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nLight demonstrates world record output power at 1470 nm

VANCOUVER, Wash. — nLight, a leading manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, today announced that it has achieved a new world record for output power from a single 1-cm InP diode laser bar. The 50 percent fill factor bar produced 88W continuous-wave (CW) power at 1470 nm. The bar was mounted on the company’s commercially available Cascades(TM) microchannel water-cooled package.