Panasonic just made the world's most powerful blue laser: Here's why

In a demonstration in Osaka, Japan, Panasonic demonstrated the new world’s highest brightness blue laser. They’ve done this with a couple of technologies/techniques, using wavelength beam combining (WBC) with a direct diode laser (DDL) to produce a single, highly powerful blue beam. With this technique perfected, beam quality remains the same while power increases as the number of laser sources …