The basis of a solid-state diode laser is, of course, the diode. Laser diodes can have different emission wavelength—most of them have between 405 nm to 808 nm. The diodes usually have TO3, TO5 ...

The change of thermal conductivity reaches as large as 200%, which suggests the sulfides are promising materials for designing solid-state thermal diodes.

Historical Archive Diode pumping gives high power solid-state laser 17 Jun 2002 Diode-pumped solid-state lasers with powers of several kilowatts are now being manufactured, for industry, following ...

Even before our modern solid-state diodes, engineers used crude but effective, now-obsolete selenium rectifier and even vacuum-tube diodes.

Two start-up companies are claiming that their diode-laser systems can be used to replace solid-state lasers in some applications. Nadya Anscombe reports.