Semiconductor lasers are uniquely suited to a variety of applications because they have extremely high efficiency compared to other laser media and can be designed to produce a wide range of ...

Researchers in the US and Japan have devised a simple way generate a nearly parallel beam of light from a semiconductor laser — without the need for bulky and expensive lenses. Instead, a patterned ...

Applied scientists at Harvard University, collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Japan, have demonstrated highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence ...

The new PLIS-1 fiber-optic end tip with integrated precision sideview lens is an ultraminiature 3 3-mm tip featuring a low-beam divergence angle of just 2° for reliable sensing of small-profile ...

A fiber collimator is an optical component designed to transform the light emitted by an optical fiber into a collimated beam of light with a specified diameter, or to a designated spot size. Used in ...

A semiconductor laser that has been engineered to emit a narrow beam of light without the use of additional lenses could help to reduce the cost of optical systems. Researchers in the US and Japan ...