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News Release from: Elite Thermal Engineering | Subject: OCP-055
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 September 2006
Cold plates extend to OEM applications
Elite Thermal Engineering has extended its cold plate product line to OEM applications.
Elite Thermal Engineering has extended its cold plate product line to OEM applications The first model, the OCP-055, is designed specifically for cooling CS mount laser diodes on either an optical bench or in OEM laser products
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cold plates reduce laser diode's temperature
Elite Thermal Engineering recently released a series of high performance, high power thermoelectric cooling modules (cold plates) that are designed specifically for high power laser diodes.
Cold plate helps lasers keep their cool
Elite Thermal Engineering has developed a new record-setting cold plate for laser diode cooling.
The cooling capacity of standard Model OCP-055 exceeds most of the CS mount laser diodes on the market; it can also be optimised to provide higher cooling power with lower temperature difference, or lower cooling power with higher temperature difference with minimal extra cost; The cold plate provides two CS mounting locations: one is at the front for using on optical table where free-space optics can be placed very close to the laser diode; another is located at the centre of the cold plate for fibre coupled lasers where the cooling is most effective.
The cold plate is electrically isolated from the rest of the module, so it is safe to mount CS mount laser diode directly on it, therefore minimising thermal resistance from laser junction to cold plate.
The thermoelectric coolers used in OCP series are all environmentally sealed (TECs in all ETE's products are environmentally sealed) for operations below dew point.
ETE's OEM cold plates are also perfect for cooling fibre coupled laser diodes.
Model OCP-055 can be easily incorporated into laser products by simply bolting it down to a flat surface in the product.
As a by-product of Model OCP-055, ETE is also offering the ready-to-use forced air-cooled heatsink that is used for OCP-055.
The cooling module consists of a heatsink, an air duct and a fan with fan guard, all assembled ready to use.
It boasts an ultra low thermal resistance of 0.22C/W when the heat source is half the sise of the heatsink.
OCP-055 or the fan/sink cooling module has mounting features for 0.5in-diameter mounting posts used on optical table; it also provides mounting flanges for mounting it to any flat surface.
ETE also supplies water cooled cold plates to the photonics community for laser cooling; ETE will be releasing higher power cold plates in the months ahead.
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