High-Powered Diode Lasers—New, Bright and Blue
The typical BPP of a single-mode near-IR laser around 1 µm would be approximately 0.3 mm-mrad. The BPP of high-power blue diodes are quite limited in comparison, ranging from 11 mm-mrad for single- emitter CW diodes, to 60 mm-mrad for CW laser diode bars at 450 nm. Commercially available high-powered blue diode laser sources with 450-nm ...