The Optech Consulting market and technology report 

analyses markets and technologies for High Power Laser Diodes, Diode-Pumped Lasers, and Diode Lasers. 

High power laser diodes are defined as laser diodes with a power of 100 mW and above. This definition includes laser diodes used in materials processing, medical therapy, pre-press and printing (excluding office printing), imaging, displays, and partly communications (fiber amplifiers), measurement, and analysis. 

Diode based lasers include Diode-Pumped Lasers (rod, disk, fiber lasers) and Diode Lasers (lasers integrating one or several HPLD with beam combination / shaping).

With 

• 169 pages and 
• 35 tables and diagrams 

• present and future markets for high power laser diodes and diode-based lasers
• markets in material processing, medicine, printing and pre-press, communications, information technology, displays, measurement & analysis, further segmented by single applications as well as product categories:
• high power laser diodes (HPLD): single stripe, bar, fiber-coupled HPLD, surface emitting HPLD and OPSL
• diode pumped solid state lasers: rod, disk, fiber lasers
• diode lasers
• a medium term market forecast (2006) and a long term market forecast (2010) for each application segment and product category
• the price development of high power laser diodes 
• enabling prices of the single applications 
• the development of technologies for high power laser diodes, diode-pumped lasers, and diode lasers 
• technology thresholds for the applications 
• profiles of the major supplies of high power laser diodes, diode-pumped lasers, and diode lasers 

For further information on the report, please see the Table of Contents