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Buying Direct Diode Lasers

Top-level product category: icon lasers and laser amplifiers

More general product categories: diode lasers

Related product category: laser material processing machinery

Direct diode lasers (DDL) use the output of laser diodes directly for applications such as laser material processing. Compared to diode-pumped solid-state lasers, they offer advantages in cost and power conversion efficiency. Their limitations in beam quality and pulse intensity are more and more shifted by further technological progress.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

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If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying direct diode lasers. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for direct diode lasers. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

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Suppliers for Direct Diode Lasers

20 suppliers for direct diode lasers (DDL) are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 5 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Hamamatsu Photonics Europe
Arzbergerstr. 10
82211 Herrsching
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.311) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 627)!

direct diode lasers

Hamamatsu Photonics DDL is a laser heating light source that efficiency transmits and focuses laser from the LD stack module and directly irradiates the materials. Since DDL dose not use optical fiber, it is an energy-saving light source with little transmission loss due to complicated optical systems. DDL can be used for a variety of applications including for heat processing such as welding, hardening and cladding as well as pumping of solid-state lasers.

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A Tradition of High Power Photonics Leadership

QPC Lasers Inc.
15632 Roxford Street
Sylmar, CA 91342
United States
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direct diode lasers

QPC Lasers full vertical integration from epitaxy through packaging allows us to offer standard and custom diode solutions in packages ranging from open heat-sink mounts to complete OEM light engines that provide performance without compromise.

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30 Years of Laser Excellence

Monocrom
C/ Vilanoveta 6
08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)
Spain
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B3.418)!

direct diode lasers

Monocrom has developed direct diode lasers for industrial applications. They are based on our solder-free laser bar Clamping™ technique, which lets them be efficiently cooled and reach a long lifetime. Up to 8 kW continuous-wave output power is possible.

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We manufacture diode lasers

Lumics GmbH
Schwarze-Pumpe-Weg 16
12681 Berlin
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B3.100)!

direct diode lasers

The Lumics LuOcean diode lasers are ideal for OEM integrators aiming to develop state-of-the-art end-user laser systems, featuring single emitters with a very long service life and up to four different wavelengths. Users can choose from a wide range of wavelengths, including 670 nm, 760 nm, 785 nm, 808 nm, 890 nm, 915 nm, 940 nm, 975 nm, 1064 nm, 1470 nm, and 1940 nm with custom wavelengths and specifications available upon request. The modules can be configured to match the customers power requirements. Optional enhancements such as temperature, fiber and power monitor sensors and pilot beams further extend the module's capabilities.

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Aerodiode
Rue François Mitterrand
Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine
33400 Talence
France
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See us at CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 327)!

direct diode lasers

SHIPS TODAY: AeroDIODE offers fiber-coupled laser diodes with very high brightness (meaning high power and high precision when focusing) dedicated to micromachining applications between 808 nm and 1550 nm as stock items or associated with a high power laser diode driver with air cooling. Most turn-key diode & driver solutions are optimized for single-shot to CW performances. Many multimode versions are available with CW emission up to 450 W in a 200-µm core multimode fiber or up to 250 W in a 135-µm core fiber or 160 W in a 105-µm core fiber. The highest brightness/power models are based on special laser diodes for emission at 808 nm, 915 nm, 940 nm, 980 nm or 1064 nm.

See also our tutorial on fiber-coupled laser diodes.

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Other Suppliers

AKELA Laser Corporation
United States
Beijing Reci Laser Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Coherent Corp.
United States
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Everbright Photonics
China
Forward Photonics LLC
United States
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Innotech Laser GmbH
Germany
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Laserline GmbH
Germany
Lasertel North America
United States
Leonardo Electronics US Inc.
United States
Maxphotonics Co., Ltd.
China
Optical Engines Inc.
United States
Sakar Technology
United States
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TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Germany
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XPhotonics
China
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