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ROHM’s New High-Power 120W Laser Diode for LiDAR: Increasing Measurement Range by Reducing Wavelength Temperature Dependence by 66%

Santa Clara, CA and Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROHM Semiconductor today announced the RLD90QZW8 high-power laser diode, ideal for industrial equipment and consumer applications ...
New Electronics

Silanna releases compact laser firing chips for next‑generation LiDAR systems

Silanna Semiconductor has begun full‑scale production of what it describes as the industry’s smallest and most efficient ...
Electronic Design

1-kW Laser is Brilliant for Automotive LiDAR

ROHM’s RLD8BQAB3 1-kW, 905-nm, 8-diode laser array comes in a 5.6- × 3.3-mm SMD package. The spectral output is well-suited to ADAS applications for high-speed vehicles, providing scene illumination ...
Business Insider

IXYS Introduces 50A 4 ns OEM Laser Diode Driver Module for LIDAR, Range Finder and Pulsed Laser Applications

FORT COLLINS, Colo., June 08, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ:IXYS), a leader in power semiconductors, mixed-signal and digital ICs for power conversion and motion control ...
Electronics Weekly

Silanna LiDAR laser firing ICs combine charging and firing

Silanna Semiconductor is announcing its FirePower laser firing system ICs are now available in production quantities. They aim at LiDAR and rangefinder applications. Specifically, there is the SL2001 ...
Nasdaq

ROHM’s 75W High Optical Output Laser Diode for LiDAR

Santa Clara, CA and Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROHM Semiconductor today announced they have developed a high optical output laser diode, the RLD90QZW3, for applications such as ...
Optics

New Generation of Pulsed Laser Diodes Offers More Power for LiDAR

LASER COMPONENTS Canada has succeeded in increasing the efficiency of pulsed laser diodes from 2.6W/A to 3.2W/A. This effect was achieved by a further development of the multi-junction technology, in ...
Optics

LIDAR based on diode-pumped alexandrite to monitor upper atmosphere

Higher atmospheric layers (meaning 30-120 km) are becoming more and more interesting for climate researchers, but the areas above 40 km are only directly accessible with sounding rockets, using ...
Business Wire

Lidar Demonstration Board Drives Lasers with Currents up to 220 A with Under 3-ns Pulses Using eGaN ® FETs

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) announces the availability of the EPC9150, a 200 V, high current, pulsed-laser diode driver demonstration board. In a lidar system ...
EDN

LiDAR System Design of ToF Laser Driver with GaN

The new gallium nitride (GaN) family aims to deliver time-of-flight (ToF) applications for autonomous cars and 3D sensing across the consumer and industrial sectors. In an interview with EE Times, ...
EDN

What is automotive LIDAR and how does it work

What is light detection and ranging (LiDAR)? Combining radars ranging capability with the angular resolution of cameras, LiDAR provides accurate depth perception sensing to complete the picture ...