Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILTThe following table gives details of a selection of the most important lasing materials and corresponding types of laser. The list of potential applications is far from complete.
| Wavelength | Power continuous mode | Power pulsed mode |
Applications | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor diode lasers |
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| Single diodes | infrared to visible | 1 mW - 10 mW | 100 W | opto-electronics, pump light source |
| Diode laser bars | infrared to visible | up to 250 W | 2,5 kW | pump light source, material processing |
| Solid-state lasers | ||||
| Fiber laser (Yb:glass) | 1,03-1,06 µm | 1 W - 10 kW | up to 1 GW | material processing, metrology, medicine |
| Thin-disk laser (Yb:YAG) |
1,03 µm | 50 W - 16 kW | up to 100 GW | |
| Ti:sapphire laser |
broadband 650-1100 nm | 0,1 - 50 W | up to PW pulse duration 10 fs | metrology , pulse holography |
| Gas lasers | ||||
| CO2 laser | 10,6 µm | 1 W - 40 kW | 100 MW | materials processing, medicine |
| Excimer laser | 193 nm, 248 nm, 308 nm, 351 nm (and others) |
1 kW - 100 MW pulse duration 10 - 100 ns |
micro-machining, laser chemistry, medicine |
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| HeNe laser | 632.8 nm (most prominent) |
1 mW - 1 W | metrology , holography |
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| Argon ion laser | 515 nm - 458 nm (several) | 1 mW - 150 W | printing technology, pumping laser, medicine |
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| Dye laser | continuous between infrared and ultraviolet (different dyes) |
1 mW - 1 W | metrology , spectroscopy, medicine |