Leading market research institutes forecast rapid growth for the global VCSEL market until 2030. LASER COMPONENTS covers power ranges between 200 mW and 50 W with a wide range of IR wavelengths between 850 nm and 940 nm. Upon customer request, laser diodes are also available as high-power arrays. Such compact, high-power, multi-mode lasers are primarily required in the LiDAR range, where high power lasers are crucial for the range of a system.
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are so-called surface emitters in which the light is emitted perpendicular to the chip’s surface to allow the beam to be easily collimated. The extremely short rise times enable fast pulse sequences in the low nanosecond range and below. Due to the semiconductor structure, the emission wavelength hardly changes with temperature fluctuations. Thus, a narrow-band bandpass filter can be integrated on the detector side.
