Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITIS) in a recent report that the first quarter of this year, Taiwan’s laser diode (laser diode) the output value increased by 15.9%, reaching 287 million U.S. dollars. The report concluded that from the optical storage and communications equipment is to stimulate the demand for laser diode manufacturers to expand production capacity of the main reasons, and expected the third quarter of this year, Taiwan’s output of laser diodes will greatly increase.

These are expanding the production capacity of companies, including Taiwan and China on the optical (Arima Optoelectronics) and Millennium Communication Technology (Millennium) Ltd.. Among them, the Jehovah photoelectric plans to monthly from the current 5 million to 7 million expansion; Jubilee Technologies is planning to double production capacity to meet rising market demand.

United Kwan Optical (Elite Advanced Laser) Co., Ltd. will be increased in Taipei a new plant to be edge emitting (edge-emitting) laser diodes TO-18/TO-56 production from the current 5 million to upgrade to 8 million. In addition, the joint Jun optical monthly production of 500,000 one-sided also shot type (surface-emitting) laser diodes.

Respond to competitive suppliers cut prices.

In terms of price, because most of the company’s products are sold in Taiwan, mainland China, the mainland so they bear the enormous peer pressure. In general, despite the decision maker most of the mainland domestic import raw materials from Japan and the United States, but the products these companies offer is still higher than in other regions 20% of manufacturers.

Overall, the Taiwan company’s laser diode manufacturers selling price for the international price of 60%, but still higher than mainland China local manufacturers. In this case, in order to compete with mainland China manufacturers, Taiwan will also be part of the manufacturing plants shift to the mainland, or joint venture company with China to reduce manufacturing costs.

And the pressure in the price war, some Taiwanese to continue to reduce prices to respond to competitive pressures. This, together Kwan’s assistant vice president of optical Liang Tsong-Min said, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM to force down the prices of manufacturers and component suppliers to reduce prices. This year he expects the price of laser diodes will continue to decline by more than 10%.

Products into more applications.

Optical storage laser diode is usually used, especially DVD and CD laser top field. China Optoelectronics Corp said it will launch for the CD-RW and DVD-RW laser diode high-end products, and plans to start the second half of the mass production of several new products.

In this year’s CLEO 2004 exhibition, China also launched with the built-in optical APC (automatic power control) circuit for TO-can packaged laser diodes. The company’s marketing manager Vincent Chen said: “By the APC circuit into an external ASIC, we are able to APC circuit and laser diode is usually placed with the TO-can package inside. This breakthrough allows us to offer smaller size, more stable output of laser diodes, while allowing automated production. ”

Laser diodes in the industry have also been widely used. Friend Technology Co., Ltd. (Union Optronics) Senior Marketing Specialist Zoe Lin said: “Our company is about 70% of the laser diode sales to mainland China, and most used for industrial applications, such as manufacturing equipment, such as the medical field.”

Communications has become another key market of laser diodes. Jubilee Technologies R & D Director, Dr Lai Lihong: “As the technology matures, the future demand for optical communications and LAN will increase.”

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