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Buying High Brightness Laser Diodes

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More general product categories: laser diodes

Related product category: diode bars

High brightness laser diodes are laser diodes with a particularly high radiance (brightness). They are needed for pumping solid-state bulk and fiber lasers and for various other industrial and scientific applications where high power and good beam quality are essential.

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:

encyclopedia article high brightness laser diodes

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 high brightness laser diodes. 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 high brightness laser diodes. 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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Decision

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Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for High Brightness Laser Diodes

21 suppliers for high brightness laser diodes 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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A Tradition of High Power Photonics Leadership

QPC Lasers Inc.
15632 Roxford Street
Sylmar, CA 91342
United States
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high brightness laser diodes

QPC Lasers solutions include eye-safe MOPA diode lasers offering peak single-mode powers to 100 W as well as Brightlock monolithically spectrally stabilized diodes for unmatched linewidth and spectral control.

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Bright Solutions SRL
Via Artigiani 27
27010 Cura Carpignano (Pavia)
Italy
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B3.316)!

high brightness laser diodes

The BFP high power fiber coupled diode lasers are available with output powers from a few watts to almost 100 W. Pulsed (quasi-CW) models generate up to hundreds of watts of peak power.

Available options:

  • visible aiming beam
  • monitoring photodiode
  • custom fiber optics and connectors
  • flat-top or smooth beam profile
  • integrated TE coolers, current and temperature controller
  • extended operation temperature ranges
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The specialist in laser technologies

Lumibird – Quantel, Keopsys, Convergent, Continuum brands
2 rue Paul Sabatier
22300 Lannion
France
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.341)!

high brightness laser diodes

Lumibird manufactures high brightness diode sources generating up to 120 kW in one line at 940 & 980 nm and up to 250 kW at 880 nm. A driver is available in a separate rack or integrated to the source for the 100-kW version.

Product-specific web page
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)!

high brightness laser diodes

SHIPS TODAY: AeroDIODE offers fiber-coupled laser diodes with very high brightness (meaning high power and high precision/small spot size when focusing) dedicated to micromachining or fiber laser pumping 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 808 nm, 915 nm, 940 nm, 976 nm, 980 nm or 1064 nm.

See also our tutorial on fiber-coupled laser diodes.

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Focused on Possibility.

Sheaumann Laser, Inc.
5 Federal Street
Billerica, MA 01821
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.451)!

high brightness laser diodes

Sheaumann manufactures spatially single-mode laser diodes with external locking options in a variety of packaging configurations, in any wavelength 780–1710 nm. An output power of up to ≈600 mW is possible depending on the wavelength and package type.

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Other Suppliers

ALPhANOV
France
BWT Beijing Ltd.
China
Coherent Corp.
United States
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Wuhan CS Tec Co., Ltd.
China
EQ Photonics GmbH
Germany
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Frankfurt Laser Company
Germany
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Intense
United Kingdom
JENOPTIK Laser GmbH
Germany
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Lasertel North America
United States
Lumentum Operations LLC
United States
nLight Photonics Corporation
Canada
Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
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OPTTON, Inc.
United States
OSI Laser Diode, Inc.
United States
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Ushio America, Inc.
United States

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