Hamamatsu laser chip to a new level

As we all know, fiber laser has become one of the world's major industrial lasers. Compared to semiconductor lasers, solid-state lasers and CO2 lasers, fiber lasers have a global market share of more than 50%. In 2016, global laser sales totaled $10.4 billion, while kilowatt-class fiber lasers for metal cutting and soldering applications accounted for 41% of total industrial laser revenue in 2016. Such a strong growth of fiber lasers has also led to the further development of pump-source semiconductor lasers. As pump-source semiconductor lasers move toward higher power, semiconductor laser chips are also moving toward higher power and higher brightness.

Hamamatsu has never stopped paying attention and participation in the laser market. Before August 2015, Hamamatsu has completed 20-hour long-term reliability testing of 20W chips. The photoelectric efficiency of the chips is as high as 65% or more; MTTF is also close. 860,000 hours. In the second half of 2016, Hamamatsu launched the 9XX semiconductor laser chip product, which not only designed a unique chip P-plane structure, but also reduced the probability of chip leakage; and adopted the chip window design of the imperative-free vacancy disordering structure. Improve the conversion efficiency and reliability of the chip. Faced with the rapid development of the semiconductor laser chip market, Hamamatsu is not only constantly upgrading its own chip products, but also improving the planning of chip production capacity. Miyakoda New Foundry, a new plant covering an area of ​​about 4,000 square meters, uses the latest production technology and cutting-edge production equipment. It is expected to be completed by the end of 2017 and will be put into production in early 2018, which will enable our products to be in terms of capacity and performance. On a new step.

In the high power, long life, strong stability, product diversification, Hamamatsu has never stopped. At present, Hamamatsu is not only a semiconductor laser chip, but also a laser module, a heating source, a quantum cascade laser, an ultrashort pulse laser, a microchip laser, and the like. Mainly used in measurement, heat treatment, gas analysis, integral optics and other applications, including distance measurement, plastic welding, brazing, automotive exhaust gas detection, MOEMS.