in Munich from June 24-27.