Bookham, Inc. a manufacturer of optical components for industrial applications, will debut products from its rapidly expanding high power portfolio targeting high-growth industrial markets, at this year's Photonics West, taking place in San Jose next week.

    "The number of applications that require reliable, high power and high brightness laser diodes is growing all the time, and we are continuing to drive investments and developments of next generation products to meet the needs of our customers in these areas," said Bookham director of product marketing, Berthold Schmidt. "Leading product performance combined with low cost volume delivery is our key strength."

    Bookham lasers and transmitters provide the highest performance available in the industry today. Developed in the Bookham UK InP fab, our transmitters provide customers with competitive advantage through price / performance points unreachable by competing technologies. Not only are the products technology ground breaking but they carry many years of high volume manufacturing expertise. From metro applications through to ultra long haul, Bookham technology shows leadership in active transmitters. All Bookham Transmitters and Network Lasers are RoHS Compliant.

    In addition to showcasing its technology at the exhibition, Bookham will be presenting three technical papers at associated symposium LASE 2008: 'Recent developments for BAR and BASE: setting the trends', 'Emission wavelength stabilization in broad area lasers coupled to fiber Bragg gratings' and 'Performance and reliability of pulsed 1060 nm laser modules'.  

    Bookham offers high performance laser diode products for light sources for rear and front projection Laser TV, from consumer to high end, and other laser display applications in industrial, automotive, healthcare, and military. The product portfolio includes single and multimode bars and single emitters, from 780-1070nm, that are well suited as sources or as pumps for solid state lasers for frequency conversion into visible light.

Bookham will showcase:  
    - 10W fiber laser pump module with 105µm fiber core diameter that operates at injection currents up to 12A
    - low core fiber diameter multimode modules with 40µm or 50µm fibre, aimed at the Computer-to-Print pre-press printing market. The modules deliver up to 2W at 830nm and up to 3W at 940nm
    - Very High Brightness bar for direct systems - launched at LASER 2007 and now being shipped in volume - which has a power output of 80W - up to four times the brightness of a typical 10mm bar - and measures only 3.6mm in width
    - 1060nm seed laser module with short distance fiber Bragg grating to control spectral properties for pulsed fiber lasers