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News Release from: Frost and Sullivan
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 October 2006
Report details laser diode market
expansion
Advances and innovations in laser diodes have improved their efficiency and cost-effectiveness making them attractive to new markets.
Advances and innovations in laser diodes have improved their efficiency and cost-effectiveness making them attractive to new markets, while cementing their position in strongholds such as optical storage and telecommunications The application of laser diodes in medical and industrial markets opens up new revenue potential
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Advances in laser diodes are finding new applications in addition to their traditional markets of optical storage and telecommunications", says Technical Insights Research Analyst Miriam C Nagel.
"High power laser diodes are now moving into industrial markets and both high- and low-power lasers are increasingly being used in the medical applications".
In the optical storage market, the application of blue lasers to DVD technology expects to drive growth.
Government funding has helped propel sophisticated laser diodes into industrial markets, and in medical as well as dental applications.
The large plastics industry uses plastic welding technologies that are now made possible by laser diodes.
In medical and dental markets, there are advantages of much less pain and essentially bloodless surgery made possible by laser diodes.
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