Laserline Selects Bookham Very High Brightness Bar for Industrial Direct Diode Systems
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Zurich, Switzerland -January 22, 2008 - Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM), a leading manufacturer of optical components for industrial applications, today announced that Laserline has selected its Very High Brightness
(VHB) bar to support their high brightness direct diode laser systems.
Volker Krause, Managing Director and Cofounder of Laserline, a leading manufacturer of direct diode laser systems for industrial material processing, said, "Based on our experience of working with Bookham, with 120W bars, we chose to work with the company again on this demanding product because of their fast innovation cycles and responsiveness.
"The VHB bar, with its unique form factor, is the perfect match for our high brightness direct diode systems as it features the Bookham hard-solder technology to support the typical intermittent operation mode we find in industrial and automotive applications."
The announcement of volume shipments of the VHB bar comes just six months after its launch at LASER 2007. The VHB bar, being shown for the first time in North America at Photonics West later this month (#1207), has a power output of 80W - up to four times the brightness of a typical 10mm bar - and measures only 3.2mm in width. The product supports direct industrial laser systems and enables fiber coupling without beam transformation optics by delivering high output power at a narrow
emitting area.
"We are very proud to have brought this new product to volume production in such a short period of time," added Christian Naumer, senior product line manager at Bookham. "The key to the speed of this deployment is the way that we have worked in close cooperation with the customer, and designed a product that exactly meets the needs of this cutting edge systems manufacturer."
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1. Photonics West is taking place at the San Jose Convention
Center, San Jose, California, 19-24 January, 2008. For further information, visit spie.org/photonics-west.xml
2. Bookham will be exhibiting at the Photonics West exhibition,
22-24 January, at stand #1207
3. Bookham will be exhibiting at the BiOS exhibition, 19-20
January, at stand #8636
4. To arrange an interview with representatives of Bookham before
or during the show, please contact Howard Jones on howard@bcspr.co.uk or
+44 7980 772 285
About Bookham
Bookham is a leading manufacturer and independent, vertically integrated supplier of high performance, high reliability industrial laser diodes across many markets, including industrial, medical, display, analytical, printing, aerospace and defense.
The company boasts two decades of experience as a leader in laser diode development, continued investment in technology and customer support, and offers scalability for cost efficient, high volume production through the use of advanced automated manufacturing processes in its state of the art facility in Zurich.
Bookham was the first company to offer 120W 9xxnm diode bars and is a leader in the market for single emitter pigtailed laser modules for fiber laser pumping. The company's diversified high power laser diode offering ranges from 10W pigtailed multimode modules to 120W bars and 2.4kW fast axis collimated stacks.
Contact Info
Julie Molloy
Bookham, Inc.
+44 (0) 1327 350581
julie.molloy@bookham.com
or
Howard Jones
BCS Public Relations
+44 (0) 115 948 6901
howard@bcspr.co.uk
More information on Bookham, Inc. is available at bookham.com
