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Oclaro contracts 4 and 8 beam red laser diodes
The breakthrough improves printing quality in III-V laser diodes
Oclaro has announced significant advancements in its red laser diodes.
The company has reduced the size of its 4 beam red laser diodes by 75 percent (from TO9.0mm to TO5.6mm) and 8 beam red laser diodes by 80 percent (from TO16.0 to TO9.0mm.)
These significant reductions will enable customers designing laser beam printers (LBPs) and multi-function printers (MFPs) to design smaller and more compact printers or to utilise the extra space for adding more features and functionality.
What's more, Oclaro has significantly improved the printing quality of its red laser diodes by modifying their structure to produce what it claims is the smallest and most precise laser beam available from any red laser diode in the industry.
To achieve the size reductions and improve the printing quality of its red laser diodes, Oclaro leveraged its 30 years of laser diode expertise. To date, Oclaro says no other company has achieved these size reductions or has been able to deliver this level of laser beam precision (known as low droop and small deviation).
As a result of both of these innovations, Oclaro customers will now be able to offer improved printing quality while at the same time providing more lightweight and compact designs to its customers.
"Customers designing LBP and MFP applications are under increasing pressure to improve printing quality and deliver light-weight products to customers," says Tadayuki Kanno, President, Oclaro Japan, Inc & GM, Modules & Devices Business Unit.
"Once again, Oclaro has been able to uniquely meet customers' needs by leveraging our fundamental expertise and understanding of the red laser diode design to produce the features, quality and performance that customers need to achieve a competitive advantage."
The Oclaro red beam laser diodes are ideally suited for customers designing MFPs and LPBs. The narrow beam pitch enables the customer to simplify the optics design of their printing system.
High thermal radiation design for high temperature operation, allows customers to deliver high printing quality. High accuracy mounting for junction down die bonding for low droop. This also improves the printing quality of the customer's printing system.
Finally, tuning LD characteristics by new structures meet each customer's requirement to realise their printing system technology.
The company has reduced the size of its 4 beam red laser diodes by 75 percent (from TO9.0mm to TO5.6mm) and 8 beam red laser diodes by 80 percent (from TO16.0 to TO9.0mm.)
These significant reductions will enable customers designing laser beam printers (LBPs) and multi-function printers (MFPs) to design smaller and more compact printers or to utilise the extra space for adding more features and functionality.
What's more, Oclaro has significantly improved the printing quality of its red laser diodes by modifying their structure to produce what it claims is the smallest and most precise laser beam available from any red laser diode in the industry.
To achieve the size reductions and improve the printing quality of its red laser diodes, Oclaro leveraged its 30 years of laser diode expertise. To date, Oclaro says no other company has achieved these size reductions or has been able to deliver this level of laser beam precision (known as low droop and small deviation).
As a result of both of these innovations, Oclaro customers will now be able to offer improved printing quality while at the same time providing more lightweight and compact designs to its customers.
"Customers designing LBP and MFP applications are under increasing pressure to improve printing quality and deliver light-weight products to customers," says Tadayuki Kanno, President, Oclaro Japan, Inc & GM, Modules & Devices Business Unit.
"Once again, Oclaro has been able to uniquely meet customers' needs by leveraging our fundamental expertise and understanding of the red laser diode design to produce the features, quality and performance that customers need to achieve a competitive advantage."
The Oclaro red beam laser diodes are ideally suited for customers designing MFPs and LPBs. The narrow beam pitch enables the customer to simplify the optics design of their printing system.
High thermal radiation design for high temperature operation, allows customers to deliver high printing quality. High accuracy mounting for junction down die bonding for low droop. This also improves the printing quality of the customer's printing system.
Finally, tuning LD characteristics by new structures meet each customer's requirement to realise their printing system technology.
